Be yourself
We wish that we could be better at sports or more attractive. We wish we had nicer clothes or more money. Everyone likes to feel that lie or she is special.____ ____ , many of us grow up believing that we’re not special at all. We believe we are not good enough just as we are.
Most parents want us to be the best we can be. Very often, they________us to others. By doing this, they try to encourage us to do better. They mean well, but the message we often get is that we’re not good enough. We begin to believe that the only way we can be special is by being better than someone else, but we are often_______.There will always be someone out there who is better than we are at something. Plenty of people around may not be as smart as we are, but they are better at sports. Or they may not be as good-looking, but they have more money. It is ______ for us to be better than everyone else all the time.
We all want the things that we believe will make us better people. But very often we don’t realize that we already have________us the very things that we want. These things make us different from others. When we are growing up, ______sometimes forget to tell us that we are special, that we are good enough. Maybe no one told them when they were growing up. Anyway, it’s up to us to remind them from time to time that each of us, in our own way, is special. What we are is enough.
A.Again B.Next C.Besides D.However
A.describe B.compare C.introduce D.prefer
A.lonely B.forgetful C.disappointed D.nervous
A.helpful B.impossible C.necessary D.unfair
A.inside B.among C.around D.for
A.friends B.scientists C.parents D.doctors
根据短文内容,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个能填入相应空格内的最佳答案,并把答题卡上对应的答案标号涂黑。
“Who would you like to change your life with if possible?” Last week, we asked many middle school students this question. The following are some of their.
Zhang Yike, 12
I want to change my life with my friend, Wang Xiaohui. She is studying in England now. She has to many countries, such as the US and France. They are the places I wish to visit. What’s more, she much better English than me. If I change my life with her, I can visit many beautiful countries, eat delicious and meet different kinds of people there.
Qiu Haoran, 14
I’d like to change my life with my Chinese teacher Miss Zhao. Miss Zhao is a very kind lady. She a lot, so she always has so many stories to tell us. We all like her classes. I also want to be such an excellent teacher and be with my students.
Tan Bo, 13
I will change my life with my elder brother. My brother is a college student now. He does have to go to class all the time. He can study he is interested in. And he even has a part-time job to make money. To , all of these sound very interesting. I really want a life this.
A.answers B.problems C.questions D.changes
A.gone B.come C.been D.moved
A.says B.speaks C.talks D.tells
A.drink B.air C.food D.water
A.teaches B.knows C.thinks D.asks
A.long B.short C.terrible D.interesting
A.busy B.angry C.popular D.serious
A.that B.which C.who D.what
A.me B.him C.you D.them
A.at B.on C.for D.like
阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从A.B.C.D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项.
It was a lovely spring afternoon. My classmates and I were playing happily on the playground when I let out a cry, “Ow!Ow! Something in my shoe is biting* me.”
Everyone was shocked by the cry. They took me into a classroom and were about to take off my____. “Which foot is it?”One asked “let us have a look.”
Suddenly, I remembered the holes in____socks.My family was very poor during those years. I wore welfare socks, which cost only a little, but those____welfare socks didn’t last long. They soon had ____at he bottom.
I refused to take off my shoe. I____stand others seeing the holes in my sock. I tried to hold back my tears Yet, each time the thing____my shoe bit me, tears raced down my face.
My teacher, Miss Diane, hurried into the_____, “What’s wrong? ”She asked.
“Something is biting her right foot,__ __she doesn’t let us take off her shoe,”One of my classmates answered.
Miss Diane lived next door to me.She_____everything about my family .She put both hands on my shaking shoulders and ____into my painful and hopeless eyes.
“Oh,yes,it must be a sock-eating ant,” She said, as if she had____seen the thing inside the shoe. “I had a bite from one of those ants. By the time I got my shoe off ,it had____almost the whole bottom off my sock.” My classmates nodded while they were listening to the teacher____,although they all looked a little puzzled*.
Miss Diane took off my right shoe and sock and shook them over the dustbin*.Two red ants ____it.
“Just what I thought it.The ants have eaten part of her sock.”When she stroked an alcohol* cotton ball on the bites,she added, “You are such a ____girl to take so many bites.”
The alcohol felt cool on the bites and a little girl’s pride was saved by the “sock-eating ant ” story.
A.shoe B.shirt C.hat D.coat
A.his B.her C.my D.your
A.free B.wet C.dirty D.cheap
A.holes B.boxes C.stones D.pockets
A.could B.couldn’t C.must D.mustn’t
A.on B.near C.under D.in
A.office B.playground C.classroom D.toilet
A.because B.but C.or D.so
A.knew B.forgot C.taught D.borrowed
A.looked B.dropped C.ran D.got
A.hardly B.already C.still D.only
A.turned B.put C.taken D.eaten
A.angrily B.sadly C.carefully D.happily
A.lived on B.fell into C.went over D.turned to
A.lucky B.friendly C.brave D.clever
通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后在各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出一个最佳选项。
At a day care centre in Texas, Jessica McClure was playing outside. Jessica’s mother,____worked at the day care centre, was watching her. Suddenly Jessica____ and disappeared. Jessica’s mother cried and ran to her.
The well in the yard was only eight inches across, and a rock always____it.But children had moved the rock.__ __ Jessica fell, she fell right into the well.
Jessica’s mother ran to a phone and called 911 for ____.Men from the fire department arrived. They ____that Jessica was about 20 feet down in the well. Then they told Jessica’s parents their____. “We can’t go down into the well”they said,” It’s so small. So we are going to dig a hole ______well.We’ll dig down about 20 feet. Then we’ll dig a tunnel(通道) across to Jessica. When we reach her, we’ll bring her through the tunnel. Then we’ll bring her up through our____.”
The men began to dig the hole on a Wednesday morning. Two days later, on Friday morning, they were____digging.And Jessica McClure was still in the well.
All over the world people waited for news of Jessica. They read about her in newspapers and watched her rescue(营救)on TV.Everyone___ the little girl in the well.
At 8:00 p.m. On Friday, the men____ reached Jessica and brought her up from the well. Then doctors rushed her to the hospital. Jessica was badly injured but she was still____.A doctor at the hospital said, “Jessica is lucky she is very____.She’s not going to remember this very well.”
Maybe Jessica will not remember her days in the well. But her parents, her rescuers, and many other people around the world will not forget____.
After Jessica’s rescue, one of the rescuers made a metal cover for the well. On the cover he wrote, “To Jessica, with love from all of us.”
A.she B.who C.whom D.which
A.fell B.slept C.stopped D.rose
A.broke B.hid C.covered D.opened
A.Because B.Although C.If D.When
A.advice B.money C.help D.information
A.promised B.discovered C.hoped D.agreed
A.dream B.study C.lesson D.plan
A.next to B.along with C.far from D.out of
A.well B.tunnel C.hole D.yard
A.still B.already C.always D.almost
A.looked after B.worried about C.made friends with D.stayed away from
A.immediately B.usually C.quickly D.finally
A.alone B.asleep C.alive D.afraid
A.young B.popular C.clever D.pretty
A.it B.them C.him D.us
Many years ago, when I was a student, the radio studio manager at WXBN interviewed me and it changed my life.
“How old are you?”he looked down at _______.
“Fifteen,” I said.
“And you want a job in radio?” Shouldn’t you be _______?”he asked.
How could I explain? I’ve always _______ the radio. When I was four or five years old, I remember sitting close to the radio in the living room, listening to my favourite programmes, and the voices of my favourite presenters. It seemed that they were speaking to me in person. _______ the age of nine, I asked for jobs in small radio stations.
As I grew older, my _______ in radio grew. One day I learned about Internet radio. Once a week, I played my favoutite music from my father’s computer to the listeners, talked about life at school, and then closed down and did my homework.
Soon my friends at junior high school started to listen, and then they wanted to _______. We prepared the weekly programmes, articles about music, sports news, jokes and the weather report.
“OK, _______ with me,” the WXBN manager said, I followed him into the studio. Then I sat down in front of a microphone. He was in another room, behind the glass wall.
“OK, let’s do a second check. Just tell me _______ you had for breakfast.”
All radio presenters begin work with the same _______.
“I had eggs, fruit and some milk.”
“OK, that’s great,” the man behind the glass said.
And this was how my first real job in radio began.
A.me B.her C.you D.him
A.on the news B.on business C.at school D.at work
A.repaired B.loved C.sold D.cleaned
A.At B.In C.With D.For
A.trouble B.habit C.collection D.interest
A.fight B.refuse C.help D.laugh
A.speak B.sing C.read D.come
A.what B.how C.that D.why
A.station B.advertisement C.question D.time
A.game B.job C.joke D.report
Early last year, two young brothers in Jiangsu Province badly burned while playing. The“game”they were playing was they had watched in the cartoon Pleasant Goat and the Big Big Wolf (《喜羊羊和灰太狼》).The brothers were two little goats while their friend was playing a bad wolf . Their friend tied them a tree and set fire to the grass around them.
The sad story is an example of how many children follow the violence(暴力) they see on television, especially cartoons. It is that violent cartoons can make children more aggressive(具有攻击性的). In a survey, researchers the children after watching non-violent and violent cartoons. They found that the kids who watched violent cartoons fought with others and class rules more often.
Children under the age of seven are too to understand that the violence on TV can bring real harm. It is parents’ job them understand it.
A.are B.is C.were D.was
A.something B.anything C.everything D.nothing
A.eating B.buying C.watching D.playing
A.with B.to C.in D.at
A.report B.reporter C.reported D.reporting
A.advised B.asked C.called D.compared
A.broke B.followed C.obeyed D.made
A.young B.old C.small D.little
A.him B.them C.we D.you
A.help B.to help C.helping D.helped