A）根据句意及首字母提示完成单词。

1．My job i________ cooking for you．You needn’t cook for yourself．

2．The sweaters here are in v________ colours，not only white．

3．I have an a________ with my doctor at ten o’clock so I must go to see him now．

4．For 27 years，passengers traveled a________ the Atlantic on this jet plane．

5．The teacher kept n________ to the girl，as if he was pleased with her answer．

B）根据括号中所给汉语完成单词。

6．He is one of the ________（老板）I have ever met．

7．I am ________（盼望）to pass the difficult exam by my teacher．

8．Darning’s composition is better than ________ （我们的）．

9．She ________ （说服）me to buy the most expensive pen just now．

10．Can I speak to you ________ （私下地）?

My parents used to tell me how important school was for me, but I didn’t think so. I paid little attention to it. But one thing let me finally   1  what my parents meant.
One day, when I   2   a mobile phone store, I saw an advertisement on its door. It was hiring new workers!
“Sir, are you hiring people?” I went   3   the shop and asked. “Yes, but you should be the man who we need,” the manager answered. He looked at me for a few   4  from head to foot. “Do you have a high school diploma(文凭)?”  5  he, “Or do you have any work experience?”
I felt so ashamed and   6   that I didn’t know what to say, so I just turned around and left. I could not fall asleep that night, and I thought a lot about my   7  . “I must go to school or I can’t do anything without a good education,” I   8   to myself silently. I never went back to the store again  9  I finished my study and got a diploma.
 10  looked the same when I returned to the store: the same people and the same design. However, compared with last time, I had more   11  . The manager told me they needed new    12  . So it was a great chance for me.
I  13  my diploma to the manager. He looked at it and said, “Great, you are in.”
Now I am still working in the same store. With this experience, I always  14 people to attend school. Education helps you have a bright future. Now I am not worried about my future because I’m still   15  in my spare time.

“Hi! John.” Mary ran towards me with a bright smile, saying, “I’m going to have a dance performance tonight. I hope you’ll come. Here is the ticket. Don’t forget!” Then she    41  in a hurry.
“What? Dance? Is that    42  ?” I asked myself. Mary was not such kind of girl. She was quite common one. I had never seen her wearing colorful clothes. In fact, she really did not know    43   to dress up. What a terrible thing!
“I should go to, I must go to.” I thought.
I arrived at the hall with the ticket, found my seat and sat down. Her performance was the seventh one. I knew I would have a    44   time before her turn, for I had no sense of art,    45   her performance was worth(值得)watching, no matter how long I would wait.
Time went    46  , I tried my best not to fall asleep.
Just then, came the words, “Let’s welcome the next exciting dance – Latin!”
Hearing this, I opened my eyes as large as possible,    47   to lose anything. Wearing a golden and shiny skirt, Mary appeared. She danced with a sweet smile, looking like a pretty butterfly flying … I could    48   believe my eyes.
After all the performance ended, I    49   her at the gate.
“Hi!” She stood in front of me with her crystal(水晶) shoes. “How do you feel?”
“Fantastic!” I answered.
“Ha, ha. I knew it would be.” She could not hide her excitement, laughing    50  a child.
At that time, I realized that every girl has a pair of special shoes which are like the crystal shoes of Cinderella.

Once there lived a very clever man whose name was Aesop (伊索). One day as he was taking a walk, he came across a traveler. The traveler stopped him and asked, “Excuse me,, can you tell me how

soon I’ll get to town?”

“Go.” Aesop answered.

“I know I must go.” said the traveler, “but I want to know how soon I’ll get to town.”

“Go!~ ”Aesop said again angrily.

“This man must be mad(疯的),” the traveler thought and went on.

After the traveler had gone some distance(一段距离), Aesop shouted after him, “You’ll get to town in two hours.”

The traveler was greatly surprised. He turned back and asked, “Why didn’t you tell me that before?”

“How could I tell you that before?” Aesop answered, “I didn’t know how fast you could walk.”

1.One day Aesop ____________ a traveler while he was walking.

2.The traveler asked Aesop______________.

3.Why didn't Aesop give the traveler the answer at first? Because he__________.

4.When did Aesop give the traveler the answer?

This story is about a young man. He worked hard at his lessons. He was too busy. He didn’t have time to rest, so he was ill. Every night, when he went to bed, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep（睡觉）. But he couldn’t. He thought: “I must go to see the doctor.” He said to the doctor. “I can’t go to sleep at night.” “Try counting numbers. When you reach one thousand, you’ll be asleep.” The next day the man came back to the doctor’s office. “Well,” said the doctor, “How are you today?”
“Yes, he said,” I tried counting one, two, three. . . up to （直到）one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy (感到困倦). I had to get up and drank some tea. Then I went on counting up to one thousand. But I still couldn’t fall asleep.
【小题1】The young man couldn’t go to sleep because ________ .