One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas when they saw a horseshoe on the ground. The father said to his son, “Look at the horseshoe on the ground.
Go and _________________the horseshoe and put it in your bag, my son. ” But Thomas said, “If I do so, it will waste my time.” His father said nothing but picked_________________ up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and _________________some strawberries with the money.
The father and the son went on walking. The sun was high up in the________________. They soon drank up all their water and there was not a house or even a tree for them to have a rest. Thomas felt______________ thirsty to walk on. At that time, his father gave him a strawberry and he________________ate it. After a while, his father gave him another strawberry and once again, his son got it quickly and put it in his mouth.
And so they ________________walking. The old farmer gave strawberries and the son ate them. When Thomas had eaten up all the strawberries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you picked up that_________________, you would have your own strawberries to eat. Always remember the ________________ : if you don’t worry about the little things, you will find it difficult to do the ________________things. ”
1.A.give up B.put up C.pick up D.take up
2.A.him B.it C.them D.her
3.A.threw B.bought C.sold D.found
4.A.sky B.tree C.head D.ground
5.A.rather B.very C.quite D.too
6.A.hardly B.almost C.politely D.quickly
7.A.put on B.turned on C.went on D.worked on
8.A.strawberries B.water C.horseshoe D.money
9.A.time B.effort C.subject D.lesson
10.A.great B.simple C.rich D.tiny
When I was twelve years old, my family lived next to a forest. Every evening, mockingbirds( 知更鸟 ) would come and rest in the trees and sing. I enjoyed________________ singing so much that I decided to catch a young bird. In this way, I______________hear it sing for me every day.
I finally managed________________one and put it in a cage. At first, the bird was very frightened, so it fluttered( 扑腾) in _______________new home all the time. Several days________________, it was used to living in this new home.
The next day, the little bird’s mother flew to the cage with some food in her mouth. The baby bird looked very happy and ate everything________________the mother brought to it. I was so happy to see this, for the mother knew how to take care of her baby_______________than me.
But________________the next morning, I found it died. I was terribly surprised and cried at once. I didn’t know what happened.
Arthur Wayne, my father’s friend, was a famous ornithologist(鸟类学家). She visited my father at that time._________she knew the whole thing, she explained to me,”If a mother mockingbird finds her baby is kept in a cage, she will bring it poisonous berries (毒梅). She thinks it’s better for her baby to die than to lose freedom.”
Since then I________________any living animal in a cage. All living things have a right to live free.
1.A.a B.an C.the D./
2.A.could B.need C.must D.should
3.A.get B.getting C.to get D.gets
4.A.it’s B.its C.it D.its’
5.A.late B.latest C.lately D.later
6.A.that B.which C.who D.whom
7.A.good B.well C.better D.best
8.A.in B.for C.at D.on
9.A.If B.When C.Because D.Although
10.A.haven’t caught B.won’t catch C.don’t catch D.didn’t catch
假如你是李华，你校正举办英语读书节活动，你在参与活动的过程中遇到一些困难，（如：缺少相关书籍、英语阅读困难等）请给你的英国朋友Nick写一封email向他求助。
提示：1）What activities are there in the English reading festival?
2）What problems do you have?
3）What do you want Nick to do to help you?
要求：1）邮件须包括所有提示内容，可适当发挥；
2）邮件中不要出现真实的地名、校名和人名；
3）词数80个左右（开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）。
参考词汇：western cultures, have trouble in, share
Dear Nick,
How's everything going?
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I expect to hear from you soon.
Best wishes!
Yours,
Li Hua
wonder, you, come, I, where, from(.)
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girl, hard-working, how, is, the(!)
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skills, learn, what, did, basic, he(?)
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