When the swim season began, my 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, and I cut a deal. She would go to practice three times a week, and I wouldn’t make her compete in swim meets.

Elizabeth does not like swim meets. She gets horribly nervous because she is afraid that she will do something wrong and let everyone down. She started to talk about quitting swimming, which broke my heart because she loves swimming. So I came up with the deal.

Recently, Elizabeth’s team announced a T-shirt relay, which works like this: One person from each relay team puts on a T-shirt and a pair of socks and swims 50 meters. She takes off the clothes and put them on the next person, who then swims 50 meters. This continues until everyone on the team has completed a lap.

It wasn’t exactly a meet, because it would involve only team members. But Elizabeth thought it was. I told Elizabeth I really wanted her to go. She fought back angrily but finally agreed.

When the day for the T-shirt relay arrived, Elizabeth was nervous. She was chosen to swim the anchor leg (最后一棒).By the last leg, Elizabeth’s team had built up a narrow lead. Then it was Elizabeth’s turn to swim.

Approaching the halfway mark, she was still in the lead. Then somebody noticed that one of Elizabeth’s socks had fallen off and was floating in the pool. “She has to get that sock on before the end of the race,” a swimming official told Elizabeth’s team, “or you will be disqualified.”

Everybody on her team started shouting, “Elizabeth! Get the sock!” But she couldn’t hear them. Meanwhile, a girl in lane two was gaining on Elizabeth. Just then, a girl on my daughter’s team jumped in the pool, grabbed the sock, swam after Elizabeth and put the sock on Elizabeth.

With the sock finally on, Elizabeth swam her heart out for the last 15 meters and won! There was much celebration. And, for a few minutes, Elizabeth was the hero.

On the ride home, she relived her moment of glory again and again. She told me that if the T-shirt relay was an Olympic event, her team would win the gold medal, I told her that in my professional opinion, she was absolutely right.

1.What do we know about the T-shirt relay?

A. Elizabeth was eager to attend it.

B. Elizabeth made full preparations for it.

C. Elizabeth thought she was sure to fail the relay.

D. Elizabeth agreed to attend it after a lot of persuasion.

2.What happened to Elizabeth when she was swimming the anchor leg?

A. The girl on the other team swam faster than her.

B. She was disqualified for breaking the rule.

C. She was too nervous to swim.

D. One of her socks fell off.

3.We can infer from the last paragraph that Elizabeth_____.

A. believed she was the best of her team.

B. hoped to take part in the Olympics.

C. overcame her fear of swim meets.

D. was grateful for the girl’s help.

4. What would be the best title for the text?

A. Born to be a swimmer B. Swimming in socks

C. The swim season D. Never give up!

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Billy, a hard – working student, is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a part – time job that ________ him up every morning at five o’clock, when most people are still ________ asleep. He is a newspaper boy.

Each morning, Billy leaves the house at 5:15 to go to the ________ where the newspapers always are. The newspapers were ________to the corner by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to ________them.

In the winter it is still dark ________ he gets up every day, but during the rest of the year it is ________ . Billy must send the newspapers to the houses of people on his ________ in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch (门廊) where it will be ________ from wind and rain or snow. Sometimes his customers give him tips, ________ him very excited.

Billy earns about $ 70 per month through hard ________ , and he is saving some of the money to go to ________ where he has always been longing to go. Besides that, he ________ the rest of the earnings on records and clothes. Once a month, he has to collect the ________ at night since many of the people work during the day. That is when he is ________ so that he is full of excitement. Luckily, he gets ________ supported by his family. Sometimes, when Billy is sick, his brother offers to deliver the newspapers for him. Once, his father was too ________ to help him.

Billy has seventy customers now, but he doesn’t feel ________ about the number.

He dreams that he will get ________ customers as possible some day. ________ , he might win a prize for being an outstanding newspaper boy. He wants to win a trip to Europe, but he will be happy if he wins a new bicycle.

1.A.wakes B.takes C.gets D.picks

2.A.sound B.falling C.fall D.soundly

3.A.corner B.street C.room D.department

4.A.given B.addressed C.handed D.delivered

5.A.carry B.bring C.send D.load

6.A.at which B.while C.that D.when

7.A.short B.black C.light D.long

8.A.road B.way C.route D.path

9.A.protected B.stopped C.kept D.prevented

10.A.making B.letting C.leading D.causing

11.A.attempt B.job C.work D.struggle

12.A.abroad B.company C.college D.hospital

13.A.costs B.spends C.pays D.uses

14.A.paper B.money C.newspapers D.records

15.A.depressed B.energetic C.fulfilled D.moved

16.A.very B.great C.greatly D.a lot of

17.A.likely B.reluctant C.tired D.willing

18.A.satisfying B.pleasant C.contented D.happy

19.A.many more B.as much C.as many D.much more

20.A.If that B.If so C.Besides D.What’s more

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I’m Glad I got Sick

Twenty-seven years ago I got sick. The reason I can remember the date so well is that being sick is what ________ me to choose my future wife. She was just a good friend, but because she ________ to my apartment, brought me medicine, and made me breakfast, I thought for the first time “what a super wife she will ________ for someone.”

I took her out to eat for helping me ________ the flu. After that we became even better friends, but still ________ thought of marriage. A few months later I was going to ________ a new job in the Atlanta area, so Cathy helped me ________ boxes to get ready to leave. We ________ a great time that day and had lunch together. Near the end of that day I________a few tears in Cathy’s eyes, so I asked what was ________ .

She said, “I don’t know if I can live ________ you, you are my best friend.” I said, “I know, I’ve been thinking the ________ thing.” That day we decided to get married and we have been married ever since. We have had our ________ times, as many others have had, but we are still best friends!

________ I get to the family unit in my Health class and we talk about________ …I always tell this story. My students seem to love it because they learn that ________ , sharing and caring about others is all that really ________ in life, and that looks, money and other things are not important.

________the way, my wife is 12 years younger than me, and she is beautiful. We have 2 beautiful children, but we still have dates on ________ weekend.

Cathy is the greatest thing that has ever ________ me! She is a fantastic mother, and the best wife a coach could ever have. Thank God I got sick 27 years ago!

1.A. brought B. resulted C. followed D. caused

2.A. came over B. came out C. came up with D. came back

3.A. develop B. get C. become D. prove

4.A. get up B. get over C. get off D. get away

5.A. much B. more C. less D. no

6.A. take B. give C. hand D. continue

7.A. pick up B. take up C. pack up D. look up

8.A. spent B. had C. took D. cost

9.A. noticed B. observed C. looked D. watched

10.A. right B. terrible C. wrong D. awful

11.A. with B. without C. by D. on

12.A. different B. difficult C. similar D. same

13.A. hard B. happy C. wonderful D. common

14.A. Unless B. Until C. When D. Though

15.A. health B. marriage C. exercise D. hobby

16.A. taking B. supporting C. gaining D. giving

17.A. matters B. works C. helps D. needs

18.A. In B. By C. On D. Off

19.A. any B. some C. all D. every

20.A. contributed to B. came to C. happened to D. led to

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