1.We finally came to an _________ (agree) : I would cook and Ann would clean .

2.Scientists have a firm _______ (believe) that there must be lives on Mars .

3. ________ (general) speaking , women live longer than men .

4. The twenty-six countries ________ ( sign ) an agreement to cut air pollution .

5. Her father is a _________ (music) and he is going to hold a concert on Sunday 

  evening .

6. Jackson’s speech was so _______ (move) that it made me cry .

7. All the students were _______ (delight) when I announced that they’d have a

   three-day vacation for May Day .

8. Now he is a _______ (direct) of a large choir .

9. ________ (breath) became difficult when we climbed to the top of that mountain .

10. The present situation has some ________ (similar) to that of the 1970s .

       How much of your stress, disappointment, anger or worry comes from one little thing? Almost all of it comes from your expectations(期望), and from wishing things were different. We build these expectations in our heads of what other people should do, what our lives should be like ...  36  And when reality doesn’t meet our fantasy (想像), we wish the world were different.

       Here’s a simple solution: Picture all the expectations you have for yourself, your life, your kids, your job and the world.  37  A river or lake will also do. What happens to them? They’re carried around by waves. They float away. Let them be washed away by the clean waters, and let them go. Now live your life without them.

        38  It means you accept reality as it is, and people as they are. Without expectations, you see things as they are.  39  Or if you are, you accept it, and then let it go.

       That’s not to say you never act. You can act in a way that agrees with your values, but never have an expectation of how the world will react to your actions.  40  Do good because you love doing good, and expect nothing beyond that.

       Let the waters of the world clean us, and let us walk lightly in a world that is wonderful without our fantasies.

 Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child? Some people think   61   matters where you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that oldest children,   62   are smart and strong-willed(意志坚强的), are very likely   63  (succeed). The reason   64   this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child and give him or her a lot of attention. An only child will succeed for   65   same reason.

What happens to the   66   children in the family? Middle children don’t get so much attention, so they don’t feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child,  67  , often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite   68  (difference). The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn’t take many chances in   69   lives. They usually   70  (follow) orders. Rules didn’t mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.

11.put _____ 推迟；延期；             12. split ____ 分裂；分割；

13.____ total 总共；合计；            14. ever _____ 自从...一直；

15.tell ___ 从...可以看出；           16. in terms ____ 据...;依照...;

17.be impressed ____ 留下深刻印象；   18. care _____ 关心；顾虑；在乎；

19. be similar ____ 和...相似 ；      20. come _____ 出现；出版；

    I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my job stand in the way of being a good parent.

    I no longer consider myself as the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows（誓言） mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

   So here’s what I want to tell you today : Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion , the bigger paycheck, or the larger house.

   Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure , it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

   It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways, that, if I had had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

   I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned .

   By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

21. The best title of this passage probably is _________.

  A. Love your friends     B. Live a real life

  C. Don’t waste time     D. Be a good mother and wife

22. How did the writer form her view of life?

  A. Through social experience      B. By learning from her friends

  C. Through an unfortunate experience D. From her children and husband

23. By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth  

  paragraph, the writer really means that people tend to _______.

  A. make a living rather than live a real life

  B. work rather than enjoy life                        

  C. waste a lot in life

  D. forget the most important lesson in life

24. It can be inferred from the passage that __________.

  A. the writer is a success in personal life

  B. the writer didn’t try her best to work well

  C. the writer spent all her time caring for her children

  D. the writer likes traveling very much