The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
　　As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment（承担的义务）, self - improvement.
　　Ask a bachelor（单身汉） why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
　　Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three - day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
　　Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
【小题1】According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because ____________ .

A．he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities

B．he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

C．he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

D．he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement

【小题2】Raising children, in the author’s opinion is ____________ .

A．a moral duty

B．a thankless job

C．a rewarding task

D．a source of inevitable pain

【小题3】From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from ____________ .

A．hatred

B．misunderstanding

C．prejudice

D．ignorance

【小题4】To understand what true happiness is one must ____________ .

A．have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime

B．make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

C．put up with pain under all circumstances

D．be able to distinguish happiness from fun

【小题5】What is the author trying to tell us?

A．Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain．

B．One must know how to attain happiness.

C．It is important to make commitments.

D．It is pain that leads to happiness.

If you are having trouble falling asleep, you are in good company. About 65% of Americans said they have sleeping problems a few nights each week, according to a recent study by the National Sleep Foundation. Sleeping too little can lead to a higher risk of becoming fat and getting depressed(沮丧的). But before you go to a doctor for advice, you’d better examine your sleeping habits one more time. Some of your favorite evening habits may have something to do with the sleeping problems.　　
1. Setting a Bright Alarm Clock.
The light of your bright alarm clock can prevent you from falling asleep. You can make your room as dark as possible. Cover the bright numbers with a book or consider buying a small travel clock. Your cellphone alarm may also do the trick.
2. Counting Sheep
When you just can’t fall asleep, it’s useless to stay in bed to count sheep. If you’ve been trying to fall asleep for more than 30 minutes, the National Sleep Foundation suggests you get up to do some reading or watch TV for a while. Such activities will make you sleepy. Before you know it, you’ll be going back to bed really tired.
　　3. Exercising Late at Night
Daytime workouts(锻炼) will keep you full of energy for hours. That’s why you don’t want to exercise within three hours of hitting the sack. Fierce(剧烈的)physical activity raise your body temperature and pumps your energy level—both are bad for a good night’s sleep.
【小题1】 What can we learn from the first sentence of the passage?

A．It’s not good to fail to fall asleep at night.

B．People in a good company often have sleeping problems.

C．There are many people who have sleeping problems.

D．You should find someone to talk to if you can’t fall asleep.

【小题2】The underlined part “hitting the sack” in the last paragraph means “______”.

A．going back home	B．going to bed
C．going to the gym	D．falling asleep

【小题3】Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．The bad results of getting too little sleep.

B．Why the bright alarm clock keeps you awake.

C．What to do if you can’t fall asleep after 30 minutes.

D．Why watching TV and reading books make people sleepy.

【小题4】By writing the passage, the writer mainly wants to tell us _______.

A．why so many people can’t sleep well at night

B．how to enjoy a good night’s sleep

C．that sleeping problems are troubling more and more people

D．that people may solve their sleeping problems by some habits

阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

71. Knowing ______ reduces the risks of failure and it works like an insurance policy for your own ability. (do) 知道你正在干什么，能降低失败的风险，这就像给自己的能力买了份保险。

72. Not ______ my parents, I failed to go to a drama school, where my interest lay.

(persuade) 由于没有说服我父母，我没能上戏剧学校，而那才是我的兴趣所在。

73. The chief engineer together with his colleagues _____ new scientific methods of farming since five years ago. (look) 五年以来，总工程师和他的同事们一起一直在寻找新的科学农耕方法。

74. When I work on the farmland in the daytime, I always _____ to a tree on the riverbank. (keep)

白天干农活的时候，我总是把羊拴在河边的树上。

75. As time is pressing, I think ___ is the best way to get from here to the conference centre. (take)

由于时间紧迫，我认为从这里去会议中心最好的办法是乘出租车。

76. So fast ______ that we can hardly imagine its speed. (travel)

光传播的速度快到我们难以想象。

77. Through the course of my schooling, I met many teachers, two ______ me greatly. (influence)

上学时我遇到过很多老师，其中两位对我影响很大。

78. I don’t often lose things, so I was quite surprised ______ my wallet and found it wasn’t there. (reach) 我不常丢东西，所以当我拿钱包却发现钱包不在时，大吃一惊。

79. It is reported in the newspaper that several new subway lines ______ in Wuhan. (build)

据报纸报道，武汉正在建设几条新的地铁线路。

80. Most believe he _______ for England last week, but for a serious injury which put him out of football. (play)  多数人认为，要不是受了重伤而告别足球，上周他本会为英格兰踢球的。

　　

“You'll have to take care of the baby today,” a woman told her husband . “ I'm not feeling well.”
“Then you must stay in bed and rest, dear. “ her husband said. “I'll be pleased to look after our baby. “
“Thank you. I'll have a quiet day and I'll soon get better. “ his wife told him.
“Shall I do the shopping for you as well?” her husband asked.
She was very pleased and said, “That will help me very much. I'll give you a list of things to buy. “
She wrote out the list and gave it to him.
“You can get all these things at the supermarket,” she said.
“You can put the baby in the shopping cart, then you won't have to leave him outside.”
The man took the baby to the supermarket and put him in the shopping cart. Then he pushed the shopping cart along the rows of things to buy and looked for those that were on his list.
At first all was well, but then the baby began to cry.
Then he started to scream.
And scream!
And SCREAM!
“Keep calm ,George, ” the man said. “Don't get excited. Don't shout, George. Don't lose your temper, George.”
A woman in the supermarket heard him saying these things. She walked up to him.
“I think you are wonderful ,”she said. “You are so patient with your little George. ”
　　“Madam, ”" the man said, “I'm George. He's Edward.”
【小题1】 Why did the man take care of the baby?

A．it was his turn.	B．His wife was not well.
C．His wife was not at home.	D．He always looked after it.

【小题2】Why did the man take the baby to the supermarket?

A．He had to go shopping.

B．He wanted to show the baby to his friend.

C．He wanted to give the baby a ride in a shopping cart.

D．The baby liked going to the supermarket.

【小题3】What did the baby do in the supermarket?

A．pushed the shopping cart	B．lost its temper
C．made a lot of noise	D．helped his father

【小题4】Finally we can infer from the story that_____ .

A．the man was very calm when the baby was crying

B．the woman was very pleased to see the man

C．the woman mistook George for the baby, while in fact the man was named George

D．the man was very busy in shopping, but he couldn't find all the goods on the list

　The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman‘s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement(退休) at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by modern living conditions.
　　This important change in women’s life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women‘s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left schools at the first chance, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women usually marry younger, more married women stay at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with the both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.
　【小题1】According to the passage, around the year 1900 most women married ________.
　　A. at about twenty-five B. in their early fifties
　　C as soon as possible after they were fifteen
　　D. at any age from fifteen to forty-five
　【小题2】 We are told that in a common family about 1900 _________.

A．many children died before they were five

B．seven or eight children lived to be more than five

C．the youngest child would be fifteen

D．four or five children died when they were five

【小题3】When she was over fifty, the late nineteenth-century mother _________.

A．would be healthy enough to take up paid jobs

B．was usually expected to die fairly soon

C．would expect to work until she died

D．was unlikely to find a job even if she wanted one

【小题4】According to the passage, the women of today usually _________.

A．marry instead of getting paid work	B．marry before they are twenty-five
C．have more children under fifteen	D．have too few children