When I was a little boy, my mother sold flowers in London. She couldn’t me at home, so I had to go with her. As I grew older, I began to help her and I really enjoyed it.
Things changed I was 14. My grandma gave me a book for Christmas. It was making candles. I loved it so much that I spent all my free time making of all shapes and sizes. I made hundreds of them.
One day, my mother was ill so I had to go to the market by . I decided to take some candles with me and see if I could sell them. To my , they were sold out in 20 minutes! The next week, my mum gave me some to buy some wax (蜡) to make more candles. They were sold out quickly, too. Nine months later, we decided to stop flowers. My mum and I couldn’t make enough candles during the week, so some of my school friends started to help us. I them one pound for every candle, and we sold them for much more money. It was very and my friends worked with me happily.
When I was 22, my uncle lent me some money and I opened my first candle shop.
A．leave B．stop C．give D．take
A．if B．when C．because D．since
A．for B．with C．about D．at
A．boxes B．candles C．kites D．matches
A．himself B．herself C．myself D．ourselves
A．surprise B．interest C．sadness D．joy
A．bread B．paper C．money D．drink
A．buying B．borrowing C．selling D．making
A．took B．paid C．cost D．spent
A．interesting B．boring C．terrible D．normal
It was a Sunday afternoon. It was very ______and nobody wanted to stay at home. Mike decided to go swimming in the river. His brother, Jim, wanted to go with him. " _____him with you, Mike," said their father. "He will do what you say, I think."
They ______ the river soon . A lot of people were _____ in it. Mike told Jim to play on the bank, then he ______ into the water. About an hour later, Mike swam to the bank with a fish in his hand. Jim was very ______ . He found a bottle and put the fish in it.
Jim did ______except watching the fish that evening. Suddenly Mike heard Jim ______in the room. He ran to him and asked, "What's wrong _______you, Jim?"
"The fish is _______ ." Jim said, "It swam all the time .I thought it was tired . So I took it out of the bottle and put it on the chair. I only wanted it to have a rest."
A．warm B．hot C．cool D．cold
A．Carry B．Bring C．Take D．Catch
A．worried about B．gave up C．arrived at D．grew up
A．washing B．running C．resting D．swimming
A．ran B．threw C．fell D．jumped
A．exciting B．excited C．sad D．angry
A．everything B．something C．nothing D．anything
A．crying B．to crying C．to cry D．cried
A．with B．from C．to D．on
A．hungry B．healthy C．dead D．busy
The little boy entered the house，unhappy．His mother was making cakes in the kitchen．She smiled as she turned around, but when she saw his face, “Tyler, happened? Is everything okay?”
“Nothing is okay, Mom.” said the boy, “Today in our science lesson, Mrs Green was talking about the ．She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are ．She wants us to think of something we can do to help them．I thought all the way home．But there is nothing I can do to make a difference.”
“ Let me tell you a story,” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach，there he saw dying starfish covering the beach，they were pushed up by the waves and it was too far up for them to make their way back by themselves. The man shook his head as he walked along. ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.’ The man felt very for those starfish．He went on walking and just at that time he was to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as as he could．‘How silly you are! My son,’ the man said, ‘there are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?’ The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing. ‘Though I can’t help them all, I can help this one，and this one, and this one.’ said the boy. Thinking for a moment, the man to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself ‘Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the person.’”
A．shouted B．stopped C．asked D．cried
A．who B．what C．where D．when
A．air B．land C．water D．environment
A．dying B．death C．dead D．die
A．two thousands B．thousands of C．thousand D．two thousands of
A．happy B．angry C．sorry D．tired
A．afraid B．surprised C．sad D．happy
A．slow B．soon C．fast D．far
A．began B．continued C．forgot D．remembered
A．happiest B．smallest C．kindest D．smartest
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 one, thinking that for centuries only great men and women used them, you’ll feel you are important people, too.
A．rain B．could C．air D．water
A．lovely B．cheap C．hard D．easy
A．light B．heavy C．common D．special
A．way B．size C．reason D．place
A．discover B．use C．examine D．discuss
A．walked B．travelled C．rode D．flew
A．children B．parents C．men D．women
A．probably B．already C．suddenly D．immediately
A．sunny B．rainy C．snowy D．windy
A．sell B．return C．borrow D．carry
Many people still remember the beautiful dance “Thousand-hand Guanyin” in the CCTV Spring Festival Party. The lead dancer of the dance is Tai Lihua.
When Tai Lihua was two years old, she lost her hearing because of a fever, then she became mute (哑的), too. From then on, her world was silent. But she didn’t know this at first. At the age of five, when her schoolmates in kindergarten (幼儿园) played a game about sound, she discovered that she was different from others. She was very sad about it. Her father went to many places to look for the best treatments for her illness. But nothing worked. When she was seven years old, she went to a school for deaf and mute children. In that school, she did well in her studies. Her teacher said she was good at expressing her feelings through dance.
She also began to love dance and dance became her favorite. She thought she could use dance to express what she thought about life. She worked hard at it and her hard work made her successful. She has been to many other countries to perform and many foreigners like her style.
根据短文内容，判断正(A)误(B)。Doctors treated Tai Lihua’s illness well.
Tai Lihua learnt dance in a dance school.
Tai Lihua was mute when she was born.
Tai Lihua found that she was different from others at the age of five.
Tai Lihua is successful because of working hard.
One day at the end of the class, a wise teacher told each of her students to ______ a plastic bag and a bag of potatoes to school.
The next day she told her students: “from today on ,for every person you don’t like in your lives, you can choose a potato, write the person’s name and the date ______ it and then put it in the plastic bag.” Day after day, some of the students’ bags were very ______. They were told to carry this bag with them everywhere they went for a week. They would put it inside their quilts (被子)____ ____, on the seats when sitting in a car or on a bus, and next to their desks at school. The days carrying the bag around with them________ students get to know what a weight they were carrying in their minds. They had to pay attention to it all the time________ they wouldn’t forget it. As time passed by, the potatoes went bad and ________ terrible. They all tried to get rid of them.
Too often we think of tolerance ( 宽容 ) as a gift to ________ people, and it clearly is for ourselves! If we choose to keep our sadness and hatred ( 仇恨 ) in our________, we will have to carry them around all our lives.
Do you think you have got __________ from the wise teacher and what she asked her students to do?A. take B. bringC. put
A. in B. at C. on
A. heavy B. strongC. light
A. in the morning B. in the afternoon C. at night
A. kept B. make C. asked
A. as soon as B. since C. so that
A. SoundedB. tasted C. smelt
A. AnotherB. otherC. the other
A. HeartsB. eyesC. stomachs
A. AnythingB. nothing C. somebody