Do you know the 3-year-old girl named Dong Xinyi? She has a bright nickname(綽號(hào))“Little Strong Girl”who looked after her disabled father. And many people all over China were moved by her.
When she was several months old, her father had an accident on his way home while riding his motorcycle and   38  his legs. Two years later, her mother left her father   39  the poor life. As an old saying goes,“The children of poor people do housework early.”Little Xinyi had to do family chores, such as cooking noodles, carrying water, cleaning rooms and washing clothes. She took good care of her father alone. The little girl brings happiness and hope to her poor family. And luckily, the local government has   40  medical treatment for her father. At the same time, the government is   41  planning to raise money for the girl’s   42  .Now, Dong Xinyi has got a chance to go to school like other kids.
【小題1】A.loses                  B. lost                    C. lose
【小題2】A.because of              B. instead                 C. because
【小題3】A.provided               B. noticed                 C. offered
【小題4】A.too                    B. either                  C. also
【小題5】 A. information             B. question                C. education

Norman Bethune is one of China’s most famous heroes, but he wasn’t Chinese—he was Canadian. He gave his life to helping Chinese people.
Norman Bethune         born in 1890. He became a         in 1916, and he went to the front to look after injured soldiers in the First World War. He saw many soldiers die in the war. Later he invented new treatments to         soldiers, and medical tools to use outside hospitals.
In 1938 he came to China to treat the Chinese soldiers in the mountains north of Yan’an. There were         doctors, so he had to work very hard. He opened hospitals to give treatment to local people and soldiers, and to train doctors and nurses. He also wrote books so that doctors can learn about new treatments.
Dr Bethune worked very hard without stopping to         . Once, he performed operations       69 hours without stopping, and saved 112 people. He         working in spite of cutting his hand during an operation. In the end, he died because he did not take care of his         .
Dr Bethune’s work with the Chinese soldiers made         a hero in China. There are books and films about him, and he is         remembered in both Canada and China.

In a small town in France, there was a farmer who lived alone. Every day he  31 a pound of butter to his neighbour, who was a baker, One day the baker decided to 32  the butter to see if he was getting a pound. After he weighed it, he found that he wasn't. The baker then took  33   farmer to the judge (法官).
The judge asked the farmer if he had any way to weigh the butler. The farmer replied. "I am so 34  that I do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it, 35 I do have a kind of scale(天平). " The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the buttery" The farmer replied, "Before the baker started buying butler from 36 , I had bought bread from him. So now every time when I bring home the bread from the baker, I put it On the scale and give him the butter of the same weight,"
We 37  what we give to Others in life. Whenever you take action, ask yourself this 38  , "Am I honest?"
Honesty or dishonesty can become a 39  . Some dishonest people can lie(說謊) without a red face. Others lie so much that they do not even 40  what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? As a matter of fact, those who lie will hurt themselves by their own dishonest behaviour.

【小題7】

A．get back B．look back C．give back D．turn back

With a determined(堅(jiān)定的) look on his face, Chicago’s Michael McCarthy held on to the banister(扶手) and climbed to the top of the Willis Tower not long ago. The Tower stands 1,451 feet(442 meters) tall, the＿21＿ building in the US.
As he got to the last step, McCarthy ＿22＿ fell down, but that didn’t stop him. The 14-year-old boy finally finished climbing the 2,109 steps and arrived at the top, where he ＿23＿cheers from many people.
“I just want to show people that ＿24＿ a kid with no legs can do it, anyone can do it,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy, who was born without legs, has to wear prosthetic legs(假肢) and use a stick to walk. But McCarthy has a strong 25 . He believes having a disability(殘疾) shouldn’t stop anyone  26  achieving his or her success.
He has been in a special school  27  he was four. When he decided to climb the Willis Tower, his teacher, Jeff Kohn, was   28  by his determination(決心) and offered to help train him. They   29  more than ten hours practicing climbing stairs and keeping balance with the prosthetics and sticks on the steps every day. “  30  seems that he never knows how difficult it is.  31  I was so tired that I asked him to rest for a day,”said Kohn. “But he said he was still full of energy and wanted more  32 .”
Kohn always walked with McCarthy for the climb. “I   33   the last 10 floors, he went faster,” said Kohn. “He’s the most craven sportsman I’ve ever trained.”
McCarthy said he was   34  of himself and that the tower now holds special meaning. “When I’m older, I’ll   35  to the building and say ‘Look at this building I climbed’,” he said.

Chi Li is one of the best known Chinese writers in the West. She was born in the west. She was born in the 1950s'.     46    19, Chi entered a medical college in 1976. After she graduated, she     47     as a doctor at a hospital in Wuhan. As she loved  _ 48   much more, she went to Wuhan University to study Chinese language and literature in 1983. She chose   49   as her profession(專業(yè))。
During the 1980s, Chi wrote many works full of love. In the 1990s, her works, such as Apart From Love and The Sun Was Born, were 50  lives of young people and everyday problems. Since 2003, Chi has 51  a higher level in her works. And many of her novels have received a  52  honor. Life Show is one of her representative (代表) works and  53   has been translated into many languages. The   54   shows the real life of a common woman in Wuhan.
Chi says, "Writers don't need to be anyone,   55   they should be able to understand everyone." So she often travels alone to get a feel of how the world is and tries to understand people from all social strata (階層).
【小題1】 A. At the age of      B. At the moment        C. In the beginning
【小題2】A. became          B. worked           C. enjoyed
【小題3】 A. medicine           B. travelling           C. literature
【小題4】 A. teaching           B. writing          C. nursing
【小題5】 A. over               B. under                C. about
【小題6】 A. reached            B. arrived          C. went
【小題7】A. great               B. nice                 C. bad
【小題8】A. she                 B. they                 C. it
【小題9】 A. picture                B. story                C. newspaper
【小題10】A. or              B. till                 C. but

Jack worked in a shop that sold clocks. He was always telling Harry  26 a new clock. But Harry,  27 lived next door to Jack, said he didn’t need one.
“  28 needs a clock,” Jack said. “How do you know when it’s time to get up?”
“My landlord Mr. Smith turns on his radio at seven o’clock and listens  29 the news,” Harry said. “That’s my morning call.”
“Ok. But how do you know when to go to work?”
“By the time I  30 my breakfast, it’s eight o’clock, time to leave for the office. Then I walk there. When I arrive at my office, it’s nice o’clock. That’s  31 time I start work.”
“Ok. But how do you know when it’s time to go home?”
“The factory bell  32 ” Harry told him.
“But how do you know when it’s time to go to bed?”
“The television programs come to end.”
By now Jack was really  33 . “Ok,” he shouted. “Now tell me what would happen  34 you woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to know the time.”
“That’s easy,” Harry said, “I would knock heavily on  35 wall. Then you would shout at me, ‘What are you doing knocking on my wall at three o’clock in the morning?’”

Are only clever and good-looking students happy in the school? Best-selling ___31___ Xiao Nizi (Nini) doesn’t think so.
“___32___ has his own place in the sky." she said.  "We're all special in our ownways.”
Nini, from Hunan, writes stories about young people in the school. Her books,___33___ Devils Kiss and Un-e on Midsummer’s Night, are very ___34___ with students.
In her stories, the main characters arc usually common girls who are neither pretty ___35___ smart. But they always win the love of a Prince Charming(白馬王子)，or___36___ successful stars.
"It’s not because of luck."' said Nini. ""They are ___37___ honest and they don't lie. They know what they arc good___38___ and work hard to realize their dreams. "
Nini herself is like one of the characters in her stories. She was a shy girl at school. But she thought a lot and liked languages, and that made her ___39___ to be a writer. She hopes her stories ___40__ make more kids happy.
【小題1】A. writer        B. reader         C. speaker
【小題2】 A. Nobody     B. Everyone      C. Someone
【小題3】A. as           B. for example    C. such as
【小題4】 A. successful    B. popular        C. funny
【小題5】 A. nor          B. or            C. but
【小題6】A. become      B. make         C. take
【小題7】 A. still          B.only         C. ever
【小題8】 A. at           B. for           C. with
【小題9】A. deciding      B. to decide      C. decide
【小題10】 A. can          B. must        C. need

Robby was 11 years old when his mother sent him to have his first piano lesson. I prefer that students begin at an earlier age, but Robby said ____36____ had always been his mother’s dream to hear him play the piano. So I took him on __37__ my student.
Although Robby tried very hard, ___38____ he was not good at music. However, he continued and _____39____ the end of each weekly lesson he’d always say:“My mom is going to hear me play someday.” But it seemed hopeless. He didn’t have a talent for music.
One day, Robby stopped ____40____ to our lessons. He told me that his mom had been sick and unable to take him to piano lessons, but he was still practicing. He asked ____41____ he could take part in my concert and I agreed.
The night of the concert came. The high school gym ___42____ with parents, friends and relatives. The concert was going well. Then Robby came up on the stage, and began to play the piano.
He played _____43___ well that everyone was on their feet, clapping(鼓掌)excitedly. In tears, I ran up on the stage, “Oh, Robby! ____44____ did you do it?”.
“Well, Miss Green…remember I told you my mom was sick? Well, actually she had cancer and died this morning. And well…she was born deaf, so tonight was the ____45___ time she ever heard me play the piano. I wanted to make it special.

Michael Essany is the young star of his own TV talk show. When he was 14, he bought some    36   machines and asked a local television station to air (播放) his show. Michael contacted 500 famous people but only three of them    37   to be on his show. However, now many well-known people want to be on his show. In 2003, the Michael Essany Show became so    38   that even the E! network made a show about his show!
Michael’s show is    39   from the living room of his family’s house. Before the show starts, his parents    40   the guests at the airport and make them comfortable. While the show is    41  , Michael tells jokes and interviews the guests, and his parents    42   the video machines. After Michael finished the show, the guests eat dinner with Michael and his    43   in the dining room.
Michael’s fame (名氣) is    44  , but he still has plans and goals. “I would like to be the host of The Tonight Show. That is my    45  , and it’s a dream I intend to realize one day.”
【小題1】 A. radio                  B. video                    C. Internet
【小題2】 A. forgot                 B. refused              C. agreed
【小題3】A. strange                 B. popular              C. serious
【小題4】 A. recorded               B. discovered           C.introduced
【小題5】 A. help out                   B. look after           C. pick up
【小題6】 A. on                     B. off                  C. up
【小題7】 A. mend                   B. run                  C. sell
【小題8】A. family                  B. audience             C. boss
【小題9】 A. falling                    B. disappearing         C. growing
【小題10】 A. advice                 B. dream                    C. story

Rudi Matt lived in a small village in the Swiss Alps in 1865. What he wanted most in the world was to climb   31  highest peak (山峰) in the Alps.   32  mother and his uncle, Franz, a mountain guide, wanted him to stop   33  and start working in a hotel. Rudi would not  34  his dream and secretly got in touch with an English mountain climber   35 was planning to climb the highest peak.
Franz was very angry when he found out   36  Rudi had done, but he finally agreed to let Rudi go if he went climbing, too. Franz also didn’t want to see Emil Saxo, a guide from another village, got to the top   37   him.
Rudi turned out to be a very good climber,  38   as they got close to the top, the Englishman got sick and couldn’t go on farther. Franz   39  behind to take care of him, but Saxo continued, wishing to be the   40  to the top. Rudi went after Saxo, hoping to   41  him to the top. When they met, Saxo fought with Rudi and fell down by accident. Saxo was   42  and hurt. Rudi must decide whether to carry Saxo back down to safety or to continue alone to the top.
He thought Saxo’s life was more   43  than his dream and helped him down. During that time, the Englishman and Franz continued the climb, and finally   44 reached the top. Later, the villagers   45  knew Rudi was the real conqueror (征服者) of the mountain.

【小題8】

A．but B．so C．or D．for