You wake up in the morning，the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time．Then the telephone rings，you say hello, and the drama starts．The person on the other end has a depressing(令人沮丧的) tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to．Yon are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!
Communicating with negative people can wash out your happiness．It may not change what you think，but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time．
Life brings ups and downs，but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer．They only feel glad when they make others feel bad．No wonder they can hardly win others’pity or respect．
When you communicate with positive people，your spirit stays happy and therefore more positive things are attracted．When the dagger(匕首)of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all，brings you down．
Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people．This could be a co-worker，or relative．In this case，say what needs to be said as little as possible． Sometimes it feels good to let out-your anger back to a negative person，but all this does is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that．
Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized．The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to(附着)you throughout the rest of your day，which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness．Life is too short to feel negative．Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible．
【小题1】The purpose of the first paragraph is to           ．

A．make a comparison	B．offer an evidence
C．introduce a topic	D．describe a daily scene

【小题2】How can negative people have effect on us?

A．By influencing our emotion．	B．By telling US the nature of life．
C．By changing our way of thinking．	D．By comparing their attitude to life with ours．

【小题3】Some negative people base their happiness on              ．

A．other people’s pity for them

B．making other people unhappy

C．building up a positive attitude

D．other people’s respect for t hem

【小题4】According to the passage， to reduce negative people’s influence on us，we are advised             ．

A．to change negative people’s attitude to life

B．to show our dissatisfaction to negative people

C．to make negative people feel ashamed of themselves

D．to communicate with negative people as little as possible

【小题5】What can we learn about negativity?

A．Its effect can last．

B．Its effect can be completely avoided．

C．It hardly happens among family members．

D．Its effect is smaller than the effect created by a positive person．

根据所给中文或首字母写出相应单词的正确形式。

1. When I began to sing, he laughed and made me e____________.

2. He said that he p_________ to stay at home rather than go with us.

3. He has been practicing these days, in p______________ for the match.

4. The club is for t______________ who are between 13 and 19 years old.

5. Mr. Tang enjoys writing. His works have e__________ him many good friends.

6. We are kept i___________ of what is happening in the world by reading newspapers and watching television.

7. I’ve tried, but I can’t open the door _________（无论如何）.

8. The tall man _______（弯腰） forward to listen to the little girl.

9. The center has over 300 scientists _____________(致力于) to doing research into DNA.

10. Taking weight-loss pills proves to be dangerous, as it _____________(包含) some chemicals which cause one’s liver to fail.

 

单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

第一节　根据所给首字母和中文提示完成各句，使句意通顺。（共5小题；每空1分，满分5分）

1.The club is for t_______ who are between 13 and 19 years old.

2. You can’t ask a lady about her age in public because it will make her e______.

3.The famous professor gave us an _________ (解释) of how sound travels in water.

4.Mary looks _________ (苗条) than Helen.

5.I am _________ (羞愧) that you should dress like this.

 

请根据汉语意思及首字母将单词的完整形式写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。

1.Since 1978, China has a _____(成就) glorious improvement.

2.He saw the boy in danger and i__________ (立即) ran up to him.

3.It’s easy to find lots of useful i_____ (信息)online now in our school.  

4.The n_____(正常) price for a ticket is 40 yuan but during holidays, it may be doubled.

5.The injured person was taken to hospital in time for t________(治疗).

6.He has made good progress this term because of his teacher’s e_____ (鼓励).  

7.Scientific experiments call for endless p_____ (耐心) and carefulness.

8.The number of tigers has greatly r_____ (减少) in the past fifty years.

9.He was such a brave man that we all r_____ (尊敬) him.

10.John has a_____ (承认) breaking the window.