Passage 1

All the housewives who went to the new supermarket had one great ambition：to be the lucky customer who did not have to pay for her shopping. For this was what the notice just inside the entrance promised. It said: “Remember, once a week, one of our customers get free goods. This May Be Your Lucky Day!”

For several weeks Mrs.Edwards hoped, like many of her friends, to be the lucky customer. Unlike her friends, she never gave up hoping. The cupboards in kitchen were full of things which she did not need.Her husband tried to advise her against buying things but failed.She dreamed of the day when the manager of the supermarket would approach her and say，“Madam, this is Your Lucky Day.Every thing in your basket is free!”

One Friday morning, after she had finished her shopping and had taken it to her car,  she found that she had forgotten to buy any tea. She dashed back to the supermarket, got the tea and went towards the cash-desk. As she did so, she saw the manager of the supermarket approach her. “Madam,” he said, holding out his hand，“I want to congratulate you!You are our lucky customer of the week and everything you have in your basket is free!”

测试

The housewives learnt about the offer of free goods_____.

A.on TV

B.from the manager

C.at the supermarket

D.from the newspaper

A.Mrs.Edwards is always very lucky

B.Mrs.Edwards had no friends

C.Mrs.Edwards hoped to get free shopping

D.Mrs.Edwards gets disappointed easily

A.make her unhappy

B.cheer her up

C.buy things with her

D.stop her buying things

Mrs.Edwards went back to the supermarket quickly because she had to_____.

A.buy some tea

B.talk to the manager

C.pay for her shopping

D.find her shopping

A.The tea

B.All things she bought that week

C.All things she bought that day

D.A basket

Passage 2

In 2011 ,a dog owner named Robert uploaded a video titled “Guilty!” to YouTube. He had

come home finding his two dogs near an empty bag of cat treats. The first dog behaved calmly. But the second dog, Denver, sat shaking in a corner, her eyes looking down, which made Robert believe it was she who had done it. Seeing her “apparent admission of guilt,” he yelled at her, “You did this!”Denver beat her tail nervously. "You know the routine. In the kennel （狗窝）！ " Following the command, the dog shut herself in.

The video quickly gathered a flood of comments. Since then, “dog shaming” has become popular on the Internet, as owners around the world posted beside notes shots of their trembling pets in which the dogs seemed to admit bad behavior. For instance, “I ate an extra large pizza,” admits a chocolate Lab. Human enthusiasm for guilty dogs seemed growing.

But according to a researcher at Barnard College, what we consider to be a dog’s guilty look is no sign of guilt at all. In a 2009 study, the researcher had owners forbid their dogs from eating an attractive treat, and then asked the owners to leave the room. While each owner was gone, the researcher either removed the treat or fed it to the dog. When the owners returned, they were told-regardless of the truth-that their dogs either had or had not eaten it. If owners thought their dogs had done something wrong, blames followed, and guilty looks quickly emerged. Yet dogs who hadn't eaten the treat were more likely to appear guilty than dogs who had so long as their owners scolded them. Far from signaling regret, one group of researchers wrote in a 2012 paper, the guilty look of dogs is very likely a means to show obedience （顺从） to their owners.

A. Dogs' conflict with other pets

B. Dogs ‘s naughty behaviors

C. Dogs, trust in their owners

D. Dogs' apparent guilty looks

A.The first dog made the mistake but behaved calmly

B.Denver was braver to admit her mistake than another dog

C.Denver’s behavior made Robert believe it was she who had made the mistake

D.Two dogs both shut themselves in the kennel

A. They started to share dog-shaming photos

B. They began to blame their own dogs

C. They began to read stories about dogs

D. They started to show sympathy for his dog

A. A scientist

B. A dog

C. A researcher

D. A cat

A. To attract their owners' attention

B. To deceive their owners

C. To beg their owners for treats

D. To show obedience to their owners

Passage 3

Alan Lakein, a time management expert, thinks that nothing is a total waste of time, including doing nothing at times. If you arrange things so that you find time to relax and “do nothing” , you will get more done and have more fun doing it.

One of his clients, a space engineer,didn’t know how to “do nothing”. Every minute of his leisure time was scheduled with intense activities. He had an outdoor-activities schedule in which he switched from skiing to tennis. His girlfriend kept up with him in these activities, although she would have preferred just to sit by the fire and relax once in a while. Like too many people, he felt the need to be doing something all the time, for doing nothing seemed a waste of time. His “relaxing by the fire” consisted of playing chess, reading magazines, or checking emails.

For an experiment, Alan asked him to “waste“ his time for five minutes during one of their sessions together. What the engineer ended up doing was relaxing, sitting quietly and daydreaming. When he was finally able to admit that emotional reasons caused him to reject relaxing as a waste of time, he began to look more critically at that way of thinking. Once he knew that relaxing was a good use of time, he became less serious about being busy and started enjoying each activity more. Previously he had been so busy doing that he had no time to have fun at anything. He began to do less and have more fun. When Alan saw the client about three years later, he still had as busy a schedule as ever, but he was able to balance his activity with relaxing so that he came back to work Monday morning not feeling tired out from a busy weekend but refreshed.

A. Outdoor activities

B. A waste of time

C. Few daily schedules

D. More family hours

A.He is one of Alan’s clients

B.Before the experiment, he thought doing nothing seemed a waste of time

C.After the experiment , he was able to balance his activity with relaxing

D.Finally he gave up his busy schedule

A. Social reasons

B. Family reasons

C. Emotional reasons

D. Physical reasons

A. He was not as busy as before

B. He began to enjoy each activity more

C. He started to do more of everything

D. He did not have as much fun as before

A. It makes people enjoy more indoor activities

B. It enables you to have more work time

C. It serves to improve family relationship

D. It helps you do things more efficiently

Passage 4
According to Jessica Hagy, author of How to Be Interesting, it's not difficult to make yourself interesting at a dinner party.
_1_, if you're out of your comfort zone（范围）or if you're wandering into somebody's house for the first time. So the main thing is just to show up and be adventurous, trying different foods and talking to strangers.
People love to talk about themselves. If you can start the conversation with a question other than “ What do you do for a living?” , you'll be able to get a lot more interesting conversation out of whomever it is you're talking to._2_ , it can bring in “I have this old, broken-down vehicle” or “I rode the bus with these crazy people who were laughing at silly jokes in the back.” It just opens up conversation.
_3_ ? If you can't take their wine away, you should certainly try to take away their soapbox （讲台）. If you're the host, you can ask them to help you in the kitchen with something and just remove them from the situation. _4_.
And what about that other dinner-party killer: awkward silence? If you're faced with an awkward silence at a dinner party, the only thing that always gets everyone talking again is to give the host a compliment （赞扬）._5_. Just quickly turn around and say, “This cake is extremely delicious and you have to tell me all about it.”
So being interesting at a dinner party isn't that hard.

In our online life, we need to use passwords frequently. We use passwords _1_ e-mail, gaming sites, social networking sites, and other shopping sites. _2_, the passwords most people use are not very _3_and can easily be “broken “by others. In fact, the most commonly used passwords are so simple that it requires very_4_effort to figure them out. Can you guess _5_ the most commonly used passwords are? They are：Names of baseball teams, birth dates of a family _6_ , the year of a special sports event, the random numbers like 156468 ,_7_the name of a friend, pet, favorite TV star, or band.

There are programs _8_to break into people's online accounts. These programs are_9_ of trying every word in the English dictionary and the dictionaries _10_ many foreign languages, in their effort to break into an account._11_can even search words backward. Some will try_12_ words or words that are followed by numbers, _13_ schoo1222. These programs can test millions of passwords in a few minutes. So, you are advised to be careful about _14_ passwords so that they will be hard to break. You are also advised not to make them _15_hard to remember. Meanwhile, you need to change them once in a while.

A. to

B. with

C. by

D. for

A. However

B. Therefore

C. Moreover

D. Besides

A. natural

B. safe

C. strange

D. clear

A. minor

B. small

C. little

D. tiny

A. what

B. who

C. where

D. which

A. figure

B. member

C. creature

D. character

A. as close as

B. as good as

C. as clear as

D. as well as

A. formed

B. shaped

C. composed

D. designed

A. typical

B. capable

C. sure

D. true

A. from

B. with

C. of

D. for

A. They

B. It

C. That

D. Those

A. added

B. gathered

C. combined

D. collected

A. such as

B. except for

C. as for

D. as of

A. locating

B. searching

C. choosing

D. tracking

A. rather

B. too

C. far

D. enough