Many years ago,a 10-year-old boy walked up to the counter of a soda shop and climbed onto a stool (高腳椅) .He caught the eye of the waitress and asked , " How much is an ice cream sundae (圣代冰激凌) ？"

  "Fifty cents," the waitress replied. The boy r 1      into his pockets,pulled out a handful of change,and began c 2      The waitress waited impatiently. After all,she had other c 3       to wait on.

  The boy looked up at the waitress. "How much is a dish of plain (純的) ice cream?" he asked. The waitress sighed and rolled her eyes, "Thirtyfive cents," she said.

  Again,the boy counted his coins. At last,he said, " I'll have the plain ice cream,please. " He p 4       a quarter and two nickels on the counter. The waitress took the coins,b 5      the ice cream,and walked away.

  About ten minutes later,she returned and found the ice cream dish e 6       The boy was gone. She picked up the empty dish,then swallowed (哽咽) hard.

  There on the counter,next to the wet spot where the dish had b 7       ,were two nickels and five pennies. The boy had e 8       money for a sundae,but he o 9       plain ice cream so he could leave her a tip (小費) .

  Though we are in a world that tells us to "get all we can" ， it's b 10       to be reminded to "give something away".

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  One will feel happy when others flatter (奉承) him in his face. It is said that the best way of flattering someone is to give him a " top hat"1         .

 A student was going to leave the capital to become 2        official in a city far away. Before he started,he came to say 3        to his teacher.

  "It is 4        job to be a good official," his teacher said.  "You must be strict 5        yourself and never be careless."

  "Don't worry about me,sir," the student answered. "I have already 6        one hundred top hats,which will 7        those people quite happy."

  "But we are really gentlemen!8         could a real gentleman do such a thing?" His teacher was a bit 9        "Never forget 10        1 taught you in class!"

  "11         are always right,sir. I also hate such things. But,sir,12         no real gentleman like you can be seen in the world now," said the student. It seemed that he had to do so. 

  13       hearing this,the teacher was pleased. "What you said is true!"

  "I have 14        one top hat already. Now I have ninetynine 15        ”， the student said to his friend later on when he asked the student what he had talked with the teacher about.

(   ) 1. A. to dress   B. dressing   C. wearing   D. to wear

(   ) 2. A. a   B. the   C. an   D. /

(   ) 3. A. hello   B. goodbye   C. OK   D. thanks

(   ) 4. A. not an easy   B. not easy   C. a good   D. difficult

(   ) 5. A. about   B. with   C. from   D. to

(   ) 6. A. made   B. bought   C. prepared   D. repaired

(   ) 7. A. give   B. let   C. keep   D. make

(   ) 8. A. How   B. What   C. Why   D. When

(   ) 9. A. pleased   B. angry   C. excited   D. sorry

(   ) 10. A. that   B. how   C. why   D. what

(   ) 11. A. You   B. We   C. They   D. Us

(   ) 12. A. hardly   B. about   C. almost   D. nearly

(   ) 13. A. Before   B. After   C. Because   D. If

(   ) 14. A. sent out   B. bought   C. sold   D. borrowed

(   ) 15. A. left   B. already   C. yet   D. else

  I checked my purse but had no coins. I always give money to cancer research―I had lost dear friends and family members to the disease and wanted to do my little part to help find the cure (治療) .

  "I'll bring you some money when I come back," I 1        the little boy.     "Thank you!" he smiled and sneezed (打噴嚏) .

  I looked at him. If you have ever seen little children who refuse to come out of cold water,you know the 2        of his lips. He was frozen.

  I went into the mall and did my shopping quickly. Now I had 3        to give to him. I also 4         a pair of mittens,blue ones.

  The boy stood right where he had 5        

  "0K,now give me your list," I said to the boy and he handed it over with a pen. 

  I looked at the 6        lines. A few signatures (簽名) were there and I could see others had given a few coins too. Nothing much,but at least he had 7        some money.

  "Do you need to get all these lines 8       ?" 

  "Yes. Or no,I don't have to,9        I want to." 

  "In this cold weather? Why would you want that?"

  "Because my best friend Pete has leukemia(白血病) .I want to help him ," he said 10         .

  I took the blue mittens out of my bag.

  "Here,I got these for you," I said and pushed the mittens into his hands. "Please take them. I noticed you had 11        yours at home."

  "Thank you!Very kind of you ！”he said and actually bowed (鞠躬) ."Now I 12        stand here a lot longer than I thought ！”

  "Well,what do you get for yourself? Will they give you something as a 13         for doing this?"

  "Oh yes!" the boy said 14        "They sure do!"

  " What do you get then?" I asked,hoping to 15        he got some nice toys.

  He was smiling broadly now. "I get a new,empty list!" he smiled.

(   ) 1. A. supported   B. paid   C. refused   D. promised

(   ) 2. A. shape   B. size   C. color   D. taste

(   ) 3. A. coins   B. food   C. medicine   D. gifts

(   ) 4. A. borrowed   B. bought   C. made   D. ordered

(   ) 5. A. come   B. gone   C. been   D. showed

(   ) 6. A. straight   B. empty   C. colorful   D. ugly

(   ) 7. A. earned   B. spent   C. offered   D. collected

(   ) 8. A. written   B. filled   C. painted   D. covered

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

(   ) 10. A. carefully   B. loudly   C. silently   D. seriously

(   ) 11. A. lost   B. stored   C. left   D. hidden

(   ) 12. A. must   B. have to   C. can   D. need

(   ) 13. A. thank   B. fact   C. reason   D. result

(   ) 14. A. suddenly   B. happily   C. angrily   D. sadly

(   ) 15. A. say   B. write   C. hear   D. agree 

  Do you always agree with your teachers? Sometimes you have a d 1       answer to a math problem. Or perhaps they scold you when you don't think you did anything w 2      

  What do you do then? A story said that more and more students are speaking out and even quarrelling with their t 3      

  It's good for students to say w 4       they think. In the past,few Chinese students dared speak back to their teachers. It was a rule that what the teachers said is always r 5       But now students are b 6      to think more by themselves and dare to say what they want.

  But students should c 7      the right way to speak out. You should respect teachers. They are older than you and have more e 8      So,never use rude words when you don't a 9       with them.

  Try to find the right time to talk to your teacher. For example,discuss the p 10       after class.

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  They are rarely out of the spotlight themselves,and they make their money from getting 1       to stare at the big screen.

  But this hasn't stopped two of the biggest stars in Hollywood from 2        that they limit the amount of television that their children watch.

  Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg share the same opinion that children shouldn't be brought up on TV and should be made to 3      

  "My kids,I really don't like them to watch 4        television , ” Cruise,40 ，said during a visit to Berlin to promote the film Minority(《少數(shù)派報告》) earlier this month. " We're focusing on reading."

  Tom Cruise,who has major boxoffice appeal (票房號召力) ，has starred in many hit movies such as Rain Man(《雨人》) and Mission：Impossible(《諜中諜》) .

  He has two adopted (收養(yǎng)的) children with 5        Australian exwife Nicole Kidman.

  As a father,he allows them 6        about three and a half hours of television every week but only if his children 7        school.

  "I can actually see the difference when they watch too much television. 8       affects their education and their reading as well as their behavior," he said.

  Cruise and Kidman divorced last year 9       10 years of marriage. He and Kidman agreed to raise their children inAustralia. "Americawas in a position 10        people were so irresponsible that human life holds so little value to them," he said.

  Hollywood Oscarwinning director Steven Spielberg agrees with Cruise's stand (立場) on 11        to educate children.

  As the director of Minority Report,he said at a news conference (新聞發(fā)布會) that he felt the same way 12        Cruise when it came to television.

  "My kids are allowed to watch TV for one hour a day―if their homework 13       ”， he said. "They can't come home from school and watch TV."

  He insists that his fi ve children do their homework and their chores (雜務(wù)) first,and if they have time 14        over,watch TV for an hour.

  Spielberg,whose films Saving Private Kycm (《拯救大兵瑞恩》) and Schindler,s 《辛德勒名單》) talk about the tragic events of World War H,said he also keeps his children away from the news on television.

  He said the reason is that one could 15        tell what it was going to be about. And he never knew if it would be suitable for children to watch.

(   ) 1. A. the other   B. others   C. another   D. the others

(   ) 2. A. speak   B. tells   C. saying   D. talked

(   ) 3. A. write   B. recited

       C. listen to the tape   D. read books

(   ) 4. A. that much   B. too many   C. a lot   D. a numebr of

(   ) 5. A. his   B. her   C. their   D. us

(   ) 6. A. watch   B. to watch   C. looking through   D. saw

(   ) 7. A. be good at behaving   B. do well in

       C. studies hard at   D. learned a lot

(   ) 8. A. Those   B. This   C. That   D. It

(   ) 9. A. in   B. later on   C. after   D. behind

(   ) 10. A. who   B. when   C. which   D. where

(   ) 11. A. how   B. what   C. why   D. who

(   ) 12. A. like   B. as   C. such as   D. likely

(   ) 13. A. did   B. is done   C. will do   D. has been done

(   ) 14. A. leaving   B. leaves   C. left   D. leave

(   ) 15. A. ever   B. sometimes   C. seldom   D. never

  It was very cold outside my car. I did not want to get out of it 1        we passed by a cafe. Suddenly I noticed a short old man,2       with some bits of cloth,shaking with the cold. He was waiting for anyone who would 3        him a coin or a cup of hot coffee.

  I asked my 4        to go over and hand this old man something.   He 5        into my husband's face,smiled and said , "6      . ” I felt so happy and I wished the old man could live 7        the cold night.

  I was sure to meet him again and find out how he was the next 8       ,as I have to pass this way every day. I did so the next evening,and he remembered the 9      and came up to my window and 10        at me. This time I offered him a 11       of food. He reached out for the bag and I gave him my hand. He 12       the food,smiled and said, "May God bless you. ” I looked at the old man and he 13        me think of my father.

  I do hope all of us will remember that maybe one day,it could happen to one of us,14 please do not pass by a 15 person without offering at least a word of love and a kind smile or an act of kindness of any kind.

(   ) 1. A. after   B. when   C. before   D. if

(   ) 2. A. covered   B. tied   C. filled   D. provided

(   ) 3. A. send   B. leave   C. greet   D. accept

(   ) 4. A. father   B. son   C. husband   D. friend

(   ) 5. A. watched   B. knocked   C. came   D. looked

(   ) 6. A. Excuse me   B. Beg your pardon

       C. Take it easy   D. Thank you

(   ) 7. A. in   B. through   C. under   D. off

(   ) 8. A. year   B. month   C. week   D. day

(   ) 9. A. office   B. gift   C. car   D. shop

(   ) 10. A. smiled   B. pointed   C. called   D. shouted

(   ) 11. A. box   B. bag   C. bottle   D. basket

(   ) 12. A. held   B. ordered   C. dropped   D. received

(   ) 13. A. got   B. forced   C. made   D. allowed

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

(   ) 15. A. quiet   B. sick   C. poor   D. shy 

  David has had such a terrible time this year that he should be in The Guinness Book of Records. The trouble s 1       one morning last January when David found that his car had gone from outside his house. He hasn't seen it s 2       then.

  In February David won $200,000 on the football polls (中獎) .But his j 3       didn't last long―he had forgotten to p 4       the ticket to the company. In March he bought a new car,but he hadn't had it more than a week when someone crashed (碰撞) into the b 5       of it. Two days ago,David sat on a seat someone had finished p 6       only minutes before. He had on the new t 7      that he had bought only the week before.

  August has been the w 8       month so far this year. David spent three days of his holiday at the airport because of the strikes. When he arrived home,he d 9       that someone had broken into his house. His videorecorder and television had disappeared.

  David doesn't know what he has done to have all this bad 1 10       He just hopes things will change.

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  What does "getting along with your teacher" mean,anyway? " Getting along" means you and your teacher have a way that 1        for both of you,and you both are getting what you 2       from the relationship (關(guān)系) .For your teacher,he or she wants to make 3        you are careful,being respectful and polite,and 4 your best to learn. For you,you 5       a teacher who respects you,answers your questions,and tries to 6        you learn. You can get along with your teacher and learn without being friends with him or her,although it's 7        if that happens.

In every school,kids will say some teachers are too 8        or serious,but don't judge (判斷) a teacher 9        you are in his or her class and can see for yourself. Most of time,your teacher is on your 10        And a teacher who's called strict may be someone who 11        to do his or her job well―teaching you the 12        you should learn. It's also 13        to remember that making mistakes is a 14      of learning. By pointing out your mistakes and helping you 15       them,a teacher is teaching you.

(   ) 1. A. passes   B. chooses   C. offers   D. works

(   ) 2. A. own   B. need   C. wonder   D. hate

(   ) 3. A. natural   B. real   C. sure   D. right

(   ) 4. A. working   B. trying   C. taking   D. carrying

(   ) 5. A. want   B. refuse   C. search   D. become

(   ) 6. A. warn   B. help   C. guide   D. encourage

(   ) 7. A. well   B. wrong   C. nice   D. unusual

(   ) 8. A. strange   B. secret   C. special   D. strict

(   ) 9. A. since   B. until   C. when   D. after

(   ) 10. A. space   B. team   C. side   D. place

(   ) 11. A. fails   B. agrees   C. affords   D. expects

(   ) 12. A. homework   B. event   C. example   D. subject

(   ) 13. A. important   B. successful   C. terrible   D. possible

(   ) 14. A. quarter   B. part   C. piece   D. pair

(   ) 15. A. correct   B. reach   C. practise   D. receive

Dear Laura, 

  Thanks for your email. Yes,I am having a great time 1        my exchange program inFrance. It's even 2        than I thought. I was 3        nervous before I arrived here,4       there was no reason to be. My host 5        is really nice. They go out of their way to make me 6        at home. And you wouldn't believe how 7        my French has improved!Although I still make lots of mistakes,it doesn't bother me like it 8        My biggest challenge is learning how to 9        at the dinner table. As you can imagine,things are really different 10        the way they are at home. For example,you are not supposed to eat 11        with your hands except bread,not even fruit. 12       thing is that it is very rude to say you are full. If you don't want any more food,you should just say, " 13       . ” Also,it's rude to put your hands in your lap. I have to say,I find 14        difficult to remember everything,but I am gradually getting used to things.

  Hope you 15      a good school year. Please write to me soon.

Wang Kun

(   ) 1. A. in   B. at   C. on   D. with

(   ) 2. A. good   B. better   C. best   D. the best

(   ) 3. A. a bit of   B. a little   C. a lot   D. a few

(   ) 4. A. and   B. then   C. but   D. so

(   ) 5. A. school   B. home   C. house   D. family

(   ) 6. A. feeling   B. to feel   C. felt   D. feel

(   ) 7. A. fast   B. quick   C. good   D. many

(   ) 8. A. is   B. does   C. was   D. used to

(   ) 9. A. eat   B. drink   C. talk   D. behave

(   ) 10. A. between   B. from   C. to   D. as

(   ) 11. A. something   B. everything   C. anything   D. nothing

(   ) 12. A. One   B. The other   C. Another   D. Other

(   ) 13. A. I'm not hungry   B. I'm full now

       C. I've had enough   D. It was delicious

(   ) 14. A. it   B. that   C. this   D. its

(   ) 15. A. to have   B. having   C. are having   D. was having 

 Is it only clever and goodlooking students who can be happy in school? Bestselling writer Xiao Nizi (Nini) d 1      think so.

  "Everyone has their own place in the sky”， she said. " We're all s 2       in our own ways. " Nini,from Hunan Province,writes stories about young people on campus (校園) .Her books,such as Devil's Kks (《惡魔之吻》) and Love on Midsummer's Night(《仲夏夜之夢》) are very p 3      among kids.

  In her stories,the main character is usually an average girl who is neither pretty nor smart. But they always w 4       the love of a Prince Charming (白馬王子) ，or become a star admired by everybody.

Simple but beautiful

  "It's not because of 1 5       ”， said Nini. "They are just sincere (真誠的) and honest. They know what they are good at and work hard to r 6      their dreams."

  Nini herself is like one of the characters in her fairytales. She was a s 7       girl at school. But she thought a lot and liked language―and that made her decide to be a writer. She wants her stories to cheer u 8      kids up.

  She believes that life can be simple but still beautiful. You can see this in the way she lives her own life. She doesn't buy expensive clothes or bags but m 9      them herself.

  "I want to say that it's possible for most people to live happily. You're happy when there's love around you,and you know what you really want."

  Tang Yuanyuan,13. from Tianjin,is a big fan of Nini.

  "Nini's stories are so c 10      to teens' lives. They also give me courage (勇氣) .”

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