Let's read the following. Mr Smith (2) his key in the room.“Where is my key?”he says to himself. He doesn't know what to (3) . He thinks hard and then has an idea.

　　“Hello!”he says in a loud voice.

　　“Hello!”a voice (4) from inside the drawer（抽屉）of the desk. He is surprised to (5) that. He runs to the desk and pulls the drawer (6) . To his pleasure, he takes the key out (7) the drawer. What a good idea!

　　So, that is a new (8) invented in America. There is an integrated circuit（集成电路）and a very (9) speaker built in it. It can tell its owner's (10) in no more than nine metres.

The Pope（教皇）arrived at Heathrow Airport and got straight into a car. “I’m rather（非常）  1  for a very important meeting, my good man,” he told the driver. “Please go as fast as possible.”

The driver agreed,   2   he couldn’t do more than 100 kilometres an hour on that road. The Pope kept asking the driver to go faster, but he failed. It made him   3  .

Then the Pope said, “Look, I really   4   get to this meeting. It’s very important. You sit

  5   and I’ll drive.”

Being a good Catholic lad（天主教）, the driver felt he should do   6   the Pope told him. So they changed their   7   and went on. The Pope really put his   8   down and they were doing well over 160 kilometres an hour. But a few kilometers down the road they got pulled over by the police.

A policeman came over to the car, looked in and then walked away to call his chief（长官）. “Chief, Chief,” he said into his radio, “I might have stopped   9   really, really important.”

“Is it the Prime Minister（首相）?” asked the chief.

“No,” said the policeman, “More important than him.”

“Well, is it the Queen(女王)?” asked the chief.

“No, sir,” answered the policeman, “More important than her.”

“Well, who is it then?” asked the chief.

“I don’t know, sir,” said the policeman, “But he has got the Pope   10   him around.”

1. A. waiting                  B. busy                 C. tired                  D. late

2. A. and                       B. so                     C. but                   D. or

3. A. pleased                  B. afraid                C. alone                 D. worried

4. A. can                       B. have to              C. mustn’t             D. may

5. A. in the back            B. in the front        C. on the floor              D. in the car

6. A. when                    B. like                   C. how                  D. as

7. A. cars                      B. clothes                     C. places               D. minds

8. A. hand                            B. foot                  C. bag                   D. key

9. A. someone               B. anybody            C. two persons             D. some people

10. A. looking                B. walking             C. driving              D. turning

One summer vacation in my college, my roommate Ted asked to me to work on his father’s farm in Argentina. The idea was exciting. Then I had second thoughts. I had never been far from New England, and I had been homesick my first few weeks at college. What about the language? The more I thought about it, the more the idea worried me.

Finally, I turned down the invitation. Then I realized I had turned down something I wanted to do because I was scared and felt depressed(沮丧). That experience taught me a valuable lesson and I developed a rule for myself: do what makes you anxious(焦虑); don’t do what makes you depressed.

In my senior year, I wanted to be a writer. But my professor wanted me to teach. I hesitated. The idea of writing was much scarier than spending a summer in Argentina. Back and forth I went, making my decision, unmaking it. Suddenly I realized that every time I gave up the idea of writing, that downhearted feeling went through me.

Giving up writing really depressed me. Then I learned another lesson. To avoid the depression meant having to bear much worry and concern.

When I first began writing articles, I often interviewed big names. Before each interview I would get butterflies in the stomach. One of them was the great composer Duke Ellington. On the stage and on television, he seemed very confident. Then I learned Ellington still got stage fright（害怕）. If Ellington still had anxiety attacks, how could I avoid them? I went on doing those frightening interviews. Little by little, I was even looking forward to the interviews. Where were those butterflies?

In truth, they were still there, but fewer of them. I had learned from a process psychologists（心理学家） call “extinction”. If you put an individual in an anxious situation often, finally there isn’t anything to be worried about, which brings me to a conclusion: you’ll never get rid of anxiety by avoiding the things that caused it.

The point is that the new, the different, is definitely scary. But each time you try something, you learn, and as the learning piles up, the world opens to you.

1.We can infer from the passage that the author________. 

A．finds it difficult to make decision

B．has found out what causes anxiety

C．was encouraged by Duke Ellington’s stage fright

D．no longer feels anxious about new experiences

2.What does the word “extinction” in Paragraph 6 means?

A．a person’s loss of confidence little by little

B．the natural development of a child’s abilities

C．the inborn ability to avoid anxious situations

D．the process of losing fear by keeping facing anxiety

3.Which of the following opinions does the writer probably accept?

A．Anxiety can be a positive drive

B．Hesitation leads to depression.

C．Avoiding anxiety reduces depression.

D．Depression is a signal that one is growing up.

4.What's the best title for the passage?

A．Confidence: Key to Success

B．Anxiety: Challenge by Another Name

C．Depression: A Psychological Appearance

D．Success: A Trip Through Anxiety and Depression

I was now five, and still I showed no much interest in things except with my toes（脚趾）. I could not look after myself,   35  my father took care of me. I used to lie on my back all the time in the kitchen. I was   36 , imprisoned（监禁） in a world of my own, unable to communicate with others.
Then, suddenly, it happened on the afternoon of a cold December day. All the family were gathered round the big kitchen fire. Mona and Paddy were drawing funny animals, using a bright piece of yellow chalk. It was the chalk that   37  me so much. I had never seen anything like it before.
Suddenly, I wanted to do what my sister was doing. Then without thinking or knowing exactly what I was doing, I   38  out and took the chalk out of my sister’s hand, with my left foot. It is a puzzle（迷惑）to many people as well as to   39 . I held the chalk tightly between my toes and made a wild scribble（乱涂）with it on the board. Next moment I stopped, not knowing what to do with the chalk next, hardly knowing how it   40  there. Then I looked up and realized that everyone was looking at me   41 . My mother came in. Her eyes looked from my face down to my   42 , then she took another piece of chalk from Mona, and drew the single letter “A” on the floor in front of me. “Copy that, Christy.” She said. I tried to do the same action, but I   43 . “Try again, Chris.” she whispered in my ear. I tried another two more times. I drew one side of the letter, then the other. It looked ugly, but I   44  to make it finally. I had done it! True! I couldn’t speak with my mouth, but now I would speak through something more   45  than spoken words. That one letter was my   46  to a new world, my key to mental freedom.