When I was about 12, a girl in my class liked to point out my problems. I was too thin; I wasn't a good student; I talked too much; I was too __46__, and so on. At last, I became very angry and ran to my father.

He listened to me  47  . Then he asked, "Are these things true or not? Do you know what you are really like? Go and make a   48   of what she said and find the __49__ that are true. "

I did as he told me. To my great __50_ . 1 discovered that about half of the things were true. Some of them I couldn't change (like being very thin). But there were things 1 could and wanted to change. For the _51__ time, I got a clear  52  of myself.

I brought the list back to Dad. He refused to take it. "That's just for you." he said. "You know the truth about _53_ better than anyone else. When people say something that is true about you, you should find it helpful. "

Our world is full of people who think they know your business. Don't _54_ and feel   55 . Listen to them.

(  )46. A. beautiful             B. proud     C smart  D. rich

(  )47. A. bravely H. happily    C. quickly   D. quietly

(  )48. A. joke    B. programme  C.list       D. record

(  )49. A. secrets B. mistakes   C. lessons   D. points

(  )50. A. surprise B. interest   C. opinion   D. fact

(  )51. A. first   B. second     C. next      D. last

(  )52. A. book    B. picture    C. drawing   D. notice

(  )53. A. yourselves B. myself  C. herself   D. yourself

(  )54. A. clean   B. open       C. close     D. wash

(  )55. A. hurt    B.safe        C. pretty    D.cheap

Homesick is a compound (復(fù)合的) word made up of HOME and SICK. You know what each

 46___   means on its own, of course. But do you know the meaning   47 ___  they are used together? The definition (定義) of homesick is SICK FOR HOME. It means you miss your home.

Now think for a minute  _ 48 _  SEASICK. If you change the word HOME in the definition to the word SEA, would the definition   _49 _  SEASICK? Does seasick mean SICK FOR SEA? It means something quite   50 . Seasick means SICK BY THE MOVEMENT ON THE SEA. When you are   _51   , the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick,  _ 52   you want to be is at sea.

Have you ever   _53   a person being heartsick? Heartsick doesn’t mean that something is wrong with a person’s heart. People are heartsick when they are   54 _  deep inside as if (好像) their hearts are broken.

And we also have other compound words, such as handshake and   55__ . Perhaps you may write definitions for them. It must be helpful to know something like this in your English study.

46. A. word             B. phrase            C. sentence          D. passage

47. A. how             B. why              C. when             D. where

48. A. for              B. from              C. about             D. like

49. A. get              B. fit                C. read             D. have

50. A. right            B. wrong             C. same             D. different

51. A. homesick        B. heartsick           C. seasick           D. carsick

52. A. the first place     B. the last place       C. the only place      D. the safe place

53. A. thought over      B. thought out        C. heard from        D. heard of

54. A. hurt             B. hit               C. loved             D. moved

55. A. hobby           B. height            C. heaven            D. handbag

A few minutes before six o’clock, Mr. Smith began to leave. He was about to start the car when a gunman (持槍者)   36   up from the back seat. He  37   a gun to Mr. Smith’s head,“Drive me to Paris!” he shouted.

　　“All right”Mr. Smith answered. He started the engine (發(fā)動機(jī)), pulled away from the side of the street and   38   down. Being 81 years old, he knew he could not   39   the gunman. He knew he needed help. Where were the police? As he drove   40   each crossing, he looked up and down the side streets, hoping to meet a police car. But he could see    41    . “Just my luck,” he thought. “If I was   42   too fast, there would be a police car on every corner.”

　　   43    he pushed his foot down on the accelerator(加速器), and the car ran   44  faster. “What are you doing?” shouted the gunman. “Keeping off the police.” Mr. Smith answered. “I thought I saw a police car   45   there.”

　　He ran red lights, drove wrong on one-way streets. On the two-way streets, he drove on the wrong   46    of the road. Not one of the policemen saw him. Again Mr. Smith’s plan was not working. He had to try a    47     plan.

　　He    48   a corner and saw the police station in front. Then he drove his car as fast as he could towards the police gate. The car hit a police motorbike down and stopped. Mr. Smith shouted, “Help! Help!” Then he   49   back to grab the man’s gun. At the same time the policemen heard the   50   and quickly caught the gunman.

　　(    )36.   A. woke       B. sat       C. stood    D. jumped

　　(    )37.   A. brought     B. pointed   C. held     D. carried

　　(    )38.   A. drove       B. left      C. took     D. pushed

　　(    )39.   A. fight        B. lift       C. keep      D. hit

　　(    )40.   A. around    B. over       C. through     D. towards

　　(    )41.   A. somebody  B. anybody   C. everybody   D. nobody

　　(    )42.   A. driving    B. moving    C. getting      D. walking

　　(    )43.   A. Slowly    B. Suddenly   C. Quietly     D. Carefully

　　(    )44.   A. more     B. much      C. very        D. quite

　　(    )45.   A. front      B. near      C. below       D. back

　　(    )46.   A. street     B. way      C. side         D. corner

　　(    )47.   A. new      B. safe      C. hard         D. nice

　　(    )48.   A. found     B. turned     C. stopped at    D. arrived at

　　(    )49.   A. got       B. looked    C. turned       D .came

　　(    )50.   A.  sound    B. man     C. voice       D. noise

   

  About 70,000,000 Americans are trying to lose weight. That is almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Some people eat ___36__ food and they hardly(幾乎不) have any fats or sweets. Others do running ,exercise with machines, take medicines, or even have operations(手術(shù)). ___37___ you can see losing weight is __38___ work, and it will also cost a lot of money. But ___39__ do many people in the United States want to lose weight?

Many people in the United States are worried about their look of the body. For many people， looking nice also means to be____40____ . Other people worry about their health as many doctors ___41____ overweight is not good.

Most people want to find an____42___ way to take off  fat，and books of this kind are very popular. These books tell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like these are ___43___. Each one says it can easily help people take fat away.

Losing weight can be ___44___ . Some overweight people go to health centres， like La Costa in California. Men and women ____45____several hundred dollars a day at these health centres. People live there for one week or two，____46____ exercise， eating different foods. Meals there may be just a little. All these work for losing weight. ____47___ 4 days on the programme， one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5 pounds （2.27kg）. At $ 400 a day， she spent $ 320 to lose each pound. But she said she was still ____48____ to do so.

Health centres， books， medicines， operations， running and exercise machines all ___49__ a lot of money. So in the United States， losing weight may mean losing ___50__ too.

  36. A. less            B. more         C. nice           D. fast

  37. A. For            B. So           C. Or             D. And

  38. A. good           B. useful        C. hard           D. easy

  39. A. why            B. what         C. how           D. when

  40. A. high           B. short         C. thin            D. fat

  41. A. talk            B. say          C. speak          D. tell        

  42. A. dearer          B. harder        C. shorter         D. easier

  43. A. taken          B. given         C. written          D. copied

  44. A. cheap          B. expensive      C. easy           D. safe

  45. A. pay           B. cost          C. take            D. have

  46. A. making        B. taking        C. playing         D. using

  47. A. Before        B. In            C. After           D. At

  48. A. sorry          B. angry         C. sad            D. glad

  49. A. need          B. have          C. use            D. get

  50. A. health        B. time           C. food           D. money

At least thirty times Bobby had tried to climb the snowy mountain, but he had never   36    the top. His friend old Peeper, who knew a lot about his failures,  37  Bobby to try again. He gave Bobby a pair of sunglasses and said, “If it starts clouding over, put on the glasses, or if your feet start hurting, put them on too. The glasses are very 38 . They’ll help you.” Bobby received the gift without much thought.

   The day came when he was to have another   39  . About two hours after he started, he felt his feet hurting. Then he  40  what Peeper had said, and put on the glasses. The pain was pretty bad, but   41   the sunglasses he could clearly see the snow-covered mountain top, so he went on.

     42  , clouds were gathering. But this time Bobby could still see the  43 through the clouds. He kept climbing , leaving the clouds behind, forgetting his pain, and finally arriving at the top. It was certainly worth it. His feeling of   44   was extremely good, almost as great as that  45 view. The mountain below was surrounded by a sea of clouds. He couldn’t believe that the clouds were as thick as that, so he looked more closely at the sunglasses, and discovered the  46  . Peeper had engraved (鐫刻) the snow-covered mountain top on the sunglasses,  47  Bobby could see it when he was looking upwards!

   Bobby __48   that the only difficulty to reaching the top had been losing   49   when he couldn’t see the mountain top. He was thankful that Peeper had used that little trick to help him see that his   50    was never impossible, and that it was still there, where it had always been.

36.A. left              B. reached          C. jumped       D. ran

37.A. encouraged        B. ordered         C. allowed         D. warned

38.A. real               B. safe            C. special         D. expensive

39.A. try               B. start            C. test          D. training

40.A. remembered     B. expressed       C. shouted         D. regretted

41.A. under          B. with            C. for             D. about

42.A. Happily          B. Hopefully        C. Unfortunately    D. Luckily

43.A. friend          B. top            C. climber          D. village

44.A. success         B. decision      C. freedom        D. friendship

45.A. strong          B. popular          C. bad            D. wonderful

46.A. way                 B. words           C. book           D. secret

47.A. and              B. or             C. if              D. though

48.A. suggested              B. realized         C. expected         D. hoped

49.A. love           B. help            C. face           D. heart

50.A. place            B. lesson          C. aim            D. story