A little boy named Harry became very ill. He had to lie in bed all day, unable to move. He spent his days feeling and blue.
There wasn’t much he could do except look out of the . Time passed, and his illness frustrated him. Until one day he saw a strange in the window. It was a penguin eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin got in the open window, and said “good afternoon” to Harry, turned around, and __ quickly.
Of course, Harry was very . He was still trying to work out what had happened. Outside his window he saw a monkey busy blowing up a balloon. At first Harry asked himself that could possibly be, but after a while, as more and more crazy-looking appeared outside the window, he couldn’t help and found it hard to stop.
An elephant jumped on a stone, or a dog wore a pair of glasses and acted in a way. The little boy didn’t tell anyone about this. Those strange characters ended up putting joy back in his heart, and in his body. Before long, his health had so much that he was able to go back to school again.
There he told his classmates all that he had . While he was talking to his best friend, he saw __ coming out of his friend’s school bag. Harry asked his friend what it was, and he was so insistent (坚持) that his friend had to show him what was in the bag.
There, inside, were all the things that his best friend had been using to try to the little boy!
And from that day on, Harry always did his best to make sure that no one felt sad and alone.
A．happy B．sad C．excited D．cool
A．roof B．hole C．window D．wall
A．photo B．painting C．sign D．shape
A．above B．below C．over D．through
A．left B．slept C．flew D．drove
A．annoyed B．surprised C．bored D．tired
A．what B．which C．when D．where
A．people B．students C．children D．characters
A．crying B．laughing C．running D．coughing
A．funny B．rude C．dull D．strict
A．grown B．improved C．increased D．developed
A．acted B．heard C．experienced D．dreamed
A．something B．anything C．nothing D．everything
A．quickly B．suddenly C．immediately D．finally
A．cheer up B．give up C．make up D．put up
【2012安徽中考】The umbrella is a very common object. It keeps the and the sun off the people. Most umbrellas can be folded up[折叠] so it is to carry them. However,the umbrella has not always been as as it is now. In the past,it was a symbol of importance.Some African countries still use umbrellas in this .Someone carries an umbrella and walks behind the king or important person.
Umbrellas are very old.People in different parts of the world began to umbrellas at different times. The Chinese had them more than 3,000 years ago. From there,umbrellas to India and Egypt. In Greece and Rome, wouldn't use them. They believed umbrellas were only for women. England was the first country in Europe where common people used umbrellas against rain.The weather there is very and umbrellas are very useful. Everybody uses umbrellas today. The next time you 60 one, thinking that for centuries only great men and women used them, you'll feel you are important people,too.
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【2013浙江杭州】Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving _________.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was _________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned _________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, _________ there I sat, waiting for the light to _________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any _________.
I started wondering why I _________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was _________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no _________ in going through it.
Much later that ________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light ________ me. I think I stopped ________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow ________: we don’t go through red lights.
We do ________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.
I was so ________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.
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【2013湖北武汉】完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
“I’m really thankful to our government, for it provides us with such a good training program. The training greatly helps us live well. I will certainly study hard and learn the skills. Then I can my family difficulties and do good to other people.” a learner on the job training program said, feeling .
The learner’s grandfather is nearly 80 years old, and has mother is in bed. So his father, who is a farmer, is the main of the family. The family is poor. The learner graduated from high school and did not the college entrance exam. The job training program helps him learn the skills that he’ll in the work place.
The story reminds me of another . It goes like this: Once upon a time, there was a man who liked fishing very much, and was to catch lots of fish every day. The man was a kind-hearted person, so he always his fish with his neighbors who did not know how to fish. One day, he thought that it would be if he taught them how to fish. So he his neighbors together and showed them how to fish. Everybody was very happy that they could the fish they themselves caught.
At present, there are still a lot of poor people throughout the world. But it’s not good if we give only to them. , we should give them a chance to learn new skills. Therefore, a technical training is very important to people in need, and the will learn the ability to money. People can learn a lot of useful things in the training program and what they learn can help them on the way to find jobs.
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【2014泰安】Each nation has many volunteers (志愿者) who help to take care of others. They books to the people in hospitals or homes for the aged. Sometimes they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their .
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or . They paint, clean up, their houses or do their shopping.
For boys who no longer have , there is an organization called Big Brothers. College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or fishing places and help them to get to
know things that boys learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of clubs boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts(工艺). Some of these clubs organize short trips to the mountains, beaches, or other places of
interest . Most of these clubs use high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to the names of boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those who help to happiness to others.
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【2014安徽】A
In China, very few children make pocket money. , in western countries, most kids make pocket money by themselves. They make money in many different .
When kids are very young, their parents help them sell the fruits of their own trees to neighbours. Kids may also help do housework to make money at home. When they sixteen, they can make money by sending newspapers or by working in fast food restaurants, during the summer holidays.
There are many of making pocket money by kids themselves. First of all, they learn the of money by working hard so that they will not waste any. Secondly, they learn to money to buy things they need or want, such as books, pencils, movies, and even clothes they like. Thirdly, they learn to the daily life problems by helping their parents or others. Making pocket money is for children when they grow up. That is why parents encourage their kids to make pocket money.
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