阅读下面的短文，从短文后所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
One day, a boy found the cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small _____in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make _____body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped.
So the boy _____to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be _____. He took a pair of scissors(剪刀) and cut the hole ______. The butterfly came out of the cocoon, but it __ a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin _____. The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.
The boy acted with_____but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawl out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of _____out of the cocoon makes the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be _____to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze(挤压) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never get the fluid and it can never fly.
_____struggles are what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be ____ we could have been and we would never fly.
In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even _____ growth, without it, there’s no way of life. We can’t avoid _____ or problems. So, next time you are _____ a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little–then fly!
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完形填空（10小题；每小题1分，共10分）
A special call
A man in Florida, in his 80s, called his son in New York one November day.
The father said to the son, “I hate to tell , but we've got some here in the house. Your mother and I can't each other any more, and we're getting a divorce (离婚). I've had it (受够了)! I want to out the rest of my years in peace. I'm telling you now, you and your sister don't go into shock (吃惊) later when I move out."
He up, and the son immediately called his sister in Hampton and told her the .
The sister said, “I'll handle (处理) this."
She called Florida and said to her father, “Don't do anything we get there! We'll be there Wednesday night!"
The father agreed, "All right."
The old man hung up the phone and yelled (喊叫) to his wife, "OK, they're coming Thanksgiving. Now, are we going to tell them for Christmas?"
A．me B．her C．you D．them
A．troubles B．guests C．friends D．furniture
A．help B．stay C．stand D．expect
A．go B．live C．take D．get
A．and B．so C．but D．or
A．hung B．got C．stood D．put
A．story B．truth C．decision D．news
A．when B．until C．if D．though
A．to B．for C．with D．on
A．what B．which C．how D．when
完形填空。（每小题1.5分，共15分）
On the eve of graduation, many classmates were busy looking for jobs. So was I. It's very difficult to find a job in the big city. I had been____for many times until I found a want ad for an editor (编辑). "If you could find more than 10 ____ words in the newspaper, you can work for us as an editor." I loved ____ and had written several little articles for the newspaper. So I decided to have a ____. It was the final date when I saw the newspaper. I told one of my roommates the news happily. After he ____ what I said, he smiled and said, "Today is April Fool' s Day. It may be just an April Fool's ____. A fool may take it seriously." I was very ____ after hearing that, but I still wanted to have a try. It ____ me the whole morning to find twelve wrong words in the newspaper. I ____ at the editorial department in the afternoon and got the job.
I got a lesson from the experience: something that others said was____ may be not impossible. As long as you believe it, you may make impossibility possible.A. refused B. consideredC. expected
A. important B. correctC. wrong
A. reading B. writing C. listening
A. look B. try C. chance
A. read B. saw C. heard
A. joke B. note C. result
A. excited B. unhappy C. bored
A. spent B. took C. cost
A. got B. reached C. arrived
A. real B. impossibleC. possible
Two men were in the same room of a hospital. They were very ill. One man had toon his back all day.
Every day, the man sitting up by the window told the other things outside.
“Some children are feeding the ducks on the lake. They are bread to them.” “The girls are so in their summer dresses. They are singing and dancing on the grass.” The other man was happy toabout all the activities and colors of the world outside.
Days and weeks passed. One morning, the man by the window died. The other man asked the nurse to his bed next to the window.
Finally he could sit up to see the outside,he was very disappointed. All he could see was a white wall!
“But my roommate had told me so many wonderfulabout outside!” he said.
“He was blind(瞎的). He couldn’t see the wall. He just wanted you to live with,” said the nurse.A. stand B. sit C. lie
A. about B. among C. from
A. selling B. eating C. throwing
A. beautiful B. sorry C. shy
A. talk B. think C. hear
A. make B. move C. keep
A. but B. and C. so
A. ideas B. things C. plans
A. ever B. even C. once
A. dream B. friendship C. hope
完形填空(共15小题; 每小题一分，满分15分)阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
The word that has changed the world
Apple is one of the most popular fruits in our life, and people eat apples every day. But there are apples that are especially important to the history of our human beings and they have changed the whole world.
Long long ago when the world just started, apple was a forbidden(禁止) in the Garden of Eden, however, a girl named Eve stole（偷） and ate it. Unfortunately, she was discovered by God, and was driven away the Garden together with a boy called Adam. After they the garden, Adam and Eve had their own babies and the ancestors(祖先) of all of us. This is the beginning of our world, history morality.（道德）
In the Autumn of 1665, there a young man sitting under an apple tree in his garden. His name was Newton. While he was thinking one of the problems, suddenly, an apple dropped down from the tree and fell on his head. this, Newton discovered gravitation(万有引力) on that day and his new idea of science made people really and happy, also he our opinions about nature and the way we think, then people began to learn what was at that time.
And , Jobs Steve, this crazy old man changed the world by his apple products（产品）. For example, can be found everywhere in the street, young people feel cool when they use this kind of new high-tech product. Don’t you think apple products have become a symbol （象征）of our time? As Jobs Steve often said he was born to change the world and he made it. he has died, people remember him and miss him, because he made our life more colorful and amazing.
A．one B．two C．three D．four
A．vegetable B．fruit C．food D．noodle
A．from B．in C．with D．under
A．went B．walked C．lived D．left
A．got B．turned C．made D．became
A．but B．or C．and D．though2
A．had B．was C．have D．is
A．Because of B．Because C．After D．Since
A．bored B．tired C．relaxed D．surprised
A．gave B．brought C．made D．changed
A．science B．history C．chemistry D．music
A．yesterday B．today C．tomorrow D．next
A．apples B．machines C．iPhones D．computers
A．what B．who C．where D．that
A．Although B．But C．However D．Even
完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Christmas was coming and ten-year-old Tracy told her father and me that she wanted a new bike. Her bike was too , and it needed repairing as well.
As Christmas , her dream for a bike seemed to disappear(消失), we thought, for she didn't say it again. We were busy some beautiful story books, a doll house, a holiday dress and toys. Then to our surprise, on December 24, she said she really wanted a bike more than .
Now we didn't know to do. It was just too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing presents, parents' presents, a brother's present and friends' presents till midnight. So there was time to take to buy the "right bike" for our little girl. Thinking we were parents who would make their child unhappy, we felt sorry and .
Suddenly my husband had an idea. "What about making a little bike with clay (黏土) and writing a note that she could trade in (交换) the model bike for a real one?" So he spent the next five hours carefully ____ with clay to make a small bike.
Christmas morning, we were so excited for Tracy to open the little box with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. She opened and read the loudly. She looked at me and said, "So, does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real _?" Smiling, I said, "Yes!" Tracy had tears in her eyes when she replied, "I would trade in this beautiful bike Daddy made me. I __ _ keep it than get a real bike. This is the best Christmas present I have ever got in my life!"
A．new B．old C．beautiful D．modern
A．came nearer B．was over C．went by D．passed
A．buy B．bought C．to buy D．buying
A．something else B．anything else C．else something D．else anything
A．what B．how C．why D．where
A．children B．children's C．boy D．girls
A．enough B．no C．much D．still a little
A．happy B．excited C．sad D．angry
A．works B．worked C．working D．to work
A．In B．On C．At D．For
A．book B．story C．note D．newspaper
A．one B．ones C．some D．any
A．usually B．certainly C．never D．of course
A．am going to B．would like C．had better D．would rather
A．who B．those C．what D．that