There once was a very wealthy and successful man. He had more money than he could ever spend, and he was admired and looked up to by his community. __1___ He wasn’t happy. All his life he had been looking for happiness and striving for happiness.___2____

Then one day he heard about a hidden temple in Nepal that had a special room that contained the secret of happiness.___3___ After many years of searching and countless hardships he arrived there. He was tired and penniless, but he knew that none of that mattered now because he had found the temple. He asked a wise, smiling monk if he could enter the special room. The monk agreed and showed him the stairs leading to the room. ___4___ He stared into the room with sunlight steaming through the window and saw what he had come so far to find. There hanging on the wall was the secret of happiness. The man gazed at his reflection in the mirror and laughed.

__5__ Happiness is a choice that we can make. Don’t spend the rest of your life searching the world for happiness then. Just look in the mirror and laugh. Just let the happiness flow from your heart, mind, and soul until it fills your life and the lives of all those around you.

A. He immediately sold all that he owned and set out to find this hidden temple

A. It was difficult to find the temple in Nepal.

C. No one found the secret of happiness at last.

D. But he knew that something was missing in his life.

E. But he had never been able to find it.

F. He climbed them with legs shaking with expectation and slowly opened the door.

G. It is time that we all realized that we were the secrets of our own happiness

 

After giving a talk at a high school, I was asked to pay a visit to a spe­cial student. An illness had kept the boy home, but he had expressed an interest in meeting me. I was told it would mean a great deal to him, so I agreed.

During the nine-mile drive to his home, I found out something about Matthew. He had muscular dystrophy (肌肉萎缩症). When he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to five, and then they were told he would not make it to ten. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me because I was a gold-medal power lifter, and I knew about overcoming obstacles and going for my dreams.

I spent over an hour talking to Matthew. Never once did he complain or ask, “Why me?” He spoke about winning and succeeding and going for his dreams. Obviously, he knew what he was talking about. He didn’t mention that his classmates had made fun of him because he was different. He just talked about his hopes for the future, and how one day he wanted to lift weights with me. When we had finished talking, I went to my briefcase and pulled out the first gold medal I had won and put it around his neck. I told him he was more of a winner and knew more about success and overcoming obstacles than I ever would. He looked at it for a moment, then took it off and handed it back to me. He said, “You are a champion. You earned that medal. Someday when I get to the Olympics and win my own medal, I will show it to you.”

Last summer I received a letter from Matthew’s parents telling me that Matthew had passed away. They wanted me to have a letter he had written to me a few days before:

Dick,

My mum said I should send you a thank-you letter for the picture you sent me. I also want to let you know that the doctors tell me that I don’t have long to live any more, but I still smile as much as I can.

I told you someday that I would go to the Olympics and win a gold medal, but I know now I will never get to do that. However, I know I’m a champion, and God knows that too. When I get to Heaven, God will give me my medal and when you get there, I will show it to you. Thank you for loving me.

Your friend,

Matthew

1. The boy looked forward to meeting the author because _________. 

A. he was also good at weight lifting     B. he wanted to get to the Olympics and win a medal 

C. he was one of the author’s students    D. he admired the author very much

2. The underlined sentence in the third paragraph probably means that _______.

A. the boy never complained about how unlucky he was to have this disease

B. the boy never complained about not being able to go to school

C. the boy never complained why the author had never come to see him before

D. the boy never complained about not getting a medal

3. From the passage we learn that _________. 

A. Matthew was an athlete                              B. Matthew was an optimistic and determined boy 

C. The author used to have the same disease as Matthew had   D. Matthew became a champion before he died

4.Matthew didn’t accept the author’s medal because _________.  

A. he thought it was too expensive                        B. he was sure that he could win one in the future

C. he thought it was of no use to him as he would die soon     D. he would not be pitied by others

5.What would be the best title for this passage? 

A. A sick boy.       B. A special friend.       C. A real champion.       D. A famous athlete.

 

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

Long time ago, there was a farmer who lived with his daughter. A young man fell in love with the farmer’s beautiful daughter and wished to  1  her. One day, he went to the farmer to  2  his permission. The farmer looked at him and said, “ Guy, stand out in that  3  . I’m going to release (释放)  4  bulls, one at a time. If you can  5  the tail of any one of the three bulls, you can marry my daughter.”

  6 , the young man got out and stood in the field,  7   the first bull. The barn（牛棚） door   8    and out came the biggest bull that he had ever seen. He   9    that one of the next bulls had to be a better   10   than this one, so he ran over to the side and let the bull   11   .

A few   12    later, the barn door opened again. Unbelievable! The young man had never seen any bull so   13   and fierce as this one in his life. It stood there, pawing（扒） the   14  and eyeing the young man. “ What the next   15   was like ? It had to be a better choice than this one,” he thought. He let the bull pass through again.

The door opened a third time. A   16    came across the young man’s face. This was the weakest bull that he had ever seen. “ This one was my bull,” he   17    to himself. As the bull came running by, he positioned himself just right and   18    at just the exact moment. He threw his hands to catch ...... But to his   19   , the bull had no tail.

Life is full of opportunities.    20  catch the first one.

1.                A．call            B．recognize       C．respect   D．marry

 

2.                A．remember      B．copy           C．ask  D．answer

 

3.                A．field           B．forest          C．river D．building

 

4.                A．two            B．three          C．four D．five

 

5.                A．see            B．cut            C．catch D．discover

 

6.                A．Immediately     B．Quietly         C．Finally    D．Proudly

 

7.                A．talking about     B．thinking of       C．looking for    D．waiting for

 

8.                A．moved         B．opened         C．broke    D．closed

 

9.                A．decided        B．noticed         C．suggested D．learned

 

10.               A．rule           B．help           C．choice    D．reason

 

11.               A．get up          B．go back         C．fall down  D．pass through

 

12.               A．seconds        B．days           C．hours D．months

 

13.               A．famous         B．big            C．short D．beautiful

 

14.               A．house          B．wall            C．ground    D．door

 

15.               A．fish            B．horse          C．bird D．bull

 

16.               A．pity           B．shame         C．smile D．tear

 

17.               A．explained       B．said           C．sang D．flew

 

18.               A．jumped         B．escaped        C．stopped   D．shouted

 

19.               A．anger          B．surprise        C．joy   D．excitement

 

20.               A．Never          B．Often          C．Seldom    D．Always

 

 

A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work.

   He may have the belief that he is not capable (有能力的) of it. A child may think he is __1__ because he doesn’t understand how to make the __2__ of his mental faculties (才能). Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of learning things new because of their __ 3__.

   A person who believe that he is incapable will not make a real __4__ because he feels that it would be useless. He won’t go at a job with confidence necessary for __5__ , and he won’t  work his hardest way, even though he may think he is doing so. He is __6__ likely to fail, and the failure will __7__ his belief in his competence (才能) .

   Alfred Alder, a famous doctor, had __8__ like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor __9__ in maths. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in maths in order that they would not __10__ too much of him. In this way, they two __11__ the idea. He accepted __12__ mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless to __13__ and was very poor at maths, __14__ as they expected.

   One day he worked at a problem which __15__ of the other students had been able to solve.

  Alder __16__ in solving the problem. This gave him confidence (信心). He now __17__ with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at __18__. He not only proved that he could learn maths well, but luckily he learned __19__ in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may __20__ himself as well as others by his ability.

1. A. clever                   B. shy                   C. useless                     D. stupid

2. A. biggest                 B. most                 C. highest                     D. deepest

3. A. ability                  B. age                   C. brain                        D. knowledge

4. A. decision                B. success              C. effort                       D. trouble

5. A. work                    B. study                C. improvement            D. success

6. A. truly                        B. really                C. however                   D. therefore

7. A. lead to                 B. strengthen         C. increase                    D. add to

8. A. an experience        B. an example        C. a thought                  D. a story

9. A. state                         B. mind                 C. start                         D. ending

10. A. blame                 B. expect               C. get                           D. win

11. A. developed           B. organized          C. discovered                D. found

12. A. his                     B. her                    C. its                          D. their

13. A. manage               B. succeed             C. try                         D. act

14. A. only                   B. almost               C. just                        D. then

15. A. none                   B. no                    C. no one                    D. nobody

16. A. gave                   B. succeeded          C. failed                            D. believed

17. A. lived                  B. worked             C. played                    D. graduated

18. A. lessons                   B. medicine           C. subjects                  D. maths

19. A. early                  B. deeply               C. late                        D. simply

20. A. encourage           B. love                  C. astonish                  D. disappoint

If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, “ Hey, Butterfly Man,” his face would break into a smile. The title suits him. And he loves it.

Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blue butterfly, once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is coming back — thanks to him. But years ago if you’d told him this was what he’d be doing someday, he would have laughed, “ You’re crazy.” As a boy, he used to be “ a little tough guy on the streets”. At age thirteen, he was caught by police stealing. At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man.

“ I knew it had hurt my mom,” Bonner said after he got out of prison. “So I told myself I would not put my mom through that pain again.”

One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working to rebuild the habitat for an endangered butterfly called El Segundo blue.

“I saw the sign ‘Butterfly Habitat’ and asked, ‘How can you have a habitat when the butterflies can just fly away?’” Bonner recalls. “Dr. Mattoni laughed and handed me a magnifying glass(放大镜) , ‘Look at the leaves.’ I could see all these caterpillars(蝴蝶的幼虫) on the plant. Dr Mattoni explained, ‘Without the plant, there are no butterflies.’”

Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who told him there was a butterfly needed help. That was how he met the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he’s been working for four years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragalus, the only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and brings them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the habitat.

The butterfly’s population, once almost zero, is now up to 900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni received lots of awards. But for Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his life around

For six years now Bonner has kept his promise to stay out of prison. While he’s bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the butterfly has helped bring him back, too.

11. When he was young, Arthur Bonner _______.

  A. broke the law and ended up in prison

  B. was fond of shooting and hurt his mom

  C. often laughed at people on the streets

  D. often caught butterflies and took them home

12. Bonner came to know the Palos Verdes blue after he _______.

  A. found the butterfly had died out        

B. won many prizes from his professor

  C. met Dr. Mattoni, a professor of biology  

D. collected butterflies and put them into a lab

13. From the last sentence of the text, we learn that raising butterflies has ________.

  A. made Bonner famous        B. changed Bonner’s life

  C. brought Bonner wealth       D. enriched Bonner’s knowledge

14. What does the underlined phrase “put through” mean in the 3rd paragraph?

A. hurt                         B. recall                C. remember                 D. experience

15. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

  A. A Promise to Mom               B. A Man Saved by Butterflies

  C. A Story of Butterflies               D. A Job Offered by Dr. Mattoni