— Who does the cooking in your home?

  —    ___of us gets home first starts the cooking.

——Did you enjoy yourself at the party? 

  —— Yes. I have never been to __________ one before.

 It even leaves the scientists in wonder _____ they should call the newly-born

creature, which looks half-human and half-animal.

A. that            B. why                C. what            D. how

---How much water is left in the bottle? ---_________.

— Jack, take more clothes when going camping. It ______ be very cold on the top of the mountains in the early spring. — Thank you, Mum. I will.

   根据短文内容．从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

   Sleep position is often a matter of comfort, but in some cases your sleeping position may be important to your health.

   When Side-Sleeping (Right or Left) Is Helpful

   ___（1）___ Back sleeping is associated with snoring because while you arc on your back. your tongue moves back into your throat. For this reason, sleeping on your side(either right or left)or on

your stomach is recommended to prevent snoring.

   Neck and back pain are very common problems that could be affected by sleep position. ____（2）____ Pillows or other sleep aids might be used to keep the back in a more natural position while sleeping.

   When Sleeping On the Left Is Not Recommended

   You may have chronic heart failure or have had a heart attack. ____（3）____ Sleeping on your right side may lower your heart rate and your blood pressure. Sleeping on your left side may have a negative effect on sympathetic nervous activity. ____（4）____

   Important Points to Remember About Left-Sided Sleeping

   Sleep position is often a matter of comfort, and most people change positions while sleeping and find themselves waking in a different position than the one in which they fell asleep. ____（5）____ Then you can try sleeping with a pillow behind your back to prevent you from rolling over.

 In 2014, the Nobel peace prize made news for a different reason.   (1)   But that was not all. One of the two was Malala Yousafzai. Malala was only 17 years old when she won the award. She became the youngest winner ever of a Nobel Prize in any field. What she had achieved at such a young age?

   Malala was born in 1997, in the small Pakistani town of Mingora. Mingora is located in the scenic Swat Valley. The region was once famous among visitors. Malala's father was a school teacher by profession.   (2)   Malala attended one of the girls' schools owned by her father. It was her father who taught her the importance of schooling.

   When the Taliban (塔利班) of Afghanistan took control of the area by force, a lot began to change. They did not approve of girls attending school. But the eleven-year-old Malala could not accept this order.   (3)   She made a speech in Peshawar to protest the order. She then began writing a blog for BBC under the name Gul Makai.

   Her posts described their life in the valley under Taliban rule.   (4)   It was dangerous work, yet she continued to fight for her rights.

   Soon, her real name was brought to light as the BBC blogger. She began receiving death threats for her writings.   (5)   Instead, she began to raise her voice further. For her activism, Malala was nominated(提名) for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011.

Have you considered how good of a friend you are? Here are several simple but effective things you can do to be a better friend.

   Identify who your real friends are

   It sounds simple enough, but now it's a good time to reflect on who your real friends are. If you want to maintain your friendship with the guy who likes all of your status updates, go for it. ____  (1)  _ That's life. You have to identify the people you want to invest in, and those are the people who will benefit from your dedication to becoming a better friend.

   ____  (2)  ___

   Remember the last time a long-distance friend called to hear how you and your family was doing, but you forgot to call them back? __（3） Being responsive(回应) ,even if it's to refuse an invitation, shows your friends that they're important to you.

   However, if being unresponsive is the kind of thing that happens regularly, your friends will start to think you're strange. __（4）___

   Stay in touch

   Speaking of long-distance friends, how easy is it to fall out of touch? For a lot of us, out of sight means out of mind, which sets the friendship up for failure. ___（5）___ And not staying in touch with friends who live in the same city, well, that's especially troubling.

   You may think you're connected because you're regularly liking each other's shared pictures, but never think passive forms of communication are acceptable substitutes for face-to-face time.

  Understanding the psychology of ourselves and others around us can play a huge part in our happiness. Whether it is believing we aren’t good enough because we’re told we should be at a certain point in our lives by a certain time, or it is simply misunderstanding others’ intentions or reactions to us, we need to get into a better mindset that will limit the amount of the negative things in our lives.

   So we need to make a habit of learning some psychological lessons that are important to living an easier life. One of such lessons is realizing that people don’t care as much as you think. Being so caught up in what others think of us or acting in a way that will meet other people’s expectations is harmful to us because everyone is occupied with their own problems and insecurities. Actually, most of what we believe people are thinking is only assumptions our own minds create based on past experiences or incorrect thoughts. Be yourself without worrying what others think will go a long way towards achieving personal happiness.

   It’s easy to think that we are the same person we were ten years ago and will be thinking and feeling the same in another ten years, but we are not. Our former, present and future selves are all independent because our mindsets change with our lives’ situations and experiences. Because of this, we should always be true to our present selves when making decisions. We can never predict what our future self will think and feel and everything that happened in the past was for our former selves.

   Have you ever seen a friend’s problem and known what they need to do to sort it out? You give advice but it just seems to fall on deaf ears. You feel frustrated because, after all, you just want to help them. The thing is, no one ever really listens to advice unless they happen to be in the right mindset at the right time. At the end of the day, people will only change their mindsets or outlooks through their own realization and experiences. Sometimes the change may come in the form of your advice but most of the time it needs to happen for them at their own paces. Don’t feel ignored or disheartened--- you did your bit, now let them work it out.