Edie was nine years old, and she was tinier than other children of her age. One day, she ran home crying loudly, because she was 36 by the three new girls of her school. They picked her as the object of their 37 and threatened to beat her up. Edie’s mother held her 38 and comforted (安慰)her. She 39 the next day that the girls had been troublemakers at several other schools and they were being given one more 40 at a new beginning.
Edie’s _41 said ,“Be kind to your enemies, Edie.”She _42 said, “When the girls 43 to threatened you next time ,tell them you want to be their friend.”“Are you 44 enough to do that?”Edie’s mother asked. The 45 girl answered, “Yes, Mom, I’ll try.”
Every day, the girls pushed Edie and called her names and 46 to get in a poke(戳) or two. Each time, Edie looked up at them and said, “ I’d really like to be your 47 .”But it seemed that this wasn’t working.
Then one day the following week, Edie ran home as 48 as she could , shouting ,“Mom, guess what happened today ! Just like I 49 did, I said I’d really like to be their friend, and one of the 50 said ,‘Okay, Edie, we 51 and we’ll be your friends’”A short time later, Edie sat at a table with them and 52 their tutor (私人教师).
Towards the end of the school year, 53 Edie’s parents went to school for a parent-teacher conference, the teacher told 54 ,“Because of Edie’s kindness, those girls have completed 55 and are model students in the class.”
A．frightened B．encouraged C．cheated D．saved
A．shame B．surprise C．anger D．fear
A．suddenly B．unwillingly C．curiously D．softly
A．expressed B．admitted C．learned D．believed
A．time B．chance C．lesson D．trouble
A．sister B．father C．mother D．teacher
A．again B．also C．once D．just
A．start B．agree C．refuse D．forget
A．kind B．brave C．strong D．clever
A．weak B．foolish C．selfish D．tiny
A．chose B．promised C．volunteered D．tried
A．friend B．classmate C．enemy D．neighbor
A．fast B．carefully C．late D．safely
A．never B．seldom C．always D．often
A．boys B．students C．players D．girls
A．grow older B．give up C．set off D．become worse
A．became B．helped C．invited D．found
A．if B．when C．because D．before
A．her B．him C．us D．them
A．stayed up B．broken down C．turned around D．fallen behind
完形填空,阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后从1—20各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Hot lava flows down a Hawaiian mountainside. Farther up the slope, volcanologist（火山学家）Ken Hon picks his way slowly across the____surface. The hot lava（岩浆）is slippery to walk on. “It’s like walking on ice,” Hon says. “But the bottom part of your boots starts to____ a little. You’ll get burned____you fall.”
Hon plants his feet carefully and slowly. He’s____ data on the lava flowing out of Kilauea, a volcano that has been erupting since 1983. ____the lava’s movements can save lives on the slopes below. But Hon must be____. New waves of lava are flowing down toward him. Every few minutes he looks up to see ____the streams are and makes sure the____lava hasn’t cut off his escape route.
“It’s___out there, like the heat from an oven,” Hon says. “Up close, you have to wear firefighters’ clothes____the clothes you’re wearing don’t catch fire or melt.”
“Back in 1990, lava entered the town of Kalapana. The lava moved slowly but steadily,” Hon says. “We____ evacuate(疏散) people from about 150 homes. The lava____forward and consumed all of the houses.” ____, everyone escaped. But today Kalapana is buried under 30 feet of lava.
Volcanoes aren’t____to Hon. They’re fascinating and exciting. “My____thing is to come out at the edge of a lava lake. Sometimes I’ve had to sleep with a gas mask on.” Still, Hon knows how to keep____ and knows when the lava is ____. “All of a sudden, it gets really bright inside your____!” he says, laughing. But the____is worth it, because the more Hon and other scientists can____volcanoes, the safer they can keep the people who live around these powerful forces of nature.
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I went to a group activity, “Sensitivity Sunday” which was to make us more ________ the problem faced by disabled people. We were asked to “ ________ a disability” for several hours one Sunday. Some member ________ chose the wheel chair. Other wore sound-blocking earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩).
Just sitting in the wheelchair was a ________ experience, I had never considered before how ________ it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down my ________ made the chair begin to roll. Its wheel were not ________ . Then I wondered where to put my________, It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into ________ , I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of ________ for several hours. For disabled people, “adopting a wheelchair” is not a temporary(临时的) ________ .
I tried to find a ________position and thought it might be restful, ________ kind of nice to be ________ around for a while. Looking around, I________would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I ________ the heavy wheels, I came to know that controlling the ________ of the wheelchair as not going to be ________ task, My wheelchair experiment was soon ________ . It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of “disability” gave me only a taste of the ________, both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome.
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
During the wars, a soldier looked after his horse with the greatest care. He gave it the best wheat to eat and the ________ water to drink. He dried it carefully with a towel when it got wet and ________ it with a warm blanket on cold winter nights. ________ , the horse was strong and swirl and carried its master ________ out of the dangers of ________ .
When peace came, however, the soldier ________ . He put the ________ out in a field full of wild plants and gave it only a little food to eat. He left the horse ________ in a worn-out place with a ________ roof and a floor made of mud. During the day the ________ made the horse work hard on his farm, ________ a large amount of wood and pulling heavy wagons (四轮货车).
After some time war broke out ________ . The soldier prepared himself for the war and went to the field to ________ his horse. Hurriedly brushing the mud from its coat, he ________ the horse. For a moment the horse stood there without ________ . Then gradually its ________legs began to bend ________ it sank slowly to the ground. The horse gave the soldier a look of ________ .
"Master," it said, "you' ll have to ________ on foot this time. You have made me work like a mule (骡子) and ________ me like a goat. I cannot change back into a horse in an instant just because you Want me to."
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完形填空,阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There was a woman in Detroit，who has two sons．She was worried________ them，especially the younger one, Ben，________ he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class________ fun of him because he seemed so________．
The mother ________that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She________ them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a________a week and do a report about it for her．
One day，in Ben’s ________ , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben ________ up his hand and the teacher let him________. “Why did Ben raise his hand？” they wondered. He ________ said anything; what could he possibly want to say？ Well, Ben not only________ the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew________ the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were________ . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book________ ．
Ben later went on to the ________ of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University________at last became one of the best doctors in the United States．
After Ben had grown up，he ________ something about his mother that he did not know as a ________. She，herself，had never learned how to ________ ．
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完型填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
My class and I visited Chris Care Center in Phoenix, Arizona to comfort the old people who needed a little cheering up during the holiday season.
The first two there were for persons requiring help in taking care of themselves. We sang________for them. They loved our sweet songs and the flowers that we left with them.
As we were ________ on the third floor for old people with Alzheimer (老年痴呆症), most of them ________off at the walls or floor. However, one lady ________ my eye. She was sitting by the door, in a wheelchair, singing songs to herself. They weren’t the songs that we were singing, at least they didn’t ________ like that. As we got ________ with each festive song, she did as well. The louder we got, the louder she got. ________ she was singing, she was also ________ out to us with her hands and body. I knew that I should have gone over to her, but I thought that my________ were to my students. People who worked at the care center could ________ to her, I thought. Just when I stopped feeling ________ about not giving her the attention she needed, one of my students, Justin, showed me what the holiday season is really about.
Justin also ________ the same lady. The difference between us is that he ________ on her needs, but I didn’t. During the last song, “Silent Night,” Justin walked over to her and held her hand. He looked this aged lady in her ________ and with his actions said, “You are important, and I will take my ________ to let you know that.” This tired, elderly lady stopped singing and held his hand. Then she touched his cheek with the other hand. Tears began to fall down her face. No________ can completely describe that touching moment.
It ________ a boy to teach me, a man, about kindness and love. Justin’s example of a complete, selfless attitude toward another was a ________ that I will never forget. He was the teacher that day, and I consider myself ________ to have witnessed his lesson.
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