A couple of weeks ago，my dad，who is seventy－six，had an operation on his left knee. He came through the operation just fine and although they told him he would be in hospital for five days，he only stayed there for three days. He had a local anesthetic(局部麻醉)and was able to see and hear everything that went on in the operating room.
Later in his room，he was laughing as he told the story of hearing the hammer and saw as they took out the bone. With a smile on his face，he advised that the doctors should sharpen the saw，since he could smell the bone burning as they removed it.
The other day，one of the rubber tips on his walker wore out. Not wanting to damage the carpet or the kitchen floor，he went to his shop to find a new rubber tip. I was talking with my mom and after some time we got concerned，so I went out to see if he was OK. I walked into the shop to find him sitting on his work bench laughing. I asked what he was doing. He explained that since the rubber tip would not fit his walker，he was changing legs. It seems Mom’s walker，which she used five years ago，was broken on the top，but the legs were better than the ones on his walker.
Together my dad and I worked and worked，laughing all the time. The more trouble we had，the harder we laughed. I have been fortunate enough to have many such minutes with my dad.
1.When advising the doctors to sharpen the saw，the author’s father really intended to________.
A.be humorous
B.express his anger
C.make a complaint
D.make fun of the doctors
2.The author’s father went to his shop to________.
A.change legs
B.change his walker
C.find his wife’s walker
D.replace the rubber tip
3.Which of the following can best describe the author’s father?
A.Stupid. B.Smart.
C.Optimistic. D.Stubborn.
4.The author writes the text probably to ________.
A.warn us
B.encourage us
C.make us laugh
D.call on us to care for the disabled
单句语法填空
1.—Why did you make the kite of cloth instead of paper?
—Because paper ____________ (tear) easily.
2.The young man glared ____________ the naughty boys and they kept silent at once.
3.The library requires ____________ (clean)，but it’ll have to wait until Sunday.
4.You’d better get up as early as possible，____________ you may miss the train.
5.We crowded ________ the hall，and found it crowded ________ so many people busy preparing for the job interview.
6.As far as I know，her mother hardly ever shouted at her ____________ anger.
7.Have you written back yet，thanking her for her ____________ (invite)?
8.Hold ____________ a moment and I will go to your rescue.
单词拼写
1.Many stars are ________ (看不见的) without a telescope.
2.The store was ________ (挤满) with shoppers.
3.A ________ (堆) of dirty clothes lay by the washing machine.
4.Seeing the young man trying to rob her bag，the lady ________ (怒目而视) at him and fought back.
5.Everyone ________ (鞠躬) as Queen walked into the room.
6.An ambulance ________ (急驰)to the scene of the accident just now.
语法填空
We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and exams. Yet would it be 1.(surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding as it is in China?
In US high school，everything2.(record) and graded，including your grades on quizzes，tests and final examinations. Failing3.(turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps contrary to 4. we used to think of the US high school students，they pay great attention to their academic 5. (perform) to try to get into distinguished university. 6. they’ll be disappointed after graduation from high school.
Like university students，US high school students have the 7.(free) to choose the courses that most interest 8.(they). Even a 9th－grader can sit 9. the same classroom as 12th－graders. But this also means he or she has to work very hard，because the teacher will not treat him or her differently just because he or she is a few years 10.(young).
If you were to see a cold，hungry cat in front of your house，would you feed it or walk away？Most people would walk away instead of taking the time to make sure the cat is okay. 1. They usually have so much to deal with in their daily life as to ignore their surroundings.
Now here’s another question: If you see a group of kids hitting and abusing an animal，would you stop them？2. Some people do not believe that animal abuse is a big issue.
Every day animals are abused in their homes or on the streets. It seems as if politicians do nothing to stop this issue. Everyone is worried about education and global warming. What about animals？3. These are the rights that allow animals a place to stay，a shelter if they have no place to stay，the right not to be abused and many other rights. Are we taking away animals’ right by not giving them a place to stay？Yes，we are. Since I was born，my mother，my sister and I have taken in over fifty homeless cats，fed them，cleaned them and sent them to good families.
Some people probably give different views，saying，“4.” It’s true. There are people in the world that need help but we cannot forget the animals. We are all living on this Earth together，why not help each other?
5. You can volunteer at your local animal shelter，raise money for animal shelters，and inform your community about animal abuse. You can easily buy a cheap box of dry cat/dog food to feed the animals.
A. Again people would walk away.
B. There are many things you can do to help animals around.
C. Many people have little knowledge about old animals.
D. Animals，like us Americans，have rights.
E. The problem is that people generally live busy lives.
F. I’m only one person and I can’t make a difference.
G. There are people in the world who need more help than old animals.
Americans wear black for mourning. Chinese wear white. Westerners think of dragons as monsters. Chinese honor them as symbols of God. Chinese civilization has often shown such polarities (极性) with the West，as though each stands at extreme ends of a global string. Now in the University of California，Berkeley，a psychologist has discovered deeper polarities between Chinese and American cultures—polarities that go to the heart of how we reason and discover truth.
His findings go far toward explaining why American cultures seem so contentious and Chinese cultures so passive，when compared to each other. More importantly，the research opens the way for the peoples of the East and the West to learn from each other in fundamental ways. The Chinese could learn much from Western methods for determining scientific truth，said Kaiping Peng，a former Beijing scholar，who is now a UC Berkeley assistant professor of psychology. And Americans could profit enormously from the Chinese tolerance for accepting contradictions (矛盾) in social and personal life，he said.
“Americans have a terrible need to find out who is right in an argument，” said Peng. “The problem is that at the interpersonal level，you really don’t need to find the truth，or maybe there isn’t any. ”Chinese people，said Peng，are far more content to think that both sides have flaws (缺陷) and virtues，because they have a holistic awareness that life is full of contradictions. They do far less blaming of the individual than do Americans，he added.
In studies of interpersonal argument，for example，when subjects were asked to deal with contradictory information stemming from conflict between a mother and a daughter or a student and a school，Peng found that Americans were “noncompromising，blaming one side—usually the mother—for the causes of the problems，demanding changes from one side to attain a solution and offering no compromise”in dealing with the conflict. Compared to this angry，blaming American stance，the Chinese were paragons (模范) of compromise，finding fault on both sides and looking for solutions that moved both sides to the middle.
1.In Paragraph 1，the author sets examples in order to ________.
A.expose the contradiction between Chinese and Americans
B.show the differences between Chinese culture and American culture
C.find the reason for the differences
D.generalize the main idea of the passage
2.The underlined word “contentious” in Paragraph 2 probably means “________”.
A.conservative B.aggressive
C.objective D.optimistic
3.Compared with Americans，Chinese are ________.
A.likely to find the truth in life
B.reluctant to admit their failure
C.reluctant to have a general idea of things
D.likely to know advantages and disadvantages of things
4.The studies show that ________.
A.an American treats his or her mother badly
B.different ideas of treating the aged
C.different personalities of Chinese and Americans
D.different conflicts of Americans and Chinese
