11．Life Is a Cup of Coffee
　　A group of graduates (毕业生) got together to visit their old university professor (教授).
　　The (1)       soon turned into complaints (抱怨) about stress (压力) in work and life. To offer his guests coffee, the professor went to the (2)       and returned with a large pot of coffee and cups of different (3)       — paper, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some cheap-telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
　　When all the students had a cup of coffee (4)      , the professor said, "You see, all the nice-looking (5)       cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. (6)       it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source (源头) of your problems and stress."
　　"What all of you really want is (7)      , not the cup, but you consciously (有意识地) went for the best cups…and then you began (8)      each other's cups."
　　"Now think about this. Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain (装) life, and the kind of cup we have does not decide, or change the quality (质量) of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating (集中注意力) only on the cup, we (9)       to enjoy the coffee. Don't let the cups (10)       you. Enjoy the coffee instead."

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13．　　I am a school girl. My brother and I are twins. We are both at school. We like school. My parents are both teachers. They work hard. My brother and I study at No. 1 Middle School. There are twenty-five boys and eighteen girls in our class.
　　We go to school from Monday to Friday. We have no classes on Saturdays and Sundays. We usually get up at six, and have breakfast at 6:30 a. m. . We come to school at 7:00 a. m. . Classes begin at eight. We have four lessons in the morning and two in the afternoon. We have lunch at 12:15 p. m. . At three fifty we have sports.
　　We study Chinese, maths, English, geography, physics, history, politics and other lessons. We like Chinese. We like English, too. Some of us are good at it. We go home at 5:00 p. m. . We have supper at 6:00 p. m. . We do our homework at seven every evening and go to bed at half past nine, but sometimes we go to sleep at about ten.
　　We work hard, we study for the people.

14．　　The greatest saleswoman in the world today doesn't mind if you call her a girl. That's because Markita Andrews has got more than eight thousand dollars selling Girl Scout (童子军) cookies since she was seven years old.
　　Going door-to-door after school, the terribly shy Markita changed herself into the cookie-selling dynamo (高手).
　　It starts with great wish.
　　For Markita and her mother, whose husband left them when Markita was eight years old, their dream was to travel the world. "I'll work hard to make enough money to send you to college," her mother said one day. "When you leave college, you'll make enough money to take you and me around the world. Okay?"
　　So at the age of 13 when Markita read in her Girl Scout magazine that the Scout who sold the most cookies would win a free trip for two around the world, she decided to sell all the Girl Scout cookies she could — more Girl Scout cookies than anyone in the world, ever.
　　Wish, however, alone is not enough. To make her dream come true, Markita knew she needed a plan.
　　"When you are doing business, wear your Girl Scout clothes when you go up to people in their building," her aunt told her. "Always smile, whether they buy something or not and always be nice."
　　Lots of other Scouts may have wanted that trip around the world, but only Markita went off in her own uniform each day after school, ready to ask — and keep asking — people to help in her dream.
　　Markita sold 3, 526 boxes of Girl Scout cookies that year and won her trip around the world. Since then, she has sold more than 42, 000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.
　　Markita is no cleverer than thousands of other people, with dreams of their own. The difference is that many people fail before they even begin. They fear (恐惧) that they will be refused (拒绝). This fear leads many of us to refuse ourselves and prevents us from getting where we have set off for long before anyone else ever has the chance — no matter what we are selling.
　　"It takes courage (勇气) to ask for what you want," she said. "Courage is not that you don't have fear. It means doing what it takes although you have a fear of it" .

15．　　The technology is great. Without it we wouldn't have been able to put a man on the moon, explore the ocean's depths or eat microwave sausages. Computers have changed our lives and they have the power to educate and pass on knowledge. But sometimes this power can create more problems than it solves.
　　Every doctor has had to try their best to calm down patients who've come into their surgery waving an Internet print﹣out, convinced (确信) that they have some rare incurable (难以治愈的) disease, say, throat cancer. The truth is usually far more ordinary, though: they don't have throat cancer, and it's just that their throats are swollen (肿胀的). Being a graduate of the Internet "school" of medicine does not guarantee (保证) accurate self-health-checks.
　　One day Mrs. Almond came to my hospital after feeling faint at work. While I took her blood sample and tried to find out what was wrong, she said calmly, "I know what's wrong; I've got throat cancer. I know there's nothing you doctors can do about it and I've just got to wait until the day comes."
　　As a matter of routine I ordered a chest X-ray. I looked at it and the blood results an hour later. Something wasn't right. "Did your local doctor do an X-ray?" I asked. "Oh, I haven't been to the doctor for years, " she replied. "I read about it on a website and the symptoms (症状) fitted, so I knew that's what I had."
　　However, some of her symptoms, like the severe cough and weight loss, didn't fit with it — but she'd just ignored this.
　　I looked at the X-ray again, and more tests confirmed (确认) it wasn't the cancer but tuberculosis (肺结核)— something that most certainly did need treating, and could be deadly. She was lucky we caught it when we did.
　　Mrs. Almond went pale when I explained she would have to be on treatment for the next six months to ensure that she was fully recovered. It was certainly a lesson for her. "I'm so embarrassed," she said, shaking her head, as I explained that all the people she had come into close contact with would have to be found out and tested. She listed up to about 20, and then I went to my office to type up my notes. Unexpectedly, the computer was not working, so I had to wait until someone from the IT department came to fix it typically. Maybe I should have a microwave sausage while I waited.

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29．请将以下诗篇优美誊写在相应位置上, 作为教师节送给英语老师的祝福．
Number One Teacher
I'm happy that you're my teacher;
I enjoy each lesson you teach.
As my role model you inspire me;
To dream and to work and to reach.
With your kindness you get my attention;
Every day you are planting a seed
Of curiosity and motivation
To know and to grow and succeed.
You help me fulfill my potential;
I'm thankful for all that you've done.
I admire you each day, and I just want to say,
As a teacher, you're number one!

30．假如你叫李华, 请用英语写一封电子邮件, 向你的初中新任英语老师Mrs. Liu介绍你自己．内容包括:你的英文名字、是否喜爱英语学科、英语学习方法、给英语课堂的建议等．字数:不少于60词．不要出现真实的班级、姓名等信息．
提示问题:1. What's your English name?
2. Do you like English? How do you learn English?
3. What's your advice for English class?
提示词语:be interested in, read aloud, English newspapers / novels/songs, grammar
Dear Mrs. Liu,
I'm so glad that you're my new English teacher.
.
Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua