The final exam comes with June. When the exam ends(结束), the summer vacation begins. Boys and girls have about two months to relax. The summer vacation is the best time of the year for most children. The weather is usually fine. They can swim, go to summer camp or visit other places with their parents.
Of course, the beaches are good places for relaxing. Some children are lucky to live near the beach. They can play in the water. But for the children far from the sea, they go to the beaches for one or two weeks with their parents.
Why do children like spending their summer vacation on the beaches? It is because they like the sand(沙), the sun, the cool wind and the sea water. There are lots of new things to see, nice things to eat, and exciting things to do.
【小题1】 School children usually have exams _____.

On Thanksgiving Day, a teacher asked her class of first-graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought that these children from poor families actually had little to be thankful for. And she found most of them drawing pictures of flowers or tables with food. The teacher was very surprised to see the picture Douglas handed in. It’s a hand, a simple hand.

But whose hand? The class were very interested in the strange picture. “I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food,” said one child. “A farmer,” said another, “because he grows beautiful flowers.” Finally when the others were at work, the teacher went over Douglas’ desk and asked whose hand it was. “It’s your hand, Teacher,” he said quietly and shyly.

She remembered that she had often taken Douglas, a dirty lonely child, by the hand while having a class break. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this is everyone’s thanksgiving, not for the material things we get, but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.

1.Whose hand did Douglas draw?  

2. Why did Douglas draw the picture?

3. What do you learn about Douglas from the passage?

4. According to the passage, which of the following is an opinion, but not a fact?

词语填空(共10小题,计10分)

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空,使短文通顺、正确、连贯(每个单词限用一次).

For 25 years Terry Cemm was a policeman, but for the last seventeen years he has been walking up and down five____1____ of beach every day, looking for things that might be ____2____to someone. Terry is a beachcomber.

Nearly everything in his cottage has ___3___from the sea - chairs, tables, even tins of food. What's the most ___4__thing he has ever found? “A barrel of beer just before Christmas. That was nice”, he remembers. He finds lots of bottles with messages in__5__, mainly from children. They all get a reply if there's an address in the bottle. “Shoes? If you find one, you'll find the other the next week”, he says.

But does he really make a ___6___? “Half a living,” he___7___. “I barter (物物交换)with a lot of things I find, and I have my police pension(退休金). But I don't actually need money. My life is ___8___ in variety. ”

Terry seems to be a very happy man. “You have to find a way to live a simple, honest life. People spend all their lives ____9____ things they don't really need. There's so much waste.”

“Some people say I'm mad,” says Terry, “But there are a lot___10____ who'd like to do what I do. Look at me. I've got everything that I could possibly want.”

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When July comes, children know they’ll have ________(1) examinations and the school year will end soon. Boys and girls will have a nearly two months’ holiday, and they’ll leave school ________(2) train or by car to ________(3) to see their fathers and mothers .

The summer holidays are the ________(4) time of the year for most children. The weather is usually good, so one can ________(5) most of his time playing outside. If one lives in the country, he can ________(6) into the woods and in the fields. If one lives in a big town, he can usually go to a park to play.

The best place for a summer holiday is the ________(7). Some children are ________(8) enough to live near the sea. But for the others who do not, if they have the chance to stay at one of the big seaside towns for a week or two, they will talk about it all the following school year.

Now, ________(9) makes children like the seaside so much? I think it is the sand, the sea and the sun, not anything else. Of course, there are ________(10) new things to see, nice things to eat, and interesting things to do. But the feeling of sand under their feet, of salt water on their skin, and the feeling of the warm sun on their backs make them happier.

1.A. they B. them C. theirs D. their

2.A. on B. by C. in D. at

3.A. go to town B. go to the parks C. leave home D. return home

4.A. best B. better C. worst D. worse

5.A. take B. use C. spend D. waste

6.A. go out B. go on C. go back D. go away

7.A. village B. seaside C. city D. park

8.A. lucky B. sad C. worried D. quiet

9.A. that B. which C. who D. what

10.A. little B. much C. lots of D. no

时态填空，阅读下面一篇短文，根据情景，用所给动词的正确时态填空。

Do you know sports lotteries(彩票)? Young people can get addicted(上瘾) to it, especially if they 1.   ___(win), they 2.__      __ (think) playing the lottery is the right way to make money. But it’s not. Tiantian, a student in our city, 3.       ___(go) home on time to study after class every day before. But for the past two months, he has been running home to do a new kind of “homework”. He’s busy pickinglucky numbers in sports lotteries. He said he spends 20 yuan buying lottery tickets every week. Of course, he 4.__       __ (win) little money. So “I am going to keep on buying tickets every week,” he said. Quite a lot of young students, like Tiantian, are attracted（吸引） by this game. Because all of them believe “Win big money with only two yuan!” In fact, Tianyian didn’t win big money, at the same time he 5.        (fail) in his study. Experts say the lottery is bad for students.