— Well, it's hard to say, probably great, or maybe not．

A. what will everyday life be like

B. what everyday life will be like

C. what will everyday life like

D. what everyday life will like

Having studied in this school for almost three years, you are about to graduate (畢業(yè)). There must be something that you will always remember. Please write a passage about your Junior school life. The following points should be included.

1. How your junior school life is.

2. Things/moments that you won’t forget.

3. The regrets in the three years.

4. Plans for your future.

5. A natural ending.

The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure (治療) Mr. Cousins’ problem and he might never get over the illness. However, Mr. Cousins refused to give up hope. He thought that unhappy thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He didn’t want to take medicine to cure himself. Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.

He began to experiment (實(shí)驗(yàn)) on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that 10 minutes of real laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night. After that Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could continue his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping whenever he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for exercise.

After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to health.

【1】Why did Norman Cousins get a strange and serious illness?

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【2】What could the doctors do to help him?

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【3】Besides feeling painful, what did he have difficulty doing?

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【4】What did Norman Cousins think caused his disease?

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【5】What did he do to help himself cure his problem?

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Should Children Be Allowed to Get Bored?

Children need time to stand and stare. They should be allowed to get bored to that they can develop their ability to be creative.

Children are expected by their parents to be reading a textbook all the time. However, research shows that it may slow down the development of their imagination, while boredom can give them opportunities to develop creativity.

Boredom is often linked with loneliness, but a writer named Meera Syal said boredom had helped here in developing her mind. She told researchers about her childhood. Having few things to do, Syal often talked with her neighbors. She also tried to do things like learning to bake cakes. “But importantly, I thought and wrote a lot, because I was bored,” Syal said. She kept a diary, filling her time with short stories and poems she made up.

Grayson Perry, an artist, grew up in a family with little money. He enjoyed himself by making up stories, drawing pictures for his stories and reading many books in the library. Bored but free, he spent hours looking out of the window, watching the changing clouds and seasons. Perry filled up his free time with what he liked. He became creative, because he could think freely.

Dr. Belton is an expert on the effects of emotions on learning. “Boredom could be an uncomfortable feeling,” she said, “But some young people cannot deal with that boredom creatively. So sometimes they may break a classroom window, or drive a car out for a mad race.”

Usually, when children have nothing to do, they would turn on the TV, the computer, or the phone. Their time on these things has increased, yet they need to have time to think about their experiences through playing or just watching the world around them.

It is this kind of thinking that can inspire the imagination. On the other hand, the TV or phone may cut short the thinking process. That can be bad for the development of creativity. “For developing the ability to be creative,” Dr. Belton advised, “perhaps we need to stand and stare, and stay off-line from time to time.”

So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top from yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?

Second, is the goal you’re trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about this question, “If I do succeed in this, where will it get me?” This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn’t be doing anyway.

The third thing to bear in mind about failure is that it’s a part of life. Learn to “l(fā)ive with yourself” even though you may have failed. Remember, “You can’t win them all.”

【1】The “spider story” mentioned in the passage is used to show that _________.

A. only failure can lead you to success

B. we can make it if we keep trying

C. failure is always terrible

D. people who fail have the same experience

【2】The underlined phrase “bear in mind” in the last paragraph means _________.

A. take care B. forget C. recognize D. remember

【3】The writer tells us to do all the things when dealing with failure except ________.

A. thinking about how it happened

B. believing that we can’t live happily if we fail

C. considering failure as a part of life

D. checking out whether our goals are right for the present situation

【4】The main idea of this passage is _________.

A. what the value of failure is

B. that Edison and Bruce failed repeatedly before success

C. what failure is and how to deal with failure

D. failure may be considered as a way towards success

At that time I didn’t realize my wife was looking on. Without showing her surprise, she rushed in, snatched the phone, tore off the wires (電線), and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone! Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.

I stood watching her, speechless, what on earth…?

She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the rest of the house, “Now hear this! All things in this room — if you do anything to upset my husband, out you go! ”

Then she turned to me, kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, you just have to learn how to take control.” With that, she left the room.

After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight, I noticed that something in my mood (情緒) had changed. I was laughing. How could she have trouble with that phone? Her antics helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call. I was able to listen to him and talk to him calmly.

【1】Why did the writer shout, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are”?

A. He was impatient with the phone.

B. He was impatient with the secretary.

C. He was mad at the telephone.

D. He was angry with his agent.

【2】The underlined word “antics" means _________.

A. surprising looks

B. sweet kisses and smart words

C. strange and funny behavior

D. reliable suggestion

【3】We can infer (推測(cè)) from the passage that _________.

A. The secretary didn’t care about the writer

B. the writer sometimes couldn’t control himself well

C. the agent was not responsible for his own work

D. the writer’s wife was not intelligent

I have a neighbor we call “Happy”. I have never seen her a【1】 at anything and never 47. h【2】 her say a bad word to anyone or about anything.

Happy and her husband Ben, have a huge garden. They spent many happy hours together w【3】 on it. Most of the neighbors watched interestingly as Ben doubled the s【4】 of their garden, making it twice as big as it was. As the price of food r【5】 fast, we all wished to have such a large garden. As we spent more money at the m【6】 to buy vegetables, Happy was picking beans in her backyard.

Last month, Happy and Ben i【7】 most of the neighborhood to their home. We were told to bring gloves and arrive very early in the morning. We didn’t know what was about to take place.

By 9:00 am, there were nine of us in the garden picking tomatoes, beans, okra, and squash.

By 10:00 am, we were laughing happily. Talking about stories happening in our life, we s【8】 a lot of happiness. By five o’clock, everyone was little d【9】 from the alcoholic drinks, wine and beer. After dinner, we played games. As we were leaving, Happy and Ben handed each of us a shopping bag filled with the bounty (收成) of the food. The true gift was a day of friends enjoying each o【10】 company (陪伴). Many thanks to Happy, Ben and their lovely garden.

【1】A: After we entered the room, we found nobody in.

B: After we _________ _________ _________ the room, we found nobody in.

【2】A: He did a part-time job so that he could earn some money to buy a football.

B: He did a part-time job _________ _________ _________ _________ some money to buy a football.

【3】A: James joined the rambles’ club five years ago. Now he is still in it.

B: James _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ the rambles’ club _________ five years.

【4】A: When the cowboy was five, he began to learn how to ride a horse.

B: _________ _________ _________ _________ _________, the cowboy began to learn how to ride a horse.

【5】A: They didn’t intend to go to Japan to study.

B: They _________ _________ _________ _________ going to Japan to study.

【1】It’s wrong to keep animals such as sheep and _________ (goose) in an apartment or a flat in the city.

【2】The meat is cooked in so much oil that it must be _________ (fat) food I have ever eaten.

【3】Based on the US author W Bruce Cameron’s best-selling book, the film _________ (show) in Chinese mainland cinemas on March 3.

【4】Campus bullying (霸凌) and _________ (violent) has been frequently reported recently, which has drawn the attention of both the public and the government.

【5】Readers, a TV show that has been quite popular in the last two months which _________ (invite) different people to read aloud on the stage as well as tell touching stories behind them.

【6】Since the introduction of Mobike in Shanghai last April, China _________ (witness) a trend of riding shared bikes to schools, workplaces or to go sightseeing.

【7】Imagine a train that sends humans across the country at speeds of more than 1,000 km/h. The idea, _________ (announce) by US billionaire Elon Musk in 2013, is starting to look more believable.

【8】Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region (西藏), plans to continue its efforts in _________ (improve) people’s lives by increasing their incomes and focus on road traffic and housing conditions, according to the city government’s official website.

【9】Government Work Report is one of the most important parts of the meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC, 全國(guó)人民代表大會(huì)), discussing the government’s work in 2016 and _________ (set) tasks for this year.

【10】For many Americans, however, their reason for being unhappy can be summed up in two words: Donald Trump. Rightly or wrongly, they feel _________ (frustrate) by the new president and his plans for their country.