Growing Pains（《成长的烦恼》）是大陆较早引进的一部美国情景喜剧，讲述的是西佛一家的三个孩子在成长中遇到一些故事。而你们在自己的成长过程中也一定碰到过一些挫折，失败，而长大的标志是你在这些经历中获得了一些宝贵的财富。请以 Gains from Growing Pains 为题，写一篇不少于120词的英语短文。（开头已经给出，不计入字数。）
要求：1. 描述成长过程中的一件令你烦恼的事情。

2. 说说此事最终带给你的启示和收获。

Growing up is not always a very enjoyable time.                                                                                     

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Susan,

I'm very gladly to hear you are coming to visit me the next Friday. Unfortunate, I won't be able to meet you at the airport although I have classes in the afternoon. You won't find difficult to get to the city center. The airport bus leaves every 30 minute and will take you rightly to the Friendship Hotel. My classes will be over by then or I will pick you up there. I will take you to a hot pot restaurant for dinner and we'll talk with our plan for the weekend over dinner. Having a pleasant trip and see you Friday.

A. How inner beliefs can help

B. How to develop positive habits

C. Improve your life

D. You can do it

E. Action plan

F. Why are habits so important

The single most important factor that contributes to success is what you do every single day. are guaranteed to succeed in the long run.

61.            

Because you repeat the same actions and the same behaviors every single day, a single positive action will not change your life, but the same action repeated 1,000 times will have a significant impact on your life. For example, if you go to the gym one time, you won’t see a big difference in your life. However, if you go to the gym 1,000 times over a five year period, you will see a big difference in your body. The same principle applies to finance, health, relationships, work, career, and school. Simple positive actions repeated every single day will have a great impact on your life in the long run.

62.             

There’s nothing easier than developing positive habits. You simply have to do every single day the action you want to make a habit. If you want to develop the habit of running, run almost every day. If you want to develop the habit of eating healthy, eat healthy every day. If you want to develop the habit of reading, read every day. Habits are created by repetition. The more you do an action, the easier it becomes in the long run.

63.             

If you want to be successful in changing your habits, you should think about changing your inner beliefs about your habits. For example, your old belief was: “I love cigarette because it makes me feel good and relaxed. I need cigarette to be happy and relaxed.” If you keep this belief, you won’t be able to keep your resolution to stop smoking for very long. Instead, you should adopt this new belief: “I love yoga because it makes me feel good and relaxed. Cigarette is poisonous and destroys my body. Yoga makes me happy.” You should analyze your beliefs and make sure they won’t stop you from changing your habits. The same is true when you try to form positive habits. If you want to start eating healthy food, here are some positive beliefs you should start thinking about: “Healthy food is very good for my health. It gives me a lot of energy and I feel very good.”

64.            

It’s now time for you to develop positive habits in your life and avoid your negative habits. Write down 3 positive habits that you would like to develop and 3 negative habits that you would like to get rid of. For each positive habit, write down exactly what actions you’re going to take every single day in order to develop the new habit. For each negative habit, write down exactly what actions you’re not going to take in the next weeks. Here are some positive habits that will lead to success: exercise, healthy food, reading, saving, studying, healthy relationships, hard work, etc.. Here are some negative habits to get rid of: gambling, drug and alcohol abuse, overeating, shyness, etc..

65.             

Everybody can change. All it takes is courage and commitment. Decide right now to improve your life by changing your habits. Take action right now! Don’t be afraid. Yes, you will probably make mistakes along the way. But never forget that success is guaranteed for you if you have positive habits in your life. If you refuse to quit, success will be yours.

At 4:00 A.M. on Sunday morning, my friend, Tim, awoke me. He was sleeping in the living room right next to the front door and said there was a man pounding on my front door and screaming. At first, I was like, "Shut up and leave me alone," but then I heard one of the scariest voices of my life. The man sounded of Spanish descent (血统), older, and in pain.

I was home alone for the week, so I had two guns loaded with bullets. I had a rifle (步枪) next to my bed and a shotgun next to my front door. I grabbed my rifle. Tim asked me, "What are you doing?"

"Getting my gun, what do you think I'm doing?" I asked.

As I headed down the hall towards the front door, I remembered Chad, my older brother, telling me to protect myself when he left. Immediately, I grabbed the shotgun and gave it to Tim. Thinking that it might scare the person off, I went to my back door and shot my rifle into the dark cold sky. However, this did not work. "Protect yourself, Sarah," kept going through my head. The man kept yelling and pounding on my door. I would have just opened the door, but I watched too many "America's Most Wanted" shows, where that is how they get the little girls to open the door. So, I then called 911 myself.

The operator said, "911. What is your emergency?"

I replied, "My name is Sarah Miller and I am at Juniper Lane in Hotchkiss and there is a man beating on my front door and telling me to let him in." That was the start of all the excitement. I continued to tell her what was going on and what had already gone on. Our conversation was still going when I heard the man walk off my door. During this time, the police were having a discussion of whether they should respond to the call. When I heard the man walk off my door, I thought that he was going to leave.

I was still on the phone when I heard the man in my basement. "Protect yourself, Sarah," went through my head again. The basement stairs lead right up to a door entering our house. We leave our garage door open to cool off our house when the weather is good. The man was yelling, "Help me" from the bottom of the stairs. I walked over and made sure the door was locked and made sure there was a bullet in the rifle. I stood there with the phone in one hand and my trusty old rifle in the other just waiting for him to start coming up the stairs.

My conversation with the operator went from "Hi, how are you now?" to "What are you doing to help me here?" About this time, the operator told me that the policeman should be at the bottom of my driveway, so I turned on all of the lights, inside and outside. I still had my rifle in my hands when the policeman walked up the stairs to my front door. "Did you see an older Spanish man walking down my driveway by any chance?" I asked him.

"Um, no," he answered. I then asked him if he had seen anyone in the basement, and again he said, "No". So at this time, he went back down the stairs and approached my garage. For some reason, I knew that there was still someone in there. I crouched (猫着腰) down to where I could see into the garage / basement area. As the policeman approached the basement, he yelled, "Whoa, put your hands up. Freeze."

"I’ve got you," were the first words out of my mouth; I don't know what I was thinking. After this happened, I realized that those words weren't exactly the smartest choice of words. About this time, another policeman pulled into my driveway with his lights on followed by a police officer. As I approached the basement with my rifle, I was worried about what I would see. What I saw will always stick with me forever. A poor twenty-nine year old Spanish man was crapping (拉屎) there, and I almost shot him because he was coming to my house to find help. His face was all bloody, his nose was broken, his clothes were torn, and worst of all, he didn't speak English, and none of the policemen who were there spoke Spanish. I had taken three years of Spanish before, so I translated what the Spanish guy, Jose, was saying to the policemen. About this time an ambulance came up my driveway with its lights on. So, I had three police cars and an ambulance, all with their lights on, in my driveway. I'm sure my neighbors all came out, since nothing had ever happened in my small community.

I did protect myself that night. My brother was right when he said that you could never be too careful. "Wake up Sarah. It's time for school," my mom said a couple of mornings later. That is how I prefer to be woken up. I will always have a loaded gun next to my bed after this incident.

55. The moment Tim awoke her, the author ______.

A. screamed            B. felt annoyed     C. heard the voice           D. grabbed the rifle

56. Why did the author go to the back door and shot into the sky?

A. Because she wanted to scare the man off.   B. Because she wanted to kill the man.

C. Because she wanted to call for help.       D. Because she wanted to remind the police.

57. The Spanish man pounded the author’s door so early ______.

A. to practise speaking English                            B. to meet his old friend

C. to seek help                                            D. to hide himself

58. By saying “That was the start of all the excitement”, maybe the author ______.

A. thought they talked too much exciting things

B. was excited that she could talk with the operator

C. was sure that the police would come

D. wanted to say their conversation lasted a long time

59. What did the author learn from the incident?

A. She regretted what she had done to the Spanish

B. She felt it fortunate to know a little Spanish

C. She thought it couldn’t be too careful about her safety.

D. She would never live alone in a big house.

60. Which of the following can be used as the title of this passage?

A. Make ends meet      B. As busy as a bee    C. A piece of cake    D. A false alarm

      Advice to “sleep on it” could be well founded, scientists say. After a good night’s sleep a problem that seemed impossible to solve the night before can often appear easier, although no evidence has proved this by now. But researchers at the University of Luebek in Germany have designed an experiment that shows a good night sleep can improve insight and problem-solving. “If you have some newly acquired memories in your brain, sleep acts on these memories, restructures(重建) them, so that after sleep the insight into a problem which you could not solve before increases,” said Dr. Jan Born, a neuroscientist, at the university. To test the theory, they taught volunteers two simple rules to help them put a string of numbers into a new order. There was also a third , hidden rule, which could help them increase their speed in solving the problem. The researchers divided the volunteers into two groups, half were allowed to sleep after the training while the remainders were forced to stay awake. Born and his team noticed that the group that had slept after the training were twice as likely to figure out the third rule as the other group . “sleep helped,” Born said in a telephone interview. “the important thing is that you have to have a memory representation in your brain of the problem you want to solve and then you sleep, so it can act on the problem .” But Born admitted that he and his team don’t know how restructuring of memories occurs or what governs it or in which stage of sleep it works. Pierre Marquette and Pierre Ruby of the University of Liege in Belgium and the experimental evidence supports the suggestions that sleep can promote creative thinking . Although the role of sleep in human activity will still be a mystery, the researcher gives good reason to fully respect their period of sleep, they added.

50. The underline phrase “sleep on it ” in the first line probably means _______ .

   A. to put something aside to be solved until the next day

   B. to get as much sleep as possible

   C. to go on sleeping without being disturbed

   D. to sleep till you get up the next morning

51. Jan Born and his team carried out the experiment through ________.

   A. comparison    B. interview     C. survey       D. imagination

52. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

   A. people should sleep so long as they have time

B. sleep is the only way to solve hard problems

C. people have various periods of sleep

D. people know how sleep restructures memories

53. What would be the best title for the passage ?

   A. How Sleep Works                B. Sleep Helped Solve Problem

C. No Evidence , But Well Founded    D. Born’s Discovery On Sleep

54. Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from ?

   A. A science fiction     B. A book review     C. An advertisement      D. A newspaper.

Have you ever considered all the English expressions that include words about clothes? Let’s see if I can name a few proverbs “off the cuff” since I haven’t prepared for it.

46. What is this passage mainly about? 

A. How to say English correctly and properly.

B. Why English expressions include words about clothes.

C. Which words can be used to describe my father.

D. What people mean when they use some proverbs.

47. Which of the following proverbs are not related to money?

   A. tighten one’s belt                    B. burn a hole in one’s pocket

   C. get caught with their pants down        D. take one’s hat off to them

48. Tim often considers himeself the most important person in the world, which is far from the truth. We may say

________.

A.      he is “too big for their boots”     B. he “bet his boots on that”

D.     he “fill their shoes”             D. he “wears his heart on his sleeve”

49. If you want to praise somebody for his calmness when facing danger, you may say

   A. “you really fill your shoes.”

   B. “Awesome ! You wear your heart on your sleeve !”

   C. “Amazing ! How can you keep your shirt on at that time ! ”

   D. “Cool ! you are truly a stuffed shirt ”.

    Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis Cricket—anything with a round ball, I was useless,” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits(成就).Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.

Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. “John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ‘You are completely crazy,’” Saunders says.

In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter(遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.

This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.

41. The turning point in Saunders’life came when _____  

A. he started to play ball games           B. he got a mountain bike at age 15

C. he ran his first marathon at age 18       D. he started to receive Ridgway’s training

42. We can learn from the text that Ridgway _______.

A. dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy        B. built up his body together with Saunders

C. hired Saunders for his cold-water experience  D. won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

43. What do we know about Saunders?

A. He once worked at a school in Scotland.        

B. He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.

C. He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.

D. He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.

44. The underlined word “Intrigued” in the third paragraph probably means_____.

A. Excited           B. Convinced              C. Delighted               D. Fascinated

45. It can be inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ______.

A. was accompanied by his old playmates    B. set a record in the North Pole expedition

C. was supported by other Arctic explorers   D. made him well-known in the 1960s

One afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I   21   the car by the roadside and waited for her.

    As I looked   22   the car window, there was a small park where I saw a little boy, around two years old,   23   freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short   24  . The boy had a big smile on his face   25   he had just been set free from some sort of   26  . The boy would then fall to the grass,   27  , and without hesitation or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could again, still with a   28   on his face.   

    Kids, when they fall down, don't view their falling down as failure, but   29  , they treat it as a learning experience. They try and try again until they   30  . While I was touched by the boy's persistence, I was   31   touched by the manner in which he ran. With each attempt, he looked so   32   and so natural — no signs of fear, nervousness, or of being discouraged. His only   33   was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. He was just being a   34   — just being himself—being completely in the moment. He was not looking for   35   or was not worrying about whether   36   was watching. He didn't seem to be bothered by the fact that maybe someone would see him   37   and that it would be   38   if he did fall. No, all that   39   to him was to accomplish the task, to feel the experience of running fully and freely. I learned a lot from that   40   and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits（追求) in life.

21.    A. drove                        B. started                       C. parked                       D. broke

22.    A. outside                      B. down                         C. toward                      D. over

23.    A. playing                      B. smiling                       C. rolling                        D. running

24.    A. way                          B. length                        C. time                          D. distance

25.    A. even if                       B. as if                           C. so long as                  D. now that

26.    A. park                          B. cave                          C. prison                        D. castle

27.    A. get up                        B. take up                       C. break down                D. lie down

28.    A. tear                           B. smile                          C. pleasure                     D. surprise

29.    A. however                    B. instead                       C. therefore                    D. anyhow

30.    A. stop                          B. win                            C. achieve                      D. succeed

31.    A. luckily                      B. apparently                  C. actually                      D. equally

32.    A. confident                   B. joyful                         C. quiet                          D. proud

33.    A. worry                        B. dream                        C. aim                           D. hope

34.    A. boy                           B. child                          C. player                       D. winner

35.    A. chance                      B. fortune                       C. approval                    D. trouble

36.    A. someone                    B. anyone                       C. everyone                    D. one

37.    A. fail                            B. run                            C. fall                            D. cry

38.    A. embarrassing              B. disappointing              C. frightening                 D. amusing

39.    A. happened                   B. contributed                 C. related                       D. mattered

40.    A. discovery                   B. observation                 C. story                         D. incident

—Sorry my dog frightened your daughter.

            —Forget it! _______. 

A. She deserved it                              B. Every dog has its day

C. Bad luck comes three                              D. Animals will be animals

 Yesterday she sold her car ,________ she bought a month ago .

A. when  B. where C. that     D. which