Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
| a. selection b. professional c. Eventually d. added e. generation ae. financial ad. Especially ac. experiencing ab. choosing bc. switch |
One-quarter of today’s student population are suffering from symptoms of depression. Of that group, almost half will experience depression intense enough to call for __43___ help. But many reject that idea, because they don’t want people to think there is something wrong with them.
There are three reasons why today’s college students are suffering more than in earlier ____44___. First is a weaker f
amily support structure. Today, with high divorce rates and many parents __45___ their own psychological difficulties, the traditional family is not always available for help.
Another problem is __46_____ pressure. In the past ten years education costs have risen about 66 percent at public colleges and 90 percent at private schools. __47_____, most students must work part-time.
A final cause of students’ depression is the large __48_____ of majors available. Because of the difficulty of ___49___ a major, college can prove a time of great indecision. Many students ___50____ majors. As a result, it is becoming common for them to take five or six years to get a degree. It can be disappointing to students to be faced with the __51____ costs.
阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示, 在每个空格内填空入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
Wang Hai,
How are you doing? I would like to recommend a popular book to you.
Hopefully you will keep an on it. _______
This book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, （写）by Jack Canfield, _______
appeared in 1993 and soon became a bestseller. A huge n of copies have _______
been sold so . It will surely inspire readers of all ages. It has been put _______
into tens of languages, spreading love to all the world. A from this, an _______
English （版本）will be of great help to those E
nglish learners. _______
I surfed the internet and found a website selling this book w price is _______
64 yuan. But you can get it for 54.4 yuan through online shopping, 
(节省) _______
you 9.6 yuan. You can order it at dangdang.com and get the book w 24 to _______
48 hours after your payment. Get one and enjoy it! action! _______
All the best.
Yours,
Li Hua
It’s great to receive your email. Now I’d like to tell you something
took place in my school yesterday. In the afternoon, we _
h______ a growing-up ceremony for our coming 18-year-old _
birthday. For _______ start we made an oath that
a grown-ups we should have a sense of duty for our society
from now on. Then we sho
wed our t to our parents _
who had gone through hardships to ___ us up and _
teachers who have been educating us (耐心地). And our
teachers also gave us cards (表达) their good wishes to
us. Finally, we put on w__________ performances, singing and
dancing. We learned a lot from the _________(活动). I think it’s
very important for us. I will remember the day in my life
Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time. Or it __________（consider） an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very ______
____ （health） thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us ,____
___（be） a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go beyond this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some
（surprise） conclusions.
Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes to intellectual growth. It also improves （concentrate）,attention span, and the ability _____
____ (get) along with others. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser believed that much of his success was due to the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured
as an inventor. For these notable persons, it appears
their daydreams came true. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself… in your mind’s eye, ____
______will drew you toward success. Picture yourself
(vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.
Former Chinese athlete, Jin Jing, made her 16 (appear) in the National Stadium, 17 (carry) Paralympic torch during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on September 6.
But now she’s back in the Bird’s Nest, and this time she’s not competing, or carrying a flame, 18 working for the media. Jin said that she was a little regretful for not being able to participate 19 the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.
Born in 1981, Jin 20 (raise) in a common wage-earning family in Hefei, Anhui Province. Jin had part of her right leg amputated in 1989 because 21 a malignant tumor on her ankle. She then became a member of she Shanghai Wheelchair Fencing Team on July 13, 2001, the same day Beijing was selected as 22 host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
After an incident in Paris, 23 she was part of the Torch Relay and a protestor tried to take away the torch from her while she protected the Olympic Torch with her body, she became 24 (know) as the “Smiling Angel in a Wheelchair”.
Now she is still smiling, but this time from the 25 side of the camera, as she watches Chinese athletes won another gold medal.
Charlie Chaplin developed his own manner of acting, the one that was to become world-famous. He wore a small black hat, very wide trousers, a moustache and carried a stick that he swung in the air he walked. During his first year, Chaplin acted in 35 films, many of
he wrote and directed himself. Chaplin’s earliest films were
(silence), because the equipment for adding sound to films had not yet been developed.
The (develop) of films with sound became a problem for Chaplin, as he was uncertain about
(make) films with dialogue. Instead, he continued to make films without dialogue, but he added music. Chaplin’s later films, _
, were not well received. He made only six films
1940 and 1966 and only
first of these is still popular today. Before he died in 1977, he _
(honour) in a number of ways for
contributions to the film industry.
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