“Mommy， look!” cried my daughter， Darla， pointing to a chicken hawk in the air.
“Uh huh，” I answered， driving， lost in thought about the timetable of my day.
filled her face.
“What’s the matter， sweetheart?” I asked.
“Nothing，” my seven-year-old daughter said. The moment was gone.
Dinner， baths and phone calls the hours until bedtime.
“Come on， Darla， time for bed!” She raced past me up the stairs. Tired， I kissed her and tucked her in.
“Mom， I forgot to give you something!” she said.
“Give it to me in the morning.” I said. My was gone. I could hardly stay cool.
“You won’t have time in the morning!” she talked back quickly.
“I’ll take time，” I answered. Sometimes no matter how hard I tried， time was never enough.
She wasn’t ready to up yet. “No， you won’t! It will be just like today when I told you to look at the chicken hawk. You didn’t listen to what I said.”
I was too tired to argue; she hit too to the truth. “Good night!” I shut her door in anger.
Later though， her gray-blue eyes filled my vision as I thought about how little time we really had until she was grown and gone. My husband asked me what was going on and I told him.
“Maybe she was not asleep yet. Why don’t you ?” he said.
I followed his advice， it was my own idea. I opened her door gently. In Darla’s hand I could see her paper all crumpled (弄皱的) up. She had torn into small pieces a big red heart with a poem she had written titled， “Why I Love My Mother?”
Why I Love My Mother
Although you’re busy， and you work so hard，
You always take time to play with me，
I love you Mommy，
Because I am the biggest part of your busy day!
Tears filled my eyes. When I softly touched her face， she awakened from a dreamless sleep and asked， “Why are you ， Mommy?”
“You ARE the most important part of my busy day!”
She smiled and then went back to sleep， not really understanding how strongly I what I said.
A．Disappointment B．Worries C．Fear D．Enjoyment
A．cost B．filled C．lasted D．took
A．belief B．attitude C．attention D．patience
A．give B．build C．call D．clear
A．just B．even C．yet D．almost
A．heavily B．badly C．close D．hard
A．watch B．exam C．test D．check
A．realizing B．thinking C．wishing D．guessing
A．crying B．laughing C．shouting D．touching
A．considered B．expressed C．inferred D．meant
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"Look, it's Baldy!" A boy shouted in my direction across the playground. I was used to it because of the scars（伤疤 ）on my , it was still horrible to hear. I sighed (叹气) as I headed back to the class.
When I was just 20 months old, I suffered serious after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head. I was sent to hospital and had to stay there for weeks while the doctors to save my life. "Holly's very to be alive," they told Mum and Dad. "But she'll be left with scars on her head, and of course her hair won't grow there."
As a child, I cared much about my scars, so I wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home .If I didn't, people would call me horrible names like Baldy. Although my friends were always comforting me , they never understood how it felt.
Then through the hospital I was to a children's burns camp, where children like me can get any help. There, I 14-year-old Stephanie, whose burns are a lot more serious than mine. But she is so that she never lets anyone put her down. "You shouldn't what people say about what you look like because we're not different from anyone else, Holly," she me, "And you don't need to wear a scarf because you look great it!" For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who'd been through something . Soweeks later, at my 13th birthday party, encouraged by her bravery, I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars. It felt amazing not having to hide away behind my scarf.
Now, I am of what I look like and much happier, because I have realized it is your personality that decides who you truly are.
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Many people go to school for an education. learn languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry and maths. Others go to school to learn a skill so that they can ________ . School ________ is very important and useful. Yet no one can learn everything from school. A teacher, no matter how much he ________ , cannot teach his students everything they ________ to know. The teacher's job is to show his students how to read and how to________. So much more is to be learned ________ school by the students themselves.
It is always more important to know how to study ________ than to memorize(熟记)some facts or formula(公式). It is ________ quite easy to learn a ________ fact in history or a formula in mathematics. But it is very difficult to use a formula in ________ out a maths problem. Great scientists, such as Einstein, Newton and Galileo, didn't learn many things from school. But they were all so ________ that they invented so many things for mankind.
The ________ for their success is that they knew how to study. They read books that were not 59 at school. They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment. They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of ________ .
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阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的三个选项（A、B和C）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
On Miami Beach, you can see a large group of huge pink snails(蜗牛) creeping(爬行) there. Will you think they are part of a strange show? The answer is ! In fact, they are part of an art project to encourage people to have a clean .
The forty-five huge pink snails are not real snails. They were made by Italian organization Cracking Art Group using material. These pink snails have Paris, Milan and Prague. Now, they are placed in the city of Miami. The huge pink snails are designed to make people pay more attention to the of recycling and its environmental influence. What’s more, they will a strong art trace(足迹) on the beach.
The project will encourage Miami Beach visitors to the present living environment and rebuild the in a new, healthy way. Besides this, the project also hopes that these snails can help people to their lives and enjoy their lives better.A. whichB. whatC. that
A. YesB. NoC. OK
A. schoolB. environmentC.street
A. recycledB. repairedC. colored
A. climbedB. reachedC. visited
A. differenceB. importanceC. reason
A. playB. takeC. leave
A. talk aboutB. think aboutC. worry about
A. cityB. houseC. park
A. slow downB. make upC. put away
We spent this summer with our uncle. He was a geologist(地质学家) and loved to go on walks to collect ________ . One day, he bought us backpacks and asked us to go to the mountain with him and carry the stones.
The whole day we walked around. Every now and then he put stones in our bags. To our ________ , he also took some stones out from our bags. But we thought he had just found ________ stones.
Still, when we ________ to the house, we were very tired. The backpacks were so heavy that we felt ________ when we took them off. Yet uncle’s backpack was half empty.
“Why did you give us so many stones?” we asked.
“I didn’t. You did.” He said. “You didn’t know it, but I gave you a little attitude (态度) test. Today I listened to every word you said. Whenever you were complaining (抱怨), I ________ a stone to your bags. ________ you talked about something with positive (积极的) thinking, I ________ a stone. And now look at your backpacks.”
These stones made the backpacks nearly full.
“Your negative(消极的) thoughts are like stones. You carry them in your ________ just like those stones in a backpack. The more negative thoughts you have, the heavier your mind will be.”
With great love, our uncle ________ us one of the most important lessons in life—the power of attitude.
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Help Bennington Museum take care of the exhibits（展览品） on our collection by following these rules：
◆Walk in the museum, and move your body ________ .
◆Don’t ________ in the museum. Use a quiet voice when talking.
◆Only touch things that you have been ________ to touch.
◆If you have candy in your mouth, put ________ in the waste before you enter the museum or its galleries(画廊).
◆Be good ________ . Raise your hand to ask or answer a question.
◆Food and drinks are only allowed in the exhibition hall and lunch room (Education Center).
◆Photograph is allowed, ________ not in the Grandma Moses Gallery or in the Flag Gallery.
◆Students must be followed by chaperons (监护人) at all times. If no chaperons goes into a restroom ________ students (for example, there are no adults with the group), students are allowed into the restroom no more than 3 at a time.
◆Chaperons should make sure the students ________ the rules by staying with them and stop them from talking loudly during the visit.
◆School groups are welcome in the Museum Gift Shop. Chaperons are asked to care for the ________ in the shop.
If you follow these rules, you will surely have a ________ and safe museum visit.
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