When I was young, my father used to grow carnations — a kind of flower that was red, pink and white. He took care of them with much love and devotion (挚爱). When he came home from work every day, he would enjoy watching them. And he used to tell us, “No one should touch my flowers.”
One day, my younger sister Clemence, who loved Dad very much, wanted to help him. So she cut the carnations from their stems (枝干) one by one and arranged them on the ground. She believed that Dad would be very pleased to see them that way. When Mom and I realized what my sister had done, we became completely speechless. However, my sister didn’t know why no one showed her any appreciation (欣赏). When Dad came back, he went straight to watch the flowers as usual. Seeing his flowers lying on the ground like dead animals, he was surprised at first. He looked towards the street to see if it was any of the neighbor’s children who could have done it. Then he looked at Mom in silence. Finally Mom, who always taught us to tell the truth, said, “No bad neighbors did this great job, only your lovely daughter Clemence.” Dad’s face changed into a smile and then he said, “Do I have better flowers than my lovely daughter?” My younger sister smiled and hugged Dad strongly.
【小题1】 How many kinds of colors do carnation have according to the passage?

A little boy invited his mother to his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To his surprise, she agreed. He felt ­­­?????? . Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a scar(伤疤) that covered nearly the whole right side of her ?????? .

At the meeting, all the people were ____by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother, but the little boy was still embarrassed and hid himself from ___.Suddenly, he heard his mother talking with his teacher.

“____did you get the scar on your face?” the teacher asked. She replied, “When my son was a boy, his room caught on fire one day. Everyone was too ____to go in, so I went in and ran towards his bed. Just then I saw a beam coming down and I placed myself over him trying to____ him. I was knocked but luckily, a fireman saved____ of us.” She touched the scar. “This scar will be here forever, ____ I will never regret doing what I did.”

At this point, the little boy came out running to his mother ____tears in his eyes. He hugged her and held her hand tightly for the rest of the day.

1.A. worried?????????? B. happy?????????? C. angry??????????? D. proud

2.A. ear?????????????? B. hand??????????? C. face???????????? D. arm

3.A. impressed???????? B. followed???????? C. agreed?????????? D. encouraged

4.A. somebody???????? B. anybody???????? C. nobody????????? D. no one

5.A. Where??????????? B. How??????????? C. Why??????????? D. When

6.A. afraid???????????? B. quiet?????????? C. calm??????????? D. careful

7.A. prevent??????????? B. save??????????? C. protect????????? D. hold

8.A. neither??????????? B. either?????????? C. all???????????? ? D. both

9.A. because?????????? B. however???????? C. but??????????? ? D. although

10.A. for????????????? B. of????????????? C. with?????????? ? D. without

Wang Ling, a middle school girl, felt angry with her parents after getting a boy’s phone call.“A classmate called me to discuss homework.We talked  1  just a few minutes before my parents got mad,” said the girl.“They asked whether I liked the boy.I said I didn’t,  2  they wouldn’t believe me.”

Wang’s trouble is not strange at all because puppy love(早恋) becomes a big headache for  3  parents and schools.They worry that puppy love will be bad for  4 .Her school makes it a rule not to allow any talk or any physical contact(身体接触)  5  one boy and one girl alone.

Many students say they understand  6  parents and teachers are so nervous about puppy love.But some think they are going too far.“We have our own thoughts and we know what to  7  with it,” said Wang Ling.

Another girl, Jiang Ting, liked making friends with boys.” Boys and girls can learn from each other,” she said.” My mother asks me to study hard.However, she  8  stops me from making friends with boys.“once Jiang told her mother she might fall in love with a boy.Her mother let Jiang make  9  own decision.Soon Jiang found that she didn’t like him any more because the boy was not as  10  as what she had thought before.And she did wrose and worse in her subjects because she spent much on it.At last she understood the worry form schools and most parents about puppy love.

1.                A．for            B．in             C．with D．to

2.                A．because        B．if              C．but  D．and

3.                A．both           B．none           C．either    D．neither

4.                A．game          B．study           C．match    D．housework

5.                A．during         B．between        C．around   D．about

6.                A．how           B．what           C．who D．why

7.                A．play           B．live            C．do   D．fill

8.                A．never          B．already         C．ever D．just

9.                A．its             B．my            C．his  D．her

10.               A．good          B．bad            C．heavy D．thin

Ashley Smith is a single young mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man      her to her door, and put a gun to her side. “I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really     ,” she said in a TV interview last week.
The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He      at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11^th. The police were      him.
Nichols tied Smith up with a rope, but set her free after she begged him not to take her     again and again. “I told him      he hurt me, my little girl wouldn’t have a mummy,” she said with tears.
“I just talked to him and tried to      believe me,” Smith said. She asked Nichols     he chose her. “He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and      asked him to do so.”
Smith even      for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was      when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing      looking for him. “I cannot      that’s me on the TV!” Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what he      do. She said, “I think you should turn yourself in. If you don’t, more people are going to get    . Finally, he let her go. Then she called the police.