Most people want to be happy, but few know how to find happiness. Money and success alone do not bring lasting happiness. Aristotle, a Greek thinker, said, “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” In other words, we make our own happiness. Here are a few suggestions to help you be happier.
The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. Too often, we spend so much time thinking about the future —for example, getting into college or getting a good job —that we fail to enjoy the present. You should enjoy life’s simple pleasures, such as reading a good book, listening to your favorite music, or spending time with close friends. People who have several close friends often live happier and healthier lives.
Another secret to living a happy life is to be active, and have hobbies where you forget your problems and time. Many people experience this dancing, or playing a sport, such as swimming. You can forget about your problems, and only think about the activity. Finally, many people find happiness in helping others. Studies show that people feel good when they spend their time helping others. If you want to feel happier, do good things for someone. You can help a friend with his or her studies, go shopping to buy food for an elderly person, or simply help out around the house by washing the dishes.【小题1】The best title of the passage is ________.
| A．Money Makes You Happy |
| B．The Secrets of Happiness |
| C．Ideas for Helping Other People to Be Happy |
| D．Good Friends Make You Happy |
【小题2】The second paragraph tells us that ________.| A．the more friends you have, the happier you will be |
| B．we shouldn’t think about our future |
| C．happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. |
| D．some people fail to live a happy life |
【小题3】 The passage gives us ________ pieces of advice on happiness.| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．four |
【小题4】 The writer thinks that ________.| A．everyone knows how to live a happier life |
| B．it’s wrong to spend time on work |
| C．hobbies take up too much time |
| D．doing good things for someone can make you happier |
【小题5】 Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?| A．Reading a good book. | B．Traveling to a foreign country. |
| C．Playing a sport. | D．Spending time with close friends. |
【小题1】B【小题2】C【小题3】C【小题4】D【小题5】B
解析试题分析：本文讲述了如何获得快乐。一个方法是享受生活中简单的事物，可以听音乐，看书，和朋友一起玩耍。另外一个方法是，积极的态度，要有自己的兴趣爱好。可以做一些运动，或者帮助别人。帮助别人的同时，自己也能获得快乐。【小题1】标题归纳题。句意：文章最好的标题是什么。根据：The first secret of happiness is to…，Another secret to living a happy life is to be active,可知本文主要讲幸福的秘密，故选B。【小题2】段落大意题。句意：第二段告诉我们什么。根据第二段第一句为主旨句；The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life. 幸福的秘密是享受生活中简单的事物，故选C。【小题3】细节理解题。句意：关于幸福文章告诉我们几条建议？根据：The first secret of happiness is to enjoy the simple things in life.幸福的秘密是享受生活中简单的事物， Another secret to living a happy life is to be active, and have hobbies where you forget your problems and time. 另一个生活快乐的秘密是积极，有自己的兴趣爱好。Finally, many people find happiness in helping others帮助别人的同时，自己也能获得快乐。故选C。【小题4】推理判断题。句意：作者是怎么认为的。根据最后一段If you want to feel happier, do good things for someone.如果你想感到快乐，就帮助别人吧，故选D.【小题5】细节理解题。句意：文章中下面哪一个没有提到？根据：You should enjoy life’s simple pleasures, such as reading a good book, listening to your favorite music, or spending time with close friends. People who have several close friends often live happier and healthier lives.可以看到文章里面提到了读书，听音乐，和朋友玩，没有提到去外国旅行，故选B。
考点：日常生活类短文阅读。
科目：初中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Mary 09:45:10
Hi, Jim. Nice to meet you!
I’m a girl. My name is Mary Green. My favorite color is red. My telephone number is 873-3516.
Jim 09:46:05
Hi, Mary. Nice to meet you, too!
I’m a boy. My name’s Jim Hand. My favorite color is blue. And my telephone number is 894-2015.
根据以上两位好朋友在网上的聊天记录，选择最佳选项。
【小题1】 Mary likes .
| A．red | B．green | C．blue | D．black |
| A．Mary | B．Green | C．Red | D．Yellow |
| A．Jim | B．Mary | C．Black | D．Green |
| A．837-2015 | B．873-3516 | C．894-2015 | D．894-3516 |
| A．in the morning | B．in the afternoon | C．in the evening | D．at night |
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阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容在在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。每空一词。
How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as entertainment, but not the first choice for education. This opinion is shortsighted. In fact, music education is necessary and important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Music reflects the creators’ thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. For example, just as Mozart music represents a lifestyle, rock music represents a lifestyle, too. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions.
Music provides a kind of ability to know the world in a different way. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. Music explores the emotive meanings. We need every possible way to discover and response to our world because no one way can get it all.
Music is a form of thought, as powerful as science. It is a way we human beings “talk” to each other. Through the language we expresses our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses. Science does not tell us what it means to be human. Music does.
So music education is much more necessary than people generally realize.
Title: Music education is of 【小题1】
| Passage outline | Detailed information |
| Introduction | Shortsighted opinion: Music is only a way of entertainment, not the top choice for education. Truth: Music education is necessary and important for all students. |
| Main Body | A way to tell who we are: Music not only reflects the social environment it came from but also expresses people’s thinking and __【小题2】____ |
| A way to know the world: We can’t discover and respond to our world in just one way. Science explains how nature 【小题3】. Music explores the emotive meanings of nature. | |
| A way to communicate with others: We use music to【小题4】our feelings, our discoveries, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes with others. Music, 【小题5】from science, tells us what it means to be human. | |
| Conclusion | Music education is necessary. |
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科目：初中英语 来源： 题型：完型填空
David likes to eat in KFC. He often eats a chicken hamburger and French fries. Most people working in KFC know David very well. Sometimes they often ask him, “How many times do you eat chicken hamburgers and French fries a week?” David will answer, “Three times a week.” “Why do you like KFC better?” They ask. “Because every time I can get a small toy car.” People around him laugh and say, “Why don’t you go to the toy store ? ” “Because in the toy store they don’t have KFC.”
【小题1】Where does David like to eat?
A. In KFC. B. In the toy store.
C. In the restaurant. D. At home.
【小题2】 How often does David go to KFC?
| A．Sometimes. | B．Always |
| C．Every time. | D．Three times a week. |
| A．Because he often eats chicken hamburgers. |
| B．Because he often gets a toy car. |
| C．Because he often makes people laugh. |
| D．Because he often goes there. |
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We sometimes have to meet some difficulties that we never expect, but we should develop a positive attitude to life. Keeping a positive attitude isn't always easy, especially when we are going through a difficult time in our life. However, we know, only when we take a positive attitude, can we overcome the difficulties.
On July 23rd, 1993, Wang Jiapeng lost his legs when his plane crashed. Wang was only 12 years old. He felt he was the unluckiest person in the world. When he saw students with their schoolbags on their backs, the sound of his wheelchair made him sick. Wang’s mother took him to a special hospital in Beijing. She looked after him in the daytime and worked at night to make money. But after two years,
Wang was still not able to leave the hospital. Wang’s mother became too tired to go on and one day she herself became a hospital patient! One morning she woke up and saw her son holding breakfast for her. Wang’s trip to the food shop was his first time outside the hospital in two years. The five-minute walk took him thirty minutes.
But he was finally able to make an important decision. He didn’t care how other people looked at him. He had to learn to do things himself.
For the next few years, Wang taught himself all his middle school subjects in the hospital and five years after the accident, he won a chance to study in a college in Norway. Wang learned to drive, go rock climbing and ski. He even won two gold medals for skiing in an international skiing competition.
“You are what you think you are,” said Wang. “If you think you’re disabled, you are. If you don’t think so, you aren’t.”
So we know that if you can keep a positive attitude, even when things aren't going well in your life, you are the true winner of life.
根据短文内容判断正、误。
(注意，考生将答题卡相应位置涂黑。正确的涂“A”，错误的涂“B”)
【小题1】Wang Jiapeng, born on July 23rd, 1993, lost his legs because of a plane crash.
【小题2】At first he felt very unlucky when seeing others going to school.
【小题3】In order to look after him, his mother had to stop work and she finally fell ill.
【小题4】He finished the middle school by himself and got a chance to go to college.
【小题5】Positive thinking benefited Wang Jiapeng and he became good at skating.
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科目：初中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Whenever there's a terrible storm, there are plenty of sad stories. Many people lost their houses, their cars and their pets. But sometimes these stories have happy endings too.
A family in New Jersey, US, had a cat named Vivien. She is very smart. She could even draw with her wet paws on the floor. They all love her very much. When hurricane (飓风) Sandy hit America in October, they moved to a safer place-13km away from home. Sadly Vivien went missing. The whole family were worried about her. They put up posters on the Internet to look for her. All the nine family members searched wherever they thought she could stay, but they didn't find it. The family thought Vivien was gone forever.
But six months later, Vivien showed up at their house, according to Yahoo News. They considered her return as a wonder. No one can be sure where Vivien was for all that time.
Many animals are good at finding their way home. People usually say that dogs and cats find their way home through using their sense of smell.
But that doesn't explain how Vivien found her way back. Hurricane Sandy blew away the normal smells of home.
"I wish she could talk," said her owner.
【小题1】From the passage we know Sandy is a
| A．pet | B．house |
| C．girl | D．hurricane |
| A．4 months | B．6 months |
| C．9 months | D．13 months |
| A．Vivien could even draw. |
| B．The family tried hard to look for the pet. |
| C．The owner knew how the cat found her way home. |
| D．Many people lost their houses, their cars and their pets because of the hurricane. |
| A．A Terrible Storm | B． A Clever Pet |
| C．A Smart Owner | D．A sad story |
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Now many young people are traveling around the world on their own not because they have no one to travel with, but because they prefer to go alone.
Kristina Wegscheider from California first traveled alone when she was at college and believes that it is something everyone should do at least once in their life. “It opens up your mind to new things and pushes you out of your comfort zone.” Wegscheider has visited 46 countries covering all seven continents.
In foreign countries, with no one to help you read a map, look after you if you get ill, or lend you money if your wallet is stolen, it is challenging. This is what drives young people to travel alone. It is seen as character building and a chance to prove that they can make it on their own.
Chris Richardson decided to leave his sales job in Australia to go traveling last year. He set up a website, The Aussie Nomad, to document his adventures. He says he wished he had traveled alone earlier.“ The people you meet, the places you visit, or the things you do, everything is up to you and it forces you to grow as a person,” said the 30-year-old man.
Richardson describes traveling alone like “a shot in the arm”, which “makes you a more confident person that is ready to deal with anything.” He said, “The feeling of having conquered something on my own is a major part of what drives me each day when I’m dealing with a difficult task.” “I walk around with my head up because I know deep down inside that nothing is impossible if you try.”
The great 19th century explorer John Muir once said, “Only by going alone in silence can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.”
【小题1】Which of the following will Kristina Wegscheider agree with?
| A．Traveling alone is a necessary experience for everyone. |
| B．It is more meaningful to travel in foreign countries. |
| C．It is comfortable to travel around without a friend. |
| D．Traveling abroad helps people to find new things. |
| A．you have to make things on your own |
| B．it is hard for you to prove yourself to others |
| C．you can only depend on yourself whatever happens |
| D．it will finally build your character |
| A．He started traveling alone at an early age. |
| B．He was once shot in the arm. |
| C．He used to work as a salesman. |
| D．His website encourages others a lot. |
| A．Travel Abroad | B．Travel alone |
| C．Travel Light | D．Travel Wide and Far |
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You are going to high school, aren’t you? Maybe you don’t know what to do. Well, here’s a list of the top six things to do when you are in high school. These things will give you ideas of what your high school life could be like. Here you go!
① Find your passion(激情) and what kind of person you are: Whether it’s dance, basketball, or drawing, the important thing is that you have found something you are interested in.
② Talk to people you wouldn’t usually talk to: meet new people, find new friends and even talk to people you don’t like. It will show what a great person you are. You never know what will happen after high school.
③ Take part in at least one contest(竞赛): This will give you tears of laughter, happiness and memories.
④ Get a job: This will help you see what it’s like to have responsibility(责任). It can also help you make a little money to spend on yourself.
⑤ Take a trip with your friends: It doesn’t matter where you go or what you do, the memories will happen on the way and go on till the final place.
⑥ Do your best at school: Don’t ever get lazy; working hard now will help you in the future.
【小题1】The writer mainly tells you six things you should do _____.
| A．in your high school years |
| B．at the beginning of your high school years |
| C．before your high school begins |
| D．after finish your high school |
| A．you will feel sorry if not |
| B．it will show how great you are |
| C．it will show how clever you are |
| D．you can make your study better |
| A．Find your interest | B．Get a Job |
| C．take a trip with your friends | D．Get lazy |
| A．Have a happy school life |
| B．How to get along with your schoolmates |
| C．Ideas of successful high school life |
| D．Make sure your school life easy |
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科目：初中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
Mike Myers is a teacher at Chauncey Rose High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. Last year, he taught his students about the world’s rain forests. They learned that rain forests are important because the plants and animals of the rain forest give us food, wood, and medicine.
Destruction of the world’s rain forests is a serious problem. Unluckily, rain forests are disappearing at a rate of 80 acres per minute! As part of a class project, Myers’ students bought three acres of rain forest in Central America. They paid $25 per acre. The students hope that the land they bought will be protected and not destroyed. The students became so interested in rain forests that they decided to get a closer look at a real rain forest.
So last June, Myers and four of his students took a boat ride down a river. They saw alligators and crocodiles. In the middle of the week, a guide took Myers and his students into the rain forest. “The monkeys were not happy that we were in their forest. They broke small branches off the trees and threw them at e us,” one of the students said, “It was a great learning experience for all of us,” said Myers.
Each student chose something specific about Costa Rica to study involving the plants, animals, food, and culture. During the last few days the group had time to do fun activities. They went whitewater rafting and horseback riding, and visited Costa Rica’s active volcano.
Myers hopes to make the trip every year with a different group of kids.
【小题1】How much did Myers’ students pay for the rain forest they bought?
| A．$25 | B．$75 | C．$80 | D．$2000 |
| A．They went into the rain forest. | B．They bought acres of rain forest. |
| C．They took a boat ride down a river. | D．They visited Costa Rica’s active volcano. |
| A．destroyed | B．developed | C．described | D．discovered. |
| A．felt excited | B．felt angry | C．jumped off the trees | D．left the rain forest |
| A．did something to protect rain forest |
| B．wanted to buy the rain forest in Costa Rica |
| C．were interested in the culture of Costa Rica |
| D．went to the rain forest for various fun activities |
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