When he was a little child, Andrew had a serious bad habit of sucking（吮吸） his fingers all day long, especially when he had nothing interesting to do： when he was sleeping, when watching TV, when sitting on the sofa and so on. At the beginning, his parents didn’t think it was a bad habit.

Therefore, as time goes by, the boy couldn’t give up his habit. Now, in his twenties, Andrew seems to have developed the bad habit into another one： he always bites his nails(指甲). He cannot stop biting his nails all the time. There’re moments when he even doesn’t know that he is doing it. He realized it was a problem and this worried him a lot. Some of his friends told him about this bad habit, and he stops for a while. But then, if he isn’t busy doing something, he starts biting his nails again!

In fact, there’re a lot of bacteria(细菌) in your nails and they can cause some disease. Also, the nails will become ugly and hard to recover. The worst thing is that this bad habit will bring the mental illness（心理疾病）. If people cannot correct it in time, it can affect man’s mental health.

In short, bad habits are very worrying, especially when the person with the habit is in public and cannot stop himself or herself doing it. Still, there must be ways to give up these bad habits and these people should try their best to stop doing them.

1. When Andrew was a little boy, he had a bad habit of          .

A. biting his fingers         B. biting his nails

C. sucking his nails          D. sucking his fingers

2.What’s the Chinese meaning of the underlined word “recover” in paragraph 3?

A. 覆盖        B. 修复   C. 发现       D. 报告

3.Which is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Andrew’s parents found it was a bad habit at the beginning.

B. Andrew had a kind of mental illness when he was a little child.

C. Andrew himself wasn’t worried about his habit in his twenties.

D. Some of Andrew’s friends tried to help him stop his bad habit of biting nails.

One midnight, a little girl was thirsty and got up to drink some water. She walked to the bedroom door and     it. The little girl looked outside but walked     and stood in the center of the room, because it was so     in the hall and she was afraid. Her mother said： “Don’t be afraid, honey. Have courage (勇气), I believe you can do it yourself!”

“    is courage?” she asked, running to her mother’s bed. “Courage is the brave breath (呼吸),” her mother answered.

“Mom, do you have courage?” “Certainly.” her mother replied, The little girl held out her cold hands, saying： “Mom, blow some of your breath of courage to     .”

After her mother blew into her little cold hands, the little girl clenched her fists (握拳)

     , afraid that the “breath of courage” would     away. Then with her fists clenched, she walked out of the bedroom towards the kitchen with     to be afraid of. Her mother said to herself： “It will be nice      someone can blow some courage to me. Then I can also hold it in my hands when I feel terrified.”

In a word, the thing that we are afraid of is nothing but the     in our mind. The person who we should win is nobody but ourselves.

1.A. closed    B. knocked    C.opened             D. kicked

2.A. in     B. back        C. out     D. down

3.A. bright    B. dark     C. cold     D. warm

4.A. What        B. How        C. Where     D. Why

5.A. me     B. you     C. her     D. it

6.A. politely    B. happily    C. luckily    D. carefully

7.A. pull     B. run     C. move        D. took

8.A. something       B. anything    C. everything       D. nothing

9.A. because    B. though    C. if     D. until

10.A. fear     B. idea     C. worry    D. secret

--- How _______ is it from Xi'an to Dunhuang?  --- It's less than 3 _______ flight.

A．long； hour's      B．far； hour's

C．long； hours'    D．far, hours'

He has _______ for two years.. Two years _______ a long time.

A. left home, are             B. left home , is

C. been away from home , is   D. been away from home , are

When you feel helpless and_______, just remember you are not_______ in the world because your friends are around you.

A. alone； alone     B. lonely； lonely

C. alone； lonely    D. lonely； alone

- Is Central Park_______ largest city park in the USA?

- Yes. It is_______ perfect place for people to rest after_______ hard day's work.

A. a； the； a     B. the； a； a

C. a； a； the     D. the； a； the

Would you please give me_______ my English study?

A. some advices in  B. any advice on

C. any advices in   D. some advice on

I became a student ten years       . I have been a student       1996.

I have studied here           about 10 years.

A. ago, since, for  B. ago ,for ,since

C. ago, before, for  D ago, in, after

When did your father _______ your mother?

A. marry       B. marry to    C. marry with  D. get married

I know nothing about the accident _______he told me.

A. until        B. when         C. since        D. If