I 39 and held his hand, “Take it easy, Roy. Now let’s do something to make it look 40 .” I took out a
41 . “You see, Dad is a magician（魔术师）, I can change it into a big tree.” His mother soon helped paint some butterflies and flowers on the wall.
We spent the whole afternoon 42 and laughing. The wall became a beautiful forest with plants, birds and
small animals. Blue sky and white clouds were also painted by Roy. On that day, everybody in the house knew
something 43 happened.
The night before Roy left for Harvard, he asked me if I still remembered the day when he had knocked over
the paint. “Since then I’ve 44 worried about making mistakes,” he continued, “I believe I can always 45
ways to solve the problems.” 36. A. call
B. e-mail
C. card C. Gladly C. fear C. shouted C. wrong C. clock C. painting C. special C. sometimes C. find out
37. A. Suddenly 38. A. happiness 39. A. cried 40. A. nice 41. A. drum 42. A. washing
B. Luckily B. hope B. smiled B. bad B. brush B. boring B. always
B. cooking
43. A. dangerous 44. A. never 45. A.put out
B. hand out
Mike was reading in the garden when his mother came. She pointed to something and asked Mike what it was. Mike felt quite 46 , but he told her it was a sparrow(庥雀) and got back into reading.
Several minutes later, his mother pointed to the same sparrow and asked the same question again. Mike got a little angry but 47 answered her question. After a little while, his mother did the same thing once more. This time Mike could not 48 his anger. He shouted at her for 49 him again and again.
The old lady silently 50 an old diary, turned to a page and showed it to Mike. Though a little impatient, Mike began to read it.
\garden when little Mike pointed to a 51 on the grass and asked me what it was. I 52 at him, said it was a sparrow and kissed him. After a while Mike asked me again and I did the same. Pointing to the same sparrow, little Mike asked me what it was twenty times and I 53 answering his question and kissing him every time.\
Something gently touched Mike's 54 . His face turned red with 55 for being so impatient to his mother and he hugged(掬抱) her tight.
Your parents have given you many things in their lifetime, but you may not realize that until
they are gone.
46. A. angry B. lonely C. proud D. surprised 47. A. still B. always C. already D. seldom 48. A. show B. leave C. control D. discover 49. A. refusing B. supporting C. encouraging D. disturbing 50. A. set out B. took out C. put out D. looked out 51. A. fox B. frog C. bird D. rabbit 52. A. threw B. smiled C. shouted D. laughed 53. A. put on B. kept on C. tried on D. depended on 54. A. face B. mouth C. heart D. shoulder 55. A. shame B. fear C. happiness D. kindness
Once upon a time, there were three tortoises who were friends.
One of them was a large tortoise (乌龟), one was a medium-sized tortoise and __41____ was a small tortoise.
One day they went into a restaurant and ___42____ some cake. While they were ____43__ the cake, they remembered that they hadn't brought any money. \____45___ for our cake,\ the big tortoise said. \little tortoise can go home and get it,\the medium-sized tortoise said. \
The little tortoise wasn't very pleased at this, but he knew he shouldn't ___46__ his elders, so he said, \ The large tortoise and the medium-sized tortoise agreed, and the little tortoise set off for home to get some____48____.
A few days later, the big tortoise said to the medium-sized tortoise, \eat the little tortoise's cake. I’m hungry again.\the cake.
As she did so, the little tortoise___50___ from near the door of the restaurant, \my cake, I won't go and get the money!\
41. A. the other B. others C. another
42. A. bought B. ordered C. made 43. A. waiting for B. waiting in C. waiting 44. A. spend B. cost C. pay
45. A. because of B. because C. as a result 46. A. argue about B. argue for C. argue with 47. A. while B. before C. after 48. A. cake B. money C. food 49. A. so am I B. so I am C. nor am I 50. A. walked B. stood C. shouted
Friends play an important role in our life. Most people hope that their friends will always be there. They _31____ friendship to last forever. _32___, even the best friendship can end.
As time goes by, many friendships end because of a(n) 33______ in personality or way of life. The friendship slowly loses importance and finally__34_____.
Tommy wrote, “I didn’t even know the friendship was over until I caught myself thinking of
Alan as a former friend.”
Peter explained. “We _35____ seeing each other less and less. The friendship was just over.”
Sometimes friendships__36____ suddenly from a disagreement or move to another place. Alice said, “The end of our friendship was a gradual thing. I moved from one side of the city to the other. Since then we __37___ made a phone call. We met less and less. At last our friendship ended.”
Jack said, “ When I moved to Seattle after college, our friendship died. Both of us were always_38___ with new jobs, so we didn’t keep __39___ touch with each other. Our friendship was so dead that I didn’t call him__40___ I went home.”
Yet the biggest problem to a friendship is change. Lillian Rubin in her book Just Friends say, “Generally it’s___41___ that friends will accept each other if they both remain what they were when they met, or change in similar directions. If they change or grow in different ways, the friendship most likely__42____ lost.”
No matter why, when, or how friendships end, there is always__43___ pain of loss. When nothing can be_44___ to keep the friendship, it is important to forget the pain. Then move on__45___ new friendships.
May new friendships bring you pleasure and happiness!
31.A. hope B. expect C. decide D. prefer 32. A. Unfortunately B. Luckily C. Then D. So 33. A. interest B. experience C. change D. Suggestion 34. A. forgets B. disappears C. appears D. improves 35. A. finished B. practiced C. continued D. started 36. A. break down B. break away C. break off D. break in 37. A. often B. seldom C. always D. never 38. A. struggling B. satisfying C. pleased D. fed 39. A. at B. by C. on D. in
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40. A. even if B. while C. before D. since
41. A. strange B. true C. false D. impossible
42. A. will be B. is C. will D. to be 43. A. little B. some C. any D. no 44. A. thought B. checked C. carried D. done 45. A. to ask for B. forming C. to build D. beginning
A first-grade student whose best friend is battling cancer thought that hours of playing and telling jokes was not enough - he wanted to show his buddy just how he understood the 16 time he was going through.
Seven-year-old Vincent Butterfield 17 the only way was to cut off his hair in support of his best friend Zac who lost his hair through chemotherapy(化疗).
Zac Gossage is receiving treatment but 18 goes to Union Central Elementary School in Missouri every day, 19 that's where he gets to play on the swing with Vincent. Vincent found out that Zac might 20 his hair because of the chemotherapy treatment. So one day, he showed up in the first grade class wearing a 21 . He said to his teacher Mrs. Koester, \
a surprise for Zac.\ 22 saw that he already had all his hair 23 off.
\ 24 .\
Vincent has also been raising money for his best friend after learning how 25 his chemotherapy treatments are. He asked his mother to make 26 than 20 scarves and gloves. He and his mother 27 them at the price of 10 dollars each, raising over $200 for Zac. The encouragement from Vincent seems to be working. Though Zac is receiving treatments, he has 28 missed any days of school. He knows that Vincent is out on the playground, waiting for him at break.
When asked 29 friendship was, Vincent looked at his friend Zac, thought for a(an) 30 and
responded,\
Clearly, wisdom doesn't always come with age. 16. A. hard B. exciting C. unpleasant 17. A. decided 18. A. ever 19. A. though 20. A. raise 21. A. mask 22. A. teachers 23. A. pulled 24. A. friends 25. A. expensive 26. A. fewer 27. A. made 28. A. already 29. A. how
B. refused B. never B. but B. add B. scarf B. kids B. sent B. money B. successful B. more B. donated B. always B. what
C. agreed C. just C. because C. lose C. glove C. parents C. cut
C. clothes C. important C. worse C. sold C. nearly C. where
D. pleasant D. disliked D. still D. so D. fall D. cap D. patients D. put D. hair
D. meaningful D. better D. collected D. hardly D. which
30. A. moment B. hour C. morning D. day
One Friday night, a poor young man stood at a gate of the railway station, playing his violin. Many people put money into the hat 26 in front of him.
The next day, 27 young man came to the gate of the railway station again, and put his hat on the ground. But 28 what he always did in the past days, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground. It said, “Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come soon, Mr. Sand.” After about half an hour, a middle-aged man ran to the young man 29 and said “It’s you! You do come here. I know that you’re an honest man and will certainly 30 here. ” The young man asked “Arc you Mr. George Sang? Did you lose anything?” “A lottery(奖券) ticket answered the middle-aged man. The young man took out a lottery ticket and gave it to the man.
The prize of the lottery ticket was $ 500, 000. Yesterday when the middle-aged man knew he 31 , he was very happy. He took out 50 dollars and put it in the hat. However, the lottery ticket was also 32 in.
Later, someone asked the young man, “You 3 the violin in the railway station every day to make money. Why didn't you just take the prize of the lottery ticket for yourself?” The young man said, “Although 1 don’t have much money, I live 34 But I lose 35 . I won’t be
happy forever.” 26. A. lying 27. A.不填
B. sleeping B. a
C. bowing C. an
D. dropping D. the
28. A. far from 29. A. slowly 30. A. hide 31. A. lost 32. A filled 33. A. play 35. A job
Chinese,
B. similar to B. in a hurry
B. come B. won B. pulled B. sell B. happily
C. different from D. same as C. strongly D. sleepily C. flee
C. fell
D. leave
D. chased
C. kicked D. thrown C. buy D. repair
C. normally
D. lively
C. honesty
D. purse
34. A. sadly
B. pleasure
What do you think of your Chinese? Is it good or bad? If you think you are good at You can 41 the competition named the Chinese Characters Dictation Competition(汉字听写大赛)。 The competition became popular 42 the teenagers. Let’s know something about it.
More and more computers and smart phones are used by teenagers. They spend 43 time on
the Internet in playing or chatting. They are used to 44 messages by computers and smart phones. Some of them forget to write Chinese Characters 45 . The teachers and parents are very 46 it. What can they do?
[来源:Zxxk.Com]Not long ago, they found an interesting game called the Chinese characters Dictation.
The program modeled 47 After the American show “National Spelling Bee”, where middle school students stand on the stage to write down Chinese via(通过)dictation. Over two hundred competitiors are from forty-six schools. The audience(观众)are interested in this 48 kind of competition, too. They would like to write down the characters 49 the competitors were writing them. But they found it was also difficult for them to write down all the characters.
Is it an interesting competition? Can you be the 50 ? 41. A. take part in 42. A. between 43. A. too many 44. A. sending 45. A. at hand 46. A. crazy about
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B. too much
B. send B. by hand
B. worried about B. this B. old B. while
C. join up with C. among C. much too C. sent C. in hand C. busy with C. itself C. new C. as though
47. A. it 48. A. usual 49. A. as for