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　　London-life for Cathy Hagner and her three children is set to permanent (不大可能改变的).

　　Their 1 school day and her job as a lawyer's assistant are busy enough. 2 Hagner also has to take the two boys to soccer or hockey or basketball while dropping off her 3 at piano lessons or Girl Scout Club. 4 , the exhausted (精疲力尽的) family doesn't get home until 7 p.m. There is just time for a quick 5 before homework.

　　In today's world, middle-class American and British parents treat their children 6 they were competitors 7 for some finishing line.

　　Parents take their children from activity to activity to make their future 8 . It seems that raising a genius (英才) has become a more 9 goal than raising a happy and well balanced child.

　　“ 10 across the country are reporting a growing number of children 11 from stomachaches and headaches 12 exhaustion and stress,” says child expert William Doherty of the University of Minnesota.

　　Teachers are 13 exhausted kids in the classroom. It's a very serious problem. Many children attend 14 clubs by necessity. But competitive pressures also 15 an explosion of activities. They 16 sports, language, music and maths classes for children as 17 as four.

　　“There is a new parenting trend(趋势) under way which says you have to tap all your child's potential (潜能) at a young age, 18 you will let them down,” says Terry Apter, a Cambridge-based child and adolescent psychiatrist(青少年精神病专家).

　　“It isn't entirely 19 : there have always been pushy parents. But what was seen as strange behaviour before is now well 20 .”

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Smiling is the most attractive human behavior. The power of smiling can work out many wonders. I love to take a walk around the small neighborhood where I live. Whoever I meet on the way, they always give me a friendly greeting with a nice smile as soon as our eyes contact  1 . I smile back. This kind of smiling exchange represents the most   2  part of my jogging experience in the States.

My daughter's smile is just like sunlight, which warms me inside the same way   3   the sun warms my body. It can clear away any clouds and unpleasant feelings. The smile of my wife, however, makes me enjoy the   4  of an elegant woman, it can sometimes relax me quite a lot.

Julia Robert's    5  is nothing but roaring like an earthquake. Americans may have   6   opinions in many things, but they all agree that Julia is America's sweetheart. Her laugh plays a very good part in her acting. Once I tried some candy in a store, the owner asked me how sweet the candy is, I said sweeter than Julia Robert.   7  both of us broke into a kind of Julia's laugh. Yes, laugh is something we can not do without. Otherwise, our life would be too   8  .

Smiling does not belong to human alone. Once I stayed at an American home and he had a little dog named Mini. When I held her gently and asked her to give me a little smile,   9   just opened her mouth wide and half closed her eyes, looking like smiling.

Los Angles is not only the place where it has the most sunshine in a year,   10   where most people smile! That’s why so many people love to travel there all year round.

1.                A．contact         B．close           C．change   D．open

2.                A．fashionable      B．painful          C．enjoyable     D．educational

3.                A．though         B．like            C．as   D．from

4.                A．pride          B．courage         C．success   D．beauty

5.                A．cry            B．laugh           C．smile     D．performance

6.                A．different        B．similar          C．same     D．strange

7.                A．All             B．Both           C．Neither   D．None

8.                A．lonely          B．cool            C．sunny    D．sad

9.                A．it              B．she            C．he   D．I

10.               A．even though     B．as if            C．so that    D．but also

Smiling is the most attractive human behavior. The power of smiling can work out many wonders. I love to take a walk around the small neighborhood where I live. Whoever I meet on the way, they always give me a friendly greeting with a nice smile as soon as our eyes contact  1 . I smile back. This kind of smiling exchange represents the most   2  part of my jogging experience in the States.
My daughter's smile is just like sunlight, which warms me inside the same way   3   the sun warms my body. It can clear away any clouds and unpleasant feelings. The smile of my wife, however, makes me enjoy the   4  of an elegant woman, it can sometimes relax me quite a lot.
Julia Robert's    5  is nothing but roaring like an earthquake. Americans may have   6   opinions in many things, but they all agree that Julia is America's sweetheart. Her laugh plays a very good part in her acting. Once I tried some candy in a store, the owner asked me how sweet the candy is, I said sweeter than Julia Robert.   7  both of us broke into a kind of Julia's laugh. Yes, laugh is something we can not do without. Otherwise, our life would be too   8  .
Smiling does not belong to human alone. Once I stayed at an American home and he had a little dog named Mini. When I held her gently and asked her to give me a little smile,   9   just opened her mouth wide and half closed her eyes, looking like smiling.
Los Angles is not only the place where it has the most sunshine in a year,   10   where most people smile! That’s why so many people love to travel there all year round.

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s disappointment(失望), she said she would go. This would be the   16   time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he   17   lose his face because of her appearance. Although she was a   18   woman, there was a scar(疤痕) that covered nearly the whole right side of her face. The boy never wanted to   19   why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were   20   by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother even though she had the scar on her face, but the little boy was still embarrassed(尴尬) and hid himself from everyone.   21  , he happened to hear of a talk between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked   22  , “How did you get the scar on your face?”

The mother replied, “When my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire.  23  was too afraid to go in because the fire was   24  , so I went in.    25  I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood   26  and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless(失去知觉) but luckily, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She   27  the burned side of her face. “This scar will be there forever, but to this day, I have never   28  what I did.”

At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with   29  in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great sense of the sacrifice(牺牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand   30   for the rest of the day.

1.A. first          B. second       C. last         D. next

2.A. can            B. should       C. would        D. need

3.A. slim           B. short        C. ugly         D. beautiful

4.A. talk about     B. argue about C. worry about D. hear about

5.A. frightened     B. attracted    C. worried      D. excited

6.A. Therefore      B. Otherwise    C. However      D. Then

7.A. excitedly      B. seriously    C. nervously    D. anxiously

8.A. Everyone       B. No one       C. Nobody       D. Someone

9.A. out of control B. under control C. in control D. over control

10.A. If            B. Though       C. Because      D. As

11.A. sitting down B. lying down   C. falling down D. turning down

12.A. pointed       B. showed       C. hit          D. touched

13.A. forgot        B. realized     C. considered   D. regretted

14.A. tears             B. smile        C. sunshine     D. sadness

15.A. hardly        B. slightly     C. tightly      D. suddenly