Failure，they say, is the best teacher. We learn and have more confidence in what we know through trial and error, which onetime or another has   36  failure. You don’t have to  37  your failure if what you really want to achieve is  38  .

   For every  39  achievement, there have been one or more failures. But those who we call successful are those who  40  to accept failure and believe success is the other side of failure. The incandescent light (白炽灯) was  41  after 1,000 failures. If Thomas Edison had  42  after he tried 100 times without the desired result, what would have been the  43  of such effort?

   Any time you see products and new inventions, think in terms of failures that are not accepted. 44  everything in a microform (微缩过程) today is a result of failure not accepted.

   Any time your effort is not bringing a(n)  45  result, you don’t have to call it a failure. Call it a challenge. What is the  46  between the two? One is negative, the other is  47 ; one demotivates , the other motivates.

   What you need is positive thinking and motivation to  48  success. Failure is an end thing; 49  is an open thing. Failure means there is no way out, no alternative, but a challenge is a question mark  50  another way out of the situation, an alternative  51  to the problem.

   Keep dreaming, keep moving; that is the solution to success.

   A wise man once said if you cannot fly, run. If you cannot  52  ,walk. If you cannot walk, crawl; just keep moving. If you fall down, you have to  53  and start moving. If not, other people will step on you towards their  54  . What you call failure and  55  is what someone will step into with just a little additional effort to reach achievement.

36. A. come from        B. resulted in      C. resulted from   D. come across

37. A. deny            B. receive          C. accept        D. gain

38. A. dreams           B. imaginations     C. barriers           D. success

39. A. successful           B. creative             C. difficult     D. important

40. A. prepare          B. try              C. refuse         D. attempt

41. A. used             B. discovered       C. found         D. invented

42. A. forgot           B. stopped          C. regretted          D. succeeded

43.A.meaning          B.importance      C result          D cause

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

45. A. desired          B. imagined         C. poor         D. final

46. A. similarity           B. characteristic       C. relationship     D. difference

47. A. reasonable       B. meaningful       C. positive     D. beneficial

48. A. achieve          B. enjoy                C. miss         D. avoid

49. A. chance           B. motivation       C. challenge        D. effort

50. A. reflecting           B. asking           C. suggesting   D. offering

51. A. response         B. key              C. entrance     D. solution

52. A. rise             B. fly              C. run          D. stand

53. A. lie flat             B. get up           C. sit still        D. run away

54. A. advantage            B. destination      C. achievement  D. strength

55. A. quit             B. hate             C. prefer       D. continue

I have a friend who had a stammer (口吃) in his childhood, but he dreamed of becoming a missionary(传教士). When he told his own desire to his friends and relatives, some of whom laughed at him, and some even held down his enthusiasm   31  .

"I must change it." said the boy angrily, “I believe I can speak very  32 , I will do!"

When it was possible, he would spend an hour 33 to chickens. He viewed the chickens as living persons, 34 himself to be the person in the speech.

"In the beginning, the chickens looked so  35 , then they watched me curiously, putting down the food in the mouths and listening to my words. It seemed as if they had been 36  by my powerful and effective language. Sometimes they seemed to be listening to me 37 . Gradually, the effect of this practice became more and more 38  and I had a better understanding of the exact 39 of my stammer, so I found the ability to speak more."

"You may not know that my father was always tyrannical(专横的). He 40  believed in the old saying: 'Young man should be more knowledgeable, but should not  41 much.' During the whole childhood, 42  I spoke or commented, he criticized me seriously, which 43my shy personality. I used to worry about being 44 at, so I became a stammerer. From then on, I kept 45 in front of everyone because they didn't want to see my embarrassment. But later I found myself talking in front of chickens, stammers disappeared 46, therefore I regained my 47 ."

Now, the previous boy is the best at speaking and one of the most 48 missionaries. You can hardly imagine he used to have a serious language 49 . So when you come across disadvantages, you should believe you can  50  them by yourself.

31.   A. sincerely      B. impolitely       C. strangely        D. privately

32.   A. frequently     B. fluently    C. obviously        D. completely

33.   A. contributing   B. seeing           C. turning     D. speaking

34.   A. imagining      B. considering C. declaring        D. finding

35.   A. satisfied          B. pleased     C. frightened  D. surprised

36.   A. attracted          B. beaten           C. bothered         D. influenced

37.   A. casually       B. carefully       C. luckily          D. cautiously

38.   A. obvious            B. slight           C. crucial          D. common

39.   A. effect             B. benefit          C. cause        D. harm

40.   A. originally         B. personally       C. doubtfully  D. stubbornly

41.   A. think          B. listen           C. play         D. talk

42.   A. since          B. before           C. whenever     D. unless

43.   A. applied to    B. led to           C. referred to      D. owed to 

44.   A. amazed         B. studied      C. laughed     D. looked

45.   A. silent             B. active       C. noisy            D. upset

46.   A. logically          B. typically       C. equally      D. naturally

47.   A. strength           B. dream            C. confidence  D. freedom

48.   A. successful     B. intelligent      C. modest           D. responsible

49.   A. gift           B. barrier          C. ability          D. study

50.   A. arrange            B. exchange     C. reduce       D. change

Yao Yunchun, a 24-year-old author who frequently shops online in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, has never been so impatient for her parcels as she is now. She has been counting every day while she waits for the products she ordered to arrive, as many deliveries have been delayed over the past month.“It took more than a week for one of my parcels to arrive from Beijing while, in the past, it took only four days,”said Yao.

She is just one of the many who like shopping on Taobao.com, the country’s largest online shopping site, which has posted apologetic announcements to customers for the delays in deliveries.“Many parcels are still at the airport and cannot be delivered on time, but I think I will do my best.”Taobao clothes retailer(零售商) IM Shop said on its website. Meanwhile, major express delivery companies in China have put up notices saying they are ready to cope with the delay in recent days.

“It was mainly caused by a big increase in online shopping orders because of discounts offered by e-commerce companies,”said Chen Shousong, an analyst with domestic research company Analysis International.

Taobao Mall, the country’s largest business-to-customer shopping site by market share, for example, rolled out a large-scale discount on November 11 in which 150 brands sold their products at half price. The discount attracted the attention of many e-shopping enthusiasts who spent 936 million yuan( $ 142 million) in just one day. The recent shortage of diesel oil, which restricts delivery vehicles’ capacity, and bad weather conditions in North China, also added to an already overloaded express delivery market.

Bottlenecks in delivery often appear before long holidays, such as the coming Christmas and New Year holidays and the Chinese traditional Spring Festival holiday. Delivery employees often quit their jobs at that time when faced with lots of work and low pay. So some express delivery companies are applying to build their own teams, even airlines.

64. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

  A. Waiting for the Postman Impatiently

  B. Shopping on Taobao.com Conveniently

  C. Arguing with Retailers Online Heatedly

  D. Suffering from Large-scale Discounts

65. Why were many deliveries delayed last month?

  A. The airport didn’t perform their duty properly.

  B. Some customers didn’t pay enough money.

  C. Sales volume in online shopping goes up rapidly.

  D. Delivery companies are short of vehicles.

66.The underlined word“enthusiasts”has the same meaning with        .

  A. retailers           B. customers         C. providers      D. owners

67. What would be continued with the passage?

  A. To attract more new delivery employees.

  B. To call off the holiday for the Spring Festival.

  C. To stop online shopping before holidays.

  D. To build e-commerce companies’ own delivery teams.

A food additive is any substance that is added to food. Many people are put off by the idea of“chemicals in food.”The truth is that all food is made up of chemicals. Natural substances like milk, as well as man-made ones like drinks on sale in the market, can be described by chemical formulas. Some chemical substances are indeed harmful, but a person who refused to consume any chemicals would find nothing to eat.

The things we eat can be divided into natural and man-made substances. Some people feel that only natural foods are healthy and that all man-made ingredients are to be avoided. But many natural chemicals, found in plants and animals, are harmful when eaten, and some laboratory-made substances increase the nutritional value of food. Other chemicals have natural and man-made forms that are exactly alike: vitamin C is vitamin C, whether it comes from a test tube or from an orange. Like“chemical”,“man-made”doesn’t necessarily mean“not fit to eat”.

Food additives are used for many reasons. We add sugar and salt and other things to foods we prepare at home to make them taste better. Food producers have developed a range of additives that stabilize, thicken, harden, keep wet, keep firm, or improve the appearance of their products. Additives can make food more convenient or nutritious, give it a longer shelf life, and make it more attractive to the consumer, thus increasing the sales and profits of the producers.

Food additives are presently the centre of a storm of serious argument. Food producers have been known to use additives that have not been proved safe; some substances in common use have been proved unsafe and have been taken off the market. Many people feel there’s a risk of eating food to which anything has been added. But food additives are now regulated by the FDA of the federal government, and new additives are subjected to strict testing before they can be placed on the market. For most people, the chances of developing serious side effects from the long-term use of presently approved food additives are very slim.

68. From the passage we can learn that        .

  A. all foods consist of chemical substances

  B. it is right to reject chemicals in food

  C. food additives are harmful to our health

  D. natural foods are much safer than man-made ones

69. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

  A. Foods with more additives have higher nutritional value.

  B. To ensure food safety, the FDA will ban food additives.

  C. Foods free of additives can keep a much longer shelf life.

  D. Food additives can improve the quality of foods in many ways.

70.We can infer from the regulation to the food additives by the FDA that        .

  A. new additives will be approved more easily than before

  B. food producers won’t be allowed to use new food additives

  C. food with common-used additives will be taken off the market

  D. food additives will be used in a safer and more scientific way

71. According to the writer, the food additive is        .

  A. worrying           B. acceptable        C. poisonous      D. avoidable