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Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child? Some people think___matters where you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that oldest children, __
are smart and strong-willed, are very likely_
___(succeed). The reason
_this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child and give him or her a lot of attention. An only child will succeed for_
same reason.
What happens to the _ children in the family? Middle children don’t get so much attention, so they don’t feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child, _
_ , often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite
_(difference). The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn’t take many chances in_
__lives. They usually
_(follow) orders. Rules didn’t mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.
短文填词（共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分）.
A recent study found that some people could be devoted to their cell phones. The study was c_____ at Staffordshire University in England. About 40 percent of students
(survey) said they couldn’t do without their cell phones. About 90% said they took their
with them everywhere. One third of students surveyed said they used cell phones to c
themselves up.
The study also asked students 18 to 25 questions designed to check addictive behavior. The results found that one in six cell phone users have a lot in with gambling addicts. Some people said they sometimes lied about their cell phone use. The others admitted __
___(steal) to pay for their cell phone habit.
Dr David Sheffield, conducted the study, said he wasn’t surprised by the results. “Students use their phones frequently, and this has both p_
___ effects such as staying in touch with friends and family, and negative ones too, such as financial costs and social costs,” he told Weekly Reader. “The most
(surprise) finding was that a number of people reported they had l__
a relationship or job because they spent too much time on mobile phones .”
Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?
In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio. It (be) unimaginable that it could ever be cleaned up. The river was so polluted that it
(actual) caught fire and burned. Now, years later, this river is one of
most outstanding examples of environmental cleanup.
the river wasn’t changed in a few days or even a few months. It took years of work
(reduce) the industrial pollution and clean the water. Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is
(clean) than ever.
Maybe you are facing an impossible situation. Maybe you have a habit is driving your family crazy. Possibly you drink too much or don’t know how to control your credit card use. When you face such an impossible situation, don’t you want a quick fix and something to change immediately?
While there are (amaze) stories of instant transformation, for most of us the
(change) are gradual and require a lot of effort and work, like cleaning up a polluted river. Just be
(patience).
I can well remember that I was once asked to deliver a speech titled A Real Test in My Life before the whole class at the age of 9 ! You can imagine how (terrible) shy I was the moment I thought of that--- with so many eyes
(fix) upon me. I had no
(choose) but to prepare for it, though. First of all, I was to draft the speech, which was just a piece of cake for me, a good writer. But the hardest part
(lie) in my oral presentation from my memory, for to read from the paper was not allowed. The real moment began _
I stood on the platform with my legs trembling and my mind blank. But my
(listen) were waiting patiently without any signs of rushing me. Gradually I found myself back, giving out my speech with difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, I found my audience applauding---I made
! From then on, my fear of talking before a big audience
(appear). Actually with my confidence building up, I now turn out to be a great speaker. Looking back, I know the greatest difficulty on our way
success is our fear. Overcome it, _
we will be able to achieve our goals.
It is always good to come to an understanding with your parents．
Gurdjieff used to say,“ you are in good communion with your parents, you have missed your life．" If some anger persists between you and your parents, you will never feel
ease． Wherever you are, you will feel a little guilty． You will never be able to forgive
forget…Parents are not just a social relationship． It is out of them
you have come． You are part of them, _
branch of their tree． You are still rooted in them． When parents die, something very deep-rooted dies within you． When parents die, for the first time you feel alone, uprooted．
while they are alive, do everything that you can so that an understanding can arise and you can communicate with them and they can communicate with you． Then,
they leave the world-and they will leave someday，you will not feel guilty; you will not repent; you will know that things have settled．
have been happy with you and you have been happy with them．
Part m Reading Comprehension （30 marks）
In the summer of 1848, in Guatemala, a man called Ambrosio Tut went into the jungle, as he did almost every day. Tut was a gum-collector(树胶采集者)，(look) for gum in the jungle. To do this, he had to climb the trees.
this particular day, he got to the top of one tree and something caught his eye. He looked out across the trees and saw the tops of some old buildings.
Tut didn't really know what he had seen but he knew it was something (specially). He ran to tell the local governor, and together they
(walk)into the jungle. There they found Tikal(蒂卡尔)，the city that the Mayans (玛雅A) had built many hundreds of years before. The two men saw temples and pyramids, squares and houses, and places
kings had lived when the Mayan people ruled the region.
For a long time before that day, local people had known that somewhere in the jungle there was an old Mayan city, no one had seen it for centuries.
200 and 900 AD, the city of Tikal had been the center of Mayan civilization in the region, but then the Mayans left
─nobody knows why! After 1000 AD, the jungle began to cover it and people forgot that it was there.
Seven years before Tut looked out for the trees, two British explorers had gone to Guatemala and had written a report about Mayan treasures in the jungle, but they didn't mention Tikal. Even (early)than this, local Indians had told European travelers about a great city
(hide) in the trees, but no one would listen to them. Now the lost city had been found again, and archaeologists (考古学家) went there immediately to see it.
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