蓝鸽英语作业

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Passage 1

Romantic love is one of the most enticing (迷人的) topics around. Just about every movie, TV show, and country-music song contains some element of romance. For many, romantic relationships are by far the most important in their lives.

As a society, we long for intimacy. We grow up believing that if we \meet the right person\most destructive messages around. Quentin Crisp says: \beings is to deliberately plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature ...\

When we feel unhappy it is natural to start searching for the cause of our distress. There is nothing wrong with this, but it becomes a problem when we start searching outside of ourselves. We are taught that if we are happily \blame our partner for our \The consequences of this belief are enormously self-destructive.

Romantic love is exciting, but what happens when the romance wears off? Experts estimate that romantic sexual attractions last only 18 months to two years. Using love or sex as a drug will only prevent us from reaching maturity. We do need excitement and stimulation and joy and intimacy. But in mature love we are concerned with our loved one's joy and fulfillment. The satisfaction comes not from our own immediate gratification, but from the joy of giving to the other person, and watching them grow and thrive.

If you are single, the best thing you can do to prepare for a life-long loving relationship is to work on getting your own needs met. The first thing to do is to start identifying what they are. For instance: you long for affection and need a hug. Have you thought of asking a friend to hug you? You will be amazed what will happen if you start asking people directly to meet your needs. You will get some negative responses, but for the most part you will find that people are happy to help you.

Many of us were taught our needs are wrong. Our needs are not wrong. We get into difficulty when we try to meet our needs in indirect ways. It is not that we shouldn't enjoy the excitement of a new relationship or love interest; we get into difficulty when we think we will get all our needs met from this one \

1. What does Quentin Crisp think of the popular search for happiness?____ [A] The search is not sensible.

[B] The media should be responsible for the search.

[C] You can surely find happiness without the help of some other person. [D] It is advisable to make such a search together with some other person.

2. When one is unhappy, he tends to ____. [A] make himself happily coupled with another

[B] search for the cause of his distress inside himself [C] search for the cause of his distress with his partner [D] think it's his beloved one that causes his problems

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3. Which of the following statements is NOT true about romantic love?____ [A] Romantic love lasts for a lifetime.

[B] Romantic love does not equal mature love. [C] Romantic love is exciting but it can wear off.

[D] Many people regard romantic love as the most important part in their lives.

4. To prepare for a life-long loving relationship, one should identify his own needs first and ____. [A] avoid longing for too much intimacy [B] meet some of his needs in indirect ways [C] ask a friend to help him find a romantic lover [D] not get all his needs met from his partner alone

5. What is the main idea of the passage?____

[A] There is always an unequal give-and-take in mature love. [B] We shouldn't expect romantic love to meet all our needs.

[C] It's a wrong belief that we should enjoy the excitement of a new relationship. [D] It is natural to derive satisfaction from watching one's loved ones grow and thrive.

Passage 2

Born black in a land where white people were powerful and respected, born female in a land where decisions were masculine (男子的), I had been afraid of the life of poverty and despair. In the prime of my youth, whenever I thought about growing old, I always carried a profound belief that I wouldn't live past the age of 28. Tears would fill my eyes and bathe my face when I thought of dying before my son became an adolescent.

I was thirty-six before I realized I had lived years beyond my deadline and needed to revise my thinking about an early death. I would live to see my son an adult and myself at the half-century mark. With that realization life turned sweeter. Old acquaintances became friendships, and new acquaintances showed themselves more interesting. I did not live in undue absorption in the bygone loves burdened with disappointments and betrayals. I found new loves were coming.

I decided I would consent to living to an old age. White strands of hair would emerge near my temple (太阳穴). I would speak more slowly, choosing my words just like an elder stateswoman. My clothes would gradually become more distinguished-looking: gray suits and elegant dresses. And while I would refuse to wear old ladies' comforts, I would give away the three-inch-high heels that had given me the advantage of being taller than nearly everyone else in the world. And I would choose good shoes with medium heels. I would keep company with other old women who would be equally prettily dressed, and I would always have an elegant, well-dressed man holding my arm.

Those were my plans. But at sixty my body which had never displayed a mind of its own, turned uncontrollable, stubborn and disloyal. My face became wrinkled, the skin on my thighs turned lumpy (粗糙的) and my waist thickened. I began to be overwhelmed with doubt and pessimism.

But now, as I walk slowly nearer to my seventieth year, my optimism has returned. My appetites have also returned. True, I can't eat fried chicken with potato salad and then head for

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bed. I eat smaller portions earlier and try to take a short walk. A smooth Scotch whisky still causes me to smile, and a decent wine is received with gratitude. What I have learned so far about aging, despite the old bones and the wrinkles of one's once-silken skin, is this: do it. By all means, do it.

6. The narrator believed she wouldn't live past the age of 28 because ____. [A] her parents did not live past that age [B] she could not live long without her son

[C] her husband was white and treated her badly at home

[D] the prospect of leading a life of poverty and without respect rendered her hopeless

7. Deciding she would live to an old age, the narrator planned her future life in a way that she would ____.

[A] speak more slowly and wear old ladies' comforts

[B] speak like an elder stateswoman and dress herself elegantly [C] make friends with other elegantly dressed men and women

[D] wear shoes with high heels to give her the advantage of being taller

8. Which word can be used to describe the narrator's attitude toward life when she reached sixty?____ [A] Resentful. [B] Optimistic. [C] Pessimistic. [D] Grateful.

9. Which of the following statements is true about the narrator?____ [A] As she grew older, she found life more difficult. [B] Only when she turned 70 did she find life sweet.

[C] As she grew old, she spent more time thinking about her bygone loves. [D] At different stages of her life, she had different understandings of aging.

10. By describing her life experiences, what does the author intend to tell us?____ [A] Black women should earn more power and respect.

[B] Different people have different interpretations of life and death.

[C] Old people should pursue spiritual happiness instead of material things. [D] A person should be optimistic and try to enjoy life even when he is old.

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11. Not until he saw in the mirror that his hair was turning grey _ __ (他才意识到青春是多么短暂). he realized that the youth is so short

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12. ____ (考虑到她只有12岁), the girl has done a good job. Considering that she is only 12 years old

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Section 3

13. ____ (正是共同的兴趣奠定了友谊的基础), although good friends do not necessarily have everything in common. It is common interest lay a foundation of friendship

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14. Happiness should not be based on money, big houses, etc. because ____ (无论这些物质的东西给你带来了多么高的社会地位), they will not bring lasting happiness to you at all. Whether these material things to bring you a very high social status

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15. Did you read Sam's article in today's newspaper? ____ (再没有比如此无耻地扭曲事实更让人厌恶的了). There is nothing so shamelessly distore the facts more disgusting.

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Passage 1

Millions of Americans vacation abroad in the summer not only to see new sights but also with the hope of forming new friendships. The difficulty when strangers from two countries meet is that they have different expectations about what [16]N friendship and how it comes into being. In those European countries that Americans are most likely to visit, genuine friendship is quite sharply [17] I from other, more casual relations. For a Frenchman, friendship usually carries a heavier burden of [18] G . But for us Americans, \can be applied to a wide range of relationships: some are superficial; some are enduring.

For the French, friendship demands a [19] H awareness of the other person's intellect, tastes and particular interests. Intellectual friends may meet for evenings of conversation. Working people may meet at the little pub where they drink and talk. Marriage does not affect such friendships; wives do not have to be taken into [20] J . The special relationship of friendship is based on what the French value most - on the mind and on the [21] L of their outlooks on life.

English friendships follow still a different pattern. Their basis is [22 ] K activity. In the midst of the activity, whatever it may be, people play a game or tell stories or [23] D as members of a demanding committee. Americans who have made English friends comment that, even years later, \ [24] O off.\friends are like a couple who begin to dance again when the orchestra strikes up after a pause. What, then, is friendship? It involves freedom of choice. A friend is someone who chooses and is chosen. Each friend gives the other the sense of being a special individual, on whatever [25] C it is based. And between friends there is inevitably a kind of equality of give and take. These similarities make the bridge between societies possible, and the American's openness to different styles of relationship makes it possible for him to find new friends abroad with whom he feels at home.

A) account D) constitutes G) grounds K) remote B)compatibility E) H) keen L) shared distinguished I) left M) serve C) commitment F) forged J) originated N) sincerity

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O) worthy

第二次作业 阅读理解 Passage 1

A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps;

for there is a companionship of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was,

and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling (抚慰) us in age.

Men often discover their affinity to each other by the love they have each for a book -

just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both have for a third. There is an old proverb, \there is more wisdom in this: \and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.

\poet's verse (诗句),\said Hazlitt, \in the current of our blood. We read

them when young, we remember them when old. We feel that it has happened to ourselves. They are to be had very cheap and good. We breathe but the air of books.\ A good book is often the best urn (瓮) of a life enshrining the best that life could think

out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters. \\

Books bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear

what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were, in a measure, actors with them in the scenes which they describe.

The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed (保存) in books, their

spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens. Hence we ever remain under the influence of the great men of old. The imperial intellects of the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago.

12. The main idea of the first paragraph is that ____. [A] one should read good books

[B] books are like one's best companions [C] one should make friends with good books [D] one should not live without books and friends

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