I don’t remember her name and would not recognize her if I were to pass her on the street. But I do__36__the kindness given by a stranger and the difference it has made in my life.

One Sunday, I was told to dress in my best clothes for I was going to __37__ . She smiled brightly as I got into her car, the car of a __38__I did not even know her name, but here I was , along with four others I __39__from our low-income neighborhood, on our way to church.

As we __40__ into the parking lot, I remember how beautiful the old stone building was with its tall steeple(尖塔)and stained glass windows. The__41__seemed long, and not accustomed to the rituals(仪式)of the Catholic Church, I felt out of place. Once the service had ended, I __42__ to be taken home, but __43__ we headed in the opposite direction. We were taken to a small__44__with the furnishings that portrayed a simple lifestyle. Two tables were set up with large boxes__45__ puzzles. As she made us hot chocolate, we were__46__ to begin working the puzzles. It was a quiet and happy time.

I came to __47__ Sundays，to hot chocolate, to puzzles that__48__ where we had left off the week before, and to the love I felt whenever she __49___at me .

Once our 1,000-piece puzzles had been completed, she no longer came to__50__us up on Sundays .I was told she was__51__ and no longer able to travel. However, I _52__ if perhaps it was time for her to “rescue” the next group of children. To give them hope that kindness still__53__ and can be found within those we call strangers.

I am forty-four years old now and often show__54__to strangers when given the chance. I know she may not move amongst us now, but I hope she smiles when she sees that her efforts to reach out to those less fortunate__55__.

1.                A．forget          B．understand      C．remember D．see

2.                A．school         B．college         C．hospital   D．church

3.                A．friend          B．stranger        C．teacher   D．leader

4.A recognized        B. described          C. realized         D. offered

5.                A．pulled          B．pushed         C．broke    D．stopped

6.                A．service         B．holiday         C．cure D．ceremony

7.                A．imagined       B．recommended   C．expected D．expressed

8.                A．besides         B．except         C．instead   D．still

9.                A．park           B．apartment       C．field D．path

10.               A．consisting       B．concluding      C．including  D．containing

11.               A．instructed      B．explored       C．convinced D．determined

12.               A．pay attention to B．devote to       C．look forward to D．lead to

13.               A．covered        B．replaced        C．changed   D．remained

14.               A．stared         B．smiled         C．threw D．glared

15.               A．make          B．pick           C．take  D．bring

16.               A．lost            B．gone           C．ill    D．old

17.               A．wondered      B．wandered       C．hoped D．insisted

18.               A．gathers         B．exists          C．drops D．moves

19.               A．respect        B．guidance       C．signs  D．kindness

20.A appear           B. fade              C. continue        D. create

Too Much Happiness was written by Alice Munro，winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature，one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction and the owner of the Man Booker Price for Fiction．Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker，The Atlantic Monthly，and other publications，and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages．

? The main character is Sophia Kovalevsky，a great Russian mathematician，writer and advocator拥护者）of women’s rights in the late nineteenth century. After visiting her lover Maxsim Kovalevsky in Riviera，she travels in Europe，ending up in Sweden，where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician．The book writes about her journey from Riviera to Sweden．

??? The story tells the typical struggle of an intellectual（知识分子）woman to achieve success and happiness．However，when she is going to die，Sophia says“too much happiness”．I think it’s irony（讽*11的）．As reading the story，she has too many mental problems·First，as a woman mathematician，she was born in a wrong time ．She was married to Vladimir Kovalevsky without love，called“a white marriage”．She explained that“no a young Russian woman who was unmarried could leave the country．”She satisfied her marriage to seek her career．

??? Furthermore，when she sees a man look like Maxsim in the station，she says to herself，“of course，it would not be Maxsim，what could he be doing in Paris？”She doesn’t want to face the fact because she doesn’t want to lose her hope．She believes they will marry in spring．And in her letter to Julia she says：“it is to be happiness after all，happiness after all．Happiness．”She is cheating herself. In fact，the man does not want to marry her，and the happiness she expected doesn’t take place at all．

??? Finally, I conclude that the end must be a tragedy（悲剧）．From the very first pages the atmosphere is gloomy黯淡的）and threatening.“One of us will die this year.”“Because we have gone walking in a graveyard（墓地）on the first day of the New Year.”Some pages further，“a black cat across their path”all reflect it will be a bad ending．Not because she had some problems with her lung，but because her life does not bring her happiness，and because of these disharmony things that happen in her life．

1.We can infer from the passage that＿＿·

A．Sophia was born in a wrong time and was mentally ill

B．women were not fairly treated in Europe in Sophia’s time

C．Sophia loved travelling around Europe to meet `different people

D．unmarried women were forbidden to learn mathematics at that time

2.The underlined phrase“the fact”in Paragraph 4 most probably refers to the fact that

A．her husband refuses to divorce B．she can’t teach in university

C．she falls in love with Maxsim D．Maxsim doesn’t want to marry her

3.Why does the author name this book Too Much Happiness？

A．It is used to suggest that the story must be a comedy．

B．It’s a phrase repeatedly used by Sophia herself to her friend．

C．It’s used in an ironic way to show that Sophia isn’t happy at all．

D．It’s to show Sophia is very happy to achieve success in her career．

4.What can we conclude from Sophia’s experience？

A．It’s hard for an educated woman to achieve success in Europe at that time．

B．Russian women were not allowed to go abroad without a white marriage．

C．Married women could travel freely across Europe in the late nineteenth century．

D．Seeing a black cat across the path would bring people to death in the end．

5.In a newspaper，this passage is most probably in the section of____．

A. Entertainment B. Travel C．Career D. Culture

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。

It’s natural to greet friends with a smile and a wave. ____1._______ But what happens if your face and body send mixed messages? Would someone be more likely to believe the look on your face or the way you hold your body?

Scientists have recently tackled these questions. They found that when a person is looking at your face, she might not believe what she sees of your body language doesn’t? match the feeling that your face shows.? 2.? Previously, they had found that the tone of a person’s voice can be more important than the words that are spoken. For example, most people tend not to believe a person who says in a flat voice, “I’m so excited.”

???? When it came to emotions conveyed by facial expressions and body language, most scientists suspected that the face was more important. To test if this was true, psychologists from the Netherlands and Boston showed people a number of pictures of isolated faces and isolated bodies(with faces blurred out)that showed anger or fear. ___3._____

???? An angry face had low eyebrows and tight lips. A scared face had high eyebrow and a slightly open mouth. ____4._____? A scared body had arms forward and shoulders square, as if ready to defend.

???? These results told the researchers that mixed signals can confuse people. Even when people pay attention to the face, body language subtly influences which emotion they read.

? ?? 5.? And if you want to be understood, it helps to avoid sending mixed messages.

Studying such mixed messages is nothing new for scientists.

A. So, your body language is important for telling people how you feel.

B. Scientists feel new to study the mixed message that confuses people.

C. An angry body had arms back and shoulders at an angle, as if ready to fight.

D. Body language can sometimes be misunderstood in different culture backgrounds.

E. When you do this, your face and body work together to show your friends that you’re happy to see them.

F. They also showed pictures in which angry or scared faces were paired with angry or scared bodies.

Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次） are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”
So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. “It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”
The hours she’s chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”
The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself——and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”
Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said Margaret. “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing, but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”
41. Margaret quit her job as a nurse because _______
A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family
B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C. she needed the right time to look after her children
D. she felt tired of taking care of patients
42. Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because _______.
A. they never clean their offices              B. they look down upon cleaners
C. they never do their work carefully          D. they always make a mess in their offices
43. When at work, Margaret feels _______.
A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers     B. happy because the building is fully lit
C. tired because of the heavy workload           D. bored because time passed slowly
44. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would _______．
A. help care for her children             B. regret what they had said
C. show sympathy for her               D. feel disappointed in her

根据句意把句子补充完整。

她反对战争、反对凶残地对待动物以及种族主义等等。

She _____ ______ ______ war, cruelty to animals, racism and so on.

这栋老宅被烧毁了。

The old house _____ ______ ______ _____ ______ .

虽然我不是现代艺术方面的专家，但是去看展览的主意对我很有吸引力。

Although I am not a scholar in contemporary art, the idea of going to the ____ _____ ____ me.

他虽然做过各种努力，但还是失败了。

_____ _____ _____ all his _____ , he failed.

她很害怕蛇。看到蛇时她往往会发出尖叫。

She is afraid of snakes. When she sees one, she always _____ _____ a _______ .

我不仅见过那个伟大的雕塑家本人，我还亲眼目睹他如何雕刻大理石像。

I have not only seen the great sculptor _____ _____ _____ , but also watched him carve a marble figure.

近年来这一地区冬天的气温趋于上升，其中大气污染是导致这一结果的一个主要原因。

In recent years, the winter temperature in this region _____ ____ ____ ____ , and

one of the main reasons which have____ ___this consequence is the air pollution.

如果艾米莉没有逗那只猫，它就不会打翻那个漂亮的花瓶了。

If Emily had not ____ the cat, the beautiful vase would not have been ___ ____ .