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阅读理解。     Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out 
ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are decided to a certain degree by 
genes. However, of all the factors,wealth and age are the top two.
     Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each 
extra dollar makes less and less difference.
     Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier.  But the link between money and happiness
 is complex (复杂的).  In the past half-century, the average income (平均收入)  has sharply increased in 
developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, 
money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
     "Dollars buy status (social position), and status makes people feel better," say some experts, which helps 
explain why people who can seek status in other ways, scientists or actors, for example, may happily accept 
relatively poorly-paid jobs.
      In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires (***) , not just for money,
 but for friends, family, job, health, rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than
 those who felt a smaller gap (差距).  Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better 
than income alone.  "the gap measures just blow away the measures of only income." says Michalos.
     Another factor that has to do with happiness is age.  Old age may not be so bad "Civen all the problems of 
aging,  how could the elderly be more satisfied?" asks Professor Laura Carstensen.  In one survey, Carstensen
 interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotion questionnaire.  
She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people. Some scientists suggest 
older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they"re more realistic about their time 
running out. Older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don"t.
    "People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever," she says.  "A 
goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional 
responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20. "1. Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs _________.   A. make them feel much better           
B. provide chances to make friends
C. improve their social position           
D. satisfy their professional interests2. Professor Alex Michalos found that people feel less happy if _________.   A. the gap between reality and desire is bigger
B. they have a stronger desire for friendship
C. the hope for good health is much greater
D. their income is far below their expectation3. We can infer from the passage that older people _________.      A. would like to have more goodbye kisses than young people
B. are used to living a hard life because they are kind to others
C. express their positive opinions just as some young people do
D. find it easier to feel happy because they are more realistic4. According to the passage, the feeling of happiness  _________.   A. increases gradually with age           
B. is controlled partly by desires
C. has little to do with wealth             
D. is decided mostly by genes
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1-4      CADB
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always    quiet    name    listen    friend    practice    good
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     My hero is my father, Peter Murawski, because without my dad, my life would be nothing. My dad works
to support the  1 . Not only does he put in the normal weekday, he also works a night shift to add money to
the family budget so that we can have a roof over our heads, food on the table, heat, electricity, cable and in
the future, a college education. Dad doesn"t get home  2  midnight and he gets up every morning at 6:00. In the
moming, my dad wakes me up. Then he goes downstairs to make lunch for us. He makes sure we get off to
school and is there to give us a  3  if one of us misses the bus. After that, Dad goes to work; he spends eight
hours staring at a computer screen. When he returns home, Dad usually  4  has an hour or so before he has to
leave for his other jobs. I help by fixing dinner, but sometimes he doesn"t even have time to.  5 .
     On the weekends, you would think that Dad would want to  6 , but he"s still up at the crack of dawn.
What is he doing? He"s either working in the yard  7  making repairs to the house.
     Every once in a long while Dad will stop and rest. He"ll  8  to a nice family dinner or lounge in his big
comfortable chair to watch football or channel surf. At these times my dad gets the energy he needs to keep
up his lifestyle, sacrificing (牺牲) all his  9  for the family.
     My dad is a real  10  of what you can do for your family if you really love them. He puts us first and never
stops to think of  11 . He deserves to be rewarded, yet if I mentioned that to him, he"d say that the  12  of his
children are enough for him.
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(     )1. A. factory  
(     )2. A. why      
(     )3. A. ride     
(     )4. A. also     
(     )5. A. stop     
(     )6. A. do sports
(     )7. A. but      
(     )8. A. sit down 
(     )9. A. joy      
(     )10. A. role    
(     )11. A. himself 
(     )12. A. interests
B. farm       
B. until      
B. call       
B. only       
B. plan       
B. have a trip
B. so         
B. give back  
B. hope       
B. example    
B. themselves 
B. needs      
C. business   
C. at         
C. ticket     
C. still      
C. eat        
C. make friends
C. just       
C. get up     
C. time       
C. master     
C. myself     
C. smiles     
D. family      
D. before      
D. meal        
D. already     
D. play        
D. take a break
D. or          
D. show off    
D. money       
D. friend      
D. ourselves                                
D. grades      
阅读理解。
              Welcome to the United States of America              
1. First (Given) name                                         
2. Date of birth (dd / mm / yy)                                   
3. Flight                                                      
4. Number of family members traveling with you                 
5. Country of citizenship                                      
6. Purpose of visit                                            
7. Are you carrying any of these things:                       
    Food, animals, plants, guns or cash over 10,000?            
8. Have you had any illnesses in the last 3 months?            
9. How long will you be staying in the USA?                    
10. Is this your first visit to the USA?                       
11. In which city will you spend the most time during your stay?
12. What is your next destination?                             
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landing card
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together,   bikes,   wait,   cold,   fun,   but,   fishing
阅读理解。
     What are emotions? As far as we know, human beings have always had emotions. Poets write about them,
singers sing about them, and lovers and friends talk about them. We know that we can "control" emotions,
express" emotions and " feel" emotions. Is it possible that we can smell emotions? Are we able, like some
animals, to smell fear?
      Sometimes you can see what emotions a person is feeling. When people are happy, they smile; when they
are sad, they might cry; when they are angry, their faces might turn red; when they are feeling shy, they might
sweat (出汗). These are all physical reactions (反应), so can we say that emotions are physical reactions to
something in our lives?
     The problem is that emotions don"t always include physical reactions that we can see. Some people are
good at hiding their emotions, and different people can have different physical reactions to the same emotion.
Some people"s faces, for example, go white when they are angry and some people"s faces turn red. Some
people go quiet when they are angry and some people shout.
     Sometimes there is a physical reaction that we can"t see. For example, a person might he nervous and feel
sick inside, but other people might not be able to see that We might be able to see or smell emotions, but we
can"t touch them. Can we describe them? In one way we can describe emotions. Everybody has some idea
what "happy" and "sad" mean. But in another way it is difficult to describe emotions. Is the way you "love" your
pet, your family, your friend, or your husband and wife the same? I always think it is strange in English that
we often write "love" at the bottom of a Christmas card or a letter to a relative we hardly know or hardly ever
see. We might write "love" al the bottiom of a letter to someone of the opposite sex (性别) who is just a friend,
but we wouldn"t write "love" at the bottom of a letter to somebody of the same sex even if we know that friend
much better.
     Some people say that emotions are just a chemical reaction, but I don"t want to believe that. I don"t know
what they are, but life would be boring without them.
1. According to the passage, because you can "express" emotions, _______.
A. your face might turn red when you feel shy.
B. you might know it when you"re in danger.
C. you might smile when you"re happy.
D. you are good at hiding your emotions.
2. Which reaction is NOT mentioned when people are angry?
A. Their faces turn white or red.
B. They don"t seem to like to talk to others.
C. They often talk to people in a loud voice.
D. They write to their friends or relatives.
3. Which of the following is "IRUE"?
A. Emotions only include physical reactions.
B. We can hardly see a person"s feelings from his face.
C. We might smell or see emotions, but we can"t touch them.
D. We write "love" at the bottom of the letter to our closest friends.
4. In the writer"s opinion, what is "emotion"?
A. It"s hard to say what it is.
B. It is just a chemical reaction.
C. It"s a physical reaction to something in our lives.
D. It can be controlled, felt, expressed and known easily.