阅读下面短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
Hello, I’m David Smith. Now I’d like to share with you the story of how music has had a strong influence on my life.
Have you ever faced a time when things looked dark and you had no hope at all? Two years ago, my body ached all the time. So I went to the doctor. I was told I had a serious illness which was difficult to cure（治愈）. And I thought I didn’t have much longer to live. I was very afraid and I felt so lonely and discouraged.
Then one day, I had to go through a two-hour medical treatment. The doctor wanted me to relax, so she played some music for me, and one of the songs was Happy, which has been my favorite song till now. This positive（积极的）and uplifting song gave me strength（力量）and helped me go through the darkness. From then on, I began to listen to music all the time. John A. Logan once said, “Music is the medicine of the mind.” And it’s true. Music worked wonders for me. It helped me recover（恢复）and come back to life.
Of course, I hope none of you have to experience the same kind of suffering（痛苦）that I did. However, we all go through some periods when we feel sad or lonely. During those times, music can help you in the same way that it helped me. I hope all of you will value music and make it a part of your life.
（1）Was David Smith seriously ill two years ago?
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（2）How did the doctor help the writer to relax during the medical treatment?
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（3）What is the writer’s favorite song?
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（4）What is music like for John A. Logan?
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（5）What’s the passage about?
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阅读短文，用英文填空或回答问题。（注意每小题的词数要求）
Born in a small village, I saw how busy farmers were in spring, and what the season meant to them. Spring is a time when the land wakes up from its long sleep, and the fields are ready for crops（庄稼）. If you are lazy in spring, you will get nothing in autumn. So, farmers seem to compete with time in spring.
When I was a little girl, every weekend I was busy planting crops. Whatever it was, I had fun and learned a lot. For example, when we planted potatoes, we needed to cut the sprouted（发芽的）potatoes into pieces and made sure every piece of “seed”（种子）had one or two sprouts. It was really like a math game.
Farm work is also teamwork. That’s why every spring field is busy with people of all ages working in it. While planting beans, my father dug small holes, and I carefully put some seeds into each hole. The work was hard and boring, but when we worked together, it seemed easier and more interesting.
I felt magic of life in spring as well. In a few weeks, the seeds sprouted, encouraging us to care for them by watering and so on. As time went by, they grew into healthy plants.
Because of these wonderful childhood experiences, I hold such a special feeling for spring.
（1）________ is the best season to plant crops.（仅填1词）
（2）If you don’t work hard in spring, you will ___________________.（不超过5词）
（3）&（4）Fill in the blanks according to the passage.
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Spring Planting |
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Ideas or Feelings |
Farm work |
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I had fun and learned a lot. |
planting potatoes |
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Farm work is also teamwork. |
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caring for seeds and watching their growth |
（5）What’s your understanding of “compete with time in spring”? Use your own words.
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请认真阅读下面短文，用英语回答短文后的问题，并将答案写在横线上。
In his lovely piece of writing “Why Write?”, the writer Paul Auster shares a story about growing up as an eight-year-old in New York City. He was crazy about baseball, especially the New York Giants. The only thing he remembers about attending his first major league baseball game is that he saw his hero Willie Mays after the game. The young Auster gathered his courage and went close to his hero. “Mr. Mays,” he said, “could I please have your autograph（签名）?”
“Sure, kid, sure,” Mays replied kindly. “Have you got a pencil?”
Auster didn’t have a pencil on him, neither did his father or his mother or anyone else in his group.
Mays waited patiently, but when it became clear that no one present had anything to write with, he said, “Sorry, kid. We’ve got no pencil. I can’t give you my autograph.”
From that day on, Auster made it a habit to never leave the house without a pencil in his pocket. “It’s not that I had any special plans for that pencil,” Auster writes, “but I didn’t want to be unprepared. I had been caught empty-handed once, and I wasn’t about to let it happen again. The years have taught me this: If there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel like starting to use it. That’s how I became a writer.”
What is your pencil? What is so important that without it you feel unprepared? I know some cartoonists always carry pen and paper and some photographers always have a camera in their pockets. They are always prepared.
Pick your “pencil” and don’t leave home without it.
（1）To get Willie Mays’ autograph, what did Auster need?
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（2）What habit did Auster form after that day?
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（3）What do you think of Auster’s habit? Why do you think so?
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根据下面的对话情景，在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子，使对话的意思连贯、完整。
（Tony is talking about the coming summer vacation with his classmate, Li Hua.）
A: Hi, Tony! You look excited!
B: You know what? I am looking forward to the summer vacation. But I haven’t decided where to go yet. （1） ?
A: Ummm... Let me see. （2） ?
B: Your hometown?
A: Yes. It is Xinxian.
B: （3） ?
A: It is in the south of Henan. Xinxian is a good place with mountain s and rivers. It’s famous as the county of the generals （将军县）.
B: （4） . Anything more?
A: Some villages are worth visiting. With the help of the government, great changes have taken place in many old villages. They receive a lot of visitors every year.
B: Great! Thank you for your advice.
A: （5） .
阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题（请注意每小题的词数要求）.
My family has always had family dinners，as far as I can remember. Since I was a little boy，my mother has insisted（坚持）that we attend family dinners at least once a week. Every Sunday，my mother would prepare a lot of food and bring it to my grandma’s house. We would wait for more family members to come before eating together at the table，my grandma’s dinner table.
I used to feel that was a silly little tradition. But now I find it’s fantastic to get together as a family to talk about anything and everything after a long week of school and work. Every time I sit at the dinner table，my grandma’s dinner table，I look around and find so many people who truly love me. It’s a love that feels so good. For me，dinner is not just a meal，but a chance to reconnect with each other.
I finally realize the true meaning of this tradition. It’s not about the dinners or activities. It’s about family，a group of people who care about each other. All the memories（记忆）around my grandma’s dinner table will last forever.
Now，I’m always expecting Sunday to arrive.
（1）How often do the writer’s family members get together for dinner?（不超过5个词）
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（2）What does dinner mean to the writer?（不超过10个词）
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（3）Why is “my grandma’s dinner table” mentioned several times in the text?（不超过10个词）
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根据每小题所提供的图画情景和提示词，写出一个与图画情景相符的句子。
（1）
smart ________________________
（2）
behind ________________________
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yesterday ________________________
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tomorrow _______________________
（5）
while ________________________