It was a dark day, one of depression, sorrow ...

It was a dark day, one of depression, sorrow and anger. As I climbed out of the _______， after witnessing my time in the 100 yard freestyle, I did not feel like speaking to anyone. I saw the bright smiles of swimmers who had just _______ a best time. _______， I had failed. Or at least that is what I thought at the time.

I was lying on my cool bed when an idea_________my head. Success is the _______ to go from failure to failure without _______ your enthusiasm. At practice the next day, I told my swimming teammates about my goal time and they all either laughed or replied with a _______ similar response like, “You can't do it” or “Probably not”. Believe it or not, these are the responses that made my goal _______.

Finally came the day when I had to _______ to myself and others that with ________there is no limit to your achievements.

With the starting gun ________， I dove with perfect form into the pool. I felt the cool water running ________ my back. I swam like a fish, bouncing off each ________ at the wall as if it was a spring board. On the ________ turn, I came back to the wall with every piece of strength I had. I ________ the final wall with my fingertips and knew that I had swum the ________ race.

I had done it! I had achieved my best time! Joy filled my ________ like water does a cup. I saw the ________ on all of my friends' faces as I ________ out of the pool: their jaws dropped to the ground. I began to laugh and gave them thumbs up.

I have ________ in life that having belief in yourself opens all gates. Never forget that anything the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.

1.A. pond　　 B. sea　　 C. pool　　 D. bed

2.A. made　　 B. achieved　　 C. reached　　 D. realized

3.A. Otherwise　　 B. However　　 C. Besides　　 D. In addition

4.A. occurred　　 B. broke　　 C. came　　 D. hit

5.A. opportunity　　 B. ability　　 C. reason　　 D. action

6.A. keeping　　 B. losing　　 C. reducing　　 D. decreasing

7.A. somehow　　 B. somewhat　　 C. anyhow　　 D. anywhere

8.A. magical　　 B. reasonable　　 C. confident　　 D. achievable

9.A. promise　　 B. provide　　 C. present　　 D. prove

10.A. consideration　　 B. belief　　 C. impression　　 D. desire

11.A. setting out　　 B. going off　　 C. breaking out　　 D. getting off

12.A. through　　 B. above　　 C. across　　 D. to

13.A. turn　　 B. jump　　 C. struggle　　 D. shoot

14.A. next　　 B. previous　　 C. very　　 D. last

15.A. pushed　　 B. touched　　 C. got　　 D. reached

16.A. hard　　 B. perfect　　 C. first　　 D. best

17.A. face　　 B. head　　 C. mind　　 D. heart

18.A. expressions　　 B. emotions　　 C. feelings　　 D. responses

19.A. ran　　 B. stood　　 C. climbed　　 D. jumped

20.A. gained　　 B. dreamed　　 C. learned　　 D. remembered

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It was a dark and cold night. The car driver didn’t have even one passenger all day. When he went by the railway station, he saw a young man coming out with two bags in his hands. So he quickly opened the door of the car and asked, “Where do you want to go, sir?”

“To the Star Hotel,” the young man answered. When the car driver heard that, he didn’t feel happy. The young man would give him only three dollars because the hotel was not far from the railway station. But suddenly, he had an idea. He took the passenger through many streets of the big city.

After a long time, the car finally arrived at the hotel. “You should pay me fifteen dollars,” the car driver said to the young man. “What! Fifteen dollars? Do you think I’m a fool? Only last week I took a car from the railway station to this same hotel and I only gave the driver thirteen dollars. I know how much I have to pay for the trip. I won’t pay you one dollar more than I paid to the other car driver last week.”

1.          Which of the following is true? ____________

2.          What do you think of the car driver?__________

3.           The driver felt very _________ when he saw the young man coming out of the railway station.

4.          From the passage we know that the young man__________.

5.          The young man should have paid the driver_____

A 15 dollars    B.13dollars   C.3 dollars   D. 8dollars

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It was a dark and cold night. The car driver didn’t have even one passenger all day. When he went by the railway station, he saw a young man coming out with two bags in his hands. So he quickly opened the door of the car and asked, “Where do you want to go, sir?”

“To the Star Hotel,” the young man answered. When the car driver heard that, he didn’t feel happy. The young man would give him only three dollars because the hotel was not far from the railway station. But suddenly, he had an idea. He took the passenger through many streets of the big city.

After a long time, the car finally arrived at the hotel. “You should pay me fifteen dollars,” the car driver said to the young man. “What! Fifteen dollars? Do you think I’m a fool? Only last week I took a car from the railway station to this same hotel and I only gave the driver thirteen dollars. I know how much I have to pay for the trip. I won’t pay you one dollar more than I paid to the other car driver last week. ”

1. Which of the following is true?____________

A. The young man went past the railway station.

B.  The young man was working in the railway station

C.  The young man had just got off a train.

D.  The young man was waiting for his friend there.

2.What do you think of the car driver?__________

A. He was a nice and clever man.    B. He liked to work very hard.

C. He was good at driving         D. He was not an honest person.

3. The driver felt very _________ when he saw the young man coming out of the railway station.

A.  sad        B. sorry         C. happy         D. worried

4. From the passage we know that the young man__________.

A.  knew clearly how far it was from the station to the hotel.

B.  Had been to the hotel several times.

C.  Didn’t want to stay in this city.

D.  Must be a stranger and didn’t know the city very well.

5. The driver took the passenger through many streets so as to_________.

A.  make the young man happy

B.  let the young man think it was very far from the station to the hotel.

C.  Let the young man have a good look at the city.

D.  Get more than twenty dollars.

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In 1994 I was in the midst of a depression (抑郁症）. When I was depressed, I_________. One day I was clearing up the rooms and found a CD covered with_________. I wiped it off, put it in the__________and started washing dishes. A man’s voice, reading poetry,__________my house. The sound of the speaker’s voice and the words of the poems reached something deep inside me. I stopped and____

I began to take poems into my ________, not simply reading them, but developing rich relationships with the_______I learned many by heart. They became my therapy (治疗）and_________. Those poems made me wiser and healthier.

_______, in the fall of 2008, poetry_________me in a way I had never expected. I had put all my_________in a small, local fund (基金).Two months later, the leader of the fund left me a message: “The financial crisis_________our fund particularly hard. We' ve lost everything.”I stood there,__________.

Suddenly I heard a poem,_________, called Kindness in my mind. It felt like the poem had been written for me______, for this exact moment, like the perfect helper_________on the scene at the instant of an accident. Kindness became my _____I read it before going to bed, and at breakfast every morning. It reminded me that this was not a________, but a path to sympathy, and I was not walking alone. Even now, I______Kindness several times a week to carry me_______　 the heart of what really matters to me.

1.A. ran　　 B. slept　　 C. cleaned　　 D. sang

2.A. dust　　 B. paper　　 C. clothes　　 D. bedding

3.A. drawer　　 B. player　　 C. washer　　 D. fridge

4.A. swept　　 B. occupied　　 C. decorated　　 D. filled

5.A. wept　　 B. left　　 C. laughed　　 D. listened

6.A. home　　 B. life　　 C. class　　 D. mind

7.A. tunes　　 B. rhymes　　 C. words　　 D. CDs

8.A. medicine　　 B. food　　 C. assistance　　 D. attention

9.A. Still　　 B. Yet　　 C. Then　　 D. Soon

10.A. surprised　　 B. impressed　　 C. warned　　 D. rescued

11.A. faith　　 B. savings　　 C. hope　　 D. expenses

12.A. hit　　 B. blew　　 C. pushed　　 D. pressed

13.A. fearless　　 B. thankless　　 C. breathless　　 D. defenseless

14.A. by coincidence　　 B. out of nowhere　　 C. in the distance　　 D. by accident

15.A. immediately　　 B. sincerely　　 C. casually　　 D. personally

16.A. reading　　 B. arriving　　 C. walking　　 D. escaping

17.A. homework　　 B. religion　　 C. prayer　　 D. memory

18.A. mistake　　 B. lesson　　 C. comfort　　 D. tragedy

19.A. reach for　　 B. dream of　　 C. refer to　　 D. meet with

20.A. for　　 B. with　　 C. off　　 D. into

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In 1994 I was in the midst of a depression (抑郁症). When I was depressed, I _________. One day I was clearing up the rooms and found a CD covered with _________. I wiped it off, put it in the___________and started washing dishes. A man’s voice, reading poetry,___________my house. The sound of the speaker’s voice and the words of the poems reached something deep inside me. I stopped and_______.

I began to take poems into my _________, not simply reading them, but developing rich relationships with the_______I learned many by heart. They became my therapy (治疗）and_________. Those poems made me wiser and healthier.

_______, in the fall of 2008, poetry__________me in a way I had never expected. I had put all my__________in a small, local fund (基金). Two months later, the leader of the fund left me a message: “The financial crisis__________our fund particularly hard. We' ve lost everything.”

I stood there, ____________.

Suddenly I heard a poem, __________, called Kindness in my mind. It felt like the poem had been written for me________, for this exact moment, like the perfect helper__________on the scene at the instant of an accident. Kindness became my ________I read it before going to bed, and at breakfast every morning. It reminded me that this was not a __________, but a path to sympathy, and I was not walking alone. Even now, I __________Kindness several times a week to carry me ________ the heart of what really matters to me.

1.A. ran　　 B. slept　　 C. cleaned　　 D. sang

2.A. dust　　 B. paper　　 C. clothes　　 D. bedding

3.A. drawer　　 B. player　　 C. washer　　 D. fridge

4.A. swept　　 B. occupied　　 C. decorated　　 D. filled

5.A. wept　　 B. left　　 C. laughed　　 D. listened

6.A. home　　 B. life　　 C. class　　 D. mind

7.A. tunes　　 B. rhymes　　 C. words　　 D. CDs

8.A. medicine　　 B. food　　 C. assistance　　 D. attention

9.A. Still　　 B. Yet　　 C. Then　　 D. Soon

10.A. surprised　　 B. impressed　　 C. warned　　 D. rescued

11.A. faith　　 B. savings　　 C. hope　　 D. expenses

12.A. hit　　 B. blew　　 C. pushed　　 D. pressed

13.A. fearless　　 B. thankless　　 C. breathless　　 D. defenseless

14.A. by coincidence　　 B. out of nowhere　　 C. in the distance　　 D. by accident

15.A. immediately　　 B. sincerely　　 C. casually　　 D. personally

16.A. reading　　 B. arriving　　 C. walking　　 D. escaping

17.A. homework　　 B. religion　　 C. prayer　　 D. memory

18.A. mistake　　 B. lesson　　 C. comfort　　 D. tragedy

19.A. reach for　　 B. dream of　　 C. refer to　　 D. meet with

20.A. for　　 B. with　　 C. off　　 D. into

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Should anger problems also be recognized as an illness like depression and anxiety? Anger is largely viewed as a secondary emotion — one caused by other emotions. People are thought to be angry because they are sad, anxious or stressed. 1. Today, though, a growing number of mental health experts think that anger is a serious problem that needs its own treatment.

To tell the difference between “normal” anger and “anger problem” is difficult. After all, everyone gets really mad from time to time. Experts point out a few ways.

Disordered anger, as it is sometimes called, tends to be of greater intensity (强度). 2. An example: While most people would get upset if a driver cut them off, someone with disordered anger might try to chase down the car and force it off the road.

And in cases of disordered anger, the person gets angry more frequently and his/her anger lasts longer.3. But people with anger problems often stay angry for days, weeks or even years; their feelings of anger don’t disappear over time.

4. Disordered anger often damages people’s lives. “It interferes (干扰) with people’s relationships and their jobs,” says Raymond Chip Tafrate, a US psychologist. “Even their health is affected.”

Anger clearly increases the risk of certain health problems, as many studies have shown. When people are angry, their hearts beat faster and their blood pressure goes up. 5.

Experts suggest that people with an anger problem take anger-management programs. The programs teach people to control their responses to stressful situations through the use of relaxation techniques. The programs sometimes also include life-skills training to help bring down stress and remove angry feelings.

A. Consequences are also important to consider:

B. Anger takes away people’s joy in life.

C. For most people, angry feelings disappear quickly.

D. The anger buried inside him rises to the surface.

E. In the past, many doctors didn’t accept the idea that anger could be a problem all on its own.

F. Over time, these changes will have bad effects on the body.

G. It takes very little to set off a person with an anger problem, and their responses are very strong.

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Should anger problems also be recognized as an illness like depression and anxiety? Anger is largely viewed as a secondary emotion — one caused by other emotions. People are thought to be angry because they are sad, anxious or stressed. 1. Today, though, a growing number of mental health experts think that anger is a serious problem that needs its own treatment.

To tell the difference between “normal” anger and “anger problem” is difficult. After all, everyone gets really mad from time to time. Experts point out a few ways.

Disordered anger, as it is sometimes called, tends to be of greater intensity (强度). 2. An example: While most people would get upset if a driver cut them off, someone with disordered anger might try to chase down the car and force it off the road.

And in cases of disordered anger, the person gets angry more frequently and his/her anger lasts longer.3. But people with anger problems often stay angry for days, weeks or even years; their feelings of anger don’t disappear over time.

4. Disordered anger often damages people’s lives. “It interferes (干扰) with people’s relationships and their jobs,” says Raymond Chip Tafrate, a US psychologist. “Even their health is affected.”

Anger clearly increases the risk of certain health problems, as many studies have shown. When people are angry, their hearts beat faster and their blood pressure goes up. 5.

Experts suggest that people with an anger problem take anger-management programs. The programs teach people to control their responses to stressful situations through the use of relaxation techniques. The programs sometimes also include life-skills training to help bring down stress and remove angry feelings.

A. Consequences are also important to consider:

B. Anger takes away people’s joy in life.

C. For most people, angry feelings disappear quickly.

D. The anger buried inside him rises to the surface.

E. In the past, many doctors didn’t accept the idea that anger could be a problem all on its own.

F. Over time, these changes will have bad effects on the body.

G. It takes very little to set off a person with an anger problem, and their responses are very strong.

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Are anger problems should also be recognized as an illness like depression and anxiety? Anger is largely viewed as a secondary emotion — one caused by other emotions. People are thought to be angry because they are sad, anxious or stressed. 1. Today, though, a growing number of mental health experts think that anger is a serious problem that needs its own treatment.

To tell the difference between “normal” anger and “anger problem” is difficult. After all, everyone gets really mad from time to time. Experts point out a few ways.

Disordered anger, as it is sometimes called, tends to be of greater intensity (强度). 2. An example: While most people would get upset if a driver cut them off, someone with disordered anger might try to chase down the car and force it off the road.

And in cases of disordered anger, the person gets angry more frequently and his/her anger lasts longer.3. But people with anger problems often stay angry for days, weeks or even years; their feelings of anger don’t disappear over time.

4. Disordered anger often damages people’s lives. “It interferes (干扰) with people’s relationships and their jobs,” says Raymond Chip Tafrate, a US psychologist. “Even their health is affected.”

Anger clearly increases the risk of certain health problems, as many studies have shown. When people are angry, their hearts beat faster and their blood pressure goes up. 5.

Experts suggest that people with an anger problem take anger-management programs. The programs teach people to control their responses to stressful situations through the use of relaxation techniques. The programs sometimes also include life-skills training to help bring down stress and remove angry feelings.

A.Anger takes away people’s joy in life.

B.Consequences are also important to consider:

C.The anger buried inside him rises to the surface.

D.For most people, angry feelings disappear quickly.

E.Over time, these changes will have bad effects on the body.

F.In the past, many doctors didn’t accept the idea that anger could be a problem all on its own.

G.It takes very little to set off a person with an anger problem, and their responses are very strong.

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It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for “Six days shall you labor and all your work” was taken seriously back then. Outside, Father and Mr. Patrick next door were busy chopping firewood. Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs. Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning.

Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having brother caught to beat carpets, they had sent him to the kitchen for more string(线). It seemed there was  no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today.

My mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping. Again she

cast a look toward the window. “Come on, girls! Let’s take string to the boys and watch them fly the kites a minute.”

On the way we met Mrs. Patric, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls. There never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string into the boys’ kites and they went up higher and higher. We could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.

Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies. “Perhaps it’s like this in the kingdom of heaven,” I thought confusedly.

It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the housed. I suppose we had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been surface tidying-up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The strange thing was, we didn’t mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed. Surely none of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep “the things that cannot be and yet they are.”

The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-old insistently cried her desire to “go park, see duck.” “I can’t go!” I said. “I have this and this to do, and when I’m through I’ll be too tired to walk that far.”

My mother, who was visiting us, looked up from the peas she was shelling. “It’s a wonderful day,” she offered, “really warm, yet there’s a fine breeze. Do you remember that day we flew kites?”

I stopped in my dash between stove and sink. The locked door flew open and with it a rush of memories. “Come on,” I told my little girl. “You’re right, it’s too good a day to miss.”

Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath(余波) of a great war. All evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war. He had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent. What was he thinking of --- what dark and horrible things?

“Say!” A smile sipped out from his lips. “Do you remember --- no, of course you wouldn’t. It probably didn’t make the impression on you as it did on me.”

I hardly dared speak. “Remember what?”

“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp (战俘营), when things weren’t too good. Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”

1.Mrs. Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought________.

A．she was too old to fly kites

B．her husband would make fun of her

C．she should have been doing her housework

D．her girls weren’t supposed to the boy’s games

2. By “we were all beside ourselves writer means that they all ________.

A．felt confused                           B．went wild with joy

C．looked on                             D．forgot their fights

3. What did the author think after the kite-flying?

A．The boys must have had more fun than the girls.

B．They should have finished their work before playing.

C．Her parents should spend more time with them.

D．All the others must have forgotten that day.

4.Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing?

A．She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother.

B．She was reminded of the day they flew kites.

C．She had finished her work in the kitchen.

D．She thought it was a great day to play outside.

5. The youngest Patrick boy is mentioned to show that ______.

A．the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memories

B．his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life

C．childhood friendship means so much to the writer

D．people like him really changed a lot after the war

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It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for "Six days shall you labor and do all your work" was taken seriously back then. Outside, Father and Mr. Patrick next door were busy chopping firewood. Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs. Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning. Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having Brother caught to beat carpets, they had sent him to the kitchen for more string(线). It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today.

My mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping. Again she cast a look toward the window. "Come on, girls! Let's take string to the boys and watch them fly the kites a minute."

On the way we met Mrs. Patrick, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls.

There never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string into the boys' kites and they went up higher and higher. We could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.

Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies. "Perhaps it's like this in the kingdom of heaven," I thought confusedly.

It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the house. I suppose we had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been surface tidying-up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The strange thing was, we didn't mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed. Surely none of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep "the things that cannot be and yet they are."

The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-old insistently cried her desire to "go park, see duck."

"I can't go!" I said. "I have this and this to do, and when I'm through I'll be too tired to walk that far."

My mother, who was visiting us, looked up from the peas she was shelling（去皮）. "It's a wonderful day," she offered, "really warm, yet there's a fine breeze. Do you remember that day we flew kites?"

I stopped in my dash between stove and sink. The locked door flew open and with it a rush of memories. "Come on," I told my little girl. "You're right, it's too good a day to miss."

Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath (余波) of a great war. All evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war. He had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent. What was he thinking of — what dark and horrible things?

"Say!" A smile sipped out from his lips. "Do you remember — no, of course you wouldn't. It probably didn't make the impression on you as it did on me."

I hardly dared speak. "Remember what?"

"I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp (战俘营), when things weren't too good. Do you remember the day we flew the kites?"

1.Mrs. Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought_________.

A. she was too old to fly kites

B. she should have been doing her housework then

C. her husband would make fun of her

D. her girls weren’t supposed to play the boy’s game

2.By "we were all beside ourselves," the writer means that they all _________.

A. felt confused　 　 　 B. looked on

C. went wild with joy D. forgot their fights

3.What did the writer think after the kite-flying?

A. The boys must have had more fun than the girls.

B. All the others must have forgotten that day.

C. Her parents should spend more time with them.

D. They should have finished their work before playing.

4.Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing?

A. She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother.

B. She thought it was a great day to play outside.

C. She had finished her work in the kitchen.

D. She was reminded of the day they flew kites.

5.The youngest Patrick boy is mentioned to show that _________.

A. the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memories

B. his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life

C. childhood friendship means so much to the writer

D. people like him really changed a lot after the war

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