Aboywassentbyhisparentstoaboar-优题课

It was the final game for my eight﹣year﹣old son's soccer team．Near the end of the match，the score was two to one my son's team being ahead．Parents surrounded the playground，offering（36）　　．

There were less than ten seconds（37）　　and the ball stopped in front of my son's teammate，Mickey．With cheering shouts（38）　　the field，Mickey went back a little and kick the ball with everything he had．All around me the crowd became crazy and（39）　　．Mickey had（40）　　．

Then there was a compete（41）　　．Mickey had scored，but in the wrong gate，the（42）　　went into the gate of my son's team，ending the game in a draw（平局）．You see，Mickey has a serious（43）　　in his head，which makes his IQ lower that of normal children of the same age．And for him，he didn't understand what a wrong goal was．All goals were（44）　　by a happy hug from Mickey．He had been known to hug the players whom he was fighting against when they scored．

The silence was（45）　　broken when Mickey，his face（46）　　with joy，caught my son，hugged him and shouted，"I scored! I scored．Everybody won! Everybody won! "For a moment I held my breath，not sure how my son would do and say，In fact，I didn't（47）　　to worried．I watched through tears，When I found my son raised his hand and started call out（48）　　，"Well done，Mickey!" Soon，member from both teams got around Mickey，（49）　　him on his goal．

Later that night，when my daughter asked（50）　　had won，"Everybody won"． I smiled and replied．

36．A．encouragement	B．instruction	C．management	D．competition
37．A．useful	B．alive	C．gone	D．left
38．A．between	B．against	C．across	D．past
39．A．excited	B．interested	C．surprised	D．embarrassed
40．A．checked	B．scored	C．returned	D．tired
41．A．Independence	B．victory	C．silence	D．relation
42．A．ball	B．guide	C．player	D．crowd
43．A．idea	B．mistake	C．illness	D．sense
44．A．wasted	B．celebrated	C．remembered	D．reminded
45．A．partly	B．seriously	C．deeply	D．finally
46．A．covered	B．filled	C．appeared	D．shared
47．A．choose	B．forget	C．mean	D．need
48．A．strongly	B．softly	C．wildly	D．privately
49．A．pushing	B．complaining	C．interviewing	D．congratulating
50．A．who	B．which	C．when	D．where．

Every day cars kill or hurt many people on roads．Sometimes the drivers drive too（41）　　　or do not drive carefully enough．Some of them（42）　　the traffic rules and cause accidents．

According to some researches，it is usually the pedestrians步行者who cause the （43）　　．A lot of road users are very careless．They walk or run across the roads（44）　　the cars．They walk in the roads but not on the walkways．They get into or out of cars in the middle of the road．Some do not take the trouble to（45）　　green lights and simply cross the roads against the red lights.

Many people think accidents often happen in busy roads in large cities，but this is not（46）　　true．（47）　　，Tokyo is one of the world's largest cities and probably one of the busiest cities however，there are（48）　　accidents to pedestrians．The reason is that the police there are very strict and the pedestrians are very careful．Pedestrians never cross against a red light and they always follow traffic rules．

Do you know alcohol酒精is another main cause of traffic accidents？It delays people's response．Those who have drunk alcohol are（49）　　in making decisions．They need a few more（50）　　to react （反应）．Alcohol drinking is especially dangerous for motor car drivers．It is not only drivers who may have accidents after drinking．Drunken pedestrians may put their lives in danger as well．

41．A．slow	B．fast	C．slowly	D．carefully
42．A．make	B．remember	C．follow	D．break
43．A．problems	B．accidents	C．games	D．results
44．A．at the end of	B．in the centre of	C．in front of	D．on top of
45．A．wait for	B．worry about	C．turn on	D．point out
46．A．never	B．often	C．always	D．sometimes
47．A．In addition	B．For example	C．By the way	D．On the other hand
48．A．few	B．many	C．enough	D．some
49．A．slow	B．active	C．interested	D．excited
50．A．days	B．hours	C．minutes	D．seconds

You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many centuries．In fact，an English dictionary you（26）　　today wasn't made until the Qing Dynasty（清朝）．Three men did most of the important（27）　　work on dictionaries．They spent nearly all their lives trying to （28）　　words for their dictionaries．For them，It was a wonderful journey．The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary．The（29）　　for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857．Twenty﹣two years later，Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary．

Murray had never been to（30）　　．At the age of fourteen，he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank．（31）　　he became a great teacher．After Oxford give him the job，Murray had a small house （32）　　in his garden to do the work．Every morning，Mary got out of bed at five o'clock and（33）　　in the small house several hours before breakfast．Often he would work into the night．Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years．But after five years，he was（34）　　adding words for the letter "A"! He worked on the dictionary（35）　　he was very old．

Forty﹣four years later，In 1928，other editors finished the dictionary．

26．A．write	B．use	C．copy	D．miss
27．A. early	B．boring	C．easy	D．difficult
28．A. spell	B．collect	C．invent	D．make
29．A．way	B．use	C．idea	D．prize
30．A．school	B．cinema	C．village	D．college
31．A．Ever since	B．Since then	C．So far	D．Later
32．A．built	B．sold	C．broken	D．drawn
33．A．read	B．wrote	C．worked	D．thought
34．A．already	B．still	C．usually	D．always
35．A．if	B．because	C．until	D．unless

Students are always asked to do much homework，Have you read the following passages？

You'd better not work when you're very hungry．If you（16）　　your homework right after school，you may have a snack before getting to work．Always do your homework（17）　　you get tired．（18）　　wait until very late in the evening，or the homework will seem much（19）　　 than it really is．

Break your time into manageable（易处理的） period．If you have more than（20）　　，give yourself a break after an hour．On the other hand，don't break it up（21）　　that you can't get anything done．You should be able to work at least half an hour at a time（22）　　．Don't put it off until the last（23）　　．If you put off doing your homework，you will always think of it，and you won't enjoy your （24）　　so much．If you put it off until the end of the week or until right before a test，you will have too much work to do for the exam．

A little bit each night，enough to keep up with what is happening each day in school，will take the fear out of tests and keep you on top of it all．Do your homework（25）　　every day．This will help you make it a habit．It will make it easier to do，and it will make free time more enjoyable as well．

16．A．decide to do	B．decided doing	C．have done	D．did
17．A．after	B．when	C．because	D．before
18．A．Not	B．Please	C．Don't	D．Always
19．A．harder	B．hard	C．easy	D．easier
20．A．one hour work	B．an hour work	C．a work of an hour	D．an hour's work
21．A．so much	B．so little	C．so often	D．so well
22．A．with a stop	B．without stopping	C．stopping	D．stop
23．A．week	B．hour	C．minute	D．day
24．A．lunch	B．free time	C．meals	D．snack
25．A．at a time	B．in a short time	C．once	D．at the same time．

It was the junior high prom（毕业舞会）night．I sat in the car waiting for my son to come out．Seeing him（36）　　a tuxedo（燕尾服）for the first time，my feelings were mixed．（37）　　I realized it，he had become a teenager．The moment he got into the car，he couldn't wait to share the prom with me．A smile（38）　　across my face．

"This is the（39）　　night I have ever had，"he said．He began telling the story just like（40）　　a bag of beans．"I was talking with Jane when we saw a girl standing off into a dark corner alone，crying．Jane asked me to go dancing with the girl，but I said that Jane was（41）　　because I didn't even know who the girl was．Jane wouldn't stop and said that I had a（n）（42） to do something special by dancing with the girl．I knew why she was crying．Everybody could see that she was a little overweight and（43）　　invited her to dance．I wanted to．but I was afraid that I'd be laughed at．What if she turned me（44）．It took me a lot of（45）　　to go over and ask if she wanted to dance．She said yes and we walked out to the dance floor．I felt my face turned red，but it was（46）　　and I didn't think others noticed．I thought everyone was looking at us，（47） no one laughed and we danced the whole dance．What happened next was unexpected．

After I danced with the girl，a lot of guys started dancing with girls（48）　　hadn't danced yet．It was only three minutes，but I was happy that I did something （49）　　tonight．I learned something，too．"

I could see tears in his eyes．I gave my son a hug and told him，"I'm so（50）　　you．"

36．A．on	B．in	C．with	D．a
37．A．After	B．As	C．Because	D．Before
38．A．set	B．stopped	C．spread	D．saved
39．A．best	B．worst	C．longest	D．shortest
40．A．filling	B．picking	C．buying	D．emptying
41．A．crazy	B．nice	C．lucky	D．careless
42．A．right	B．chance	C．ability	D．interest
43．A．everybody	B．somebody	C．nobody	D．anybody
44．A．off	B．out	C．over	D．down
45．A．patience	B．courage	C．energy	D．face
46．A．dark	B．bright	C．cold	D．noisy
47．A．so	B．or	C．and	D．but
48．A．which	B．who	C．what	D．whose
49．A．strange	B．interesting	C．special	D．difficult
50．A．proud of	B．worried about	C．angry with	D．interested in