This story happened in a small mountain village. One day there was an earthquake (地震) . Nothing was destroyed and 1        was hurt. But a huge rock fell from a nearby mountain and stopped in the middle of the road.

  When the earthquake 2       ,many people came to the road and saw the huge rock. Some of the strongest men tried to lift the rock 3        the road. But they couldn't move it. They tried

to push it but failed. They tried to 4        it with ropes but nothing worked.

  "Well," they all agreed. "There's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the 5       ”At this time a boy of 12 years old said, "I think I can help you to move the rock." 

  "You?" they shouted. " What are you talking about?" The men all 6        at the boy. The next morning some people came into the street. One of them shouted.  "   The rock is 7        ！" More people ran out to see. It was true. The rock wasn't in the road any more. It wasn't 8        near the road.

  "This is 9      " they said. " Where did it go?"

  The boy stood in the street,10       ，"I told you I could move it last night." The boy walked over to where the 11        had been and uncovered some earth. " I buried it," he said.

  The people looked 12      " You see, " he said. "I dug a deep hole next to the rock and I dug a small incline (斜坡) up to the rock and the rock 13        down into the hole by itself. I covered it with earth."

  The crowds shouted. " What a 14       boy!" And some of them said. " Why haven't we thought of this good 15       ?"

(   ) 1. A. somebody   B. nobody   C. anybody   D. everybody

(   ) 2. A. stopped   B.started   C. happened   D. appeared

(   ) 3. A. over   B. into   C. off   D. onto

(   ) 4. A. push   B. lift   C. change   D. pull

(   ) 5. A. road   B. stone   C. rope   D. village

(   ) 6. A. looked   B. laughed   C. called   D. pointed

(   ) 7. A. gone   B. missed   C. broken   D. stolen

(   ) 8. A. very   B. quite   C. even   D. still

(   ) 9. A. heavy   B. dangerous   C. special   D. impossible

(   ) 10. A. crying   B. smiling   C. thinking   D. lying

(   ) 11. A. street   B. town   C. rock   D. mountain

(   ) 12. A. surprised   B. sad   C. happy   D. relaxed

(   ) 13. A. lay   B. dropped   C. walked   D. ran

(   ) 14. A. clever   B. strong   C. brave   D. poor

(   ) 15. A. boy   B. hole   C. story   D. way

  On the first day of sixth grade,I waited at the stop for the school bus. I was eager to know what kind of persons I would 1        on the bus.

  When it arrived,I got on and said hello to the bus driver,Mr Rolland. Then I noticed one little girl called Amy. She was 2        everyone else on the bus.

  "Don't talk to Amy," warned Lauren,who sat beside me.  "Or everybody will 3        you".

  Amy had many physical differences,lots of reasons for other kids to make fun of her. Her eyes weren't straight. Her glasses 4        an inch thick,and she had really uneven teeth.

  Every day as we rode to and from school,kids would shout insults (侮辱) at Amy.     "God,What a 5      face!Stop looking at me！”

  "Mr Rolland!Amy 6      her glasses,and now her eyes are scaring me. Make her put them back on!" they would say.

  For a while I showed my share of insults,just to fit in. After all,I didn't want the other kids treating me the same way they 7        Amy.

  But while I was insulting her,my heart ached for the girl. I could see that the insults were almost making her 8        uglier,because she was so ashamed and alone.

  I began to pity her. Then I wanted to stand up for her. I just didn't know how 9        my schoolmates until the night of our class rollerskating party.

  Our whole class was there,including Amy. Amy didn't know how to skate,but I could see 10        she wanted to have fun like the rest of us.

  So I skated over to her and took her by the hand. I slowly 11        her away from the wall,and together we began around the skating rink. I never said a word to her,and she never spoke to me. She just smiled,and every once in a while she would laugh in 12      On the school bus the next morning there was 13        news about Amy and me skating together. But nobody insulted her or me.

  When the school year ended,my family moved away. And I never heard from Amy again. But I always 14        that I changed her life for the better.

  She 15       my life. After becoming her friend,I no longer tried to impress people by trying to act like them or dress like them. I became myself.

(   ) 1. A. understand   B. get to know   C. knew   D. have known

(   ) 2. A. the same as   B. like   C. different from   D. afraid of

(   ) 3. A. talk about   B. get tired of   C. make fun of   D. kill

(   ) 4. A. being   B. was   C. are   D. were

(   ) 5. A. lovely   B. cute   C. beautiful   D. strange

(   ) 6. A. took off   B. took care of   C. put on   D. put off

(   ) 7. A. hated   B. shouted   C. laughed   D. treated

(   ) 8. A. to look   B. looking   C. looked   D. look

(   ) 9. A. stop   B. to stop   C. stopped   D. stops

(   ) 10. A. how long   B. how often   C. how soon   D. how much

(   ) 11. A. pull   B. pulled   C. being pulled   D. pulling

(   ) 12. A. excitement    B. pleasure   C. fear   D. sadness

(   ) 13. A. a few   B. few   C. little   D. much

(   ) 14. A. hope   B. wish   C. think   D. dream

(   ) 15. A. turned   B. moved   C. became   D. changed 

 Can you remember the day when you spoke your first word? If you can,you are unusual. Try to imagine what first few months of your 1 1      were like. I am sure you just spent most of your time eating,s 2      and crying. As you grew older,you were awake more of the time. It took your p 3      more time to play with you and talk to you. You watched and 1 4       curiously. You began to know people made certain sounds to go with certain t 5      

  Then you began to try making the sounds you h 6      And little by little you were able to make the right sound for one thing. On that day you came to u 7       the secret of language. The secret is that a certain sound means a certain thing. But a sound may have no use as a word unless e 8       agrees on its meaning. After you found the secret of language,you learned words. Some of the words meant things,such as books,chairs and shoes. Some words meant doing things,such as go and swim,and other words describe things,such as good and dirty. Soon you learned to put words t 9       to express your idea,such as " I want to go out and play with my friends."This is language. By means of language people can c 10      So we say languages are means of communication.

1.1       2. s       3. g       4. 1       5. t         

6.h       7. u       8. e       9. t       10. c       

  People like artists and writers usually work on their own,with no one else around. Most of my friends all work 1        other people in shops and so on,and they tell me that they would never get things done if they worked alone. I'm not 2        that all artists and writers do,either.

I was born in a small village in the country where everyone knew 3        else：that is they knew everyone except a writer who 4        himself to himself. By the time I was 5        enough to learn people's names,he had been living in the village for at least twenty years,but the villagers still regarded him as a 6       !Every morning he would walk down to the local shops to do his 7       ,and although he had to greet everyone he met,only two or three would 8        his greeting. Sometimes someone would ask him 9        he was doing,and every time his answer would be the same: "I'm still writing the book. " And that was all we 10        learned about him. Because no one had ever visited his house,I 11       once walking up to the house with three or four other boys to see 12        we could see what he did. We climbed up to the 13        and looked in,expecting to see our writer typing 14        at his desk. Instead,he was sitting in an armchair 15      a book.

(   ) 1. A. without   B. around   C. with   D. for

(   ) 2. A. sure   B. afraid   C. glad   D. sorry

(   ) 3. A. someone   B. nobody   C. anyone   D. everyone

(   ) 4. A. talked   B. kept   C. taught   D. paid

(   ) 5. A. young   B. old   C. tall   D. strong

(   ) 6. A. stranger   B. writer   C. friend   D. fool

(   ) 7. A. washing   B. cooking   C. shopping   D. typing

(   ) 8. A. hear   B. like   C. return   D. hate

(   ) 9. A. what   B. how   C. why   D. where

(   ) 10. A. always   B. still   C. hardly   D. ever

(   ) 11. A. finish   B. enjoy   C. remember   D. plan

(   ) 12. A. that   B. if   C. when   D. whom

(   ) 13. A. chimneys   B. doors   C. windows   D. walls

(   ) 14. A. slowly   B. carefully   C. clearly   D. busily

(   ) 15. A. reading   B. writing   C. copying   D. selling

  If parents bring up a child with the 1        of turning the child into a genius (天才) ，they will cause great 2        to him. According to several leading educational psychologists (心理學家) ，this is one of the biggest mistakes that some parents make. Generally,the child will not understand very well what the parents expect,and will 3       Unrealistic (不現(xiàn)實的) parental expectations (期望) can 4        great damage to children.

  5      ,if parents are not unrealistic about what they expect their children to do,but are hopeful in a sensible (有理智的) 6      ,the child may 7        in doing very well―especially if the parents are very supportive (支持) of their child.

  Michael Li is very lucky.  He is very fond of 8      ,and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging (安排)private piano and violin lessons for him. They even 9        him 50 kilometers twice a week for violin lessons. 10       Michael's mother knows very little about music,Michael's father plays the trumpet (小號) in a large orchestra (管弦樂隊) . However,he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is 11      

  Michael's friend,Winston Chen,however,is not so 12      

  Although both of his parents are successful 13       ,they set too high a standard for Winston. They are very unhappy when he does not 14      " When I was your age,I used to win every competition (比賽) I entered," Winston's father tells him. Winston is always 15        that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.

(   ) 1. A. aim   B. turn   C. hope   D. train

(   ) 2. A. kindness   B. trouble   C. damage   D. matter

(   ) 3. A. succeed   B. fail   C. fall   D. reach

(   ) 4. A. take   B. bring   C. cause   D. fetch

(   ) 5. A. So   B. However   C. Therefore   D. Instead

(   ) 6. A. idea   B. thought   C. method   D. way

(   ) 7. A. succeed   B. come   C. fall   D. fair

(   ) 8. A. sports   B. music   C. art   D. dance

(   ) 9. A. drive   B. spend   C. take   D. fly

(   ) 10. A: Because   B. For   C. As   D. Although

(   ) 11. A. willing   B. unwilling   C. happy   D. glad

(   ) 12. A. good   B. lucky   C. unlucky   D. great

(   ) 13. A. scientists   B. writers   C. musicians   D. doctors

(   ) 14. A. lose   B. win   C. appear   D. fall

(   ) 15. A. glad   B. afraid   C. frightened   D. satisfied

 Mr White was the owner of a small newspaper,he always tried to bring the readers the 1 1       news.

  One day he r 2       an exciting telephone call from someone who told him that there was a sudden flooH in a village up in the mountain s 3      in the north and several people disappeared. He gave a detailed account of the disaster,and Mr White made n 4       carefully. That evening the story was printed in his newspaper. Mr White was pleased to see that no other paper had got the s 5       news.

  Unfortunately,however ,a 6       telephone calls soon came and he learned that he had been f 7       So in the next day's paper he wrote："We were the first and o 8       newspaper to report yesterday that the village in the northern mountain was caught in a flood. Today,we are p 9       to tell you we are again the first one to bring our readers the news that yesterday's story was not t b 10       "

1.1       2. r       3. s       4. n       5. s         

6.a       7. f       8. o       9. p       10. t       

  Here's a good way to find out where you need the most improvement：check your report card. Don't just look at the 1       . Check the comments your teachers write about each 2      

  Very often when students 3        report cards,they check their marks very quickly. Then they stop 4        and put them away. However,this is not right. Your report cards may 5        comments from each teacher. These comments are more useful than the grades.

  Not all comments by teachers are useful. Some have a common 6        of how the class has studied in the 7        term. There may be only a few 8        on your own work,and sometimes such comments are mainly written about which is 9       ,but not about your weak points.

  Sometimes teachers' comments are written in a kind of secret code (代碼) that I 10      "reportspeak". For example, "George has a good understanding of.…"It 11      good. But in fact,a "good" understanding may be the third,or the fourth best result below "excellent" and "very good".12       you realize this, "good understanding" isn't so good any more.

  Because comments on the report card don't 13        have the information you're looking for,the 14       way to discover where you most need to improve is to ask your teachers 15        if you want to use your report card better.

(   ) 1. A. grades   B. colors   C. appointments   D. decisions

(   ) 2. A. model   B. behavior   C. interview   D. subject

(   ) 3. A. discuss   B. receive   C. count   D. expect

(   ) 4. A. annoying   B. confusing   C. raising   D. reading

(   ) 5. A. express   B. include   C. increase   D. invent

(   ) 6. A. description  B. advertisement  C. competition  D. entertainment

(   ) 7. A. back   B. past   C. next   D. last

(   ) 8. A. words   B. members   C. lectures   D. researches

(   ) 9. A. terrible   B. polite   C. nice   D. silent

(   ) 10. A. advise   B. offer   C. remember   D. call

(   ) 11. A. reminds   B. sounds   C. succeeds   D. displays

(   ) 12. A. Since   B. Until   C. Although   D. After

(   ) 13. A. already   B. normally   C. always   D. truly

(   ) 14. A. best   B. public   C. modern   D. single

(   ) 15. A. recently   B. actually   C. directly   D. perfectly

  An angry woman sat in the station office. "The railway should pay me $12." she said to Harry,the man who sold the ticket. "My ticket was for May 22nd,and there was 1        train from Jersey that night. My daughter and I had to 2        in a hotel. It 3      me $12. ”

  Harry was 4       He remembered selling the woman a return ticket. 5       he checked the Jersey timetable for May 22nd,he knew she was right. However,had he made such a careless mistake? Wondering 6        to do,he smiled at the woman's child. " Did you have a nice 7        in Jersey?" he said to her. " Yes, " she answered shyly. "The seashore was lovely. And I can swim,too！"

  "That's fine," said Harry. "My little girl can't swim at all. Of course,she's only three...”

  "I'm four," the child said 8      "I'll soon be four and a half."

  Harry turned to the mother. "I remember your ticket,madam," he said. " 9       you didn't buy one ticket 10        your daughter,did you?"

  "Well," the woman looked at her child. "I 11       she hasn't started school yet. She is only four."

  "A four-year-old child 12        pay for a ticket,madam. A child's return ticket 13        Jersey costs $13. 50. So 14      we pay your hotel bill,you will own (欠)＄13. 50. The law is the law,since the mistake was mine..."

  Saying 15      ,the woman stood up,took the child's hand and left the station office.

(   ) 1. A. no   B. a   C. some   D. the

(   ) 2. A. eat   B. live   C. stay   D. rest

(   ) 3. A. paid   B. spent   C. took   D. cost

(   ) 4. A. worried   B. tired   C. frightened   D. pleased

(   ) 5. A. When   B. Before   C. After   D. While

(   ) 6. A. where   B. when   C. how   D. what

(   ) 7. A. present   B. rest   C. party   D. holiday

(   ) 8. A. loudly   B. politely   C. sadly   D. proudly

(   ) 9. A. And   B. But   C. So   D. Or

(   ) 10. A. with   B. to   C. for   D. from

(   ) 11. A. mean   B. ask   C. guess   D. decide

(   ) 12. A. can   B. must   C. may   D. need

(   ) 13. A. from   B. for   C. in   D. to

(   ) 14. A. when   B. if   C. as   D. because

(   ) 15. A. a lot   B. something   C. nothing   D. everything

 When you are learning English,you find it not w 1      to translate an English sentence,word for word,into your own language. T 2       the sentence "How do you do?" for example. If you look up each word in the dictionary,o 3      at a time,what is your translation? It m 4       be a wrong sentence in your own language.

  Languages do not just have different s 5      They are different in many ways. It's i 6       to master the rules for word order in the study of English,too. If the speakers put words in a wrong order,the listener can't understand the speaker's sentence e 7      Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed,the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed,the meaning of the sentence doesn't change. Let's see the difference between the two p 8      of sentences：

  "She only likes apples.Only she likes apples."

  "I have seen the film already. ”"I have already seen the film."

  When you are learning English,you must t 9       your best to get the spirit of the language and use it as the English speaker d 10      

1.w       2. T       3. o       4. m       5. s         

6.i       7. e       8. _e       9. t       10. d       

  Johnny Sylvester,eleven years old,wac in bed in hospital. Several days before,while he was 1        in a football game,he fell and his head hit the ground. The doctors believed that 2        might never get well.

  "He seems to have given up 3        So medicine won't 4       Perhaps he needs something else," said one of the doctors. " When I visit Johnny,all he 5        says is that he would like to meet Babe Ruth."

  To meet Babe Ruth,of course,was not 6       Babe Ruth was as 7       a man in America as the president himself,8       he was the most famous baseball player in the game.

  The next day,Johnny's father 9        to tell Babe Ruth about the story of Johnny on the phone. Twentyfour hours later,as Johnny 10        in his hospital room,in walked Babe Ruth. Young Johnny couldn't 11        it really was the Babe.

  Babe Ruth sat down at Johnny's bedside and said, * Now listen,kid,you've got to get well. I've brought you a new American League baseball. You must start throwing it."

  Sylvester just stayed there,saying nothing,and his eyes were 12        in awe (敬慕) at the great man.

  For Johnny this was the 13        of a new life,one he thought he would never 14       To the surprise of his doctors,young Sylvester walked out of the hospital on his own a few weeks later. He was also able to live a healthy life―all because of the 15        of Babe Ruth.

(   ) 1. A. playing   B. sitting   C. looking   D. watching

(   ) 2. A. one   B. it   C. he   D. she

(   ) 3. A. game   B. study   C. medicine   D. hope

(   ) 4. A. work   B. fit   C. win   D. go

(   ) 5. A. even   B. also   C. ever   D. still

(   ) 6. A. possible   B. impossible   C. necessary   D. important

(   ) 7. A. strong   B. important   C. kind   D. clever

(   ) 8. A. so   B. and   C. but   D. or

(   ) 9. A. tried   B. managed   C. wanted   D. refused

(   ) 10. A. waited   B. laid   C. prepared   D. lay

(   ) 11. A. know   B. notice   C. believe   D. understand

(   ) 12. A. shining   B. falling   C. watching   D. fixing

(   ) 13. A. dream   B. change   C. end   D. beginning

(   ) 14. A. save   B. reach   C. receive   D. see

(   ) 15. A. reply   B. presence   C. photo   D. success