“Daily Star, sir,” called Jason, carrying some newspapers under his arm. The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty____left. His voice was almost gone and his heart was____. The shops would soon close, and all the people would go home. He would have to go home too, carrying the papers____money. He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a____for his mother and some seeds for his bird. That was why he had bought the papers with all his money. He____as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.
“You don’t know the____of selling papers. You must shout, ‘Hot news! Bomb bursting!’” another newsboy Chad told Jason. “____it’s not in the paper at all,” replied Jason. “Just run away quickly____they have time to see, and you’ll____out and get your money,” Chad said.
It was a new____to Jason. He thought of his bird with no____and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was____that he would not tell a lie. Though he was____a poor newsboy, he had been____some good things.
The next afternoon Jason went to the office for his papers____. Several boys were crowding around Chad, who declared with a____smile that he sold six dozen the day before. He added that Jason____money because he would not tell a lie. The boys____at Jason. “You wouldn’t tell a lie yesterday, my boy?” A gentleman at the office came up and patted Jason’s shoulder____, “You’re just the boy I am looking for. “ A week later Jason started his new____. He lost the sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.
1.A.shops B.coins C.people D.papers
2.A.open B.heavy C.pure D.weak
3.A.instead of B.in return for C.in spite of D.in exchange for
4.A.cup B.card C.comb D.cake
5.A.gave in B.broke down C.got away D.showed up
6.A.difficulty B.process C.goal D.secret
7.A.And B.But C.For D.So
8.A.before B.since C.though D.unless
9.A.call B.drop C.sell D.reach
10.A.edition B.idea C.policy D.task
11.A.bread B.insects C.seeds D.water
12.A.concerned B.amazed C.excited D.determined
13.A.still B.already C.just D.also
14.A.taught B.handed C.awarded D.allowed
15.A.at once B.by chance C.as usual D.on purpose
16.A.proud B.gentle C.warm D.polite
17.A.borrowed B.lost C.made D.saved
18.A.laughed B.shouted C.nodded D.stared
19.A.bravely B.gratefully C.fondly D.modestly
20.A.duty B.business C.job D.method
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Although he is only eleven years old, James helps 1.aged. Every day, he goes to Redhill by train to help three old people with housework and shopping. In this way, he has made their lives much easier. It is through James’ hard work that a Neighborhood Care Program has been started. So far, James and his friends 2. (form) a group of young volunteers to seek out the people 3.need help. They do this without funding and without recognition. Their main aim is 4.(make) a difference through personal sacrifice.
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Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook. Making Chinese 1.(dish) is seen as especially troublesome. Many westerners who come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out. I still remember 2.(visit) a friend who’d lived here for five years and I was shocked when I learnt she hadn’t cooked once in all that time.
While regularly eating out seems to 3.(become) common for many young people in recent years, it’s not without a cost. The obvious one is money; 4.(eat) out once or twice a week may be affordable but doing this most days adds up. There could be an even 5.(high) cost on your health. Researchers have found that there is a direct link between the increase in food eaten outside the home and the rise in weight problems.
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The Great Wall of China is more than 6, 000 kilometers long. It winds 1. (it) way from west to east, across deserts, over mountains, through valleys and at last it reaches the sea. The Great Wall has a history of over twenty centuries. The first part of it 2.(build) during the Spring and Autumn period. During the Qin Dynasty, to keep the enemy out of his empire, Emperor Qin Shi Huang had all the walls 3.(join) up. Thus, the Great Wall came into being. The Great Wall is wide enough at the top for five horses or ten men to walk side by side. Along the wall are watchtowers, 4.soldiers used to keep watch. Fires were lit on the towers as a warning when the enemy came.
It was 5.(extreme) difficult to build such a wall in the ancient days without any modern machines. All the work was done 6.hand. Thousands of men died and were buried under the wall they built. The Great Wall was made not only of stone and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men.
Where did your family eat dinner last night? In the car on the way to sport? At McDonald’s? Or at the dinner table? A survey taken a few years ago found that 28% families ate dinner together at home seven nights a week. Another quarter said they ate together three or fewer nights a week.
Once upon a time the situation was different. 1. Plates, forks and spoons would be laid out. As dinner time approached, an increasing number of hungry mouths would begin to appear with the question, “What’s for dinner”?
2. The data seems to point to two main issues: overworked parents and over-scheduled children. When mum or dad do get home in the evening, they are soon in the car again to send the children to soccer, music, tutoring, and a host of other events.
This nightly ceremony around the dinner table is both vital and fruitful; it is what keeps a family together. Sure, the conversation is not always significant and children argue. And sometimes the deepest and most meaningful times in a family are not at the table at all. 3.The dinner table is the place where a family builds an identity. Stories are passed down, jokes are exchanged and the wider world is examined through the lens（镜头） of a family’s values. Children pick up vocabulary and a sense of how conversation is structured. 4. Dinner time is “family time”. Coming back daily to the same place helps gain familiarity.
The significance of dinner time is more than above. Studies show that the more families eat together, the less likely the children are to smoke, drink, get depressed, and develop eating disorders, and the more likely they are to do well in school and learn how to socialize. One professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey stated, “A meal is about civilizing children. 5.”
So start by planning some stay at home family dinners together. Just family talk.
A. It’s a time to teach them to be a member of their culture.
B. Each night the dining table would be set with a simple cloth.
C. Why not cut back on a few activities and have dinner with your family?
D. What accounts for this decline in families eating together today though?
E. They also learn good table manners, something that will benefit them for life.
F. It was important for children and parents to sit down together and get to know each other.
G. However, there is still something unique about the time a family spends around the dinner table.
