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_________, the world would be more harmonious.

Had you taken it more seriously, you ________ such a silly mistake.

Had they known what was coming next, they _________second thoughts.

____today, he would get there by Friday.

Had the government limited the sales of cars much earlier, traffic jam and pollution _______so serious now．

---- What do you think of a house supplied by Lovell ?
---- _______ you buy a home from Lovell, the company promises to buy it back at the same price after three years.

Had he not come an hour earlier, he＿＿＿the secret that his mother was always there.

________ anyone come to my office, please tell them I'm not available before four o’clock.

________ it rain tomorrow, we should have to put off the visit to the Yangpu Bridge.

Without you, I _______ the first prize in the speech contest. Thank you, John.

Michael Greenberg is a very popular New Yorker. He is not famous in sports or the arts, But people in the streets       him, especially those who are    .
For those people, he is "Gloves" Greenberg. How did he get that     ?
He looks like any otner businessman, wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase (公文箱). But he's       . His briefcase always has some gloves。
In winter,Mr.Greenberg does not     like other New Yorkers,who look at the sidewalk and      the street.He looks around at     .He stops when he       someone with no gloves.He gives them a pair and then he       ,looking for more people with cold         .
On winter days,Mr.Greenberg       gloves.During the rest of the year,he        gloves.People who have heard about him        him gloves,and he has many in his apartment.
Mr. Greenberg        doing this 21 years ago. Now, many poor New Yorkers know him and              his behavior. But people who don't know him are sometimes         him. They don't realize that he just wants to make them       .
It runs in the    .Michael's father always helped the poor as he believed it made everyone happier. Michael Greenberg feels the    .A pair of gloves may be a       thing,but it can make a big difference in winter.

A．know about B．learn from C．cheer for D．look after

A．old B．busy C．kind D．poor

A．job B．name C．chance D．message

A．calm B．different C．crazy D．curious

A．act B．sound C．feel D．dress

A．cross over B．drive along C．hurry down D．keep off

A．cars B．people C．street numbers D．traffic lights

A．helps B．chooses C．greets D．sees

A．holds up B．hangs out C．moves on D．turns around

A．hands B．ears C．faces D．eyes

A．searches for B．stores up C．gives away D．puts on

A．borrows B．sells C．returns D．buys

A．call B．send C．lend D．show

A．delayed B．remembered C．began D．enjoyed

A．understand B．dislike C．study D．excuse

A．sorry for B．satisfied with C．proud of D．surprised by

A．smart B．rich C．special D．happy

A．city B．family C．neighborhood D．company

A．honor B．pain C．same D．cold

A．small B．useful C．delightful D．comforting

A German study suggests that people who were too optimistic about their future actually faced greater risk of disability or death within 10 years than those pessimists who expected their future to be worse.
The paper, published this March in Psychology and Aging, examined health and welfare surveys from roughly 40,000 Germans between ages 18 and 96. The surveys were conducted every year from 1993 to 2003.
Survey respondents (受访者) were asked to estimate their present and future life satisfaction on a scale of 0 to 10, among other questions.
The researchers found that young adults (age 18 to 39) routinely overestimated their future life satisfaction, while middle-aged adults (age 40 to 64) more accurately predicted how they would feel in the future. Adults of 65 and older, however, were far more likely to underestimate their future life satisfaction. Not only did they feel more satisfied than they thought they would, the older pessimists seemed to suffer a lower ratio (比率) of disability and death for the study period.
“We observed that being too optimistic in predicting a better future than actually observed was associated with a greater risk of disability and a greater risk of death within the following decade,” wrote Frieder R. Lang, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Lang and his colleagues believed that people who were pessimistic about their future may be more careful about their actions than people who expected a rosy future.
“Seeing a dark future may encourage positive evaluations of the actual self and may contribute to taking improved precautions (预防措施),” the authors wrote.
Surprisingly, compared with those in poor health or who had low incomes, respondents who enjoyed good health or income were associated with expecting a greater decline. Also, the researchers said that higher income was related to a greater risk of disability.
The authors of the study noted that there were limitations to their conclusions. Illness, medical treatment and personal loss could also have driven health outcomes.
However, the researchers said a pattern was clear. “We found that from early to late adulthood, individuals adapt their expectations of future life satisfaction from optimistic, to accurate, to pessimistic,” the authors concluded.
According to the study, who made the most accurate prediction of their future life satisfaction?

Pessimism may be positive in some way because it causes people ______.

How do people of higher income see their future?

What is the clear conclusion of the study?

一家英语报社向中学生征文，主题是“十年后的我”、请根据下列要求和你的想象完成短文、
1、 家庭
2、 工作
3、 业余生活
注意：1、次数100左右；2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3. 开头语已为你写好
I often imagine what my life will be like in the future.
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They were abroad during the months when we were carrying out the investigation, or they _____ to our help.