Alice was a stubborn girl _1.___ always wanted to be a singer. Music was the2. _____ important thing in her life. She took lessons for years and3. ______ (practice) hard, but in spite of all the efforts she made, her voice didn't improve. In fact, it didn't get better, it just got 4._______ (loud).
Her teacher 5.______ (final) gave up and stopped the lessons, 6._____ Alice refused to give in, and one day she decided to give a concert and invited her teacher7. ______ (attend).The teacher was very worried about8. _____ to say after the concert. She knew it would be terrible and it was. She didn't want to tell a lie, but she didn't want to hurt Alice's feelings, either. Then she got an idea and went backstage （后台）to greet her pupil.
"Well," said Alice, "What do you think of 9._____ singing?"
"My dear," said the teacher, "you'll never be better _10.____ you were tonight."
My father used to like drinking. Every time when he got ____，he would shout loudly and beat my ____，who left my father and I when I was seven.
I went to a boarding(寄宿的)____when I was thirteen，and I finally didn’t have to see my father drunk every day. However，I didn’t talk to anybody and ____all my spare time alone in school because of the pain in my heart. When other boys were ___on the playground，I would sit there alone. This lasted for several weeks until a new____who was about forty came to our class. She，of course，____I was different. She asked me to answer her question in her first class. I ____and answered her question in a very ____voice，with my head down. That noon，after lunch，she found me and had a ____with me. She asked me ___I needed any help. Nobody had ever cared about me like that. I ____told her everything about my family.
“Things won’t get ____，”she said.
From that day on，every time when she saw me，she would give me a ____.She often asked me to answer her questions in class，and she helped me with my ____after class. As time went by，I didn’t feel so ____as before.
The day I left that school，I ____her why she did all that for me.
“My mother ____when I was ten. I know how hard it is ____a mother，”she said.
I will never____her—my dearest teacher.
1.A. hurt B．drunk C．lost D．bored
2.A.brother B．grandma C．mother D．aunt
3.A. class B．factory C．school D．office
4.A. wasted B．saved C．got D．spent
5.A. playing B．singing C．performing D．pushing
6.A. student B．worker C．teacher D．friend
7.A.ignored B．noticed C．smelt D．felt
8.A. work up B．went through C．stood up D．calmed down
9.A. angry B .low C．terrible D．sad
10.A. meal B．talk C．sentence D．test
11.A. if B．why C．when D．how
12.A. firstly B．finally C．interestingly D．strangely
13.A. better B．smaller C．worse D．higher
14.A. look B．smile C．hand D．book
15.A. phrases B．accent C.vocabulary D．studies
16.A. happy B．dangerous C．hard D．lonely
17.A. told B．asked C．answered D．troubled
18.A. died B．married C．appeared D．fell
19.A.with B．for C．without D．as
20.A. cheat B．forget C．believe D．upset
Health is the most important thing in the world. Nothing is more important than health. If one takes away our money, houses, cars, or even our clothes, we can still survive. _1.__That is why we always tr y to eat in a healthy way and exercise regularly.
How can we keep healthy? In order to eat healthily, I usually avoid eating food high in fat, like French fries or cookies, which are junk foods__2. Besides, I only eat little meat.
_3._ Taking exercise every day helps us build a strong body. Regular exercise is an important part of keeping me healthy.
What's more, I think friends are an important part of one's health. _4.__I always feel better when I am with friends than when I am alone. When I am with my friends, I always laugh. Laughing is also an important part of health. It is good to stay with my friends.
By eating properly and exercising regularly, I can keep my body at a proper weight and keep healthy. By spending time with my friends, I can keep my mind as well as my body happy. These things sound easy to do, but not many people can manage them. __5._
A. Many studies show－ that people with a narrow (狭窄) range of social contacts (社会交往) often get sick.
B. There, are some people who like staying alone, but they keep healthy.
C. On the other hand, doing exercise is very important.
D. But if our health was taken away, it is certain that we would surely die.
E. I think a strong will is necessary if we want to keep healthy.
F. I eat a lot of vegetables and fresh trust fruit which are full of vitamins.
G. Some people appear fat because they often eat too much.
Want to find a job? Now read the following advertisements.
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1.If you don’t know how to use a computer, you can just apply for the position as _________ .
A. a secretary B. a waiter or a waitress
C. an accountant D. a salesclerk
2.If you want to get the position of accountant in Wilson Bookstore, you have to satisfy the following conditions EXCEPT _________ .
A. being a woman
B. knowing well how to use a computer
C. having been an accountant
D. having an accountant certificate
3.If you want to try for a job in Fairmont Hotel, you _________ .
A. have to be a woman and know foreign languages
B. should be a university graduate
C. have to be taller than 1.72 meters
D. should be younger than 30 years old
If you are planning on traveling, there are a few simple rules about how to make life easier both before and after your journey.
First of all, always check and doublecheck departure (出发) time. It is surprising how few people really do this carefully. Once I arrived at the airport a few minutes after ten. My secretary had got the ticket for me and I thought she had said that the plane left at 10：50. When I arrived at the airport, the person at the departure desk told me that my flight was closed. Therefore, I had to wait three hours for the next one and missed an important meeting.
The second rule is to remember that even in this age of credit cards (信用卡), it is still important to have some local money in cash (现金). Once I arrived at a place at midnight and the bank at the airport was closed. The only way to get to my hotel was by taxi but because I had no dollars, I offered to pay in pounds instead. “Listen! I only take real money！” the driver said angrily. You can imagine how terrible I felt at that moment.
The third and the last rule is to find out as much as you can about the weather at your destination before you leave. I feel sorry for some of my workmates who travel in heavy suits and raincoats in May, when it is still fairly cool in London or Manchester, to places like Athens, Rome or Madrid, where it is already beginning to get quite warm during the day.
1.Where is the writer most probably from?
A．Britain. B．The USA.
C．Italy. D．Greece.
2.When the writer found he had no dollars to pay the taxi driver, he________.
A．asked the driver to give him a free ride
B．offered to pay in pounds
C．gave the driver some fake(假)money
D．tried to pay by credit card
3.Generally, in May the weather in London is________.
A．warm and dry B．cold and dry
C．hot and wet D．cool and rainy
4.The writer mainly tells us________.
A．how to make life easier
B．how to be well prepared for a trip
C．how to enjoy ourselves on the trip
D．how to schedule our trip
One night, the first floor of the house suddenly caught fire. The fire was big, and soon became a sea of fire. On the second floor lived a little girl and her grandmother; the little girl’s parents had died, and she lived together with her grandma. In order to rescue the little girl, the grandmother was burned to death, leaving the little girl crying for help loudly.
How could people enter the house? At the very moment, a man carrying a ladder rushed to the flames and got into the window. When he appeared again in the eyes of the people, the little girl was in his arms. He gave the child to the crowd, and then disappeared into the night.
This little girl had no family. Two months later a meeting was held to find a person to adopt (收养) the girl. A teacher was willing to adopt this child, and said she could give her the best education; a farmer wanted to adopt this child, saying that village life would let the child grow up healthily and happily; a rich man said, “I can give the child everything that others can do.”
A lot of people who wanted to adopt this child said about many benefits of their adopting the child. But the little girl’s face had no expression. At this time, a man, through the crowd, walked straight in front of the little girl, and opened his arms for the little girl. People were puzzled, and they found that the man had terrible scars on his arms. The little girl let out a cry, “This is the man who saved me!” She suddenly jumped up, and buried her face in his arms and sobbed. Naturally the man adopted the girl.
1.Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The grandma was too old to rush out of the room.
B. The little girl and her grandpa lived on the second floor.
C. To rescue the little girl, her grandma died in the fire.
D. The grandma and the little girl cried for help loudly on the first floor.
2.What did the man do when he had saved the little girl?
A. He returned to his work.
B. He left the girl to the crowd and left quickly.
C. He was injured and went to the hospital.
D. He took the girl home.
3.The meeting was held there in order to .
A. decide who would adopt the girl
B. find out who had rescued the girl
C. decide how the girl would be raised
D. honor the hero who had saved the girl
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A. People didn’t want to help the little girl at first.
B. The man who had saved the girl was a fireman.
C. The rich man would buy everything the girl needed.
D. The girl recognized the man and was happy to be adopted by him.
