用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。

Not long ago, I made up my mind to read a lot of books to get more knowledge. So I went to the library and 36 happily with several books. But after a few days, I felt impatient. The 37 of finishing all of them seemed impossible, because I always found it 38 to calm down to read a whole book. I didn't know what to do with it. Then 39 one day I thought of "Why not make read­ing fun?" It gave me 40 again. Reading is a journey of spirit. Every time we read a book, we are actually talking    41    the writer. I tried to put all

my effort into his or her books, 42 I could feel all of his or her happiness and suffering. Now books have become a part of my life.

See? Attitude (态度) can make a great 43 . Someone once said,"Even though the situ­ation is bad, people still have one freedom ( 自由) to 44 their attitude. "So,don't complain about study or work. It helps 45 . Try to see things from a different way. Believe me; this will change the situation and help you a lot.

4. A. sadly        B quickly C. suddenly         D. hardly

How old is “old”? The answer has changed over the years. Two Hundred years ago, you were old at 35. At the beginning of the 20th century, the average life span (平均寿命) was 45. In 1950, 70-year-olds were really old. Today, a healthy 70-year-old is still thought young.

          So, how old is “old”? The answer is one you’ve heard many times, from all kinds of people. “You are as old (or young) as you feel.” Your age simply tells you how many years you have lived. Your body tells you how well you’ve lived.

         “Nobody grows old by living a number of years,” wrote a writer. “People grow old when they don’t have their ideals (理想).” People shouldn’t have the wrong ideas about aging. Sometimes, older minds can be as bright as young minds. Alice Brophy once said, “It makes me unhappy when people say, ‘You look young for your age.’ What does that mean? You know you can die old at 30 and live young at 80.”

1.About 100 years ago, the average life span was __________.

A. 35                   B. 45    C. 70  D. 80

2. The meaning of the word “aging” is __________.

A. growing old     B. staying young    C. keeping healthy                  D. feeling unhappy

3.According to the passage, which of the following is true?

A. Old people are not as bright at young people.      

B. All older people are healthy and strong.

C. Aging does not mean you become unhealthy.       

D. Most older people are unhealthy and poor.

4. The passage is mainly(主要地) about _________.

A. the average life span              B. aging

C. the 20th century                     D. older people and young people

In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. I call these things  1 and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did  2 the water. Any kind of 3 ride seemed to give him pleasure.  4 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being  5 the water, moving through it, having it all around me. I was not a strong  6 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my 7 . But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and  8 those summer days with my father, who  9 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the  0 person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go  11 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me  12 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk while he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his 13 . But my father always showed up and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s fine.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get  14 an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is memory.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but  15 , in that childhood, look at us.