Long long ago, there was a river. The river was very unfriendly. He spent long time being ____ and never shared his water with any fish, plant or animal. His life was full of loneliness and sadness.
One day, a little girl came to the river. She was going to move to ____ country and decided to put ____ favourite little fish into the river. This little fish, named Scamp, was a happy fish. ____ he fell into the river, he felt the river’s loneliness. Scamp tried to ____ to the river and wanted to make the river ____. But the river told Scamp to go away. Scamp didn’t ____. He kept asking questions and ____ in the river, and ____ he started jumping in and out of the water. __ time went by, the river became happy and they became good ____. But one day, this little fish was caught by a little boy.
The river spent that night thinking about how much ____ it was to have a friend, and how much he missed by not ____ him. Before, he was so stupid(傻的). From then on, the river became ____ to others and made friends ____ the plants and fish in the river.
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阅读下面短文，从各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Online shopping is becoming more and more common all over the world, including in China.
For many people, the main concern (顾虑) with online shopping is security (安全).
There are several things that customers should before they buy online. You shouldn’t trust a company just because it has a beautifully designed . Customers should look for other information, such as the company’s full address and details of the different types of payment it accepts. Also before you buy anything, carefully the information about the goods or services for sale.
It’s also very important for customers to ask for written confirmation. They should ask the company to send them an email to confirm their and payment. Written confirmation gives the buyer further protection against companies.
You should be able to send it back or change it. You may change your mind or not be something you have bought online. So before you buy anything online, make sure that the shop offers a “cooling-off period”. This is a period of time when you can return an item and get your back. All reputable (声誉好的) online shops offer this service.
When customers pay by credit card (信用卡), they have extra protection. This is a very safe way of buying goods and services online. , if you don’t receive the goods you have paid for, you can make a claim against your credit card issuer. But of course, you need to make sure that your payment details are secure you pay online by credit card.
Customers should be able to check that their payment details are secure. Many companies allow their customers to send their credit card details a special secure page. You should only buy goods from companies that have this secure page facility.
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One spring afternoon, many years ago, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I parked the car by the roadside and waited for her.
As I looked outside the car window, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother _____ from a short distance（距离）. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been set free out of ______. The boy would then fall to the grass, ______ up quickly, even without looking back at his mother, run as ______ as he could again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.
At that moment, I thought to myself, “Why aren’t most adults this way?” Most adults, when they fall down ,make a big deal out of it and don’t even ______ a second try for fear of failure(失败).
However, with kids, when they fall down, they don't consider their falling down as failure, instead, they treat it as a ________experience. They try again and again until they ____. The answer must be that they have not connected “falling down” with the word “failure”. As a_____, they are not discouraged in any way, Also they _______ think to themselves that it’s quite OK to fall down and that it’s not wrong to so . In other words, they _______ themselves to make mistakes, so they remain energetic.
I was deeply impressed by the boy’s persistence and the manner in which he did.
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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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阅读下面的短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可填入空白处的最佳选项。
Once there was a girl who could do everything she wanted in the world. All she had to do was to choose and focus on it. So one day she sat down and began to paint. When she finally finished painting, she looked proudly at her and smiled.
It was clear that she was . And she knew it, too. But a few moments after she finished painting, she got anxious and quickly stood up. she thought that there was so much more in the world to see and do, and she would face so many . If she finally decided to do something else with her life, then all the time she painting would be a waste. So she looked at her work for the last time, and walked out of the door.
She had to choose thing to reach a higher goal. Should she practice medicine? Or buildings? Or teach children? She was quite .
Twenty-five years later, the girl began to cry. Because she she had been walking for so long, and that over the years she hadn’t done anything at all. She learned that life isn’t about possibility. Anything is possible. The truth of is to get down on one thing, but does not aim too high and changes the goal freely.
The girl was no longer a girl. She knew she wanted exactly. So she bought some painting materials and began to paint. She smiled and painting through day and night, because she had finally made a decision. And there was some time left to enjoy the magic that life is all about.
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Every day we have a math class. We always show interest in it. Some sleep, some daydream, others read something else. listens to our math teacher. To this problem, our clever math teacher found a out at last.
Mr. Black thought since everyone liked candy, the only way to 0ur attention was to give us candy. A clever came upon him’.He put a lot of candy inside a big ball that any-one could . In class he asked us some questions. When anybody answered one question . Mr. Black would throw the ball to the student and the student could some of the candy out of the ball. Then, the student would have to throw the ball to the with the right answer, and as that.
The idea us all sit up and pay attention for a while but soon almost all of us went back to . We all ate too much candy. The only person in our math class who liked the idea was a fat boy named Ward. He just eating and eating until finally even Mr. Black had to say, “I’m . Ward, but I just don’t have enough money to buy you candy. “A. greatB. muchC. little
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