—Hi, Lucy. _______ is your birthday?
—My birthday is on May 2nd.
A. What B. Why C. When D. Where
话题作文：近来网络上流行一句话：“世界上最远的距离是我在你对面，你却在看手机。”这句话真实反映了当前的社会现象，“手机控”，“低头族”越来越多且呈年轻化趋势。请你以“My opinion on using the mobile phone"为题针对这一现象发表个人观点，并提出改进建议。
提示词：a mobile phone freak 手机控
根据下列句子及所给的首字母，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词的正确，完全形式（每空仅限一词）。
1.My uncle works in a factory that p_______ toy cars.
2.Chinese people like using c_________when having meals.
3.Paper cutting is cut with s_________.
4.Please c_______ this table with this piece of cloth.
5.English is w______ spoken all over the world.
6.The I________ Kite Festival is held in Weifang every year.
7.Beijing is a l_______ city in China.
8.We were late because of the heavy t_______.
9.We should a________ being hurt in these sports.
10.The quilt is made of c________. It's very comfortable.
The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old mal stove（火炉）．A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the____and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates got there One morning they____to find the schoolhouse burning. They dragged（拖）the little boy out of the building more dead than alive. Then he was____taken to a nearby county hospital.
The doctor told the boy's mother that____the lower part of his body was seriously burnt, he couldn't use his legs anymore. However, the____boy made up his mind that he would walk. Unluckily his thin legs____hung there, all but lifeless.
Finally he returned home from the____．Every day his mother would press his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control,____．Yet his determination that he would walk was as____as ever.
When he wasn't in bed, he would sit in a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he____himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass，dragging his____behind him.
He worked his way to the white fence（栅栏）around the yard. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, he began dragging himself along the fence,____that he would walk. He started to do this every day. There was nothing he____more than to develop life in those legs.
In the end，through his determination he did____．He began to walk to school，then to run to school，to run____the joy of running. Later in college he made the running team.
Still later in Madison Square Garden this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world's fastest mile!
1.A. fire B. class C. game D. story
2.A. left B. waited C. arrived D. hid
3.A. clearly B. quickly C. suddenly D. nearly
4.A. when B. unless C. before D. because
5.A. honest B. brave C. worried D. calm
6.A. just B. also C. once D. ever
7.A. school B. yard C. hospital D. square
8.A. everything B. anything C. something D. nothing
9.A. strong B. simple C. strange D. similar
10.A. helped B. threw C. picked D. enjoyed
11.A. arms B. chair C. legs D. mother
12.A. believing B. doubting C. promising D. suggesting
13.A. afforded B. hated C. forgot D. wanted
14.A. set off B. get back C. stand up D. run away
15.A. to B. for C. from D. without
Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (积木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自画像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
1.What did Nathan put on his desk at college?
A. The Statue of Liberty. B. Superman.
C. His serf-portrait. D. A Greenwich Village modal.
2.Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?
A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.
B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.
C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.
D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.
3.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Nathan's work. B. Nathan's exhibition.
C. Nathan's art. D. Nathan's self-portrait
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Brick Artist B. The Brick Exhibition
C. Toy Bricks for Adults D. The Artist's Childhood
As traditional Chinese art, paper cutting has a long history. The first and earliest paper cutting was found in China 1,500 years ago. But this traditional art is at risk of disappearing now. Luckily, Voyo Woo, a Chinese immigrant（移民）in America, is trying to bring this art back to life.
One Saturday in 2014, Ms Woo held a paper cutting show at a shopping center near Washington. She got much fun and peace doing it. She hoped more people would enjoy it.
Ms Woo began to study the art of paper cutting as a 14-year-old girl in her hometown in China. She said all the students at school had to learn paper cutting. But she had a deep love for it. So her teacher spent more time teaching her after class. Later, she won the second prize in a national painting and art competition. Ms Woo went to America after she finished collage in 2008. Soon after that, she took part in an activity to promote（宣传）Chinese paper cutting. And then she was invited to show the art in many important activities.“It is important to promote this art to Americans or anyone who is interested in it.Maybe it will make this art more popular.”Woo said.
From the art of paper cutting, people can know about Chinese cultural values, history and stories of people’s life. Ms Woo uses the art as a tool to show Chinese culture to people who know little about it. Chinese art is not only for Chinese, but also for people all over the world.
1.What did Ms Woo do in 2014?
A. She won the second prize in a national painting and art competition.
B. She was invited to many activities to show paper cutting.
C. She held a paper cutting show at a shopping center near Washington.
D. She took part in an activity to promote Chinese paper cutting.
2.Ms Woo began to study the art of paper cutting .
A. when she was fourteen
B. after she got to America
C. when she was in college
D. after she finished college
3.In the passage, the writer thinks the art of paper cutting is now.
A. very popular in America B. very popular in China
C. for people who know about it D. in danger of disappearing
