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There are many kinds of friends. Many people will step in your life, but only  true friends leave footprints (脚印). I shall always recall (回忆) the autumn and the girl with the __ ____. I know she will always be my best friend. It was the golden season. I liked walking alone in the leaves, __    to the sound of them.
Autumn is a        season but life is uninteresting. The free days always get me down. But one day, the sound of a violin  flowed  into my ears. A young girl, standing in the wind, was interested in playing her violin. I had          seen her before. The music was so nice that I listened     . Lost in the music, I didn't know that I had been standing there for so long. But it did not seem to disturb her.
Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building _ ___I went downstairs to watch her performance. I was the only        .
Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening carefully, the sound suddenly ______.To my surprise, the girl came over to me.
"You must like violin." she said.
"Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?" I asked.
Suddenly, a sad expression appeared       her face and I could feel something unusual. "I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was        listening every day that encouraged me." she said.
"In fact, it was your playing  that  gave me a meaningful autumn," I answered, "Let's be friends."

Scientists are placing robotic dogs in the homes of lonely old people to test whether they can improve the quality of life for humans. Alan Beck, an expert(专家) in human-animal relationship, and Nancy Edwards, a professor of nursing, are leading the animal-assisted study on the effect of robotic dogs on old people’s depression (沮丧) , physical activity, and life satisfaction.
In the study, the robot, called AIBO, is placed for six weeks in the houses of some old people who live alone. Before placing AIBO in the home, scientists will collect baseline data(数据) for six weeks. These old people will keep a diary to note their feelings and activity before and after AIBO. Then, the scientists will review the data to test if it has produced any changes in the life of its owner.
“I talk to him all the time, and he responds to my voice,” says a seventy-year-old lady. “When I’m watching TV, he’ll stay in my arms until he wants down. He has his own mind.”
The AIBOs respond to certain orders. The scientists say they have some advantages over live dogs, especially for old people. Often the elderly are disabled and cannot care for an animal by walking it or playing with it. A robotic dog removes exercise and feeding concerns.
“At the beginning, it was believed that no one would relate(与……相关) to the robotic dog, because it was metal and not furry.” Beck says. “Hopefully, down the road, these robotic pets could become a more-valuable health helper. They will record their masters’ blood pressure, oxygen levels or heart rhythms(心律). AIBOs may even one day have games that can help stimulate(刺激) older people’s minds.”
小题1:The purpose of Beck and Edwards’ study is to _____________.

A．understand human-animal relationship

B．make lonely old people’s life better

C．find the causes of old people’s loneliness

D．improve the animal-assisted research

小题2: In the research, the old people are asked to _____________.

A．note the activities of AIBOs

B．keep AIBOs at home for 12 weeks

C．record their feelings and activity

D．study the collected information

小题3:What does the underlined word “removes” mean?

小题4:What is the better point of AIBO than live dogs?

A．It is easier to keep at home.

B．It can help the disabled people.

C．It responds to all the human orders.

D．It can watch TV with its owner.

小题5:The writer seems to suggest that the future robotic dogs may__________.

A．cure certain diseases	B．keep old people active
C．change people’s ideas	D．look more like real dogs

We often find that weekends and holidays feel so short while classes and work feel so long. Actually, though,
we know that this is not true. But we still wonder where that strange feeling comes from.
In fact, this is one of the ways that we're tricked by time, according to the website All That Is Interesting. The website lists several wrong impressions we often have about time. Let's have a look.
First of all, emotions affect our time-keeping abilities: Negative emotions, especially anxiety and boredom, make time seem longer because they make us concentrate more on the passage of time. However, when we are enjoying ourselves, we pay more attention to what we are doing and are likely to lose track of（失去对….的意识） time.
Here is another example. In 2007, a group of scientists carried out a test. In the test, people fell 50 meters into a safety net and were then asked about their experience. Although the experience took shorter than 3 seconds, the people thought it was much longer than it actually was.
This is because of the way our bodies reply to danger, according to the scientists. Our bodies produce a chemical called adrenaline (肾上腺素) when we are faced with danger. It allows us to concentrate better so that we can stay alive. As a result, we are able to remember far more details(细节)over a short period of time, which makes it seem like time is going more slowly.
Another situation when we make mistakes about time is when we take afternoon naps（午觉）． Have you ever had trouble telling what time it is after a long nap? That's because the best amount of time for a nap is 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, you enter a new stage of sleep called slow-wave sleep. If you wake up mid-way in this stage, it will take a while before you can correctly perceive（感知） time again.
Yes, time can be mysterious and there is no way to control it So, perhaps the best thing to do is to make good use of every minute.
小题1: According to the passage, what possibly makes people feel so long ?

A．weekends and holidays	B．weekends and work
C．classes and work	D．holidays and work

小题2:Which is NOT the wrong impressions that we often have about time according to the website listing?

A．negative emotions	B．positive emotions
C．adrenaline	D．scientists

小题3:According to the passage, in which situation do we make mistakes about time?

A．We have many problems left in the test paper, but the time is up.

B．We have a math test when we fall down from a high place.

C．We may have trouble telling what time it is after a long nap.

D．We go to school on the school bus as usual on weekdays.

小题4:According to the passage , what will NOT happen when we are faced with danger ?

A．Our bodies will produce a chemical called adrenaline.

B．We are able to feel that time seems to go more slowly.

C．Adrenaline will make us concentrate better to stay alive.

D．We will forget far more details over a short period of time.

小题5:Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage ?

A．Negative emotions, especially anxiety and boredom, make time seem longer because they make us concentrate more on the passage of time.

B．When we are enjoying ourselves, we pay more attention to what we are doing and we are able to feel like time is going more slowly.

C．If we wake up mid-way after a long nap, it will take a while before we can correctly perceive time again

D．Time can be mysterious and there is no way to control it. So, perhaps the best thing to do is to make good use of every minute.

Jason and Harry joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked very hard.
After several years, the boss made Harry sales manager but Jason      a salesman. One day Jason could not stand it anymore. He handed in his resignation letter (辞职信) to the boss and complained that the boss did not         hard-working employees, but only raised those        tried to please him. He thought that it was really        .
In order to help Jason to realize the        between him and Harry, the boss asked Jason to do the        --- "Go and find out if there is anyone selling watermelons in the market." Charlie went, returned and only said, "Yes." The boss asked, "How much per kg?" Charlie went back to the market to ask and returned to        , "$ 12 per kg."
The boss told Jason that he would ask Harry the        question. Harry went, returned and said, "Boss, only one person selling watermelons. $12 per kg, $ 100 for 10 kg. He has a total of 340 melons. On the table are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 15 kg,       from the South two days ago. They are fresh, red, and of good        ."
Jason was        and he realized the difference between himself and Harry. He decided not to leave but to learn from Harry.
My dear friends, you know, a more        person is more observant(观察力敏锐的), thinks more and understands in        . For the same matter, he sees several years ahead,       you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you        ?
Think: how far have you seen ahead in your life? How thoughtful are you?

In front of my daughter, Shelly, was a bowl filled with cabbage. She hated cabbage. She only sat there in silence with tears in her eyes.
“Shelly, my dear, why don’t you eat a little? If not, your mum will shout at us.”
Shelly didn’t feel happy. “OK, dad. I will eat, just a little.” Then Shelly said, “Dad, if I eat it all, will you give me what I want?”
“Yes.”
Slowly she began to eat. It took her almost half an hour to finish all the food in the bowl. Then she came up to me and said, “Dad, I want to have my hair cut off!”
“Shelly, why don’t you ask for something else? If we see your head like that, we’ll feel very sad,” I said.
“But Dad, you promised! Now you’re going back on your words. ”
I had to keep my promise. Shelly had all her hair cut off. She smiled.
On Monday morning, I took Shelly to school. Just when I arrived, a boy got out of a car and shouted, “Shelly, please wait for me!”
Guess what? The boy had no hair, either.
“Sir, your daughter is great!” a man got out of the car and said, “This boy is my son, Harish. He has cancer. He lost his hair when he got ill. Shelly cut hers off so Harish felt less different. She is a special girl.”
I stood for a while, “My little daughter, you teach me how selfless real love is!”
小题1: Shelly _____________ before she ate her meal.

A．felt happy	B．felt unhappy
C．cut off her hair	D．shouted at her dad

小题2: In order to get what she wanted, Shelly ate ______________ at last.

A．all the food in the bowl	B．nothing
C．just a little of the cabbage	D．everything except the cabbage

小题3: By cutting off her hair, Shelly only meant _____________.

A．to tell people she was selfless

B．to become more different

C．to look more special and beautiful

D．to show her care and love for Harish

Life is important. You should always have fun and new experiences, because you never know what day will be your last. You      hold grudges (怨恨). You never know what could      next. I learned all this at the age of 9.
It was the     before fifth grade. My best friend Neesah and I were playing. We got into an argument and had a     . My older cousin, Tiffany, broke up our fight. I remember Neesah storming out of my grandmother’s house saying, “I hope we never speak again!” I replied, “Good, I don’t need you as a friend!”
I went into the house and tried to calm myself. Then I      people screaming and shouting. My cousin rushed in. She said that Neesah had been hit by a street sweeper (清洁车) as she crossed the road. The driver didn’t see her. I felt     . I wished it had been      instead. It could have been avoided if we hadn’t had that argument!
When the ambulance (救护车) arrived a few minutes later, they said she was    . I was a real mess. I had to see a psychologist (心理医生) for the rest of the summer.
I miss Neesah so much and I      her always. She taught me how precious life is and that you should never hold a grudge      you never know when you’ll see that person again.

The story was a true one and still moved me deeply. Thirty years ago，I got to know a   36 lady named Rose. She had no kids and lived alone.     37   I went to visit her, I always took Rose some coffee and food. One day she said she    38    me to have hunch.
We walked from my work place to a little restaurant on David Street.    39    the way, I began to worry: I knew that she had no money, but if I offered(提供) to    40   the lunch，I was afraid I would hurt her.
There were many people in the    41    and all of them were happy. Rose told me to sit and drink coffee by the window. Then she went to    42  in the kitchen. After about 20 minutes, she came out and sat with me. She just paid for one meal and we started to   43  the delicious food together. She told    44    that the restaurant let people work for a meal if they had no money, or would give them a free meal if they were not able to work. To my surprise, she also explained that the workers who were working there were all    45   .
I     46    remember the beautiful afternoon I shared with Rose.    47    we had a meal together only once, it was paid by Rose's work. The weather was    48    and bright, and everyone's smile was warm and bright as well.
I’m still thinking that life cannot be easy to us, but we can still do     49    for our friends and neighbors. The world will be     50    if everybody would like to share happiness with others. It will never be dark if there is a light in everyone's heart.

Once my father asked me to hold his hammer while he repaired something, so we could have some time to talk to each other.
For 22 years, after I left home for college, he called me every Sunday at 9 am. He was always interested in my life and how my family was doing, and I never once heard him complain about his own life.
Nine years ago when I bought my first house, my father, 67 years old, spent eight hours a day painting it for three days. He would not allow me to pay someone to have it done. All he asked for was a glass of iced tea and for me to hold a paint brush for him and talk to him. But I was too busy.
Five years ago, at age 71, my father spent five hours putting together a swingset (秋千组) for my daughter. Again, all he asked was that I get him a glass of iced tea and talk to him. But again, I was too busy.
Four years ago, my father drove all the way from Denver to Topeka, with an eight-foot Colorado blue spruce (蓝叶云杉) in his trunk, so that my husband and I could have a part of Colorado growing on our land. I was preparing for a trip that weekend and couldn’t spend much time with him.
Then, one day, my father telephoned me as usual, this time from my sister’s home in Florida. We talked about the tree he had brought me, “Fat Albert”, but that morning he called it “Fat Oscar”, and he seemed to have forgotten some things. I had to get to church, so I cut the conversation short.
The call came at 4:40 pm that day: my father was in hospital in Florida with an aneurysm (动脉瘤). I got on a plane immediately, and on the way I thought of all the times I had not taken the time to talk to my father. I realized that I had no idea who he was or what his deepest thoughts were. I promised that when I arrived, I would make up for lost time.
I arrived in Florida at 1 am. My father had passed away at 9:12 pm. This time it was he who did not have time to talk to me.
小题1:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The writer arrived in Florida before her father passed away.

B．The writer didn’t find enough time to talk to her father all these years.

C．The writer noticed nothing unusual about her father’s health before he was put in the hospital.

D．The writer’s father brought them the Colorado blue spruce because it is an expensive kind of tree.

小题2:How did the writer feel when she was rushing to the hospital where her father was staying?

A．Hopeless.	B．Sorry.
C．Frightened.	D．Disappointed.

小题3:Which words best describe the writer’s father?

A．Honest and modest.

B．Strict and demanding (要求高的).

C．Talkative and positive (积极乐观的).

D．Caring and thoughtful.

小题4:What’s the best title of this passage?

A．What a good father!	B．How busy I am.
C．Time keeps going.	D．My father and our family.

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