Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was

ready for new 16 in high school.17, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts(选拔赛)for cheerleaders(拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and

she knew it would be 18 for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 19 read a list of the girls for a

second tryout. Her heart 20 as the list ended without her name. Feeling 21, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.

Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was 22. She moved on to English and history, and was 23 to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to 24 math for the time being.

The nest day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school 25. Mrs. Biden wasn’t as 26 as JennA.“I’m sorry, but we have enough 27 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.” Jenna smiled 28 and left. “Why is high school so 29?” she sighed.

Later in 30 class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 31. By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try to 32 at her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to 33. High school was just as her mom had said: “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 34 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the 35 fish you can be.”

16.A.processes           B.decision             C.challenges          D.exercises

17.A.Therefore        B.However            C.Otherwise          D.Besides

18.A.difficult            B.easy                C.boring             D.interesting

19.A.editor              B.boss                C.candidate            D.judge

20.A.jumped             B.sank                C.stopped            D.raced

21.A.strange              B.happy              C.awful            D.lonely

22.A.struggling          B.improving           C.working          D.complaining

23.A.ashamed             B.disappointed         C.shocked          D.relieved

24.A.put up              B.prepare for        C.worry about       D.give up

25.A.committee         B.newspaper        C.radio             D.team

26.A.enthusiastic          B.artistic              C.sympathetic         D.realistic

27.A.speakers          B.readers            C.cheerleaders        D.writers

28.A.widely              B.weakly              C.excitedly           D.brightly

29.A.similar             B.ordinary            C.different           D.familiar

30.A.physics             B.history              C.English             D.math

31.A.pleasure            B.hope                C.trouble             D.sorrow

32.A.fit in               B.look out            C.stay up             D.get around

33.A.swim              B.try                 C.ask                D.escape

34.A.in return for         B.in case of         C.in terms of         D.instead of

35.A.slimmest           B.smallest            C.best                D.gentlest

The 92-year-old, thin, calm and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, even though she is nearly blind, moved to a nursing home today.

  Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the hall of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.

 As she walked slowly to lift, I provided a true description of her tiny room, including the old sheets(床单) that had been hung on her window. “I love it.” She said with the happiness.

“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room…. Just wait..”  “That doesn’t matter.” She replied. “ Happiness is something you decide ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged. It is how I arrange my mind, I have already decided to lobe it. It is a decision I make every morning when I wake up. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I will focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away.” She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account(帐户). You put what you have in. So, my advice to you would be to put in a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my memory bank.” And with a smile, she said, “All my memories are happy ones.”

 Mr. Jones was always happy in the nursing home and she died at the age of 108.

We can infer from the passage that the writer_____________.

A. is one of Mrs. Jones children   

B. is a relative of Mrs. Jones

C. works in the nursing home     

D. is the owner of the nursing house

The room in which the old lady will live ____________.

   A. isn’t in good condition               

B. is fairly big

C. is very comfortable                  

D. is equipped with new furniture

Which of the following words can best describe Mrs. Jones?

   A. Proud           B. Pleasant         

C. Loyal           D. Honest

The author intends to tell us_________________.

   A. why the lonely woman was happy      

B. what a nursing home was alike

C. how to live a long life                

D. how to lead a happy life

Yi So-yeon, an engineer from Seoul, returned to Earth on Saturday after 11 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and US astronaut Peggy Whitson.

A technical problem turned a routine (常规) return to Earth into a sharper than usual descent (下降) that tested the group members' stamina and courage. They landed in the Kazakh steppes ( 大草原)  about 420km  (260 miles) wide of their target.

“During the descent there was some kind of fire outside the Soyuz capsule because we were going through the atmosphere,” Yi said.

“At first I was afraid, but the two other guys looked okay, so I tried to look okay too.”

Yi smiled and joked her way through a 10-minute news briefing at Star City, the wooded Soviet era cosmonaut training centre on the edge of Moscow. However, Malenchenko and Whitson looked tired and thin after nearly six months in space. Their answers were short and Whitson needed support to balance when she walked. The 29-year-old Yi has become famous in South Korea since the take-off but she brushed this aside and said she has had little contact with friends or family since returning.

“In fact, they are the heroes right now,” Yi said, referring to Malenchenko and Whitson. “I'm just a beginner and a little ashamed to say that I am a hero.”  She did, though, relate a more light-hearted incident on the ISS.

“I sang Fly Me to the Moon” Yi said about the 1950s pop song. “It's my favorite song from university although at that time I didn't know I would be an astronaut.”

The capsule's so-called “ballistic” re-entering made the group members face twice the usual pull from the centre of the earth.  The flames Yi described may have been caused by friction (摩擦) heating the capsule as it fell through the atmosphere.

Whitson told reporters that Saturday's ballistic landing, was irregular but not an emergency.

“The Soyuz has been through its history very reliable and there has obviously been some issue in the last couple of descents which went ballistic, but I'm sure the engineers will determine what the problems are and get them fixed,” she said.

In October, a Soyuz capsule carrying Malaysia's first space tourist touched down about 200 km (125 miles) off_course in a similar ballistic landing caused by a technical problem.

The Soyuz is the world's longest-serving manned space capsule.  An early version of the craft, the Vostok, carried the first person into space in 1961.

Whitson, 48, has become the American with the longest amount of time in space with 377 days.

1. What's the main idea of the passage?

A. Flight in space is very dangerous

B. Not everybody can go into space

C. Fearful landing tests the Korean astronaut

D. Yi didn't know she would be an astronaut when she was young

2. The reason why Yi So-yeon felt afraid at first was that ________.

A. a fire was caused by the friction

B. she had no such experience before

C. she was not brave enough

D. the other two didn't help her

3. From the passage, we can learn that ________.

A. Yi So-yeon, a space tourist came from South Korea

B. Whitson became energetic when they landed on earth

C. the two other guys were not afraid during the descent

D. the Soyuz, an unmanned space capsule, had a long history

4. The underlined phrase in this passage means ________.

A. out of work            B. out of control  

C. in the wrong direction   D. in danger

5. We can conclude from this passage that ________.

A. experience is very important for astronauts to ensure safety

B. Yi So-yeon will never return to the space station

C. people are not willing to experience the space flight

D. we should draw a lesson from the accident

I ran into a stranger as he passed by, and I at once apologized to him. We were both very _36_, he stranger and I. Then we went    37  our way after saying good-bye.
But at home a   38  story is told. Later that day, when I 39  supper in the kitchen, my daughter suddenly stood behind me very   40 . When I turned back, I     41  knocked her down. “Don’t be in my   42   !” I shouted angrily. She walked away with her little heart     43 .On the kitchen floor later, I found some flowers by the door.
That night, while I lay     44  in bed, a voice in my deep heart said, “While 45  with a stranger, you are so polite, but with the children you love, you are so easily _46   .Why are there some flowers by the door? Those are the flowers she brought for you. She    47 them herself, pink, yellow and your favorite blue. She stood quietly in order to give you a    48 , and you never saw the         49  in her eyes.
By this time, I felt very       50  and now my tears began to fall. I quietly went and knelt (跪下) by her __51__, “Wake up, little girl, wake up,” I said, “Are these the flowers you picked for me?” She smiled, “Yes, because I knew you’d like them, especially the  52_  .” I said, “Daughter, I’m sorry for the way I acted today; I       53  have shouted at you that way.”
She said, “Oh, Mom, that’s okay. I love you 54 .” I hugged her and said, “Daughter, I love you too, and I do like the flowers.”
Through this    55 , I realize what FAMILY means:
FAMILY="(F)ATHER" (A)ND (M)OTHER, (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU

【小题1】
A.rudeB.politeC.educatedD.happy
【小题2】
A.inB.toC.onD.for
【小题3】
A.differentB.funnyC.movingD.terrible
【小题4】
A.hadB.ateC.preparedD.took
【小题5】
A.quicklyB.quietlyC.noisilyD.seriously
【小题6】
A.nearlyB.hardlyC.alreadyD.even
【小题7】
A.kitchenB.roomC.placeD.way
【小题8】
A.beatenB.missingC.brokenD.hit
【小题9】
A.aliveB.asleepC.awakeD.afraid
【小题10】
A.talkingB.dealingC.workingD.meeting
【小题11】
A.worriedB.nervousC.excitedD.disappointed
【小题12】
A.grewB.pickedC.boughtD.planted
【小题13】
A.giftB.flowerC.kissD.surprise
【小题14】
A.expressionB.tearsC.happinessD.joy
【小题15】
A.smallB.proudC.weakD.hurt
【小题16】
A.tableB.deskC.bedD.knees
【小题17】
A.pinkB.blueC.yellowD.green
【小题18】
A.couldn’tB.mustn’tC.shouldn’tD.needn’t
【小题19】
A.howeverB.trulyC.thoughD.anyway
【小题20】
A.accidentB.experienceC.question D.problem

The 92-year-old, thin, calm and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, even though she is nearly blind, moved to a nursing home today.
Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the hall of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.
As she walked slowly to the elevator, I provided a true description of her tiny room, including the old sheets that had been hung on her window. “I love it,” she said with the happiness of an eight-year-old girl having just been presented with a new puppy.
“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room…just wait.”
“That doesn’t matter,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged. It’s how I arranged my mind. I have already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away.” She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account. You take what you’ve put in. So, my advice to you would be to put in a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my memory bank.” And with a smile, she said, “All my memories are happy ones.”
Mrs. Jones was always happy in the nursing home and she died at the age of 108.
【小题1】We can infer from the passage that the author ________.

A.is one of Mrs. Jones’ children
B.is a relative of Mrs. Jones
C.works in the nursing home
D.is the owner of the nursing home
【小题2】The room in which the old lady will live ________.
A.is very comfortable
B.is fairly big
C.isn’t well equipped
D.is equipped with new furniture
【小题3】Mrs. Jones was very happy when told about her room because she ________.
A.couldn’t see what her room was like
B.thought the nursing home was her home
C.would have to live in the nursing home
D.had already made up her mind to be happy
【小题4】Which of the following words can best describe Mrs. Jones?
A.Proud.B.Pleasant.C.DeterminedD.Honest

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