I returned home to spend the holiday with my mom excitedly. I was looking forward to sitting down on the sofa, watching TV and      until midnight with her.

However, things weren’t as I expected. Not long        I arrived home, mom got a phone call. One of her friends       her to play cards. She gladly accepted the invitation and went at once. I thought she didn’t like me.

During the following days, I deliberately(故意的)        to speak to her. Whenever she spoke to me, I just stood in silence. But later I began to feel        . Sometimes I really wanted to say sorry to her,       when I saw her making delicious food or buying me      favorite snacks. Maybe she felt sorry for     she had done that night. I began to think that I should do something to make the things     

At the end of the holiday, I began to help with some      from making the bed to cleaning the house, I did        I could when mom wasn’t around. When she returned, she smiled happily.

On the      day，she insisted (坚决要求) on driving me to the bus station. At first we said nothing, then mom said, “Sorry for that night. You know that you mean       than anything to me .”I couldn’t say a word as I tried to     back the tears. Before getting on the bus, I finally said sorry to her. Mom smiled, and there were tears        her eyes. But I knew they were tears of happiness.

1.A. speaking                B. talking              C. saying                   D. telling

2.A. when            B. before         C. until                   D. after

3.A. told            B. asked                    C. invited                D. ordered

4.A. refused               B. started                C. liked                       D. wanted

5.A. happy              B. sad               C. surprised                  D. excited

6.A. actually              B. totally                   C. especially          D. really

7.A. his            B. my                C. her                    D. our

8.A. what                 B. when                C. why                D. that

9.A. right                 B. wrong                C. busy                           D. awful

10.A. homework      B. cooking         C. housework             D. exercise

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

12.A. first           B. next                            C. third                     D. final

13.A. most              B. more               C. best            D. better

14.A. give           B. hold           C. return                        D. get

15.A. on           B. out                    C .in                       D. over

---I seem to be lost. Could you tell me _____?

---Sure. You can take the No.3 bus to get there.

A．where is the nearest hospital

B．how long it will take me to the airport

C．how far is my trip to the Olympic Village

D．how I can get to the National Museum

根据中文或首字母在答卷纸上写出完整的单词。（每空1分，共10分）
I __1_ (相信)it’s very ___2__ (重要的)to have a healthy lifestyle. Usually I get up__3_(早),then I love to __4__(喝)a glass of milk. I  __5_(离开) home at 6:30. I never __6__(乘)a bus to go to school, I always walk there although it takes me about__7__(四十)minutes to go to school, I do morning exercise__8__(一次)a day. It helps me to study__9___.(更好)and I hardly ever have a __10__(感冒). I really enjoy my life.

李明同学有写英语日记的习惯，他在单词拼写上遇到一些困难，请大家帮他补充完整。一空一词。（本小题有10题，每小题1分，共10分）

Thursday, September 1st

I’m a Grade 3 student this year. I have made my   1.  （决定）to be more active in class and work___2.___ (努力) than before. I’m not good at history, so I should spend more time on it. If I have any problems that I can’t___3.___  （解决）, I will ask my teacher for help. Luckily, the new history teacher is___ 4.____（知识渊博的 ）and humorous. He has a strange way of making his classes interesting and we students are    5.___(有活力的). I’m quite confident in him and myself now. My mother told me not to ___6.__(闲聊) on QQ any more. She thought it was  7.    （浪费）my time. I think I won’t do that again this year.

Sunday, September 18th

It’s Sunday today. The weather is fine. My friend Eric called me to go out for a picnic with him. At first I    8.    （拒绝）because I was afraid my parents won’t let me do so. But to my great surprise, they acted completely   9.   （不同地）today. Usually I’m not  10.  (允许)to do anything they think is not good for study. I felt so excited and had a very pleasant day today.

I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance(保险业)company. I told him honestly why I wanted the job —I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma(精神创伤) and pain of the loss for my 16-year-old daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her present high school. I could still hardly talk about the loss of my wife. Bruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn’t probe(彻底调查) any further. He admitted (接受)my loss and, with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another manager. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had three children. In his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had —a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call. Whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of the greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring support for another person in need.

1.The author took part in the interview because _______.

A．he had lost his job and wanted to find a new one

B．he had to support his family in Boston

C．his wife had recently died of a heart attack

D．his daughter needed money for schooling

2. The underlined word "empathetic “in the second paragraph means _____.

A．kind             B．easy-going         C．smart             D．understanding

3. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Bruce invited the author to lunch later.

B．Bruce shared his life experience with the author.

C．Bruce was willing to help the author.

D．Bruce finally gave the job to the author.

4. We can infer from the last paragraph that ________.

A．Bruce and the author saw each other often

B．the author got little help from Bruce

C．the author learned much from the job interview

D．the author had a better life afterwards

5. What is the best title for the passage?

A．An act of kindness

B．A pleasant interview

C．The same experience

D．An important lesson