根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness?__ 1___. The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.

※ Make a plan for attaining goals that you believe will make you happy. Your moods will very likely increase if you are going after something you value.

※ Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way. ___2___.

※ When something goes wrong, try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self pity. Truly happy people don’t allow setbacks to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the circumstances back to their favor.

※ __3__. These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.

※ ___ 4___ . Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance, you will be subconsciously (下意识地) putting yourself in a better mood.

※ Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you happy.

※ Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness. __5___ .

A．What makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy.

B．On the contrary, if you are around people who are happy, their emotional state will be infectious.

C．Being overweight or not eating nutritious foods can have a negative effect on your mood．

D．These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves.

E．Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy.

F．There are some tips in life that lead to happiness.

G． It’s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself.

 

 

When I first learned to write in English，I ran into much difficulties. The main problem was in that I always thought in Chinese and tried to translate anything into English. My teacher advised me to keep my diary. I followed her advice and should put down 100 words or so each day. Soon I began to enjoy talk to myself on paper as I was learning to express me in simple English. One day I wrote a little story and showed to my teacher. She liked it very much and reads it to the class. All said the story was a good one. Their word were a great encouragement to me.

 

Fish Ears Tell Fish Tales

　 Fish have ears. Really. They’re quite small and have no opening to the outside world carrying sound through the body. For the past seven years, Simon Thorrold, a university professor, has been examining fish ears, small round ear bones called otoliths (耳石).

　 As fish grow, so do their otoliths. Each day, their otoliths gain a ring of calcium carbonate (碳酸钙). By looking through a microscope and counting these rings, Thorrold can determine the exact age of a young fish. As a fish gets older, its otoliths no longer get daily rings. Instead, they get yearly rings, which can also be counted, giving information about the fish’s age, just like the growth rings of a tree.

　 Ring counting is nothing new to fish scientists. But Thorrold has turned to a new direction. They’re examining the chemical elements (元素) of each otolith ring.

　 The daily ring gives us the time, but chemistry tells us about the environment in which the fish swam on any given day. These elements tell us about the chemistry of the water that the fish was in. It also says something about water temperature, which determines how much of these elements will gather within each otolith ring.

　 Thorrold can tell, for example, if a fish spent time in the open ocean before entering the less salty water of coastal areas. He can basically tell where fish are spending their time at any given stage of history.

　 In the case of the Atlantic croaker, a popular saltwater food fish, Thorrold and his assistant have successfully followed the travelling of young fish from mid-ocean to the coast, a journey of many hundreds of miles.

　 This is important to managers in the fish industry, who know nearly nothing about the whereabouts of the young fish for most food fish in the ocean. Eager to learn about his technology, fish scientists are now lending Thorrold their ears.

1.What can we learn about fish ears from the text?

　A. They are small soft rings.

　B. They are not seen from the outside.

　C. They are openings only on food fish.

　D. They are not used to receive sound.

2.Why does the writer compare the fish to trees?

　A. Trees gain a growth ring each day.

　B. Trees also have otoliths.

　C. Their growth rings are very small.

　D. They both have growth rings.

3.Why is it important to study the chemistry of otolith rings?

　A. The elements of the otoliths can tell the history of the sea.

　B. Chemical contents of otoliths can tell how fast fish can swim.

　C. We can know more about fish and their living environment.

　D. Scientists can know exactly how old a fish is.

4.How would you understand “fish scientists are now lending their ears”?

　A. They are very interested in Thorrold’s research findings.

　B. They want to know where they can find fish.

　C. They lend their fish for chemical studies.

　D. They wonder if Thorrold can find growth rings from their ears.　

 

ACTeen-Acting for Teens

The nation’s first on-camera acting program developed for teens(ages 13—15, 16—20). Now celebrating our 30th year. June, July, August, or。Saturday summer academies offer full or part-time curriculum. 14 + electives, including film & television acting, theater, musical theater, auditioning, Shakespeare, speech ＆ voice, movement, script writing.

Working grades, small classes(12 maximum per workshop). Safe, convenient location. Application required. Out of town applicants may submit long distance application.

Cost/Week: $500一$649

 

Indianhead Ranch

Sharpen your H unting Skills over one or two weeks at Indianhead Ranch in Del Rio, Texas. You will experience the outdoors, expand your knowledge in gun safety and learn practical camping hunting and survival skills.

Cost/Week: $1000一$1999

 

Vermont Adventure Camps

Six-Day Adventure Camps

We offer 8 six-day adventure camps for teens l1 to 13. The kids go stay in rustic cabins at our camping site in Andover VT and on adventures each day. A discount of 10％ will be given to the team with over 3 persons.

Two-Week Adventure Camps

We also offer 4 two-week adventure camps for teens 14 to 17. The teens will go on an adventure each day and then come back to our quaint Adventure Lodge.

Cost/Week: $650

 

International ESL Camp

The site is in close proximity to New York, Philadelphia, and Princeton University. Campers will receive three hours per day of English language instruction, a full range of planned activities including sports, arts and crafts, and weekly excursions.

Cost/Week: $650一$999

 

1.According to the passages, which camp offers hunting skills?

A. Vermont Adventure Camps.        B. Indianhead Ranch.

C. Acting for Teens.                 D. International ESL Camp.

2.Which of the following statements about ACTeeen is TRUE?

A. Applicants out of town cannot submit.

B. There i s no need for application to the camp.

C. The camp lasts until September.

D. Its curriculum includes script writing.

3. If Tom plans to send his 4 children to join Six-Day Adventure Camps, how much should he pay?

A. 2,340.         B. 2,600.          C. 260.            D. 2,860.

 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Strange things happen to time when you travel. __11___the earth is divided into24 time zones, one hour apart, you can have days with __12___ or fewer than 24 hours, and weeks with more or fewer than seven days.

If you __13___ a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean, your __14___ enters a different time zone every __15___. As you enter each zone, the time __16___ one hour. Traveling west, you set your clock back; traveling east, you set it __17___. Each day of your trip has __18___ 25 or 23 hours.

­If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you ___19___ the international date line. By agreement, this is the point __20___ a new day begins. __21___ you cross the line, you change your __22___ one full day, backward __23____ forward. Traveling east, today __24___ yesterday; traveling west, __25___ is tomorrow!

1.

   A. Because      B. If        C. Although     D. When

2.

   A. much        B. more     C. many        D. less

3.

   A. do          B. make      C. go          D. travel

4.

   A. plane        B. train      C. car          D. ship

5.

   A. day         B. night      C. hour         D. time

6.

  A. goes        B. changes    C. shows       D. adds

7.

   A. ahead       B. upward    C. backward     D. fast

8.

   A. neither      B. either      C. both         D. nor

9.

 A. travel       B. trip        C. cover        D. cross

10.

   A. which       B. what       C. that         D. where

11.

A. When       B. Where     C. While       D. Before

12.

   A. time        B. calendar    C. date         D. hour

13.

  A. and         B. or         C. but         D. still

14.

   A. changes     B. makes      C. becomes     D. goes

15.

   A. which       B. this        C. that         D. it