A group of adults, who succeeded in their jobs, went to visit their old professor. Soon they began to complain about the trouble and stress in their work and life.
The ____ went to the kitchen and returned ____ a pot of coffee and all kinds of cups — crystal （水晶的）, glass, plastic; some nice looking, some ordinary looking; some ____, some cheap. And he told them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “I’ve noticed that all the nice looking expensive cups were ____, leaving behind the ordinary and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to achieve only the best for yourselves, that is the root (根) of your ____ and stress.
You know that the cup itself ____ no quality to the coffee. What you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, ____ you all reached for the best cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee. The jobs, money and ____ in society are the cups. They are just ____ to hold life, and the kind of cup does not change the quality of our life. Sometimes, paying too much attention to the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee that God has offered us. God offers us the coffee, not the cups. Please enjoy your coffee!”
The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And leave the__ __ to God.A．adults B．students C．professor
A．for B．at C．with
A．expensive B．ordinary C．strong
A．mixed up B．taken up C．given up
A．problems B．questions C．failures
A．changes B．adds C．puts
A．and B．but C．so
A．position B．pronunciation C．population
A．machines B．tools C．bowls
A．rest B．few C．most
完形填空（共10分）
I like to give presents but my friends and family all need ____kinds of presents. It’s not easy to ____about a different present for everyone.
My friend Doris is in hospital. For people in hospital, it’s a good ____to give them fruit or flowers, ____ Doris doesn’t like flowers very much, and her family brings her fruit every day. So I think I will buy her a book. It is boring(无聊的) in hospital, so she will enjoy ____ .
My friend Jack is having a birthday party tomorrow. I must give him a present. Jack likes robots. I think I will give him a robot. This big red robot can walk and sing. It isn’t very ___ but I think Jack will like it. When we give presents, the prices(价格) aren’t important. A present ____ that we like someone a lot.
Soon it will be Christmas Day! I need to buy something ____ my mum and dad. I will buy a pretty scarf for my mum and sports shoes for my dad. My dad always laughs and says he gets sports shoes every Christmas but I know he likes ____.
I like to give presents to people. I like to see everyone ____. If they are happy, I will be happy, too.
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A master (大师) went to India. In those times, we didn’t have planes or many kinds of transport (交通工具) that we do now. So the master went to India 3 . He didn’t go to India before. And when he got there, he saw a lot of fruit, but much of it was expensive. Then he saw one basket, a big basket of some very red, long fruit. And it was in the shop, not expensive at all.
So he went up and asked, “ a kilo?” And the shopkeeper said, “Two Rupees.” Two Rupees in India is , just like waste paper (废纸). So he bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and started eating it. But he ate some of it: Oh, my God! His eyes watered, his mouth watered and burned, his eyes were burning, his head was burning and his face became . As he coughed (咳嗽) and was nearly out of breath, he jumped up and down, saying, “Ah! Ah! Ah!”
But he still continued (继续) to eat the fruit! Some people looked at him and said, “You’re , man. Those are chilies (辣椒)! You can’t eat so many; they’re not good for you! People put just into food for taste. You can’t just eat them like that; they’re not fruit!” But the master said, “No, I can’t stop! I money for them, and now I’ll eat them. It’s my money!”
We do a lot of things like that. Sometimes we know there’s no more hope that things will change in the future, we still continue just because we put a lot of money, time and love into it. Just like the man who ate the chilies but couldn’t stop because he didn’t want to waste the money.
So even if you lose something, let it go and move on. That’s than continuing to lose.
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完型填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的选项中，选出最佳选项。（共10小题，每小题0.5分，满分5分）
Every year students in many countries learn English. of these students are children, the other students are young people. Why do all these people want to learn ? It is not to answer this question. Many boys and girls learn English at school. It is one of their .Many people learn English because it is in their work. Some young people learn English their higher studies because some of their books are English. Other people learn English because they want to newspapers in English. Some people learn English because they want to in the USA, England or Australia. English is very in our life.
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Once a man and his wife worked for a businessman. There was a big box in the businessman's living room. The businessman pointed at the box and said, "There's only one thing you do. Don't open the box." After saying this, he the living room.
The woman said to her husband, "There be something expensive in the box. Let's it, shall we?"Her husband said no to her.
The woman didn't give up her One day, she decided to find out what was it. Her husband didn't stop her. She opened the box and looked . She found nothing in the box and tried hard to close it, she failed.
That evening the businessman came home and found the box was . He was very angry and asked the woman and her husband to leave his home.
"But there was nothing in the box," the woman said. "We haven't taken anything ." The businessman shouted at them, "The box is not important. I cannot believe you. That's important!"
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完形填空（每小题1分，满分15分）
通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入短文空白处的最佳选项。
Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very ________ trying to make money in order to________ the high tuition(学费)for my brother and me. I never hear them say “ I love you”, or see them send birthday to each other. My father has a bad temper(脾气). When he’s very tired from work, it is ________ for him to lose his temper.
One day, my mother was preparing dinner. I sat down ________ her.
“Mom, I have a question to ask you,” I said after a while.
“What?” she replied, ________ doing her work.
“Is there love between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low________ .
My mother stopped her work and ________ her head with surprise in her eyes. She didn’t answer and went on cooking.
I was very worried ________ I thought I had hurt her. I didn’t know what I should do. A few days later, my father suddenly got sick ________ .My mother had to stay with him in the________ for a month. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk(黄昏), my mother helped my father walk slowly on the countr road. My father had never been so________ . It seemed they were the most harmonious(和谐的) ________ .
“Dad, how are you ________ now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t worry about me. To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom. I ________ this kind of life.” Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
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