In our life, we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who lived those years with us. In fact, we don't have to wait for anniversaries to thank the ones closest to us and the ones so easily overlooked. If I have learned anything about giving thanks, it is this: give it now! While your feeling of appreciation is alive and sincere, act on it. Saying thanks is such an easy way to add to the world's happiness.

Saying thanks not only brightens someone else's world, it brightens yours. If you're feeling left out, unloved or unappreciated, try reaching out to others. It may be just the medicine you need. Of course, there are times when you can't express gratitude immediately. In that case, don't let embarrassment sink you into silence and speak up the first time you have the chance.

Once a young minister, Mark Brian, was sent to a remote parish(教区)of Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia. The Indians, he had been told, did not have a word for thank you. But Brian soon found that these people had unusual generosity. Instead of saying thanks, it is their custom to return every favor with a favor of their own, and every kindness with an equal or superior kindness. They do their thanks. I wonder if we had no words in our vocabulary for thank you, would we do a better job of communicating our gratitude? Would we be more responsive, more sensitive, more caring?

Thankfulness sets in motion a chain reaction that transforms people all around us－including ourselves. For no one ever misunderstands the melody(旋律)of a grateful heart. Its message is universal; its poems transcend(超越)all earthly barriers; its music touches the heaven.

1.Who do we easily forget to express our thanks to according to the writer?

2. When we say something for what others do for us, it ______.

3.What does the writer mean in the third paragraph?

4.The way to make us feel happy is ______ when we think we ourselves are forgotten in the world.

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[l]Fear and pain are two of the most useful things that human beings and animals have, if they are properly used. If fire did not hurt when it burnt, children would play with it until their hands were burnt away. Similarly, if pain existed but fear didn’t, a child would burn himself again and again, because fear would not warn himself to keep away from the fire that had burnt himself before. A really fearless soldier is not a good soldier because he will soon be killed; and a dead soldier is of no use to his army. Fear and pain are therefore two guards without which human beings and animals might soon die out.
[2] In our first sentence we suggested that fear should be properly used. If, for example, you never go out of your house because of the danger of being knocked down and killed in the street by a car, you are letting fear rule you too much. Even in your house you are not absolutely safe: A plane may crash on your house, or you may get cancer!
[3] The important thing is not to let fear rule you, but to use fear as your servant and guide instead. Fear will warn you of dangers; then you have to decide what action to take.
[4] In many cases, you can take quick and successful action to avoid the danger. For example, you see a car coming straight towards you. Fear warns you, then you jump out of the way, and all is well.
[5] In some cases, however, you decide that there is nothing that you can do to ___________. For example, you can’t prevent a plane crashing onto your house. In this case, fear is no longer of any use, and you have to try to overcome it.
【小题1】What is mainly talked about in this passage? (no more than 15 words)
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【小题2】How does the author support his idea in Paragraph 2? (no more than 5 words)
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【小题3】Why does the author say that a fearless soldier is not a good soldier? (no more than 15 words)
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【小题4】 What benefit can we get from “fear” according to the passage? (no more than 10 words)
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【小题5】Fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper words. (no more than 5 words)
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Not many years ago, some American farmers began to complain about hawks(鹰). The hawks were killing chickens. The farmers did not know what to do. They went to the government officials and asked for help.
The officials said, “ We’ll pay you for each hawk you kill.” The farmers began to kill the hawks. Many hawks were killed, but the farmers now had another problem. The field mice were growing in number and they were eating up the farmers’ corn. Hawks eat not only chickens but also field mice. They eat more field mice than chickens. But if the farmers had known that, they would not have upset(打乱) the balance of nature. In one part of the USA, there are deer which eat a kind of wild rose. The deer are eaten by mountain lions. The number of deer, mountain lions, and wild rose does not change much if people stay away from them. If there are too many deer, mountain lions will increase rapidly in number and kill many deer. If there are too many mountain lions, there will be fewer deer and there will be more roses.
It is always necessary for us to keep the balance of nature. The government once killed almost all the mountain lions to protect the deer. Soon there were so many deer that they ate up all the wild roses. Then they began to eat the green leaves of young trees which were important to the farmers.
So the farmers protected their trees from the deer. The deer had nothing to eat, and many of them died.
The government learned a valuable lesson from nature.
44. What had happened after the hawks were killed?
A. People wouldn’t worry about their chickens.
B. The number of the field mice became too large.
C. The number of the field mice became small.
D. The field mice were eating up the farmers’ corn.
45. Why did American people have to protect their trees?
A. Because the mountain lions destroyed the trees.
B. Because there were so many deer that they began to eat the green leaves.
C. Because they wanted the trees to grow well.
D. Because the trees are more important than the deer.
46. What can we learn from the article?
A. We must keep the balance of nature.
B. We must not kill any animals.
C. we must feed the hawks with our corn to keep the balance of nature.
D. Both A and B.

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One day, an American Indian found an eagle’s egg and put it into the nest of a chicken. The little eagle hatched with the chickens and grew up with them.

All its life, the eagle thought it was a chicken and did what the chickens did. It searched in the dirt for seeds and insects to eat. It could only fly no more than a few feet off the ground. After all, that’s how chickens were supposed to fly. The eagle never noticed that it was different from the chickens.

Years passed. And the eagle grew very old. One day, it saw a magnificent bird far above in the cloudless sky. It flew high and fast in the sky with its strong golden wings. Even the powerful winds could not stop it.

“What a beautiful bird!” said the eagle to its neighbor, “What is it?”

“That’s an eagle-the master of the birds,” the neighbor told the eagle.

“It’s extraordinary! I want to fly as high as it does,” said the eagle.

“Don’t give it a second thought. You are just a chicken. You could never be like it,” said the neighbor.

So the eagle never gave it a second and it died thinking it was a chicken.

Do you feel sympathetic towards the eagle? If so, give a second thought for who you are and who you want to be. Never let your life pass without realizing your full potential（潜力）and pursuing your dream.

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Have you ever heard the saying “If you want a friend, be one”?

Here is how a new teacher made friends with the girls and boys in her class on the first day of school. As the bell rang, the teacher smiled at each girl and boy. Then she said in a quiet voice, “Good morning. How nice it is to have all of you in my class this year. I'd like to know each of you. I am sure we will enjoy working together.” Everyone felt that she meant what she said because of her sweet voice and her friendly look.

She told the girls and boys her name and wrote it on the blackboard. Then she told them some of the things she liked to do and she was hoping to do with them during the year.

Then she said to the class, “Now you know my name and the things I like and I want to know your names and the things you like. Then I will feel that I know you.”

Could you make friends by doing the same as this teacher did?

One way of getting to know girls and boys in your class is to find out more about them. It is often easy to be friends with those people who have the same hobbies with you. You play the same games and go on journeys together.

You may find that some new comers in your class miss their old friends and feel strange and lonely. You can invite them to take a walk or to ride bikes with you. You will find many things in common to talk about. Just talking together in a friendly manner is one good way to make friends.

1.What does the underlined sentence “If you want a friend, be one” in Paragraph 1 mean?

A. You may have a friend by doing everything for him.

B. You can make friends by doing what a friend should do.

C. If you want to have a friend, try to make one be your friend.

D. When you need a friend, you have to be a friend of yourself.

2.The teacher’s sweet voice and her friendly look _______.

A. made every girl and boy happy

B. told the girls and boys everything about herself

C. showed that she would like to be a friend of the girls and boys’

D. meant she wanted to tell the boys and girls something interesting

3.A new comer will be your friend if __________.

A. he always thinks of his old friends

B. you ask him to do something

C. he knows you

D. you talk with him in a friendly way

4. If you want to make friends with others, which of the following shouldn’t you do?

A. Learn more about them.                               B. Go on journeys together.

C. Find out your differences.                             D. Try to be the same as them.

5.What is the best title for this passage?

A. How to Make Friends

B. Teachers Can Make Friends with Students

C. A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed

D. How to Be Friends with New Comers