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For Rachael and Leigh Barman, there is only one wish on their Christmas list this year---that their sick daughter Paige should survive/live until December 25. Fifteen-year-old Paige suffers from ______rare brain disease, ____
___affects(影响) as few as 12 people in the world, and could kill her any day ____
__warning(警告).
And her condition has gone even ________ (bad) in recent months. Her parents filled the family home with Christmas decorations __
_ September 1st so she could enjoy the rest of her life. Since then, she has __
__ (regular) opened Christmas presents and received visitors---but she sleeps for up to 19 hours a day, her parents knowing that each time she closes her eyes, she may never wake up.
Mrs. Barman ______(describe) dealing with the condition as “like being on death row” as she never knew if ___
____ daughter would wake up the next morning.
The mother said: “She always loves Christmas and I get my heart _______(break) when I see her suffering like this. Our best Christmas present would be having Paige with us at Christmas. No matter ____
____ she leaves the world, we make sure that she is always happy.”
As a working mom with three young sons, keeping the house clean is a big challenge. ________ we clean the house every week, one hour later after cleaning our bedrooms and bathrooms are back to their __________
_(mess) look. When asked, my boys will help neaten their room, clear their plates from the table and pick up their school junk. But I need to remind them______
____ it again and again.
If I don’t remind them, I will step over all the things _________make my house look like a garbage can. This is quite _______
___ change from my pre-kid years when I never ______
___(leave) any waste in the house. ____
____seems that I cannot get these days back again at my own house.
When last week I found a program called “Share a Healthy Habit” on a newspaper, I saw a great chance to engage my sons in cleaning chores. Why not encourage these behaviors during the summer, while school is out and their life is __________ (relax)?
The goal for my boys is to clean__________own dorm room themselves when they are free. The rewards for clean habits start young and continue as they get ______
____ (old), so I need to start my plan as soon
语篇填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Number the Stars", by American author Lois Lowry, is about________ escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen during World War II. The story centers_
_______ ten-year-old Annemarie, who lives with her family in Copenhagen in 1943. __
________ with her family, she is involved in an event to help local __
_______ to reach Sweden to avoid __
_______(send) to Concentration Camps. She risks her life to help her best friend, Ellen, by pretending that Ellen is Annemarie's older sister Lise. In this process, Annemarie
_________ (begin) to realize that the world they live in is a place __
______ the right thing is often hard, and sometimes dangerous. _
_______ she has to take a deep breath, take her responsibility, and make a decision. The following __
______ (content) are right there waiting for you to read, to explore and to comprehend. _
________(hope), you will enjoy and benefit a great deal from the novel.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
One day, an old monk named Wisdom, followed by two young monks, was walking from one town to another____ they caught sight of a lake. Tired and thirsty, they stopped to have a rest. __
__old monk, pointing to the lake, asked the __
__ (young) one to get him some water.
When the little monk reached the lake, a cart____ (draw) by an ox started crossing the lake, ___
___made the water very muddy. The little monk thought, “How can I give this muddy water to my master to drink!” So he came back__
___ any water, saying, “The water is very muddy. I don’t think__
__is suitable to drink.”
After a while, the same monk _____(ask)to get water again. When he went back to the lake, he found that the mud _
(settle) down already, so he collected back a pot of water. Wisdom looked at the water happily and then up at the monk, “To make the water clean, __
__you need to do is just to let it be and the mud would settle down on its own.”
It is also the same with your mind. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time and it will settle down itself.
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Where will you choose to live, in the city ____ the countryside? People have different ideas
___ the question. Some of my friends would like to live in the city. They can enjoy TV films, entertainment and delicious food. Everything
____ (be) convenient in the city.
____ people are thirsty, they can have boiled or bottled water at once. When a child is ill, he
____ (send) to hospital in just a few minutes.
_____, people have to suffer heavy traffic and air pollution anyway.
On the ____ hand, others will choose the countryside. The reasons are simple. Nothing is better
____ to live in fresh air, drink clean water, and enjoy free natural beauty. Of course the most important is a longer and a
_____ (happy) life. Which will be your
____ (choose), my friend?
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
This is a most incredible tale. In the summer of 1903, an American businessman named Henry had some bad luck. He was carried out to sea by ____strong wind and was __
____ (spot) by a ship before giving up. Then he landed in Britain _
____ chance. He earned his passage by working as an unpaid hand,
___ accounted for his
___ (appear). He was lost in London and had no money on him. _
__ knows who he was.
Then ____ (expect) he was invited to a large and beautiful house by two rich brothers, Roderick and Oliver. Henry told his experience to them. He asked if they _
____ (can) offer him some kind of work there. To his surprise, they gave him a letter with money in it. He couldn’t open it until two o’clock. Henry thought this was silly. In fact, Henry didn’t want charity but an honest job. He was _
___ (puzzle) at what he did and _
___ (promise) to open it until two o’clock.