We can’t help but grow older physically, but we can stay young in other ways. Do you want to stay young？ If yes is the answer, here is what you can do:
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches （抱怨）pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”
4.Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all that you can afford. When they are in college, that is all you can afford. When you are on retirement, that is all you can afford!
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh so much that you can be tracked in the store by your distinctive laughter.
6. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, or hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
7. Value your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
8. The tears happen. Endure sorrow, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be alive while you are alive.
9. At every opportunity, tell the people you love that you love them.
【小题1】What does the underlined sentence “Throw out nonessential numbers” mean?

A．Try to forget some unimportant numbers.

B．Do not let your age, weight or height trouble you.

C．It is not interesting to remember some numbers.

D．Some unimportant things are difficult to remember.

【小题2】What is the fourth advice meant to tell us?

A．The children are so clever that we need not worry about their study.

B．Someone else can take care of the children and our late life.

C．We are rich enough to afford all the money that the children spend.

D．We needn’t worry about the children and our late life.

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

A．Laugh often.	B．Enjoy the simple things.
C．Drink eight cups of water a day.	D．Keep in good health.

SECTION B（18 points）

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C and D．Fill in each blank with word or phrases that best fits the context．

Those days I’ve prepared to complete my college degree. The last project was named “smile”, which required us to go out and smile at three people and   36   their reactions.

It was freezing. My friend and I went out to a fast food restaurant. We were standing in line, waiting to be   37  , when all of a sudden people around us began to back away from their position.

As I   38  I smelt a terrible “dirty body” smell, and there standing behind me were two poor homeless men. As I looked down at the short gentleman close to me, he was smiling and his nice sky – blue eyes searched for   39  .

To sit in the restaurant and   40  up, they had to buy something. When the young casher at the counter asked what they wanted to order, one of them said coffee because that was all they could   41  . I smiled and asked the casher for two more breakfast meals on two   42  plates. Then I walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen as a resting spot. I put the plates on the table and   43   the blue – eyed little man’s cold hands with my hands. With tears in his eyes, he said. “Thank you”. I noticed that all the   44  in the restaurant were set on me at that time.

I returned to college and   45   a paper about this story as my project to the instructor. She read it and though highly of my project. Just then I realized in my own way I had   46   the people at the restaurant, my friend, the instructor, and every person that shared the classroom. I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn unconditional acceptance.

Much love and compassion is sent to each person who may read this and learn how to   47  people.

36．A．recognize  B．record         C．describe       D．imagine

37．A．paid     B．treated         C．served         D．charged

38．A．turn up     B．turn down     C．turn to         D．turned around

39．A．assistance  B．acceptance       C．advice         D．admission

40．A．break          B．pick         C．cheer         D．warm

41．A．afford      B．enjoy          C．spend          D．drink

42．A．big       B．separate       C．beautiful      D．special

43．A．shook       B．shared         C．clapped        D．covered

44．A．customers B．hands          C．eyes         D．sounds

45．A．handed in B．wrote down      C．took out       D．search for

46．A．involved   B．contacted     C．investigated      D．touched

47．A．hate     B．please          C．love         D．beat

 

SECTION B（18 points）

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C and D．Fill in each blank with word or phrases that best fits the context．

Those days I’ve prepared to complete my college degree. The last project was named “smile”, which required us to go out and smile at three people and   36   their reactions.

It was freezing. My friend and I went out to a fast food restaurant. We were standing in line, waiting to be   37  , when all of a sudden people around us began to back away from their position.

As I   38  I smelt a terrible “dirty body” smell, and there standing behind me were two poor homeless men. As I looked down at the short gentleman close to me, he was smiling and his nice sky – blue eyes searched for   39  .

To sit in the restaurant and   40  up, they had to buy something. When the young casher at the counter asked what they wanted to order, one of them said coffee because that was all they could   41  . I smiled and asked the casher for two more breakfast meals on two   42  plates. Then I walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen as a resting spot. I put the plates on the table and   43   the blue – eyed little man’s cold hands with my hands. With tears in his eyes, he said. “Thank you”. I noticed that all the   44  in the restaurant were set on me at that time.

I returned to college and   45   a paper about this story as my project to the instructor. She read it and though highly of my project. Just then I realized in my own way I had   46   the people at the restaurant, my friend, the instructor, and every person that shared the classroom. I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn unconditional acceptance.

Much love and compassion is sent to each person who may read this and learn how to   47  people.

36．A．recognize  B．record          C．describe        D．imagine

37．A．paid      B．treated          C．served          D．charged

38．A．turn up     B．turn down     C．turn to          D．turned around

39．A．assistance  B．acceptance       C．advice          D．admission

40．A．break           B．pick          C．cheer         D．warm

41．A．afford      B．enjoy           C．spend           D．drink

42．A．big        B．separate        C．beautiful       D．special

43．A．shook       B．shared          C．clapped         D．covered

44．A．customers B．hands           C．eyes          D．sounds

45．A．handed in B．wrote down      C．took out        D．search for

46．A．involved   B．contacted      C．investigated      D．touched

47．A．hate      B．please           C．love          D．beat