One day, a boy found the cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small ___16___in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make ___17___body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped.
So the boy ___18___to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be ___19___. He took a pair of scissors(剪刀) and cut the hole ___20___. The butterfly came out of the cocoon, but it ___21___a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin ___22___. The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.
The boy acted with___23___but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawl out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of ___24___out of the cocoon makes the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be ___25___to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze(挤压) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never get the fluid and it can never fly.
___26___struggles are what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be ___27___ we could have been and we would never fly.
In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even ___28___ growth, without it, there’s no way of life. We can’t avoid ___29___ or problems. So, next time you are ___30___ a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little–then fly!
A．hole B．worm C．tail D．snake
A．it B．it’s C．itself D．its
A．decided B．asked C．showed D．ordered
A．afraid B．interested C．surprised D．grateful
A．slimmer B．bigger C．shorter D．smaller
A．touched B．sounded C．looked D．smelt
A．wings B．feet C．eyes D．head
A．success B．excitement C．kindness D．humour
A．get B．getting C．to get D．got
A．ready B．quiet C．glad D．used
A．Somewhere B．Something C．Some time D．Sometimes
A．as helpful as B．as weak as C．as strong as D．as creative as
A．repeats B．recommends C．requires D．represents
A．happiness B．difficulties C．pleasure D．hope
A．served with B．growing into C．bringing in D．faced with
Once a king was walking around a pool with his ministers(大臣). Suddenly, he came up with an idea. He asked, “How many baskets of ________are there in the pool?” The ministers couldn’t give a(n) __________. The king was angry, “You _________answer my question in three days!”
Three days passed, but the ministers had _________answer. Just then, a child said that he knew it. The king told the ministers to lead (带领) the child to the _________. To his surprise, the child refused(拒绝) and said with a smile, “It’s __________. No need to go to the pool.” This made the king pleased(高兴). “All right. Let us know what it is.” The child said, “If you know the _________of the basket, the answer is known. __________it is as big as the pool, there is one basket of water; half as big, ________basket(s)…” “stop! That’s it. You’ve got the answer.” The king said happily.
Sometimes to get out of the difficulty, one must change one’s way of __________.
A．fish B．flowers C．water D．grass
A．basket B．pool C．question D．answer
A．can B．must C．may D．need
A．no B．an C．every D．another
A．palace B．pool C．room D．garden
A．easy B．important C．hard D．dangerous
A．colour B．age C．size D．weight
A．Because B．If C．But D．Or
A．half B．one C．two D．three
A．listening B．teaching C．talking D．thinking
The Other Side of the Wall
There was a young woman who took great pride in her flower garden. She was raised by her grandmother who taught her to love and for flowers. So her flower garden was the best.
One day, while she was looking through a flower list she often from, a picture of a plant caught her eyes. She had never blooms(花) on a flower like that before. “I have to have it,” she said to herself, and she ordered it.
When it arrived, she already had a prepared to plant it. She planted it at the back of her yard. It grew well, with beautiful green leaves all over it, there were no blooms. Day after day she continued to water it, feed it, and she even talked to it trying to make it bloom. However, it was .
One morning weeks later, when standing before the vine(藤), she felt very that her plant had not bloomed. She was giving thought to it down and planting something else in its place.
It was at this point that her neighbor, whose joined hers, called over to her. “Thank you so much! You can’t imagine how much I have the blooms of that vine you planted.” The young woman walked the gate into her neighbor’s yard, and sure enough, she saw that on the other side of the wall the vine was with blooms.
There were indeed the most beautiful blooms she had seen. The vine had grown through the crevices(缝隙) and it had not flowered on side of the wall, but it had flowered on the other side.
Sometimes one may not see the good result of his effort, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t successful.
A．look B．care C．search D．pay
A．learned B．heard C．ordered D．borrowed
A．seen B．smelt C．sold D．picked
A．finally B．carefully C．suddenly D．immediately(立刻)
A．place B．box C．cup D．room
A．and B．so C．or D．but
A．endless B．useless C．successful D．hopeful
A．excited B．nervous C．sad D．frightened
A．putting B．cutting C．turning D．taking
A．balcony B．kitchen C．bedroom D．yard
A．enjoyed B．dreamed C．expected D．hated
A．through B．across C．above D．below
A．satisfied B．connected C．filled D．pleased
A．never B．ever C．seldom D．usually
A．its B．his C．her D．their
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. Life today is easier then it was years ago, but it has brought some new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. We can see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has polluted the . The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serous because there were not so people. When the land was used up or the river was not clean in a place, man went to place. Now man is slowly polluting the whole world.
pollution is still the most serious, it’s bad for things in the world.
Many countries don’t let people burn for air in the houses and factories in the city. Pollution by SO2 is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution. It’s caused by heavy traffic. People say it’s to ride bikes. When you are riding, there is no pollution. But even in developed countries, most people don’t go to work by bike. It’s not because bikes are expensive or people are tired if they ride to work. It’s because the number of cars on the roads becomes larger. So more people their bikes and go to work by car, then things are getting worse and worse. We should have special roads only for bikes and make it difficult and expensive for divers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bikes.
A．hundred B．hundreds of C．hundred of D．hundreds
A．moon B．star C．earth D．sun
A．lot B．little C．many D．much
A．others B．the others C．the other D．another
A．Air B．Food C．Water D．Noise
A．life B．live C．living D．lives
A．something bad B．bad something C．something good D．good something
A．least B．best C．most D．worst
A．put on B．look at C．put away D．look up
A．quite B．such C．very D．So
完形填空。
Simon is 14 years old. He lives____Beijing.Today is his first day of school.Simon wants to go to ____see his new classmates. He wants to ___ his new teachers ,too.
Simon ___ early in the morning.He eats breakfast and goes to school by ___.It takes him about 20 minutes to ride a bike there. When Simon comes into the classroom,___sees Leo.Leo is his cousin. They are in the same class and they are ___now.Leo lives far from school .He___his dad’s car to school.
Simon likes basketball very much,___he wants to join the basketball club.Leo doesn’t like any sports .He wants to join the ___club.A.at B.in C.to
A.school B.library C.hall
A.see B.show C.make
A.comes in B.gets upC.goes to school
A.car B.bus C.bike
A.he B.she C.we
A.brothers B.teachers C.classmates
A.takes B.rides C.calls
A.ifB.but C.so
A.music B.soccer C.basketball
Charlie came from a poor village. His parents had money to send him to school when he was young. The boy was very sad. Mr. King lived next to them. He found the boy and had pity on him and lent some money to him. So the boy could go to school. He studied hard and all his lessons. When he finished middle school, the man introduced him to his friend in the town. And the boy began to work.
Once, Mr. King was seriously hurt in an accident. Dying, he asked Charlie to take care of his daughter, Sharon. The young man and several years later he married the girl. He loved her very much and tried his best to make her happy. He often bought beautiful clothes and delicious food for her. He was good at cooking and she ate ，and when she had a baby, she became so fat that she felt it difficult to walk. And one day she found there was something wrong with her heart. Her husband wasn't at home and she had to go to at once. The doctor looked her over and told her eat meat, sugar, chocolate and things like these. She was afraid the doctor's words and wrote all the names of the food on the paper. When she got home, she put the list on the table and .
When she returned home that afternoon, she found many kinds of food－meat, sugar and chocolate in the kitchen. Charlie was busy them. As soon as he saw her, he said happily, "I've bought all the food you like, dear！”
A．no B．some C．much D．enough
A．lazy B．clever C．careful D．hard
A．did well in B．was poor at C．was working D．was good for
A．was angry B．thought hard C．agreed D．said "no"
A．a little B．a few C．many D．a lot
A．rest B．sleep C．hospital D．work
A．should B．would C．to D．not to
A．to remember B．to forget C．to catch D．to teach
A．slept B．went out C．cooked D．ate
A．reading B．seeing C．cooking D．writing