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The choice to adopt and hold gratefulness is the one that is different from those
who suffer misfortune and those who enjoy a full life.
My mother died when I was 24. It was a very difficult time in my life
—
everything
seemed to fall apart. I lost my job, and then my utilities were turned off. I
had to take cold showers for six months. A neighbor who knew about my situation
came to my house and made me an offer. I took care of her children as a job, and
I no longer went hungry. I was surprised that someone would trust me
—
a young
woman with her children. And it was with the very confidence that before long
I
began
taking
care
of
other
people’s
children,
too.
I
have
since
moved
300
miles
from Boise, Idaho. For more than 23 years I have made every effort to reach out
to all the kind-hearted people who helped me when I was down and out. Without
their trust, I don’t know what I would have done. I am very involved in my
community and volunteer at the local food bank, and I help out whenever I can.
I’d like to owe what I am to whoever has offered me generosity.
If you are grateful for what you already have, the world will work together to give
you more to be grateful for. Otherwise, the world will give you more to complain
about.
Moreover, the true master learns to be grateful, in advance, for the things that are
desired,
because,
being
grateful
in
advance
for
some
attainment
or
accomplishment
does two very important things: one…it tricks your subconscious into believing
that the goal is certain and two
…
it convinces other people, with whom you must
interact to achieve your desires, that you know what you are about, that you are
a winner, not a whiner (
哀诉者
).
56. The underlined word “utilities” refers to _____ in the passage
.
A. water and gas supplies
B. gas and electricity
supplies
C. shower equipment and water supply
D.
heating
and
TV
signals
57. The writer was grateful mainly for _____.
A. his neighbor’s donation
B. his community
C. having got the job
D.
others’ trust
58. The writer’s personal story in the second paragraph tells us that _____.
A. to be grateful will get you nowhere but away from home
B. a grateful person is most likely to be successful
C. we need to be grateful to be helpful and useful
D. the fragrance (
芳香
) stays in the hand that gives the rose
59. The best title for the passage would be _____.
A. A Thank-You Note to Trusting Neighbor
B. You Are a Winner, Not a Whiner
C. Be Grateful to Life in Advance
D. Gratefulness Brings a Great Fullness to Life
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Duck-billed platypuses
（鸭嘴兽）
cannot be real, can they? The duck-billed
platypuses of eastern Australia are small, shy animals. This small mammal is such
a strange creature that when the first one arrived at the British Museumin London
1798, scientists thought that someone was playing a practical joke on them.
One
cannot
blame
the
scientists
for
having
such
a
thought
because
it
is
definitely
one of nature's strangest creatures alive. It looks like an animal which has been
put together using various parts of different animals. It is a four-legged animal
with a tail like a beaver's
（海狸）
, webbed feet and a duck's bill. It has noouter
ears. What is stranger still is the fact that it breastfeeds its young like all
othermammals, yet lays eggs like fish, reptiles and birds. It grows to about 47
centimeters inlength and weighs around 1.5 kilogrammes.
Male platypuses are poisonous. They have a pointy part on their hind ankles
thatconnects to a poison bag in each leg. They mainly use these weapons in mating
battleswith other males. However, if threatened, they will use them to attack their
enemies.
The platypus is native to Australia. There are thousands of them living in the
wetlands, lakes and rivers of eastern Australia and parts of Tasmania. It feeds on
underwater animals such as shrimps, worms, frogs, snails and small fish. When a
platypus
isunderwater,
it
is
almost
deaf
and
blind.
However,
scientists
have
discovered that theanimal can still find its food through a sense of smell and a
sensitive sense of touch in thebill. The bill, in fact, has sensors which can detect
the
smallest
electrical
charge
sentout
by
the
movement
of
prey
（猎物）
.
This
explains
why
the
strange
creature
has
thestrangest
habit
of
eating
ordinary
flashlight
batteries.
60. Why did the scientists think they were being made fun of?
A. The animal they saw was too small and shy.
B. The animal had traveled all the way from Australia.
C. The animal looked too strange to be real.
D. The British Museum had been charged too much money.
61. Paragraph 2 mainly tells us about the platypus' _____.
A. strange features B. unique appearance
C. way of feeding its young D. usual size and weight
62. The platypus partly relies on its _____ to find food under the water.
A. eyes B. ears C. nose D. legs
63. The platypus eats flashlight batteries because _____.
A. they send out electrical charge B. they taste delicious to it
C. they look like swimming frogs D. they provide energy for it
C
Attractive fathers do not pass their looks on to their sons but they will hand
their good looks down to their daughters, research shows.
In
a
study
of
family
photographs,
psychologists
Professor
David
Perrett
and
Elisabeth Cornwell - now at the University of Colorado have found that while both
father and mother can influence the attractiveness of their daughters, the couple's
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