We all, at one time or another, have pretended to be a rock star, singing and dancing along to our favorite song. Most of us have done this in the privacy of our own room when we were kids and as adults, in the privacy of our homes. Me? I love to do that when I drive! I turn on the radio, find a song that I can sing along too and pretty soon my arms are in the air and I am moving along to the rhythm. Most of the time, I do this on my way to work.

　　Yes, that is true. I will be in my nice work clothes, jamming while driving or stopped at a traffic light. I get weird looks from some people and others laugh. Personally, I love to get lost in the rhythm of a song which leads me to share with you the importance of being silly!

　　The definition for the word silly, according to the dictionary is: stupid, foolish and nonsensical. I know many people do not want to look foolish. So they walk around all serious, which in all honesty, is foolish!

　　No one is perfect, I repeat: no one is perfect. I don’t care how educated, how thin, how beautiful, how simple, how frugal, how rich, and so on… No one is perfect! So why pretend to be something you are not?

Life is so short… You never know when this beautiful journey will be over, so why waste a single second on being so full of rigidity(呆板)? Here is a quote by Souza, that I think says it all and is a great recipe for life:

　　"Dance as though no one is watching you,

　　Love as though you have never been hurt before,

　　Sing as though no one can hear you,

　　Live as though heaven is on earth."

　　When we were kids, we had no idea of what limitations were and we had no care in the world so we could do things without worrying about how we appeared to others. However, as we grew up, we lost that childlike innocence.

　　So don’t lose the child that still lives within you. The next time you feel down, go turn on your favorite song, and sing and dance along like there is no tomorrow. Or watch something that makes you laugh. Laughter is the best medicine to whatever ails you and nothing is better than laughing so hard that your tummy hurts. Trust me, you will feel a whole lot better, and who doesn’t want to feel good?

1. According to the passage, what does the writer usually do?

A．He pretends to be a rock star.	B．He dances in his own home.
C．He sings songs while going to work.	D．He gets jammed on his way to work.

2.What do other people think of the writer?

A．They think that the writer is strange.	B．They look down upon the writer.
C．They believe that the writer is lonely.	D．No one is interested in the writer.

3. What is the writer’s opinion about the people who look very serious?

A．They are honest.	B．They are silly.
C．They are perfect.	D．They are educated.

4. The writer quotes Souza to show that _______.

A．life is a beautiful journey	B．life is full of rigidity
C．life is like a great recipe	D．life is to be treasured

5.The underlined part “the child” in the last paragraph probably refers to _______.

A．the writer	B．any child
C．the feeling of being a child	D．the time of being a child

 

用适当的词填空。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

occur      inhabitant     crowd     measure     strong reduce     similarity      poor      fortunate    disaster

1.A fire broke out in the factory. ___________, one of the firefighters was killed.

2.The boy knows much about the           and differences between pop music and classical music.

3.The government is making efforts to ________the traffic noises in order to let citizens have a quiet sleep.

4.         have been taken to reduce pollution in developing countries.

5.He threw it forward with all his         .

6.The buses are so        during the rush hour.

7.The polluted air and water can explain the main reason why the ________here are getting ill one by one.

8.Our goal is to reduce the number of the families in         in the village.

9.An unexpected storm  　　 when we were enjoying the pleasant voyage at the Yellow Sea.

10.One million five hundred thousand people died in natural _____ between 1980 and 2000

 

用适当的词填空。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

occur      inhabitant     crowd     measure     strong reduce     similarity      poor      fortunate    disaster

【小题1】A fire broke out in the factory. ___________, one of the firefighters was killed.
【小题2】The boy knows much about the           and differences between pop music and classical music.
【小题3】The government is making efforts to ________the traffic noises in order to let citizens have a quiet sleep.
【小题4】         have been taken to reduce pollution in developing countries.
【小题5】He threw it forward with all his         .
【小题6】The buses are so        during the rush hour.
【小题7】The polluted air and water can explain the main reason why the ________here are getting ill one by one.
【小题8】Our goal is to reduce the number of the families in         in the village.
【小题9】An unexpected storm  　　 when we were enjoying the pleasant voyage at the Yellow Sea.
【小题10】One million five hundred thousand people died in natural _____ between 1980 and 2000