In a town in France, there was a farmer who lived alone. Every day he s a pound of butter to his neighbor, who was a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see i
he was getting a pound. After he weighed it, he found that he wasn’t. The baker then took the farmer to the judge (法官).
The judge wanted to know the farmer’s ways to weigh the butter. The farmer replied, “ I’ m so p that I do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it. H
, I do have a kind of scale (天平).” The judge asked, “Then h
do you weigh the butter?” The farmer replied, “Before the baker started buying butter from me , I had bought bread from him. So now every time when I b
home the bread from the baker, I put it on the scale and give him the butter of the same w
.”
We always get back what we give to others. Whenever you take action, ask yourself this question, “Am I honest?”
Honesty or dishonesty can become a habit. Some dishonest people can lie w a red face. Others lie so m
that they do not even know what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? In fact, those who lie will hurt t
by their own dishonest behavior.
词汇Our foreign teacher is a young man from _____________ (澳大利亚).
The book is very _____________ (有用的). Everyone should have one.
I would _____________ (建议) Tom not to join the Dancing Club.
In British English, they call an eraser a _____________ (橡皮).
Life is full of _____________ (竞争). But we shouldn’t be afraid of it.
Taylor Swift is famous for her country music. She is one of the hottest ___________ (sing) in the USA.
Our school day usually _________ (finish) at 4：30 pm.
Running for ten minutes around the playground is our _________ (day) exercise.
China Football Team played _________ (bad) in the 2002 World Cup and lost all three games.
Your diet seems to work very well. You look much ______________ (slim) now.
Suzy’s cousin failed ____________(put) in a new light in his bedroom.
We had fun _____(work) with these young workers.
What’s the _____ of the building? It is about 90 feet .(high)
Simon is trying to pull ________(he) up the rocks.
Driving to school is faster than _________(walk).
缺词填空
根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。（每空一词）
Nowadays, more and more young people are becoming too proud and over-confident. They think they can do e . So they simply ignore(忽视) their old parents, and believe that their parents’ experienced thoughts are out of date. Actually I used to be one of them, but after h
a story told by my father, I changed my mind completely. Now I would like to s
it with all of you.
Once, there’s a young man w looked down on the old. He always thought that the old were just nuisances (麻烦事) in your busy life, a useless life that was going to be over. He also did this to his father. One day, the father and the son happened to meet each other in the garden. The son suggested that they should take a walk t __
_ . As they walked, a beautiful garden came into their sight. The son pointed to one of the prettiest flower and said, “We young people are like this sweet flower, so healthy, so energetic, and full of spirit. What about you oldsters? Just l
the falling leaves from a dying tree.”
Hearing this, the father smiled but said nothing. They continued the walking in s. When they passed a shop, the father stopped and went in, he bought a walnut（核桃）and showed it to his son, slow and kind, he said, “We old are like this walnut. We’ve experienced many hard events in life. So we built up such a strong shell, and at the same time we also built up a pure inner world. Every fruit is so full-grown.”
“But every fruit was born by f ___.” Refuted(反驳) the son.
“Yes, but not every flower can bear fruit….”
From then on, I always keep this story in my m . It has taught me a lot.
We should try to be a flower that can bear fruit. We also have to know that our parents aren’t nuisances, b experienced walnuts, works of nature.
词汇应用
根据句子意思，用括号中所给汉语提示或英语单词的适当形式填空。（每空一词）His advice is of great__________(价值）to all of us.
You’d better drive carefully for your own___________(safe）.
It is very___________(tire）to climb the Great Wall.
The hotel is very popular with tourists because it provides a high level of_________(服务）.
Zhou Xun is one of the most popular___________(女演员）in China.
The sports meet has been___________(取消）because of the bad weather.
The dress is one of the _____________(最新的）fashion designs.
It seems that he has_____________(success)solved the problem.
Do you want to know the__________(真相）of the car accident?
The classroom looks___________(整洁）and the teacher is very angry.
根据短文内容，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整、通顺，每空一词。
As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as w________the Nobel Prize. Or they can be small. You just want to become one of the top ten students in your class. Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to r
_______ your dream?
Follow Your Heart by Australian writer Andrew Matthews tells us that making our dreams real is our biggest c_______ in our life.
You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it is i_______for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts p
_______you from reaching your dream, the book says.
In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember the dream in your m _______ .Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself w
_______ you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster b
_______ a big dream is made up of many small o
_______. Please never give them up.
There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will l _______to better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book.
词汇
A．根据句意及所给的汉语提示，写出单词的适当形式，使句子的意思完整、正确。
B. 根据句意用括号中单词的适当形式填空，使句子的意思完整、正确。Because the class is going to start , I run into the classroom out of _________（呼吸）.
Mr Green lives in ___________(中心的) London.
As a __________(传统的) festival, Dragon Boat Festival is becoming more and more popular.
Bill Gates is a__________(富有的) businessman in American.
We think your advice is of great ____________(价值) to us.
If you work hard , you will do everything _____________(success).
Jazz musicians are great because they make up the music while ____________(play).
Do you like the film ____________(direct) by Feng Xiaogang? It’s very interesting.
China is the biggest ___________(Asia) country.
Have the police caught that ____________(murder) yet?