I sat down to read under an old tree in the park. I felt my life was , for my whole world was dark.
A young boy ran up to me, out of breath. He stood right before me with his head down and said ________ , “Look what I found!” In his hand was a flower, and what a poor sight! The flower was dry and ________ . I gave him a small smile and then turned my eyes away so that he could take his dry flower and go off to play.
However, he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his ________ and said in surprise, “It smells sweet and it’s beautiful, too. That’s ________ I picked it. Here, it’s for you.” The flower before me was dead. But I knew I must ________it, or he might never leave. So I accepted the flower, and replied, “This is just what I want.” Just then, for the first time I noticed that the boy could not see — he was blind.
Tears (眼泪) came down my face as I ________ him for picking the best one. “You’re welcome,” he smiled, and then ran off to ________ . I sat there and wondered how he was able to learn about my pain.
Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all those years I myself always was ________ . I decided to see the beauty in life, and ________ every second of my life. And then I held that dry flower up to my nose and breathed in the smell of a beautiful rose.
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The little boy entered the house, unhappy. His mother was cakes in the kitchen. She smiled as she ,but she stopped when she saw his face. “Tyler, happened? Is everything okay?”
“Nothing is okay, mom.” said the boy, “Today, in our science lesson, Mrs. Green was talking about the .She said that the whole world is getting dirtier and that many animals and plants are dying. She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way, but there is I can do to make a difference.”
“Let me tell you .” the mother said after thinking for a while. “One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish* covering the beach, they up by the waves*, and it was too difficult for them to make their way back by . The man shook* his head as he walked along, ‘What a pity! So many starfish will die on the beach.’ The man very sorry for those starfish. He went on walking and just at that time he was to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as as he could, ‘how silly you are! My ,’ the man said, ‘There are so many starfish, can you throw all of them back?’ The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing, ‘I can’t help them all, I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.”
“Thinking for a moment, the man to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself, ‘Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the person.
A．drinking B．making C．selling D．washing
A．turned around B．turned down C．turned on D．turned off
A．what B．when C．where D．why
A．air B．land C．water D．environment
A．something B．anything C．everything D．nothing
A．a legend B．a joke C．a story D．an idea
A．pushed B．was pushed C．were pushed D．were pushing
A．himself B．itself C．ourselves D．themselves
A．feel B．felt C．fell D．fall
A．afraid B．surprised C．sad D．angry
A．slow B．fast C．soon D．high
A．father B．mother C．son D．daughter
A．Or B．So C．Because D．Though
A．began B．remembered C．forgot D．waited
A．shortest B．tallest C．smallest D．biggest
My name is Jenny. I am Cuiyuan Middle School. I have ID card. The is 131033. Look! This is my . It is very good. Oh, that? Is it a book? No, it . It is a notebook. I found at the school. A girl’s is on the notebook. It is Linda’s. But Linda isn’t .Can you help me her? Oh, her telephone number is 13976888776.
A．in B．of C．for D．On
A．a B．an C．the D．／
A．name B．color C．number D．telephone
A．friend B．sister C．student D．watch
A．what B．how C．what’s D．how’s
A．isn’t B．aren’t C．am not D．amn’t
A．that B．it C．this D．one
A．name B．family C．school D．classroom
A．there B．here C．school D．library
A．ask B．see C．call D．Meet
完形填空（本题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
My name is Tony. I have a big . There are six people in family.
They are my grandfather, my grandmother, my , my sister and I. I don’t have any brothers. I am a at a school in Beijing. It’s really big. There are many students at our school. In the front of our classroom there a blackboard. We can write it. There are forty desks and in our classroom. Miss Zhang is our English teacher. There is a new on her desk. But there aren’t computers on our desks. I love my family, school teachers.
A．room B．family C．home D．school
A．my B．his C．her D．your
A．father B．mother C．brothers D．parents
A．doctor B．student C．policeman D．manager
A．is B．isn’t C．are D．aren’t
A．of B．at C．on D．in
A．chairs B．bags C．students D．teachers
A．book B．pen C．computer D．hat
A．some B．an C．any D．a
A．and B．but C．so D．or
I am Kim, I am 15 years old. I have a little sister, Kelly. She likes to go everywhere with me. It was a Saturday afternoon in summer. It was very ____and no one wanted to stay at home. I went swimming in the _____. My sister, Kelly wanted to go with me.
“ Take her with you, Kim, ” said my father. “she will do what you say, I think.”
Then we ____the river quickly. Many people were ___in it. I told Kelly to play on the bank*, then I jumped into the river. About an hour later, I got a ___ in my hand. Kelly was very _____. She found a bottle and put the fish in it.
She did _______ but watching the fish that evening. Suddenly I heard Kelly ____in the room. I ran to her and asked,” what’s wrong ____you?”
“ The fish has died,” she said “I thought it was ______. So I took it out of the bottle and put it on the chair, I only wanted it to have a rest.”
A．warm B．cool C．hot D．cold
A．river B．sea C．pool D．ocean
A．got to B．got out C．got on D．got up
A．washing B．running C．resting D．swimming
A．dog B．cat C．duck D．fish
A．angry B．happy C．sad D．sorry
A．everything B．something C．nothing D．anything
A．singing B．crying C．smiling D．talking
A．with B．from C．to D．on
A．hungry B．free C．tired D．busy
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving _________.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was _________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned _________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, _________ there I sat, waiting for the light to _________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any _________.
I started wondering why I _________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was _________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no _________ in going through it.
Much later that _________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light _________ me. I think I stopped _________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’ s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow _________: we don’t go through red lights.
We do _________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.
I was so _________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.
A．fast B．slowly C．carefully D．hard
A．late B．alone C．worried D．afraid
A．green B．yellow C．red D．dark
A．and B．or C．so D．but
A．return B．change C．start D．continue
A．attention B．background C．direction D．information
A．refused B．decided C．prepared D．forgot
A．hardly B．luckily C．usually D．clearly
A．danger B．excuse C．space D．energy
A．moment B．night C．afternoon D．morning
A．depended on B．looked forward to C．stayed away from D．came back to
A．though B．unless C．because D．until
A．me B．it C．him D．us
A．what B．how C．why D．that
A．tired B．ready C．proud D．sorry