One summer evening, a 10-year-old boy was trying to hit (击中) a bottle with a slingshot (弹弓). The bottle was about 7 to 8 meters . The boy tried many times but he couldn’t hit it. His mother just passing him small stones.
A girl walked by. She the boy for some time and said to his mother, “Let me show how to shoot.”
“No, thank you,” said the . “He is blind(失明的).”
The girl was surprised and asked, “How can he hit the bottle ?” “I tell him he can
do it,” said the mother, “ he tries hard enough.”
The little boy tried again and again. The mother always told him that he was doing than before. The boy became more confident. After a long time, it dark. The girl said goodbye to the mother and the son. When she turned to leave, she heard a stone hit the . The little boy finally made it!
With confidence and patience, nothing is impossible.
A．far B．long C．away D．high
A．wanted B．went on to C．wished D．kept
A．wondered B．watched C．looked D．pointed at
A．you B．it C．that D．him
A．mother B．boy C．girl D．teacher
A．now B．again C．just D．then
A．before B．after C．if D．until
A．good B．better C．well D．best
A．goes B．become C．got D．turn
A．bottle B．slingshot C．stone D．wall
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Dick lived in England. One day in January, he said to his wife, “I’m going to fly to New York next week ________ I’ve got some work there.” “Where are you going to ________ there?” his wife asked. “I don’t know yet,” Dick answered. “Please send me your New York ________ in a telegram (电报),” his wife said. “OK,” Dick answered.
He flew to New York and ________ a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a ________ . He put the address of his hotel in it. In the evening he didn’t have ________ work, so he went to a movie. He came out at nine o’clock and __________to go back to the hotel.
He found a taxi and the driver said, “Where do you want to go?” But Dick couldn’t ________ the name and address of his hotel. “Which hotel are my things in? And what am I going to do tonight?” he asked. But the driver didn’t know ________ . So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife ________ telegram, and in it he wrote: “Please send my address to this post office.”
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She wanted to be a star and became famous. But she had a little education and ________ years later, she had to ask for food on the street for a living. Now her father has been dead. Her mother is an old woman. But she is still ________ her daughter. She has been to every corner of the city. Everywhere she goes, she ________ a big photo of her daughter on the wall. At the lower part of the photo she writes, “I still love you. Come back home!”
One day, the daughter saw one of the photos. She was surprised and she couldn’t believe her ________ . “Is that me?” She moved ________ and read the words, “I still love you.” She cried. She couldn’t wait ________ back home. When she got home, it was early morning. She pushed the door. The door opened itself. She rushed to the bedroom at once. Her mother was sleeping there. She ________ her mother up, “It’s me! Your daughter is back home!” The mother and her daughter looked at each other in excitement, full of happy tears. The daughter asked, “________ is the door unlocked? A thief could get in.” The mother answered softly, “The door has never locked ________ you left. We miss you all the time. We believe that you’ll come back some day.”
As everyone knows, parents love their children forever. Children should also understand their parents and share their happiness, sadness, even everything with their parents. ________ this way, both parents and children can be happy.
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I can’t remember when I started collecting litter.But it was when I got tired of __ ___litter nearby that I realized no one else was going to pick it up.
I live near a forest in Ohio, America.I can walk there__ __ three minutes.I used to love going there to play with my dog.But one day there was __ __ much litter there that I became very unhappy.I decided to clean up the forest, and I wanted to __ __ happy when I went there again.I made my first trip to clean the forest that afternoon.I took a big black rubbish bag with me.Ten minutes __ ____ I started to pick up litter, my bag was full! There were cans, bottles, broken glass and newspapers in it.
From then on, I __ _ to the forest four times a year to pick up litter.I often stay there for three hours.It makes me feel __ __ to do something for the environment.After each trip, I look through all the litter that I’ve collected.If __ __ of it is recyclable (可回收利用的), I’ll keep it.I can’t understand why people drop litter.But I will keep on picking it up __ ___ they stop dropping it.I know I am only doing a small bit __ ___ the earth, but I still think it is important.
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There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the ________ one, Ben, because he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class played jokes on him because he seemed so slow. The mother decided that she would help her sons to do well in school by ________ . She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a book a week and do a book report for her.
One day, in Ben’s class, the teacher held up a rock and asked ________ anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him ________ . “Why did Ben raise his hand?” all of his___________whispered and wondered. “He ________ said anything. What could he possibly want to say?” To their surprise, Ben not only ________ the rock, but also said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew ________ the teacher had found it. The teacher and the other students were amazed. Ben had learned this from doing one of his book reports.
Later Ben became the ________ student of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University and ________ became one of the best doctors in the United States.
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A young mother went to visit her neighbor(邻居) while her baby girl was in her cradle(摇篮). Just then they heard the fire alarm ringing loudly.
“Don’t ”said the neighbor. “I’m sure the fire isn’t anywhere near here.”
“But listen,” said the mother. “I hear the fire alarm coming this way.’’
Without another word, she quickly out of her neighbor’s house. Then she saw her own house was on fire!
“ My !” she cried.
A fireman stopped her and said, “ You can’t go in there, because the is too strong!’’ But the mother cried, “ Let me go! Let me go!’’ Running through the smoke, she got her baby, and then turned to make her way out. ,Baby Marjorie was not hurt at all! But the poor mother’s were badly hurt.
Years later, when Marjorie grew up, she suddenly noticed her mother’s hands were so_ !
“ are your hands so ugly?” she asked her mother Tears filled her mother’s eyes. She told how the people tried to hold her back, how the fireman tried to her, how she tried her best to get her baby, and how…
“Oh, Mom,’’ Marjorie cried. “There are the most beautiful hands in the world!”
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