When I was about six years old, my brother David and I visited our aunt, Mary. We stayed in her house for a night. David was only 4 years old, and was still of the dark., so Mary left the hall light on when we slept.
However, David the grey moths(蛾) flying around the hall light. He asked Mary to make the moths go away. When she asked , she simply said, “Because they are ugly and scary, I don’t like them.” Mary laughed and said, “Being ugly outside doesn’t not being beautiful inside. In fact, moths are one of the most beautiful animals in the animal world.
“Once, the angels (天使) were . They were sad because it was raining heavily. The little moths hated to see others so sad. They decided to make a rainbow(彩虹) to cheer up the angels. They thought if the butterflies(蝴蝶) , they could make a beautiful rainbow together.
“Then one of the moths went to ask the butterflies for help. But the butterflies didn’t want to any of their colors, so the moths decided to make a rainbow themselves. They beat their wings very hard and the colors on them made a rainbow. They kept giving a little more and a little more the rainbow went across the sky. They had given away all their colors except grey, which didn’t match the beautiful rainbow.
“Then the once-colorful moths became . The angles saw the rainbow and smiled…” My brother went to sleep with that story and hasn’t feared months since then.
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完形填空（每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从每小题所给的ABCD四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
This is a ________of Jim’s family. This man ________ Mr Green. ________ is Jim’s father. ________ woman is Mrs Green.________ is Jim’s mother. Who ________ this boy and ________girl? The ________ is Jim, Mr Green’s son .The ________ is Kate, Mr Green’s daughter .Kate is________ sister. Jim and Kate are brother and sister.
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完形填空（15 小题，每小题 1 分，共 15 分）。
It is very important healthy. I have a neighbor. She is an old lady. She can do all the housework, newspapers, watch TV and search on the Internet to learn something new. I often see do taijiquan in the morning and dance in the evening. She looks young and beautiful ________she is over seventy. Last week a reporter from a magazine interviewed her and asked what ________ she kept so young and healthy. She replied with a smile: I have a secret of ________ young and healthy. It is quite . Keep your mind active, be interested ________ the world ________ you, and learn ________ one new thing every day. Try to do different ________ housework and do sports as as you can. Don't think you are too old to go back to ________ . I know a man who entered a medical college when he was 70 years old. He studied there for 6 years and now he is a doctor. Another man went to a tennis school at the age of 71 and now he is good at ________ tennis. Some people may say staying young is easy only for those who live in the future. ________ , no matter how old you are, you can make it.
Please tell the story to your family. It would be a good start to ________ the lady's example. I hope all people will stay young and healthy.
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My mother was a servant(佣人). Through her work, she found that successful people____ more time reading than watching TV. She told my brother and me to do like that. In our free time, we had to ____ books from the library to read. After reading them, we had to ____ book reports. She would ____ them carefully with marks(标记). Years later we got to know she didn’t ____ any words.
At the beginning of my high school I was a good student, but not for ____, I wanted
the most beautiful clothes and I wanted to ____ with my friends. I went from a good student to a ___ student. One night, my mother came home after ____ her different
jobs, and I complained(抱怨) about not having enough money.
She said, “OK, I’ll give you all the money I ____ this week, and you buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything paid off(付清), you can have all the money left(剩下的).” I was very ____ with those words, but when I paid off everything, there was ____ left.
I got to know my mother was a ____ woman. I went back to my ____ and became
a good student again. And at last my dream ____ and I become a doctor.
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完型填空。（共10小题，计10分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个能填入文中相应空白处的最佳答案。
Do you write your own blog(博客)？Do you often others' blogs on the Internet?
All over the world, not only famous persons but also many students use blogs as diaries and places to share their experience and advice or help.
“I write my activities every day, funny things or worries in my life.” says Lali, a 16-year-old high school student at Cambridge High School in Washington." I like putting pictures on my blog because it can make my blog more and more people will like it, It's a good way to my life to the world." She has had her blog for eight months.
Students like writing blogs they can write anything they want to, but don't need to any money.
Once(一旦)you start to write your blog, you will that you open up a new world. But what you write down may trouble you .So, use the blog carefully you can keep yourself away from some trouble. The blog makes everybody's life colorful.
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完形填空阅读短文，从每题所给选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。(15分)
Frank was a very talkative little boy. He never saw a new thing asking a great many questions about it.
His ____ was very patient and kind. When it was ____ to answer his questions, she would do so. Sometimes she would say, “You are not ____ enough to understand that, my son. When you are ten years old, you may ask me about it, and I will tell you.”
The first time Frank saw an hourglass(沙漏), he was very much interested, but he did not know ____ it was. His mother said, ‘An hourglass is made in the ____ of the figure 8. The sand is put in at one end, and runs through a small hole in the ____. As much sand is put into the glass as will run through in an hour.
When Frank watched the little stream of sand, he was impatient, ____ it would not run faster. “Let me ____ it, mother,” said Frank： “It is lazy, and will never get through.” “Oh yes, it will, my son,” said his mother. “The sand moves down little by little, but it moves all the time.” “When you look at the ____ of the clock, you think they go very slowly, and so they do； but they never ____.”
“While you are playing, the sand is running, grain(颗粒) by grain. The hands of the clock are moving, second by second. At night, the sand in the hourglass has run through twelve times. The hour hand of the clock has moved all around its face. This is because they keep working every ___. They do not stop to think how much they have to do, or how long it will ____ them to do it. Now Frank’s mother wanted him to learn a little poem, but he said, “Mother, I can ____ do it.”
His mother said, “Study all the time. Never stop to ask how long it will take to learn it. You will be able to say it very soon.”
Frank ____ his mother’s advice. He studied line after line, very busily； and in one hour and a half he knew the poem perfectly.
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