Monday morning is an important time at our school. All of the students go to the playground. We listen to music, and we   1  the national flag go up.
Usually, one student gives a talk on Monday mornings. One Monday last year, a boy gave the talk. He was   2  and excited! When I saw him, I wanted to have a try, too.
Can I really do it?
Last week, our teacher said our class should give the talk. My teacher   3  me, "I know you want to have a try. Next Monday, you can give the talk. Go and write something down.   4  for it, I'm sure you'll do well."
"Thank you," I answered, It was such a great   5  for me! When I got home, I was excited. I wrote two pages for the talk. I read them again and again. When I read, I asked my parents  6 . I wanted to make my teacher happy.
Monday morning came. I began to feel   7 . When did I last give a talk to   8  many people? Never! This was my first time. Could I really   9  it ? Maybe I couldn't finish the talk.
When I got to school, we all went out to playground. I  10 in front of everyone. I opened my mouth, but I couldn't say anything.
"Take it easy," I said to   11 . "Don't be nervous. You can do it."
Just then, I looked down at everyone. I saw about 1,000 eyes. They were all looking at me ! I couldn't   12  stand up.
I looked at their eyes more carefully. Their eyes were saying, "You can do it! Don't be afraid, just talk!"
I   13  a big breath. Then I began to talk. It wasn't hard. It was easy.
I don't know   14  I finished my talk. But I did it. I felt so good that day. I showed myself 15 everyone what I can do.

Mr. Jackson was on duty that evening. It was 1 and there was thick snow outside. So few people came to the hospital and he could  2 on the bed in his office and soon he went to sleep . Suddenly someone knocked at the door and it woke him up. He got up and opened the door. In went an old man. His wife was ill and he asked the doctor to go to look her over.
　It was still 3 when Mr. Jackson came out. The old farmer walked fast and he hardly catch up with him. It was 4 for him to walk on the snowy roads. When he got to the man’s house, he was very  5  . He looked over the old woman and found she had a bad cold. He gave her some 6 and began to return to the hospital. The wind was blowing strongly and he couldn’t walk too 7 .
　And when he was near the hospital, he had a pain in his foot.
　He walked slowly and at last he went into his office, He took 8 his shoe and looked at his foot. There was much blood on it. He  9 he stepped on a broken glass. He looked at his shoe carefully and said to  10 “Luckily, it didn’t prick my shoe!” 

Growing up is not always easy. When we face difficulties, a spirit of depending on _ 41   is more useful than crying for help. That’s what Hong Zhanhui’s story of growing from boy to man    42   family hardship tells us.

Hong was born in 1982 in a poor family in Xihua County(县), Henan Province. When he was only 11, his father became badly ill and one day he came back with an unwanted baby   43   . A year later, Hong’s mother   44    home. She no longer wanted to live such a poor life and face her sick husband. So everything hard fell onto the young boy’s    45   : to take care of his father and the younger sister Chenchen, and to go on to study.

Although his life was hard, Hong didn’t go away from his father and sister. He took several part-time jobs to    46    his family. He climbed tall trees to get birds’ eggs for his sister. He walked 2 hours at weekends to the market to   47    different things to sell around his school. A few years later, he studied at a college. To take care of Chenchen, he worked hard to    48    a room near his college for her, and sent her to school.

After Hong’s story went    49   , he became a hero in people’s eyes. But Hong ___50___ offers from others. He said he felt encouraged by kind offers, but he could depend on his own work.

Through his hard life, he has grown up from boy to man.

1.A. parents                         B. friends                      C. yourself                 D. God

2.A. out of                           B. into                            C. without                  D. with

3.A. dog                       B. cat                              C. girl                          D. boy

4.A. left                                 B. arrived                      C. went              D. came

5.A. back                     B. shoulders                 C. head              D. body

6.A. help                     B. save                           C. protect                   D. feed

7.A. make                    B. buy                            C. produce                 D. collect

8.A. build                    B. borrow            C. rent                        D. share

9.A. public                            B. clear                          C. by                            D. far

10.A. accepted          B. asked                         C. received                D. refused

Jack is a little schoolboy. He lives in a small town in England. His father works in a factory in London. One day his mother   1  him to post a letter to his father.

Jack walked down the street. He didn’t see a letter box on the street. But he really   2  a basket with a sign on it. The sign said, “PUT LITTER IN THIS BASKET”. “I can read,” thought Jack, but he couldn’t   3  the word “letter” right.

Jack dropped the letter in the basket. Then he ran  4  to tell his mother about the basket.

“Oh, no, child!” said his mother, “You put the letter in a basket. That litter basket is   5  old paper and other useless things.”

“Oh,”said Jack,“does the   6  on the basket mean that?”

“Yes, it does,”said his mother,“The word is‘litter’not‘letter’. Now get the letter and post it.”

When Jack got there, a man was putting the old   7  in a truck.

“Stop!”shouted Jack, and he began to tell the man about the letter.

The man helped him to look for the letter. After a while they   8  it.

Then Jack put the   9  in the letter box. He said,“  10  don’t they tell us all the words when we first go to school? Then things like that can’t happen.”