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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 (承诺), 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 (真实性)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：书面表达（共两节，满分50分）
第一节：完成句子（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
71. ______________________ was how the little boy managed to move such a huge rock to the roadside. (puzzle)
令我们困惑的是那个小男孩是如何把这样一块巨大的石头搬到路边的。
72. He is thought ______________________ very foolishly. Now he has no one but himself to blame for losing the job. (act)
人们认为他表现得很愚蠢。现在失去了这份工作他只能责怪自己。
73. The chief executive together with his colleagues ______________________to promote the sales of the products in the past several weeks. (work)
在过去的几周里董事长和他的同事们都在为提髙产品销量努力工作着。
74. Doing exercise is good for your health and the more often you do, ______________________ you will be. (healthy)
做运动对你的身体健康有益，你越经常锻炼就会越健康。
75. Maria has written two novels, ______________________  have been made into television series. (both)
玛利亚写了两部小说，两部都拍成了电视剧。
76. The headmaster will not permit the change in the course, nor ______________________ it a thought. (give)
校长不会允许课程的改变，他甚至不会给予考虑。
77. I didn’t know your mobile phone number, otherwise, I ______________________ the moment I got to Wuhan. (call)
我不知道你的手机号码，不然的话，我一到武汉就会打电话给你。
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，我觉得奇怪。
79. ______________________ of children playing in the park, I am full of confidence for the future of our country. (see)
看到公园里孩子们玩耍的快乐场景，我对我们国家的未来充满信心。
80. ______________________ a present, you should think about it from the receiver's point of view. (buy)
无论何时你买礼物，都应该从接受者的角度去考虑它。

第二节: 短文写作（共1题；满分30分）
请你根据以下提示，并结合事例，用英语写一篇短文。
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无须写标题；
②除诗歌外，文体不限；  
③内容必须结合你生活中的一个事例； 
④文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
⑤词数不少于120，如引用提示语则不计入总词数。
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