If it 's possible to see red about not seeing red , that is what I was doing . We had misjudged the timing of our autumn trip to see the changing leaves in the Great Lakes states, and I was really upset .No matter how I strained my eyes (使勁用眼), I couldn't spot red anywhere . Not even a bit of golden yellow broke through the dull greenery.

This vacation was a complete waste. I sat alone in the backseat of our rented car and got angry as we drove north through the dull, dark green. In the front seat my husband and father chatted merrily, obviously unconcerned.

Then a motto came to mind: “Happiness is a decision.” It must have been some­thing my mother said．She was always passing on words of advice. When I was a child she gave me a little black book with empty pages. On the flyleaf (扉頁) she had written, “Look for a beautiful thing and you will find it ."I was supposed to keep a record of the most beautiful thing I saw each day.

I remember spending hours debating what I'd write down. A baby's dimpled smile? A stone shining with fool's gold? Pictures in the clouds, or tulips, (郁金香) tipping their heads ? I found so many things it was impossible to pick just one.

Now, on the road，I played Mother's game again. I took in the all — green scenery. Thick forests lined both sides of the highway. The long conical ( 圓錐形的 ) pines and spruce (云杉)were seen here and there . Maple leaves danced in the gentle wind．I felt like a girl again —surrounded by beautiful things.

Later in the trip after we crossed the Upper Peninsula and drove into Canada, I found the bright fall plants I had been looking for. But by then I'd already seen a million shades of green, the infinite variety and beauty that only our heavenly Father can produce. And that we can always find — if we look closely enough.

1．What was the purpose of the author's trip?

A．To see the green forest.

B．To have a sightseeing across America.

C．To see red leaves in fall.

D．To try out the motto her mother gave her.

2．What's the point the author wants to show in the passage?

A．Nothing is too difficult if you put your heart into it.

B．No pains, no gains.

C．Failure is the mother of success.

D．Beauty exists if you have an eye for it.

3．Which of the following can best describe the author's feeling at the end of her trip?

A．Delighted             B．Angry                 C．Disappointed        D．Surprised

4．The underlined phrase “see red” in the first paragraph probably means________.

A．get discouraged                                B．get angry

C．get ashamed                           D．get excited

If it’s possible to see red about not seeing red, that is what I was doing. We had misjudged the timing of our autumn trip to see the changing leaves in the Great Lakes states, and I was really upset. No matter how I strained my eyes（使勁用眼）, I couldn’t see red anywhere. Not even a bit of golden yellow broke through the dull greenery.

This vacation was a complete waste. I sat alone in the backseat of our rented car and got angry as we drove north through the dull, dark green. In the front seat my husband and father chatted happily, obviously unconcerned.

    Then a motto came to mind: "Happiness is a decision." It must have been something my mother said. She was always passing on words of advice. When I was a child she gave me a little black book with empty pages. On the flyleaf (扉頁) she had written, "Look for a beautiful thing and you will find it." I was supposed to keep a record of the most beautiful thing I saw each day.

    I remember spending hours deciding what I'd write down. A baby's dimpled smile? A stone shining with gold? Pictures in the clouds, or tulips (郁金香) tipping their heads? I found so many things that it was impossible to pick just one.

    Now, on the road, I played Mother's game again. I took in the all—green scenery. Thick forests lined both sides of the highway. The long conical (圓錐形的) pines and spruce (云杉) was seen here and there. Maple leaves danced in the gentle wind. I felt like a girl again—surrounded by beautiful things.

    Later in the trip, after we crossed the Upper Peninsula and drove into Canada, I found the bright fall plants I had been looking for. But by then I'd already seen a million shades of green, the infinite variety and beauty that only our heavenly Father can produce. And that we can always find-if we look closely enough.

56. What was the purpose of the author's trip?

    A. To see the green forest.

    B. To have a sightseeing across America.

    C. To see red leaves in fall.

    D. To try out the motto her mother gave her.

57. What's the point the author wants to show in the passage?

    A. Nothing is too difficult if you put your heart into it

    B. No pains, no gains

    C. Failure is the mother of success

    D. Beauty exists if you have an eye for it

58. Which of the following can best describe the author's feeling at the end of her trip?

    A. Delighted    B. Angry         C. Disappointed   D. Surprised

59. The underlined phrase "see red" in the first paragraph probably means       .

    A. get discouraged   B. get angry   C. get ashamed     D. get excited

60. What were the author's husband and father unconcerned about?

    A. The waste of their vacation

    B. The writer's loneliness

    C. Not being able to see red leaves

    D. The dull scenery along the high way

Can you become a creative person? Can you learn to come up with great ideas or learn to create new things? The answer is yes.

The first step to becoming creative is to remove the words “I am not creative” from your vocabulary. Seriously, do not say them or do not say them even inside your head.

Now you need to start looking what other people are doing. The more you see what they are doing, the more you can get a feel for how they think, and how they come up with creative ideas.

Find a way or a place where you feel totally relaxed. This is important so you can let your mind come up with ideas. Write them down as you get them. For me a relaxing place is outside in nature where it is quiet and sunny, or when I take a long drive in my car by myself.

The last step is to write down a few ideas every day.

Repeat the process of reading and observing what similar people are doing and how they are being creative, finding a relaxing place to write down your thoughts, and writing down a few ideas every day until you start seeing this kind of results you are happy with. It may take a few weeks to a few months, but this is the training process you need to put your mind through to become creative.

Remember, looking at things from different angle(角度) can also make a big difference to creativity. Question the way that everyone else is doing something using the same method and see if being different and doing it another way will produce something cool.

1.The first step to be creative is to _____.

A．have confidence in yourself

B．look up “creativity” in the dictionary

C．understand the meaning of being creative

D．learn many new words by heart

2.The writer develops the fourth paragraph by ______.

A．the order of time                       B．the order of space

C．giving examples                         D．explaining reasons

3.It can be inferred that ______.

A．creativity is a gift people are born with

B．not everyone can be creative

C．it is a piece of cake to be creative

D．creativity can be gained through practice

4.The purpose of writing this text is to tell us how to _____.

A．learn to be creative

B．solve problems easily

C．come up with good ideas

D．improve the ability of thinking

 

閱讀理解

　　Ask three people to look out the same window at a busy street corner and tell you what they see. Chances that you will receive three different answers. Each person sees the same scene, but each perceives (感知)something different about it.

　　Perceiving goes on in our minds. Of the three people who look out the window. One may say that he sees a policeman giving a motorist a ticket. Another may say that he sees a rush-hour traffic jam (擁擠) at the crossing. The third may tell you that he sees a woman trying to cross the street with four children in tow (牽著). For perception is the mind's explanation of what the senses-in this case our eyes-tell us.

　　Many psychologists (心理學(xué)家) today are working to try to determine just how a person experiences or perceives the world around him. Using a scientific method, these psychologists set up experiments in which they can control all of the factors. By measuring and charting(用圖表示) the results of many experiments, they are trying to find out what makes different people perceive totally different things about the same scene.

1．Seeing and perceiving are ________ .

[　　]

A．the same action

B．two separate actions

C．two actions carried on entirely by the eyes

D．several actions that take place at different times

2．Perceiving is an action that takes place________ .

[　　]

A．in our eyes

B．only when we think very hard

C．only under the direction of a psychologist

D．in every person's mind

3．People perceive different things about the same scene because ________ .

[　　]

4．Psychologist study perception by ________ .

[　　]

A．setting up many experiments

B．a(chǎn)sking each other what they see

C．looking out of windows

D．studying people's eyes

5．The best title of this passage is ________ .

[　　]

A．How We See

B．Learning About Our Minds Through Science

C．What Psychologists Perceive

D．How to Become an Experimental Psychologist