When I was seven years old, my family made me an ant farm. First, we put clean sand in a thin box. Then we waited for the ants to arrive.
After the ants in the glass farm, they started to make tunnels. I was _ _ that each one knew exactly what to do. Each had _ own job.
On the fifth day a tragedy(悲剧)happened. I put face to close to the glass farm. When I knocked it over. All the tunnels fell down. Although the ants remained alive after their earthquake, one by one they began to die. I was scared as I watched them give up _ their tunnels to carry the bodies to a corner of the farm. My mother said that the ants were dying of _ . They simply couldn’t stand that their tunnels were gone, although much time has passed. I still _ _ that ant farm. Mom had hoped it would teach me about natural world, but it _ me much more.
Over the years, I came to realize the importance of _ . Working together, the ants were able to make an amazing world for themselves. I also learned that they should be admired(钦佩) for their hard work.
But there was an even larger lesson that I did not realize until recently. Adversity(逆境) is a natural part of life and must . Unlike the ants, we can’t give up when we are sad. We have to realize that if a tunnel is gone. We have to realize that if a tunnel is gone. We must build _ .
Giving up. I say it is not a good choice.
A.glass B.paper C.rubber D.plastic
A.happy B.angry C.sorry D.amazed
A.it B.its C.their D.theirs
A.build B.built C.building D.to build
A.cold B.earthquake C.illness D.sadness
A.have B.build C.miss D.remember
A.told B.taught C.said to D.spoke to
A.teamwork B.lives C.the farm D.the tunnels
A.accept B.accepted C.be accepted D.have accepted
A.one B.other C.the other D.another
【改编】When the Americans were getting ready to send their first man to the moon, an old Irishman (爱尔兰人) was watching them on the television in the bar of a hotel. There was an Englishman in the bar, too, and he _______ the Irishman, “The _______ are very clever, aren’t they? They are going _______ some men to the moon. It is a long _______ from the world.”
“Oh, that’s _______,” the Irishman answered quickly. “The Irish are going to send some men to the sun in a few months. That’s _______ away from the moon, you know.”
“Yes, it is.” The English man said, “______ it is too _____ for the people to go to.”
The Irishman laughed and said, “Well, the Irish aren’t stupid, you know, we _______ go to the sun during the day, of course, we will go there _______.”
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I have a good friend. Her name is Kate. She is ____ American girl. She is eleven. She ____ with her family in China. There are ____ people in her family. They’re her father, her mother, her brother and herself.
She has a cat. ____ name is Mimi. It’s Sunday today. They ____ at home. Look! Kate is playing ____ Mimi. Her father is reading newspapers. Her mother is cleaning the house. Where is her brother Jim? He is doing ____ homework in his study. Kate ____ Chinese very much, but she can’t ____ it very well. Jim likes ____ soccer. He can play it very well.
A.a B.an C.the D./
A.live B.living C.to live D.lives
A.five B.four C.six D.three
A.It B.It’s C.Its D.It is
A.are all B.are not C.all are D.not are
A.to B.at C.in D.with
A.he B.his C.her D.my
A.liked B.to like C.likes D.liking
A.speak B.tell C.say D.talk
A.play B.plays C.played D.playing
This is our school library. It is from 8:30 11:30 in the morning and from 2:00 to 5:00 in the . Our school library is not very . It has only two reading-rooms and about 2000 books. We often come here class. You can one book at a time, and keep it two weeks. In the reading-rooms, there are many desks and . We can sit there reading books doing our homework. It’s
a place for us students.
A.on B.open C.quiet D.in
A.to B.in C.at D.on
A.morning B.afternoon C.evening D.night
A.small B.big C.clean D.dirty
A.after B.on C.in D.at
A.buy B.see C.read D.borrow(借)
A.after B.with C.for D.under
A.chairs B.teachers C.students D.books
A.and B.or C.then D.in
A.now B.old C.good D.bad
Most children like watching TV. On TV _______can learn a lot and they can see and know many things about __________country and the world. Of course, they can learn over the radio. but they can learn better and more easily with__________. Why? Because they can hear and (24) ___________ at the same time. But they can’t ________anything over the radio.
Many _______ watch TV on Saturday or Sunday evenings. They are very busy with their lessons on ________. But a few children watch TV every ________. They _________very late. So they can’t have a good ______. How about you, my young friend?
A.they B.you C.I D.we
A.your B.our C.my D.their
A.radio B.film C.game D.TV
A.watch B.speak C.listen D.sing
A.hear B.like C.see D.learn
A.children B.old people C.shopkeepers D.policemen
A.Monday B.Friday C.weekends D.weekdays
A.place B.time C.man D.night
A.go to bed B.go to the park C.come back home D.get home
A.time B.rest C.game D.meal
(改编)When a friend David, it began to rain. So David told him home that night. “You may stay here the night,” he said. “OK,” answered his friend.
But minutes later, the friend . He didn't tell David where going and nor(也没有)did he ask for an(a) .
When David would go to bed, his friend . He was all wet through.
“Where did you go just now?”asked David.
“I went_ _,”answered the friend, “to tell my mother that I'll not go home _the rain stops tomorrow.”
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