请认真阅读下面短文，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，写出一个合适的英语单词完整、正确的形式，使短文通顺。
Kitty was a student in a small town. It was going to be her mother’s birthday. She wanted to buy her a present that would be nice and useful but not e 1. .
She went s 2. after a quick and simple lunch. After she looked for about forty minutes, she found a shop that was selling cheap umbrellas, and she d 3. to take a black one. She thought, “Mom can carry it when she is wearing clothes of any c 4. .” So she bought a lovely black umbrella and took it to school with her until her classes finished.
On her way home on the train she felt h 5. , so she went to the buffet car (餐车). She left the umbrella on her seat and left. But when she remembered it and r 6. for it, it was gone. Kitty began to cry. The other passengers felt very sorry for her and asked what was the matter. She told them the black umbrella she bought for her mother was gone, and she had to get off at the next station. After the three passengers h 7. this, they asked her for her mother’s a 8. so that they could send the umbrella to her if someone took it by mistake (弄错) and brought it b 9. .
And now a week passed. Kitty got a letter from her mother. It said, “Thank you very much for your lovely g 10. , but why do you send me three black umbrellas?”
句型转换
1.He often carries heavy things for the lonely old man next to his home.（改为否定句）
He _______ often ________ heavy things for the lonely old man next to his home.
2.The magic performance by Liu Qian is so amazing that people can’t forget it.
(保持句意基本不变)
The magic performance by Liu Qian is ________ amazing for people _____forget.
3.The red car is Mr Green's. (对划线部分提问）
______ ______ is Mr Green's? .
4.“It often takes me ten minutes to have lunch.” He said. (改为间接引语)
He said that it often ________ ________ten minutes to have lunch.
5.The child bought his mother a new hairclip.（改为被动语态）
A new hairclip _______ bought _______ his mother.
C. 请根据句意从方框中选择合适的动词，并用其适当时态填空，使句子通顺。
1.Don’t be late again, Tom. Otherwise I ________ you.
2.—What do you think of my suggestion?
—Sorry. What’s that? I _______ to my favourite song.
3.Lucy ________ to school on her own when she was in the middle school.
4.I feel energetic again because I _________ a rest. I can devote myself to this work now.
5.We are told that sound __________ through air at a speed of about 340 metres per second.
B. 请根据句意从方框中选择合适的单词，并用其适当形式填空，使句子通顺。
1.Lucy said that Mr. White offered her some _________ suggestions.
2.Those volunteers always think more of others than of _________ .
3.Mr Yang, I fell ill last night and didn’t finish my homework. I’m ________ sorry about it.
4. —Why do the beautiful birds ________ so fast?
—Because of lack of food.
5.It’s known to us all that ________ need food, water and air to survive.
A. 请根据句意或括号中的中文提示、英文释义，写出句中所缺单词，使句子通顺。
1.My cousin is studying in Beijing, so we _________(not very often) see each other now.
2.—Where's your mother?
— She is in the ________(厨房) cooking a meal.
3.We should try our best to prevent water ________(the state of being dirty) because people can't live without water.
4.The weather report said that the temperature would fall _________(在……下面) zero.
5.We all know that _________is between June and August.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised that the country would take actions to improve school bus safety on Sunday, a day after China saw its second terrible school bus accident in November, 2011.
“School buses should be safe mobile campuses(校园) for students,” the premier said at a national meeting on women and children, “Society(社会) should remember in mind that children should be the first to enjoy all kinds of social caring and the last ones to suffer from any disaster.”
School buses have become a hot topic in China since the deaths of 21 people, including 19 pre-school students, in a traffic accident between a truck and a school-owned minibus in Gansu province on Nov. 16, 2011. The nine-seat minibus was carrying 64 people at the time of the accident, according to the reports.
The second accident, in which a school bus in the northern province of Liaoning rolled over on Friday, left 35 people injured, according to China Daily.
“In recent days, a series of big accidents involving school buses has led to great anger among the people. These accidents have also made me uncomfortable,” said Mr Wang, an old teacher from Jiangsu. And he also thought that school bus safety must become a serious problem for schools and the government.
Premier Wen has already asked the government to develop new safety standard (标准) for school buses and made sure to help local government with safe buses for school-age children.
1.How many seats did the minibus in Gansu province have before it was turned into a school bus?
A. 64 B. 21 C. 9 D. 19
2.What does “roll over” mean in Paragraph 4?
A. 倒车 B. 翻车 C. 撞车 D.飞车
3.How did Mr Wang feel when such accidents happened?
A. nervous B. angry C. stressed D. tired
4.Which of the following sentences is Not True?
A. 21 pre-school students died in the school bus traffic accident in Gansu.
B. 35 people were hurt in the school bus accident in Liaoning.
C. Mr Wang thought school bus safety was a serious problem.
D. The government has been asked to develop new safety standard for school buses.
