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My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but would never run very well. The first three years of his life was ________ in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he has a problem when you saw him________ .

Children in our neighborhood always ran around  ________ their play, and Joey would jump and ran and play, ________ . We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be  ________  to run like the other children. So he didn’t know.

In  ________ grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others,   ________  only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the ________. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.

He ran four to five miles every day - even when he had a fever. I was  ________  , so I went to   ________  him after school. I found him running  ________  . I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He has two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept ________ .

Two weeks later, the names of the team ________  were caked. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had  ________  the team. He was in seventh grade - the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. He just ________ it.

1.A. spent        B. taken         C. cost         D. paid

2.A. talk         B. sit           C. study        D. walk

3.A. after        B. before        C. during       D. till

4.A. either       B. too           C. though       D. yet

5.A. able       B. sorry         C. glad         D. afraid

6.A. sixth        B. seventh       C. eighth      D. ninth

7.A. so           B. if           C. then         D. because

8.A. neighborhood B. family       C. school     D. grade

9.A. excited      B. tired         C. pleased      D. worried

10.A. think about B. hear from     C. agree with   D. look for

11.A. alone      B. away        C. almost       D. already

12.A. riding      B. walking       C. playing      D. running

13.A. jumpers   B. runners       C. doctors      D. teachers

14.A. got        B. kept          C. made         D. found

15.A. played      B. had          C. left         D. made

_______between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. this morning, the jewellery shop was robbed .

A. Sometimes   B. Some times  C. Sometime   D. Some time

-----_____ all your school things, Jane! I hate them here and there.  -----OK, Mum.

A. Put away      B. Put down        C. Put out      D. Put up

_______useful the information he gave us is !

A. What a          B. How         C. What       D. How an

A Wechat(微信) is an invention ______ can help people talk to friends ,share   photos, ideas and feelings freely.

A. whom       B. who         C. whose      D.which

I don`t like swimming. What about you? --- Me ______.

A. also       B. too            C. none       D. Neither

The car is_______ expensive_______ I can’t afford it.

A.so; that     B.such; that

C.so;as to       D.enough; that

_______ of the students in our class _______ interested in micro blogs (微博) on the Internet.

A. Two fifths; is  B. Two fifths; are

C. Two five; is    D. Two-five; are

You are sure to fail the exam__________you study hard.

A.if          B. unless          C. since        D.that

There ______a number of books in our school library. The number of

books________getting larger than last year.

A.is, is        B. is, are         C.are, are      D.are, is