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5. 汤姆的功课在学校是中上水平。
Tom's work at school is .
5. above average
My mother loves flowers. As soon as warm weather comes around,you will find her planting,watering and weeding over everything. For many years we lived next door to each other,and she spent as much time in my garden as she did her own. After the flowers became plentiful each summer,she would cut colourful bouquets (花束) to enjoy inside the house―both hers and mine. I would often come home from work and find a beautiful arrangement (布置) of fresh flowers on my coffee table.
Shortly before Christmas one year,a local flower shop offered a bouquet-a-month special. It seemed to be a great way to thank her for all of the flowers she had given me through the years.
After the holidays,in early January,I drove her to the flower shop to pick up her first month's bouquet. The small fresh colourful bouquet would hardly fill a small vase (花瓶) .
I was so embarrassed. However,after wc returned home,she began to arrange the flowers she had received. "Mum,I'm sorry,"I told her. "I can't be?lieve how skimpy that bouquet is. " She looked at me and smiled. "It s okay," she said. "It allows me to better enjoy the beauty of each one.” Mum's words helped me realize something bigger and more important— when we have too many good things,we often fail to enjoy the beauty of each one.
Thanks,Mum,for helping me understand that less is sometimes more.
1. According to Paragraph 1 , which of the following is TRUE?
A. The author's mother put fresh flowers on the author's coffee table.
B. The author used to buy some fresh flowers on her way home.
C. The author's mother usually bought flowers for her daughter.
D. The author and her mother shared a beautiful garden.
2. The author bought her mother flowers to .
A. celebrate the coming Christmas
B. express thanks for all her mother had done
C. bring more flowers to her mother's garden
D. arrange her mother's new house
3. What can we infer from the passage?
A. The author couldn't afford a big bouquet.
B. The mother was not happy when receiving the bouquet.
C. The author would pick up another bouquet the next month.
D. The mother would send back the bouquet to the flower shop.
4. The underlined word "skimpy" in Paragraph 4 means " ".
A. beautiful B. colourful C. cheap D. small
5. What did the author learn from her mother?
A. How to grow flowers.
B. How to arrange flowers.
C. Enjoying life if possible.
D. Considering things in other ways.
9. It was the cold winter night and the moon was shining brightly across the night sky.
concentration,definite,independent,frequently,
disadvantage,short,person,hesitate
1. He is a visitor to our house. He often comes to see us.
2. We aim to help disabled students to live and study .
3. The team will lose if he doesn't play.
5. After a long ,he told the truth at last.
6. This method has the of saving a lot of fuel.
7. The letter is too long. Can you it a little?
5. You can't expect children (be) quiet all the time.
Tim Becker and his neighbours are doing some?thing to make their neighbourhood a trouble-free area.
When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping,he doesn't 4 drive to a store and back home. He always looks 5 up and down the streets of his neighbourhood. He looks for anything 6 such as strange cars,loud noises,7 windows,or people gathering on street corners.
Tim 8 to a neighbourhood watch group in Stoneville,Indiana <, USA. The neighbourhood watch group 9 on the third Wednesday of every month. That's 10 Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbours to discuss community 11 . Members of the neighbourhood watch group want to help the police 12 their streets and families safe.
Tina Stedman,president of 13 neighbourhood watch group,agrees with Tim. "People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not
14 them. Well,it's never happened to me," she said, "but I don't think anyone has the 15 to steal from other people or to make them feel 16 sitting in their own homes.” Alex,a member of the group,said that all the neighbours 17 out for one another. " We 18 each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighbour?hood at night and on weekends. Usually a 19 of four or five of us go out together. If something doesn't look right,then we call the 20 .For example,if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for 21 ,or someone destroying property (财产) ， we report to the police." Alex feels the neighbourhood watch group 22 a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees "Police are good people,but they can't do 23 ."
4. A. yet B. still C. just D. rather
5. A. carefully B. clearly C. nervously D. coldly
6. A. familiar B. unusual
C. expensive D. interesting
7. A. curtained B. open C. old D. broken
8. A. attends B. belongs C. goes D. turns
9. A. meets B. quarrels C. sings D. searches
10. A. where B. why C. when D. how
11. A. politics B. wealth C. health D. safety
12. A. keep B. hold
C. let D. protect
13. A. its B. his C. their D. your
14. A. round B. on C. about D. to
15. A. right B. chance C. courage D. mind
16. A. unlucky B. unsafe
C. disappointed D. discouraged
17. A. set B. let C. hold D. look
18. A. care B. enter C. watch D. manage
19. A. group B. set
C. number D. crowd
20. A. judges B. police C. firemen D. doctors
21. A. work B. burden C. service D. trouble
22. A. produce B. find C. get D. help
23. A. anything B. everything C. harm D. wrong
4. The bank is equipped with the new alarm . We can say it’s safe and reliable completely.
2. _______steam engine was invented before_______ internal combustion engine (内燃机) .
2. Since you have seen both fighters, do you think will win?
