Unit 1 Festivals around the world李仕才一、阅读理解。Life satisfaction is the way persons evaluate their lives and how they feel about their directions and options for the future. Its a measure of well-being and may be evaluated in terms of mood, satisfaction with relations with others and with achieved goals and self-concepts to cope with daily life. Its having a favorable attitude towards ones life as a whole rather than just an evaluation of current feelings. Life satisfaction has been measured in relation to economy, education, experiences, and residence, as well as many other topics.Life satisfaction can reflect experiences that have influenced a person in, a positive way. These experiences have the ability to motivate people to pursue and reach their goals. As a matter of fact, in these experiences there are two kinds of emotions that may positively influence how people understand their life. Hope and optimism both consist of emotional processes that are usually directed towards the reaching of goals. People who have higher life satisfaction are always full of hope for a better future; additionally, optimism is linked to higher life satisfaction, while pessimism is related to symptoms in depression.The psychologist, Yuval Palgi, studied the old-old-people who were primarily in their nineties. This subject group was found to have thought highly of their past and present, but they thought lower of their future. A large factor that was talked about in life satisfaction was intelligence. The experiments talk of how life satisfaction grows as people become older because they become wiser and more knowledgeable, so they begin to see that life will be better as they grow older and understand the important things in life more. But when they step into their nineties, future becomes a luxury to them.According to Seligman, the happier people are, the less they are focused on the negative. Happier people also have a greater tendency to like other people, which promotes a happier environment, which then correlates to a higher level of the persons satisfaction with their life.1.What can we learn about life satisfaction from Paragraph 1?A. It can be easily measured through income and education.B. It includes a positive attitude towards peoples entire life.C. It merely determines peoples attitude towards the future.D. It has nothing to do with the evaluation of current feelings.2.What emotions have a positive effect on life satisfaction?A. Motivation and dream.B. Hope and depression.C. Optimism and pessimism.D. Hope and optimism.3.What was the attitude of most old-old towards their future?A. They were less hopeful about it.B. They thought highly of it.C. They felt satisfied with it.D. They were scared of it.4.What may be the best title for the text?A. Old People Have Much More Life SatisfactionB. Life Satisfactionthe Key to a Happier LifeC. Optimism Ensures Life SatisfactionD. Emotions Affect Life Satisfaction【文章大意】本文为议论文。讲述的是生活满足感是人们的生活更加幸福的关键。1.B 【解析】细节理解题。根据第一段第三句话中的“Its having a favorable attitude towards ones life as a whole”可知生活满足感包括对人们整个生活的积极肯定的态度，故选B。3.A 【解析】推理判断题。根据第三段第二句话中的“but they thought lower of their future.” 可知大多数old-old对他们的未来不太乐观，故选A。4.B 【解析】主旨大意题。纵观全文可知本文讲的是生活满足感是人们的生活更加幸福的关键，故选B。二、单句语法填空1The Nobel Prize (award) to those who make great contributions in many fields every year.答案：is awarded2 (remind) not to miss the flight at 15: 20, the manager set out for the airport in a hurry.答案：Reminded3His favorite food is fried snacks and soft drinks. is no surprise that losing weight is just his dream.答案：It4Great changes (take) place in the school over the past three years, which deeply impresses me.答案：have taken5She speaks English so well that her friends are filled with (admire)答案：admiration6Id tell him to ask my (permit) before he borrows something next time.答案：permission7Please accept our (apologize) for the inconvenience this matter has given you.答案：apology8Forgive me for (take) up so much of your time and accept my best wishes for your health and happiness.答案：having taken9The letter she looked forward to (come) at last.答案：came10(2018昆明模拟)It was only after he had read the papers that Mr. Gross realized the task before him was extremely difficult (complete)答案：to complete三、完形填空。阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可能填入空白处的最佳选项。My fianc(未婚夫)and I decided today was the day to treat ourselves to a nice dinner.It _1_ as“our day”，but little did we know that it would turn into much _2_.I didnt want the whole day to be about wanting to _3_ the office for the upcoming(即将到来的)_4_ and I didnt want it to be just another romantic night for two，_5_ I decided to do something to make ourselves and others happy.I began in small ways.I _6_ a few more coins into the food vending machines(自动售货机)at work for the staff，so that ther