One day, a boy found a cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small 35 in the cocoon. He sat and 36 for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make its body through that little hole. Suddenly it 37 .
So the boy decided to help the butterfly.He took a pair of scissors(剪刀) and cut the hole bigger.The butterfly came out 38 , but it looked a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin 39 . The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, it has to spend 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 40 but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawls out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of getting out of the cocoon 41 the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be 42 to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze(挤压) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never 43 the fluid and it can never fly.
Sometimes struggles are what we need in our lives. 44 we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be as 45 as what we could have been. We would never fly.
In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even means growth, without it, there’s no way of life. We can’t 46 difficulties or problems. So, next time you are faced with a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly.
Struggle a little—then fly!
A．snake B．insect C．wall D．hole
A．read B．listened C．watched D．found
A．stopped B．began C．continued D．moved
A．wings B．head C．feet D．eyes
A．kindness B．excitement C．success D．humour
A．lets B．keeps C．makes D．asks
A．ready B．sorry C．glad D．kind
A．put B．refuse C．give D．get
A．When B．As C．Since D．If
A．wise B．quiet C．strong D．patient
A．cause B．avoid C．face D．have
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
My uncle is a teacher .He is a ______ man, about 25 years old. He is tall _____ black short hair. He is a very humorous(幽默的) person. He teaches us Chinese. He often ______ us jokes(笑话) and _______to make our class more _______ . In class, he is a very _____teacher. If we ________ listen to him carefully, he wil_______ us some punishment(惩罚) by _______ us some questions. _______after class, he becomes a very good ________ of us. He _______ talks with the girls and plays _______ with the boys. _______of us really like him. He is our ______ teacher.A. old B. young C. aged
A. and B. forC. with
A. tellsB. to tellC. tell
A. a storyB. storys C. stories
A. boring B. difficultC. interesting
A. busyB. strictC. well
A. doB. don’tC. doesn’t
A. makeB. give C. buy
A. ask B. asks C. asking
A. SoB. And C. But
A. teacherB. friendsC. friend
A. often B. neverC. sometimes
A. a basketball B. the basketballC. basketball
A. OneB. SomeC. All
A. favoriteB. the favoriteC. a favorite
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My family is a big family. I _________two brothers and a sister. My father is good to _______ He works very hard every day.He can’t come home early __________ he can’t have dinner with us. He wants to _________more money. He wants to let us have a happy life.
Later, my father has a better job. But he is still ________and he doesn’t have time to have dinner with us.
When my father is 50 years old, he ________us a big house. One day, he has dinner with us. My family are very _________. “I’ll have dinner with you every day,”my father says. He __________ to stop working.
But the next day, my dear _________leaves us forever because of a traffic accident (交通事故)。
In fact, happy life doesn’t mean too much __________40. Sometimes, it only means a dinner with your family.
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完型填空 （每小题1分，共15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Dear Kitty,
Thank you for your email. In your , you tell something about your school in America. And I a lot about you and your school. Now let you know something about me and my .
I am a(an) _ boy. I was born in Sheyang, Jiangsu. I am twelve years old.
I am Grade Seven at Sheyang Experimental Middle School. It me about fifteen minutes there. I often go to school . But when it rains, I do not walk to school. I go there by bus. My school is big and beautiful. My class many students, thirty-five boys and twenty-five . My teachers say that all of the students are good. like us very much.
This is my family. My mother is a . She in Sheyang Hospital. I have a sister. She is very . But I am tall. We are in the same school. My father is a teacher. He teaches English. All students like his subject and are good at English too.
I am happy in my family and I am happy at school too.
Write back.
Yours
Wang Fang
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In fact, every day is a new day for us. Just like Forrest Gump’s saying, “Life is like a box ________chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.” Sometimes it can be very ________ to turn one of these days around. What can we do when we are sad?
First, we have to face the problem. Sometimes we are not ________ . We ask ourselves________we are not happy. Don’t________ those unhappy things all day. Just think about those happy ones.
Second, ________ourselves we can be happy. The two sentences “ I like myself! ” and “ I want to be happy today!” are ________ . It can turn a bad day into a good day.
Third, ________ is a good way for you to be happy. Exercise is a relaxing(放松) way, ________ it can help you to be happy after exercise.
Remember, please! Your mood(心情) and your life are in your ________ .
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What grade can an 11-year-old boy be in? In Grade 5 or 6, right?
11-year-old Carson Huey-You is in a university（大学）now. And he is doing well in his . He surprises（让…吃惊）all his classmates and teachers. Many people are about him in the university now. But Carson doesn’t think much of their surprised（感到吃惊的） .
Carson hopes to new things and make new friends in the university. His mother goes to classes with him because he is too .
Carson is very clever. His mother, Claretta Huey-You, says numbers and Maths are so difficult for him. He Chinese at home, but English at school. Carson is not a bookworm（书虫）. Sometimes he is just a . Like many other children, he has many , such as playing computer games and playing the piano.
Now all the teachers and students like this young student.
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