--- What you’ve said sounds _____, but can we really solve the problem in that way?

--- It is worth a try.

　　 A. absurd　　　 　　 B. awesome　　 　　 C. shallow 　　　　　　 D. reasonable

 Economy is booming, so it is hard for some of the firms to _____ enough labor , though their working conditions are rather good.

     A. hire                 B. fire                  C. use                 D. recommend

 In my opinion, it is not so helpful to give someone some bread as it is important to teach him how to _____.

     A. make a life            B. make progress        C. make sense          D. make his way

 What a pity! I missed meeting my boss at the airport because my car was _____ in the traffic jam.

     A. broken up           B. kept back           C. held up              D. kept on

 He moved to a foreign country, where he had to _____ himself to the new customs and habits.

     A. adapt                 B. adopt               C. fit                    D. suit

--- Who do you think will be in charge of _____ so important a conference?

--- Mr Smith.

　　 A. behaving　　 　　　　 B. conducting　　 　　 C. displaying　　 　　 D. controlling

 There being no witness on the spot, the police were delayed by the _____ of information about the crime.

     A. analysis              B. disappearance        C. absence              D. consideration

某英语报社拟成立“微笑俱乐部”，现向全球征募会员。要求申请者提交一篇题为“I Want to Smile”的英语短文。请你以申请者的身份，根据以下思路图的提示用英语写一篇短文。

注意：1. 根据思路图适当展开，以使行文连贯；

　　      2. 词数：120左右。

I Want to Smile

阅读下列各小题，根据句后的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

71. Judging from the inspired look of the students, the headmaster________________ an inspiring speech. (deliver)

从学生们受到鼓舞的表情看，校长一定在做一场鼓舞人心的演讲。

72.   ____________________ is what to do next. (confuse)

最让我困惑的是下一步该做什么。

73.   A boy as well as his friends _____________ in the exam and punished by the school. (catch)

一个男孩和他的朋友们在考试中舞弊被抓并受到了学校的惩罚。

74. After the new technique was introduced ，the factory produced _____________ in 2012 as the year before. (many)

引进新科技后，这家工厂2012年生产的小汽车是前一年的两倍。

75.___________________ the student was admitted into a key university in Wuhan. (word)

消息传来，那位学生被一所重点大学录取。

76. When I entered the teacher’s office, I found Tom _______________his being late for school to her. (account)

当我走进老师的办公室时，我发现Tom在向她解释上学迟到的原因。

77. As she ______________________ reading the novel, the teacher came in. (focus)

她正集中注意力看小说时，老师进来了。

78. Only when the teacher explained the way to us a second time _________________ it. (hang)

当老师再次向我解释了这个方法后，我才掌握它。

79 . Be careful! Road accidents __________ happen on such snowy weather . (likely)

   当心些！这样的雪天更有可能发生交通事故。

80.   It is what you did rather than what you said____________________. (matter)

重要的是你所做的，而不是你所说的。

I had an experience once which taught me something about the ways people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I officiated (主持) at two funerals for two elderly women. Both died a natural death. At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on her going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride was more than she could take. It’s my fault.”

When things don’t turn out as we would like them to, we tend to think that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believed that the opposite course, for example, keeping mother at home, would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seems to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilty. The first lies in our belief that the world makes sense and that there is a reason for everything that happens.

The second is the thought that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happens. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and calls the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely give up that childish thought that our wishes cause things to happen.

67. What is true about the two deceased elderly women?

A. They both died of old age.　　　

B. They died from hard work.

　　　 C. They weren’t used to the change in life.

　　　 D. They died due to lack of care by family members.

68. People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because___________.

　　　 A. they cannot find a better way to express their sorrow

　　　 B. they believe that they are responsible for what has happened

　　　 C. they don’t know the natural course of events

　　　 D. they don’t know things often turn out in the opposite direction

69.The underlined part “the world makes sense”（ in Para3）probably means that___________.

　　　 A. everything in the world is planned in advance

　　　 B. the world can be understood in different ways

　　　 C. there’s an explanation for everything in the world

　　　 D. we have to be wise in order to understand the world

70. People have believed since early childhood that__________.　

A. everybody must obey their demand

B. life and death is an unsolved mystery

　　　 C. every story should have a happy ending

D. their wishes are the cause of everything that happens