1.What we used to think impossible ____(be)im...

1.What we used to think impossible ____(be)impossible now does seem possible.

2.Medicine shouldn’t be kept ________it is accessible to children.

3.Zhongshan Park has been moved out of the city and _______sports center is being built in its place.

4.The news came as no surprise to me. I _____(know)for some time that the factory was going to shut down.

5.My father was so _____(please) with my result that he suggested I go on holiday abroad.

6.My roommate often holds parties at night, ________(make) much noise.

7.For a little job, they will need to think twice before carrying it____________.

8._________(short) after the operation, the woman made a full recovery and left the hospital two days later.

9.Most importantly, people could have operations ________(do) by top doctors without having to travel to the city where the doctors work.

10.He led the Indians to fight for an end to the British rule and ________(depend) for his country.

11.New technology is being applied ________almost every industrial process.

12.Even if you’d tried to help, it wouldn’t have made the slightest ________(differ).

13.The effects of the drug naturally wear _____within a few hours.

14.Some of us always take ________For granted that our parents or grandparents should take care of us.

15.If you are not __________(satisfy) with the watch after you get it, you may simply return it with 30 days.

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—Do you think he can get the first prize for jumping?

—Impossible now. He________to do so, but he has just hurt his leg.

A. has expected    B. is expected    C. would expect    D. was expected

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--- What do you think we can do for our parents?

---You _____ do anything except to be with them and be yourself.

A. don't have to     B. oughtn't to      c. mustn't       D. can't

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—What do you think we can do for our aged parents?

—You ____ do anything except to be with them and be yourself.

A. oughtn’t to　　     B. don’t have to    　　 C. mustn’t    　　 D. can’t

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My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn’t know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trips through the city with the same group of “nameless” people have changed our thinking.

Before the bus takes off, we all join in a conversation: where’s the silent woman who sits up front and never responds to our cheery greetings? Here she comes. Her worn clothing suggests she doesn’t have much money to spare, but she always takes an extra cup of coffee for the driver.

We get smiles from a Mexican couple as they get on the bus hand in hand. When they get off, they’re still holding hands. The woman was pregnant late last year, and one day her change of shape confirmed that she’d delivered the child. We even felt a little pride at the thought of our extended family.

For many months, our only sadness lay in our inability无能无力 to establish the same friendship with the silent woman at the front of the bus. Then, one evening, we went to a fish restaurant. We were shown to a table alongside someone sitting alone. It was the woman from the bus.

We greeted her with friendly familiarity we’d shown all year, but this time her face softened, then a shy smile. When she spoke, the words escaped awkwardly( 笨拙地) from her lips. All at once we realized why she hadn’t spoken to us before. Talking was hard for her.

Over dinner; we learned the situation of a single mother with a disabled son who was receiving special care away from home. She missed him desperately不顾一切地, she explained.

“I love him… and he loves me, even though he doesn’t express it very well,” she murmured. “Lots of us have that problem, don’t we? We don’t say what we want to say, what we should be saying. And that’s not good enough.”

The candles flared on our tables. Our fish had never tasted better. But the atmosphere grew pleasant, and when we parted as friends—we shared names.

1.Which of the following might be the best title of this passage?

2.All the following statements can describe the woman except ______.

3.The underlined word “establish” in the fourth passage probably has the same meaning as _____.

4.The woman had the same problem with her son in the way that ______.

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When we talk about positive thinking, we often use terms having to do with our hearts — open heart, pure heart or joyful heart. But new research from Duke University is making a closer connection, finding that a positive attitude may be helpful to people who have angina (心绞痛)，a common heart condition.

Symptoms of this condition include chest pain or pressure because the heart is not receiving sufficient oxygen. Patients who displayed optimistic thought patterns, including having positive expectations about recovery, were 40 percent less likely to be hospitalized or require surgery than those who were not optimistic, according to the study. The researchers collected data from 2,400 patients who had diagnoses of angina.

An interesting additional finding from the patients' questionnaires was that the most optimistic patients were also the least likely to have histories of heart attack, heart failure or heart disease.

The researchers did not declare a causal relationship between positive thinking and better heart disease outcomes, however. There are multiple possible reasons for the results of the study, including the idea that patients who are healthier to begin with are more likely to expect to recover and regain good health.

But the study does represent a new way of looking at the situation. Now, in addition to a body of research that examines the relationship between depression and heart health, there is a new way of inquiry that asks whether positive thinking could be used as a strategy to improve outcomes.

Lead researcher Alexander Fanaroff, a fellow in the department of cardiology (心脏病学) at the Duke University Medical Center, told the Duke Chronicle that his next research question will find ways to improve attitudes among heart patients.

Perhaps his subjects could reflect on the word of the writer Anthony J. D'Angelo: "Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart."

1.How can people with angina get better according to the study?

A.By expecting more. B.By thinking positively.

C.By getting timely surgery. D.By taking more exercise.

2.What may be Alexander Fanaroff’s next research?

A.To explore how to improve patients’ attitudes.

B.To find out the ways to treat heart patients.

C.To learn the causes of heart diseases.

D.To test if positive attitudes help with health.

3.What can we learn from the text?

A.Optimistic people hardly get heart attack.

B.People's attitudes decide their overall health.

C.How positive thinking benefits heart health is unclear.

D.The reason why patients recover well is that they have no depression.

4.What may be the best title for the text?

A.Keep positive to get rid of illness

B.Angina, a kind of serious condition

C.Depression, a key cause of heart attack

D.Positive thinking makes hearts healthier

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Stress used to be an almost unknown word, but now that we are used to 1. (talk) about it, I have found that people are beginning to get stressed about being stressed.

In recent years, stress 2. (regard) as a cause of a whole range of medical problems, 3. high blood pressure to mental illness. But like so many other things, it is only too much stress 4. does you harm. It is time you considered that if there were no stress in your life, you would achieve a little. If you are stuck at home with no stress, then your level of performance will be low. Up to a certain point, the more stress you are under, the 5. (good) your performance will be. Beyond a certain point, though, further stress will only lead to exhaustion, illness and finally a breakdown. You can tell when you are over the top and on the downward slope, by asking yourself 6. number of questions. Do you, for instance, feel that too much is being expected of 7., and yet find it impossible to say no? Do you find yourself getting impatient or 8. (annoy) with people over unimportant things?... If the answer to all those questions is yes, you had better 9. (control) your stress, as you probably are under more stress than is good for you.

To some extent you can control the amount of stress in your life. Doctors have worked out a chart showing how much stress is involved in various events. Getting married is 50, pregnancy 40, moving house 20, Christmas 12, etc. If the total stress in your life is over 150, you are twice as likely 10. (get) ill.

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Limited life should be made good use _______ our own dreams rather than be a follower or do what we are told to.

A．of to fulfill         B．of fulfilling         C．to fulfill           D．to fulfilling

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I want to leave now; I can’t ____ nothing useful here.

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I used to think ants knew what they were doing. The ones marching across my kitchen counter looked so confident; I just figured they had a plan, knew where they were going and what needed to be done. How else could ants organize highways, build elaborate nests, launch impressive attacks, and do all the other things ants do?

Turns out I was wrong. Ants aren’t clever little engineers, architects, or soldiers after all --- at least not as individuals. When it comes to deciding what to do next, most ants don’t have a clue. “If you watch an ant try to accomplish something, you’ll be impressed by how awkward it is,” says Deborah M. Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University.

“Ants aren’t smart,” Gordon says. “Ant colonies are.” A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest path to the best food source, assigning workers to different tasks, or defending a territory from neighbors. As individuals, ants might be tiny dummies, but as colonies they respond quickly and effectively to their environment. They do it with something called collective intelligence.

Where this intelligence comes from raises an essential question in nature: How do the simple actions of individual ants add up to the complex behavior of a group? How do hundreds of honey-bees make a critical decision about their hive (蜂巢)if many of them disagree? The collective abilities of such animals --- one of which grasps the big picture, but each of which contributes to the group’s success --- seem miraculous even to the biologists who know them best. Yet during the past few decades, researchers have come up with fascinating insights.

1.The author’s former false impression about ants is that he thought them to be _______.

A. smart　　 B. awkward　　 C. elaborate　　 D. creative

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Ants will function as a single body once a decision is made by the commander.

B. Ants are the only species which developed collective intelligence.

C. The ant queen plays a role in managing ant workers besides laying eggs.

D. An individual ant can’t comprehend the whole process of a big movement.

3.The paragraph following the passage will most probably deal with _______.

A. where we can observe such fantastic behavior of ants

B. which is the leading ant in charge of the action

C. how the collective intelligence works

D. what inspiration can be drawn from the collective abilities

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