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Recently, we looked at “Why Fear is Your Friend” and learned that fear can guide you towards what's important for you, inspire you to take action to improve your chances, and give you a rush. This week, we discuss why sadness is your friend.
“All well and good, Master Yoda,” you may say, “but how does that work?”
First, sadness is about losing something you care about, whether that’s a loved one, a job, or a football game…so, sadness shows you what you care about (because some people honestly don’t know, and that’s, well，SAD!). Would you feel sad if your girlfriend / boyfriend left? The answer tells you how attached you are to this person. How sad would you feel if you lost your job? You see where this is going.
Along the same lines, experiencing the sadness of loss helps us to appreciate what we still have. Losing a loved one, while extremely sad and painful, can be a reminder. We need to mend the fences, reach out, or otherwise make the best of the relationships and opportunities we still have. Funerals are painful occasions, and they are great for bringing people back together, burying old conflicts, healing wounds, but it only works if you show up and feel the sadness and let it bring you together with the others there. One who can't bear sadness will tend to shy away from love, commitment (承諾), and real passion, in order to avoid grief, and that’s an empty life. Similarly, losing a job can help you appreciate that you still have your health. Losing your health can bring loved ones together. Losing money can help you to focus on what really matters to you, your values, your sense of mission, your spirituality.
Lastly, sadness has authenticity (真實(shí)性)to it. Being sad has a way of slowing you down and bringing you back to the moment. It forces you to let go of your worries about your to-do list and next quarter's numbers and your fast-paced life and really be with yourself, your feelings and the people around you. This is important today because we can get so lost in our smart phones and emails and plans and lose sight of people, relationships, and dreams.
So, this week’s bottom line is that sadness shows you what you care about, sadness helps us to appreciate what we have, and sadness requires us to be authentic. This is the kind of friend who can help you to stay grounded and real, to honor what’s important and let go of what’s not, and we all need that kind of friend
67. According to the first paragraph, the author seems to have been studying _______.
A. the importance of friendship
B. positive influence of negative emotions
C. life-changing opportunities for everyone
D. action to take in order to change one’s fate
68. If Tom feels sad for losing his pet, it shows that ______.
A. he cares about his pet very much
B. his pet helps him get rid of depression
C. his pet is his favorite partner to play with
D. losing his pet forces him to let go of worries
69. The word “it” in Paragraph 5 refers to “______”.
A. being sad B. fast-paced life
C. letting go of your worries D. bringing you back to the moment
70. What is the best title for the text?
A. When Can You Feel Sad? B. How Sadness Works in Your Life
C. What Do You Think of Sadness? D. Why Sadness is Your Friend

第四部分：書面表達(dá)（共兩節(jié)，滿分50分）
第一節(jié)：完成句子（共10小題；每小題2分，滿分20分）
閱讀下列各小題，根據(jù)漢語提示，用句末括號內(nèi)的英語單詞完成句子，并將答案寫在答題卡上的相應(yīng)題號后。
71. ______________________ was how the little boy managed to move such a huge rock to the roadside. (puzzle)
令我們困惑的是那個小男孩是如何把這樣一塊巨大的石頭搬到路邊的。
72. He is thought ______________________ very foolishly. Now he has no one but himself to blame for losing the job. (act)
人們認(rèn)為他表現(xiàn)得很愚蠢�，F(xiàn)在失去了這份工作他只能責(zé)怪自己。
73. The chief executive together with his colleagues ______________________to promote the sales of the products in the past several weeks. (work)
在過去的幾周里董事長和他的同事們都在為提髙產(chǎn)品銷量努力工作著。
74. Doing exercise is good for your health and the more often you do, ______________________ you will be. (healthy)
做運(yùn)動對你的身體健康有益，你越經(jīng)常鍛煉就會越健康。
75. Maria has written two novels, ______________________  have been made into television series. (both)
瑪利亞寫了兩部小說，兩部都拍成了電視劇。
76. The headmaster will not permit the change in the course, nor ______________________ it a thought. (give)
校長不會允許課程的改變，他甚至不會給予考慮。
77. I didn’t know your mobile phone number, otherwise, I ______________________ the moment I got to Wuhan. (call)
我不知道你的手機(jī)號碼，不然的話，我一到武漢就會打電話給你。
78. I ______________________ that she doesn’t want to go to work in such a good company. (find)
她居然不想去那么好的公司上班，我覺得奇怪。
79. ______________________ of children playing in the park, I am full of confidence for the future of our country. (see)
看到公園里孩子們玩耍的快樂場景，我對我們國家的未來充滿信心。
80. ______________________ a present, you should think about it from the receiver's point of view. (buy)
無論何時你買禮物，都應(yīng)該從接受者的角度去考慮它。

第二節(jié): 短文寫作（共1題；滿分30分）
請你根據(jù)以下提示，并結(jié)合事例，用英語寫一篇短文。
As a saying goes, success is equal to 99% perspiration (努力；流汗）plus 1% inspiration. No one in the world is born successful.
注意: ①無須寫標(biāo)題；
②除詩歌外，文體不限；  
③內(nèi)容必須結(jié)合你生活中的一個事例； 
④文中不得透露個人姓名和學(xué)校名稱；
⑤詞數(shù)不少于120，如引用提示語則不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。
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