阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
During the war,my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California.I went to live there in order to be 21  him. I hated the place .I had never  22  been so unhappy . My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty,and I was left in a tiny shack(棚屋) alone. The heat was  23  -almost 125 0F even in the shade of a cactus(仙人掌)。 24  a soul to talk to . The wind blew non-stop ,and all the food I ate ,and the evry air I breathed,were  25   with sand , sand , sand !
I was so sorry for myself that I wrote to my parents. I told them I was  26   and coming back home.I said I couldn’t stand it one minute longer. I  27  be in prison! My father answered my  28  with just two lines-two lines that will always sing in my  29  - two lines that completely changed my life :
Two men looked out from prison bars
One saw the mud ,the other saw the stars
I read those two lines  30   I was ashamed of myself. I made up my mind I would find out what was good in my present  31  ; I would look for the stars
I made friends with the natives,and their  32  amazed me. They gave me presents of their favorite artworks which they had  33  to sell to toueists . I studied the delightful forms of the cactus .I watched for the desert sunsets,and  34  for seashells that had been left there millions of years ago when the desert had been an ocean  35 
What brought about this  36   change in me ? The desert hadn’t changed , 37   I had .I had changed my  38   And by doing so ,I changed an unhappy experience into the most amazing  39  of my life . I was excited by this new world that I had dicovered I had looked out of my self-creatded prison and  40   the stars

26（）

A:catching up B:keeping up C:giving up D:getting up

A lot of people are their own enemies. They regard themselves as unlikely to succeed in college and often feel that there have been no accomplishments in their lives. In my first year of college especially, I saw people get themselves down all too quickly. There were two students in my class who failed the first test and seemed to give up immediately. From that day on, they walked into the classroom carrying defeat on their shoulders the way other students carried textbooks under their arms. Both students hang on until about mid term. When they disappeared for good, no one took much notice, for they had already disappeared in spirit after that first test.
They are not the only people in whom I have seen the self-doubt do its work. I have really wanted to shake them by the shoulders and say: "You are not dead. Be proud and pleased that you have brought yourself here to college. Be someone. Breathe. Hope. Act. “Such people should not use self-doubts as an excuse for not trying. They should pull themselves together and get to work. They should start taking notes in class and trying to learn. Above all, they should not give up without even trying.

The author thinks that the two students should（　）

A:gives up their college education B:learn from other students C:feels happy because they are in college D:tries hard before giving up

Once this profile is thoroughly drawn, you can begin to think about setting health priorities based on your particular portrait. For example, if "you drink two martinis every evening, have a high - stress job, are overweight, smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, and use marijuana occasionally on weekends, you should quit smoking first, followed by losing the excess weight, reducing the stress of your job, giving up your marijuana habit, and then finally giving some thought to those martinis if you want to prevent first cancer, and then hean disease. Even for the youthful working person who has never been sick a day in his life, who is in excellent health, a good look at all health habits and at work and home environments may suggest changes that will benefit him in the future.
If one smokes, holds a stressful job, suffers from obesity and uses marijuana occasionally, what should he do first to reduce the possibility of heahh hazards

A:Quit smoking. B:Losing excess weight. C:Reduce the stress of work. D:Giving up marijuana use.

For chronically ill patients, giving up the hope that they will get better may actually lead to more happiness, U.S. researchers suggest.
"Hope is an important part of happiness, but there’s a dark side of hope. Sometimes, if hope makes people put off getting on with their life, it can get in the way of happiness," Dr. Peter A. Ubel from the University of Michigan Health System said in a university news release.
He and his colleagues studied patients who’d just had a colostomy (结肠造口术), which means their colons (结肠) were removed and they had to have howe1 (肠) movements in a pouch (小袋) outside the body. At the time of the surgery, some patients were told the procedure was reversible and they’d have a second operation in a few months to reconnect their bowels. Other patients were told the colostomy was permanent.
The patients were followed for six months, and the researchers found that those without hope of regaining normal bowel function were happier than those with reversible colostomies.
"We think they were happier because they got on with their life. They realized the cards they were dealt, and recognized that they had no choice but to play with those cards," Ubel said. "The other group was waiting for their colostomy to be reversed. They contrasted their current life with the life they hoped to lead, and didn’t make the best of their current situation. "
The study, published in the November edition of Health Psychology, also may explain why people whose spouse dies often recover better emotionally over time than those who get divorced, the researchers said.
That’s because people whose husband or wife dies have closure (结束), while those who get divorced may still have hope for some chance of making up, they explained.

What could be the message of the passage（　）

A:Giving up hope means giving up happiness. B:Letting go of hope is at times a better choice. C:Hope is what makes people move on. D:Hope frequently gets in the way of happiness.

? ?Holding on to hope may not make patients happier as they deal with chronic illness or diseases, according to a new study by University of Michigan Health System researchers.
? ?"Hope is an important part of happiness," said Peter A Ubel M. D, director of the U-M Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine and one of the authors of the happily hopeless study, "but there’s a dark side of hope. Sometimes, if hope makes people put off getting on with their life, it can get in the way of happiness. "
? ?The results showed that people do not adapt well to situations if they are believed to be short-term. Ubel and his co-authors both from U-M and Carnegie Mellon University studied patients who had new colostomies: their colons were removed and they had to have bowel movements in a pouch that lies outside their body.
? ?At the time they received their colostomy, some patients were told that the colostomy was reversible that they would undergo a second operation to reconnect their bowels after several months. Others were told that the colostomy was permanent and that they would never have normal bowel function again. The second group, the one without hope, reported being happier over the next six months than those with reversible colostomies.
? ?"We think they were happier because they got on with their lives. They realized the cards they were dealt, and recognized that they had no choice but to play with those cards, " says Ubel, who is also a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine.
? ?"The other group was waiting for their colostomy to be reversed," he added. "They contrasted their current life with the life they hoped to lead, and didn’t make the best of their current situation. "
? ?"Hopeful messages may not be in the best interests of the patient and may interfere with the patient’s emotional adaptation," Ubel says. "I don’t think we should take hope away. But I think we have to be careful about building up people’s hope so much that they put off living their lives. /

What could be the message of the passage?

A:Giving up hope means giving up happiness. B:Letting go of hope is at times a better choice. C:Hope is what makes people move on. D:Hope frequently gets in the way of happiness.

Once this profile is thoroughly drawn, you can begin to think about setting health priorities based on your particular portrait. For example, if "you drink two martinis every evening, have a high - stress job, are overweight, smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, and use marijuana occasionally on weekends, you should quit smoking first, followed by losing the excess weight, reducing the stress of your job, giving up your marijuana habit, and then finally giving some thought to those martinis if you want to prevent first cancer, and then hean disease. Even for the youthful working person who has never been sick a day in his life, who is in excellent health, a good look at all health habits and at work and home environments may suggest changes that will benefit him in the future.
If one smokes, holds a stressful job, suffers from obesity and uses marijuana occasionally, what should he do first to reduce the possibility of heahh hazards

A:Quit smoking. B:Losing excess weight. C:Reduce the stress of work. D:Giving up marijuana us

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What could be the message of the passage?

A:Giving up hope means giving up happiness. B:Letting go of hope is at times a better choice. C:Hope is what makes people move on. D:Hope frequently gets in the way of happiness.