You had better ______some time every day for sports so that you can keep yourself energetic.

A. set aside       B. take up        C. put away      D. give out

 

Want to be a happy married couple? Consider having kids．

A new study found that having children boosts happiness．And the more, literally, the merrier．

But unmarried couples shouldn’t expect to find greater happiness through child-raising．The study, published in the Oct．14 online edition of the Journal of Happiness Studies, suggests that having children has little or no effect on boosting happiness among couples who aren’t hitched(和谐)．

The findings contradict previous research that suggested that having more offspring doesn't lead to greater happiness and might even make people less satisfied with their lives．One theory behind the conclusion is that parents don’t receive many rewards in return for the hard work of raising children．

The new study, however, notes that parents say children are one of the most important things in their lives, if not the most important．

The study found that life satisfaction for married people -- women especially -- goes up the more kids they have．Single, separated and co-habiting people, by contrast, report negative experiences．

“One is tempted to advance that children make people rich under the ‘right conditions’ -- a time in life when people feel that they are ready, or at least willing, to enter parenthood,” Dr．Luis Angeles, of the University of Glasgow in Scotland, said in a news release from the journal’s publisher．“This time can come at very different moments for different individuals, but a likely signal of its approach may well be the act of marriage．”

1．The underlined word “offspring” in the fourth paragraph can be replaced by _____．

     A．generation              B．children        

       C．mothers          D．marriage

2．The best title of this passage should be _______．

     A．Children Are the Source of Happiness

     B．Are You Happy Married Couple?

     C．Married with Children Paves Way to Happiness

     D．The Right Conditions of Having Children

3．Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

     A．The more children women have, the happier they are．

     B．The more children the married women have, the more unsatisfied they become．

     C．Raising kids can give any person happiness．

     D．Without marriage, one woman had better not raise kids．

4．In the passage, the underlined part ‘right conditions’ refers to _______．

     A．a time when the couple are ready and willing to become parents

     B．the situation where the family is rich enough to raise a child

     C．the situation where the couple are very happy

     D．a time when the couple thinks raising children can boost happiness

One Sunday, a picture in the newspaper touched me. A young woman stood in front of a totally destroyed home. A little boy stood beside her with his head     . Holding her skirt tightly was a tiny girl, eyes wide with        and fear.

With growing       I noticed that their sizes of each family member closely       ours. This would be a good opportunity to     my children, so I explained their difficult     to my seven-year-old twins and three-year-old Meghan.

“We have so much, but these poor people now have nothing,” I said, “we’ll       what we have with them.”

I brought three large boxes and placed them on the living room floor. Meghan watched seriously       the boys and I filled one box with canned food.

While I      our clothes, I encouraged the boys to go through their toys and      some of their less favorite things. Meghan watched       as the boys piled up useless toys in the box.

“I’ll help you find something for the little girl,” I said to her.

The boys placed the toys they had      to donate into one of the boxes while I filled the third box with clothes. Meghan walked up with Lucy, her worn, faded, much-loved doll     tightly to her chest. She       in front of the box, pressed her little face into Lucy’s face, gave her a       kiss, then, laid her gently on top of the other toys.

“Oh, honey,” I said. “You       to give away Lucy. You love her so much.”

Meghan nodded, eyes shining with tears. “Lucy makes me happy, Mommy.       she’ll make that little girl happy, too.”

I stared at Meghan for a long moment,        how I could teach the boys the lesson she had just taught me.

It’s easy to give what we don’t want any more, but       to let go of things we cherish, isn’ t it?       , the true spirit of giving is to give with your heart.

1.A. off                                        B. up                                C. down                                  D. round

2.A. smile               B. confusion                         C. joy                      D. anger   

3.A. happiness                B. friendship                        C. puzzle                               D. interest

4.A. matched               B. equaled                            C. compared                        D. suited

5.A. help                         B. complain                          C. change                           D. teach

6.A. experience                           B. problem                      C. situation                            D. process

7.A. give                          B. share                           C. send                                   D. spare

8.A. as                                            B. since                                 C. though                              D. because

9.A. came through        B. broke through           C. sorted through                 D. got through

10.A. donate                  B. leave                           C. keep                                   D. sell

11.A. hopefully                   B. anxiously                          C. depressingly          D. quietly

12.A. separated                            B. chosen                   C. bought               D. confirmed

13.A. hugged                                B. tied                              C. grasped                    D. caught

14.A. settled                                 B. regretted                         C. paused                             D. cried

15.A. precious                         B. final                                    C. hearty              D. lovely

16.A. wouldn’t like        B. ought not                    C. had better not                  D. don’t have

17.A. Also                             B. Yet                          C. Maybe                          D. Though

18.A.knowing               B. wondering            C. realizing      D. expecting

19.A. available                     B. necessary                        C. important                         D. hard     

20.A. However                    B. Therefore                        C. Otherwise                        D. Moreover

 

In the past,when people had problems,they went to their families or friends to get advice.Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows.TV programs or telephone hot lines,too.A hot line is a telephone line that offers a direct way of getting in touch with advicers.Most hot lines are completely anonymous(匿名的)—callers do not have to say their names or telephone numbers.Most hot lines are usually free,too.Callers do not have to pay for their advice or the phone calls—even if the calls are long distance.At some hot lines,the advicers are volunteers.Other hot lines pay their advicers for their work.Usually the advicers are full-job people with years of education and experience,but sometimes the advicers have only taken a short class before starting to work on the hot line.All the advicers listen to the people and help them solve their problems.
【小题1】A hot line is a telephone line ______.

A．that is hot

B．through which people get advice

C．whose number no one knows

D．through which callers take a short class

【小题2】When people call the hot line advicers,they______.

A．often give their names and telephone numbers

B．generally have to pay for the long distance calls

C．usually pay nothing for most of the calls and advice

D．always try to get in touch with the volunteer advicers

【小题3】The advicers working at hot lines______.

A．are not all paid

B．have all been trained for a short time

C．are all volunteers

D．all have years of education and experience

【小题4】The writer of the article seems to think that______.

A．with hot lines people won’t get advice from their families and friends

B．hot lines help the callers a lot

C．people had better pay for the advice and phone calls

D．the hot line advicers will solve all of the callers’ problems