Mymotherwasaservant(佣人).Throug-优题课

After the winter vacation, I had to move to a new city with my parents. On the first day to my new school, it was cold and ____(1)____. I was walking alone slowly ____(2)____ worrying about something in my new school. It was early and there weren’t many people on the road. ___(3)____ a girl who was riding a bike in the snow fell down. She was ___(4)____ hard to stand up but fell again. ___(5)____ thinking, I went over to help her quickly. She said “thank you” with a ___(6)____ and then rode away. Her smile warmed me a lot.

After I got to school, the teacher led me to the classroom and ___(7)____ me to the class. Then he asked me to ___(8)____ down beside a girl. I felt so ___(9)____ that I didn’t dare to look at her. Soon the first class, English, started. Their textbooks were___(10)____from those in my old school. As I was ___(11)____ what to do, an English book appeared in front of me. “Let’s ___(12)____ it.” The girl beside me said, “Hi, I’m Carrie,” I looked up. To ___(13)___ surprise, it was the girl I helped this morning. From ___(14)____ on, we became good friends.

From that I learned: to help ____(15)____ is actually to help ourselves!

(1).

A．

cloudy

B．

snowy

C．

foggy

D．

rainy

(2).

A．

so

B．

because

C．

but

D．

and

(3).

A．

Firstly

B．

Finally

C．

Suddenly

D．

Luckily

(4).

A．

trying

B．

starting

C．

getting

D．

walking

(5).

A．

Without

B．

With

C．

For

D．

About

(6).

A．

joke

B．

smile

C．

laugh

D．

cry

(7).

A．

introduced

B．

carried

C．

showed

D．

sent

(8).

A．

fall

B．

lie

C．

sit

D．

turn

(9).

A．

sad

B．

happy

C．

nervous

D．

excited

(10).

A．

easy

B．

difficult

C．

same

D．

different

(11).

A．

doing

B．

writing

C．

wondering

D．

dreaming

(12).

A．

share

B．

sing

C．

dance

D．

play

(13).

A．

her

B．

my

C．

his

D．

its

(14).

A．

today

B．

later

C．

now

D．

then

(15).

A．

any other

B．

another

C．

the other

D．

others

Sit With Us

You’re at your new school. It’s lunch time, but you don’t have anyone to sit with. You want to join someone at their table, ___(1)___ you’re not sure if they’re friendly. What do you do? Natalie’s ___(2)___ of solving the problem was to create an app. She knows what it feels like to be alone at a new school. She found it difficult to make new friends and had to ___(3)___ a new table at lunch every day. If she sat ___(4)___, she felt lonely. But if she asked to join someone and was __(5)__, she felt embarrassed. She created a lunch-planning app to help students like ___(6)___ find people to have lunch with.

The app — called Sit With Us — is ___(7)__. If a student is having lunch in the afternoon, he or she can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and __(8)___ that invitation. They can then use the app to decide when and where to ___(9)___. This allows students to make ___(10)___ online instead of face-to-face. This is the reason why it works so _ (11)__: it lowers the risk of being refused, and the embarrassment that goes along with it.

Natalie is __(12)__ to see that people are replying to her app actively — especially those who suffer from bullying (遭受欺凌). Soon after she made her app available to the public, she won a prize for it. She __(13)__ appeared in many news stories.

Natalie was even asked to speak at a university. In her ___(14)__, Natalie wanted people to know that you don’t have to do something ___(15)___ to change lives. Sometimes, a simple thing — like having a friend to enjoy lunch with — can make all the difference.

(1).

A．

so

B．

or

C．

for

D．

but

(2).

A．

habit

B．

course

C．

method

D．

question

(3).

A．

search for

B．

fix up

C．

give out

D．

get away from

(4).

A．

on time

B．

in a hurry

C．

by herself

D．

in public

(5).

A．

called

B．

refused

C．

discussed

D．

believed

(6).

A．

us

B．

it

C．

her

D．

them

(7).

A．

cheap

B．

simple

C．

private

D．

noisy

(8).

A．

miss

B．

make

C．

send

D．

accept

(9).

A．

stop

B．

study

C．

meet

D．

exercise

(10).

A．

plans

B．

trouble

C．

reports

D．

dinner

(11).

A．

late

B．

well

C．

hard

D．

loudly

(12).

A．

upset

B．

sorry

C．

happy

D．

angry

(13).

A．

also

B．

just

C．

still

D．

seldom

(14).

A．

book

B．

talk

C．

school

D．

picture

(15).

A．

big

B．

new

C．

similar

D．

enjoyable

I went to Beijing to study Chinese last year. I was ___(1)___ about all the chances to better my language skills, walk on the Great Wall, and most of all, eat real Chinese food! I ___(2)___ remember my first jianbing, jiaozi and Peking duck. Each of them was amazing in its own way.

I knew that real Chinese food would be different from the Chinese food I had eaten in the USA. I couldn’t wait to try all the ___(3)___ dishes that came up in my research about Chinese food. One of my favorites turned out to be hotpot（火锅）.

My first-ever hotpot experience in Old Beijing was ___(4)___. As a first-timer, I was moved by the waiters’___(5)___ and their warmth of welcome. They tried their best to introduce all of the oils and spices（调味香料）to me.

Looking around, I found that everyone had their own favorite sauce combinations（酱料组合）, ingredients and styles（食材和风格）. Some would carefully ____(6)___ their ingredients into the hotpot one after another. Others would impatiently put whole plates into the bubbling（冒泡的）oil. You can learn a lot from the ____(7)____ people eat hotpot.

When I went back to the USA, I ___(8)____ to prepare a hotpot meal for my family. It allowed me to not only share the culture that I had learned about, but also offer others a chance to ____(9)___ China like I had. It’s amazing that ___(10)___ could bring so much to life!

(1).

A．

sorry

B．

excited

C．

tired

(2).

A．

still

B．

never

C．

hardly

(3).

A．

heart-breaking

B．

mouth-watering

C．

time-saving

(4).

A．

unforgettable

B．

unpleasant

C．

unlucky

(5).

A．

coldness

B．

laziness

C．

friendliness

(6).

A．

play

B．

put

C．

wash

(7).

A．

way

B．

tool

C．

price

(8).

A．

hated

B．

refused

C．

decided

(9).

A．

help

B．

build

C．

experience

(10).

A．

jiaozi

B．

hotpot

C．

Peking duck

Ever since “Mother Nature” gave me life, I expected to grow tall and big.

As a young ___(1)___, I was well protected in the forest. I used to ___(2)___ a good time with my friends under the blue sky and ___(3)___ the river. Our only purpose was to stand high. My pal, Tim often said, “All I ask for is to be ___(4)___ the whole day.”

More than 300 days passed and we grew straight. Until one day, our ___(5）___ birthday, people came, moved us from the __（6）_ and put us on their trucks. “I don’t want to go!” Tim cried.

After a long journey, we arrived in a completely different place with ___（7）___ green. Here we were planted in a line. ___（8）___ the wind blew strongly, I could not even open my eyes to see Tim __（9）___ beside me. So we needed enough __（10）__ to grow thicker and higher to stop the wind.

As time went by, we finally ___（11)___ much stronger. I could keep my eyes open in the wind! I even found the blue sky was back!

This was no longer a no-man’s-land, and hundreds of visitors came here. A man took a picture of us with his ___(12)___, “Thank you. We can enjoy clear days ___(13)___ worrying about sand storms.” A young girl jumping up and down came over and ___(14)___ me. “Thank you,” she said, “It’s you that have turned the desert into a green land!”

Tim and I smiled at each other, feeling ___(15)__. The sun was shining brightly in the bluer sky.

(1).

A．

tree

B．

fish

C．

girl

D．

boy

(2).

A．

choose

B．

forget

C．

have

D．

miss

(3).

A．

in

B．

along

C．

under

D．

on

(4).

A．

smart

B．

happy

C．

busy

D．

thin

(5).

A．

first

B．

second

C．

third

D．

fourth

(6).

A．

beach

B．

lake

C．

house

D．

earth

(7).

A．

all

B．

nothing

C．

anything

D．

everything

(8).

A．

Though

B．

Unless

C．

Because

D．

Until

(9）.

A．

clearly

B．

greatly

C．

kindly

D．

widely

（10）.

A．

desert

B．

wind

C．

sand

D．

water

（11）.

A．

became

B．

smelt

C．

sounded

D．

remained

（12）.

A．

radio

B．

keyboard

C．

backpack

D．

camera

（13）.

A．

from

B．

about

C．

without

D．

of

（14）.

A．

asked

B．

hugged

C．

invited

D．

kicked

（15）.

A．

tired

B．

bored

C．

proud

D．

surprised

Bella arrived home late from school that day. When she walked past her mother’s room she found her mum was ___(1)___ in bed, and seemed to be very weak.

Bella entered her room and heard the cries from her little sister. She knew her dad was expect her to ___(2)___ her sister. And she also had to prepare meals for the whole family ___(3)___ her mum did before. Bella thought it was not ___(4)___ because she also had schoolwork to do, just like everyone else in her class. Why did she have to be the grown-up?

When she got out of the room, she saw her ___(5)__ sitting at the kitchen table, lonely and tired. Suddenly, something happened inside Bella. She ___(6)___ that her father, as well as a husband, must be really ___(7)___.

Then she heard a deep voice from her father, “Make the ___(8)__, will you, Bella?”

She was going to find a(n) ___(9)___ to meet her friends, but she stopped and said to herself, “It is a ___(10)__ time for everyone in our family. I guess making meals is just what I can do to help. “Then she ___(11)__ went into the kitchen and began peeling (削) potatoes.

“OK, Daddy.” said Bella. “Everything will be all right and we can ___(12)___.” At the moment, she saw a smile on her father’s face. She felt ___(13)___— grown-up, somehow. It was really good to ___(14)___ a smile to her father’s face, even for only a moment.

“Daddy, whatever happens, we will be OK. Right?”

“Yes, we will. If we ___(15) __ each other, we’ll always be all right.”

They both smiled at each other over the table.

(1).

A．

still

B．

only

C．

even

D．

almost

(2).

A．

look for

B．

look after

C．

look over

D．

look through

(3).

A．

as

B．

until

C．

since

D．

unless

(4).

A．

clear

B．

ready

C．

fair

D．

true

(5).

A．

brother

B．

sister

C．

mum

D．

dad

(6).

A．

explained

B．

expected

C．

realized

D．

promised

(7).

A．

moved

B．

worried

C．

pleased

D．

surprised

(8).

A．

bed

B．

table

C．

dinner

D．

present

(9).

A．

excuse

B．

suggestion

C．

example

D．

question

(10).

A．

full

B．

hard

C．

good

D．

right

(11).

A．

simply

B．

bravely

C．

quietly

D．

suddenly

(12).

A．

decide

B．

manage

C．

forget

D．

understand

(13).

A．

terrible

B．

wrong

C．

lucky

D．

different

(14).

A．

bring

B．

keep

C．

turn

D．

hold

(15).

A．

refuse

B．

control

C．

support

D．

introduce