Our spiritual intelligence quotient, SQ (精神智商)helps us understand ourselves and live fuller, happier lives.

　　While we’re all born with SQ, most of us even don’t know that we have it.  Luckily, you don’t have to sign up for classes to learn how to enhance(加強) your SQ. Here are some simple steps that can lead you to this new level of understanding:

　　Sit Quietly. The step of developing SQ begins in solitude （獨處） and silence. To tune in to its whisper, you have to keep away from your busy, noisy, complicated life and make yourself do nothing at all. At home, for example, shut the door of your bedroom, take a few deep breaths and let them out very, very slowly.

　　Step Outside. For many people, nature makes their spirit free. Go outside to watch a beautiful sunset. Follow the flight of a bird; watch clouds floating overhead.

　　Find An Activity You Enjoy. It’s important to find a hobby that helps you tune in to your spirit. Garden, walk or jog, arrange flowers, listen to music that touches your soul.

　　Ask Questions Of Yourself. Some people use their thoughtful time to focus on scriptures (經文). Others ask open-ended (無確定答案的) questions, such as “What am I feeling? What are my choices?” But don’t expect an answer to arrive through  some super-natural form of e-mail. Later that day you’ll suddenly find yourself thinking about a problem from a perspective (角度) you never considered before.

　　Trust Your Spirit. While most of us rely on gut feelings (直覺) to warn us of danger, SQ usually nudges （漸漸推動） us, not away from, but toward some action that will lead to a greater good.　　

1.To enhance your SQ, you should first _______________.

A. stand loneliness and silence

B. make your life simpler and less busy

C. give up the daily things in your life

D. listen more to your whisper

2.The underlined phrase “tune in to your spirit” in the fifth paragraph probably means ________________.

A. get your spirit relaxed                      B. keep up your spirit

C. listen to your spirit                         D. change your spirit

3. What will happen after people ask questions of themselves?

   A. People will lead to a greater good.        

 B. People will think about a problem in a different way. 

C. People will expect answers through e-mails.

D. People will keep away from their busy life.   

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Advantages and disadvantages of SQ

B. The relationship between your SQ and you

C. What SQ is and in what ways it can be improved

D. What SQ is and in what ways you can make your life easier

閱讀短文，根據短文內容，從短文的五個選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有一個選項為多余選項。（共8分，每小題2分）

    A girl went to her father to ask his advice. She was having a hard time in life, and it seemed that as soon as one problem disappeared, another one appeared in its place.

Her father is a cook.   1     _______. He poured water into three pans and put them on to boil. After the water boiled, he put some carrots into the first pan, some eggs into the second pan and coffee into the last one. He waited without saying a word.

  2       ________He took out the carrots and eggs and put them in a bowl. He poured the coffee into a cup. He asked his daughter, “Dear, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee.” She replied. “Touch the carrots,” he told her. She did and felt that the carrots were soft. She found that the egg was hard.     3    _______. She asked, “What’s the meaning, Father?”

Her father said, “As you see, each thing reacted (反應)differently to the boiling water. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after boiling.     4  ________. The coffee beans were very special, but they changed in the water, too. ” “Who are you?” asked her father. “When trouble knocks at your door, how do you react? Are you carrots, eggs or coffee? ”

閱讀短文，根據短文內容回答問題。（共10分，每小題2分）

THE KING'S SPEECH---OSCAR    WINNER

A lot of stories are about friendship and courage. They have been told in many different ways. It is just something that people need to be told from time to time that perhaps people would grow bored of it. Well, director Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, a historical movie about the British royal family, won the Oscar on 27^th, February, 2011. The movie tells about the true story of a King George VI and it also tells the story of a friendship between the king and his doctor. They find something special about the word “courage”.

    Just as the name of the movie, the story was simple but moving. Maybe The King’s Speech is just an ordinary story, though it won the Oscar. Throughout the honored movies in Oscar’s these years, it’s not difficult to find out that they seldom follow a traditional Hollywood way. The traditional way of Hollywood means shiny actors, famous director, a lot of money, 3D technology or something else.

With the development of technology, our native movies prefer to follow the traditional Hollywood way. But the results were the decrease of the good comments(評論). What can we learn from that? The standard(標準) for a good movie is not how well- known the actor is, how famous the director is, or how eye-catching the usage of the special skills are, but the connotation(內涵) or the theme the movie includes!

1.Is The King’s Speech about friendship and courage?

2. When did The King’s Speech win the Oscar?

3. What does the traditional way of Hollywood mean?

4.Which is more important to a good movie, famous actor or the theme the movie includes?

5. What is the passage mainly about?

完成句子（共10分，每小題2分）

    根據中文意思完成句子。

1. 今天天氣很熱。去游泳怎么樣？

    It’s hot today. _________________going to swim?

2.他太興奮了以至于他說不說話來。

    He is ____________________ excited _____________________ say a word.

3. 玩電腦游戲太久對你的眼睛不好。

    Playing computer games too much_______________________ your eyes.

4. 我不但喜歡英文書籍，而且也喜歡英語歌曲。

    I like__________________________________________________________.

5. 在生活中，對于我們來說， 與別人相處的好是有很必要的。

__________________________________________________ in our daily life.

下面是一份針對某市初中生的生活方式的調查問卷表（questionnaire）。該表包括問題、分值（scores）和結論。請先根據自己的實際情況完成問卷調查表，計算出自己的得分，再據此寫一篇短文內容包括，簡單描述你的生活方式，說出你的得分，并通過你的最后得分確定你的生活方式是否健康，并說出你今后的打算。

注意：1.描述生活方式請勿照抄原句，盡量用自己的話來寫。

      2. 字數不少于60。

---Who’s ___________ boy in red, do you know?

   ---Oh. He’s ___________ friend of Tom.

    A. the, a           B. an, the          C. a, the           D. the, an

In order to stay fit, people pay more attention to their ___________.

A. diet     B. experience       C. thoughts     D. awards

---I think you can ________ money by yourself to buy a birthday present for your mother.

   ---OK. I’ll try. I’ll not let a penny waste.

A. spend        B. save     C. cost     D. leave

---Terra, you shouldn’t be so ___________. You always leave your things here and there.

  ---Sorry, mom. I’ll put them away soon.

A. terrified    B. cheerful     C. careless     D. frightened

---You have tried on several shirts.

  ---Sorry to take up too much of your time. But __________ of them look good on me.

A. neither      B. any      C. none     D. both