根据短文内容，用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，并用其正确形式填空，使短文完整，正确。（每个词只能用一次；共10分，每小题一分）

Light travels at a speed(速度) which is about a million times faster than that of sound .1.

     One second, light travels about 300000 kilometers, but sound travels only 340 2.     .  You can get some idea of this difference by 3.________ the start of a running match. If you stand far away from the starter(发令员), you can see smoke4.________ from his gun before the sound reaches your ears.

The  5.      speed of light produces some strange facts. The 6.     star is so far away that light which you can see from it tonight started to travel to you  four years  7.________ at a speed of nearly two million kilometers every minute. The light from some of tonight's started on8. ________ journey towards you even before you were born.

So, if we want to be honest(诚实), we can not say , " The stars are shining 9. ________tonight."  We have to say, " The stars look nice. They were 10._______ four years ago but their light has just reached our earth. "

缺词填空  先通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。所给单词在题后横线上必须完整写出。（本大题共6分，每格0.5分）

There are four people in my family. Every day my parents are very busy t   1  to make money in order to pay the high tuition（学费）for my brother and me. They hardly say "I love you" or send f   2   to each other. Besides，my father has a bad temper（脾气）.It is easy for him to lose his temper w  3    he's very tired from the hard work. I didn't know whether there was love between them u  4_   one spring. At that time，my father suddenly got badly sick. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they r _5__ from the hospital，they both looked very pale . It s_ _6__  that both of them had a serious illness.

After they were back，my mother helped my father walk slowly on the country road every day in the morning and dusk（黄昏）. H __7  ，after two months my father still couldn't walk by  h__8_   ．All of us were worried about him.

"Dad，how are you f _9__ now?"  I asked him one day.

"Susan，don't worry about me.”he said i  10  a low voice.“I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of life.”Reading his eyes，I know he loves my mother very much.

Maybe many people think love m _11___  flowers，presents and sweet kisses. But from this experience，I understand that love is  _12___，making life strong and warm.

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）。

Make time for friendships.

Nothing makes closeness fade away(褪色) more than never talking to or seeing each other. If

you cherish a person's friendship, make time for him or her,   1  it's just a phone call, e-mail or a weekly get-together.

Remember: a true friend doesn't flee when changes happen. Nothing is   2  for new parents

than to find that their unmarried friends have left them because of the coming of baby. A good

friend is one who stays true   3  it all in life – marriage, parenthood, new jobs, new homes,

and so on.

Make sure you aren't being a burden to a friend.

Friendships will lose if there isn't a   4  between the give and the take. Be sensitive to how

much your friend can and can't offer you –and don't overstep the mark.

Be a good listener.

It can be the hardest thing in the world to do – simply to listen as he or she   5  it all out or

is seeking your advice or opinion. To be a better listener, follow this advice:

Keep eye contact. Offer nods and murmurs to show that you understand his or her point of view. Don't finish your   6  sentences. While your friend keeps on talking, you should gently   7  yourself to focus.

Be in your friend's corner if he or she's not there to defend him or herself.

If you're at a gathering at   8  someone says something bad about your friend, stop him or

her   9 . Say, "Mary is my friend, and it makes me feel bad to hear you talk this way." Sooner or later, news of your loyalty (忠诚) will   10  back to your pal, and it will deepen your friendship.

In less than two weeks, Junior 3 students around the country will take the senior high school entrance exam．They are studying hard for this big challenge． Do they have time to do something to celebrate their middle school years? Many do．

Leng Jingze, 14, from Tianjin said that in her class students are already writing goodbye messages for each other．They are also swapping（交换）photos．

Even the head teacher has a project, said Leng．

"She plans to put all our class photos and the Chinese compositions we have written onto a CD mad give each student one，"said Leng" She will also write something for each student．"

Wang Zeyu，15，in Changchun，Jilin said his classmates are making。"lucky stars" as graduation gifts．They are making the cheerful stars from colored paper．

"Before making a ‘lucky star’．you write some words for the person on the paper，"said Wang．"He or she can read the words when they unfold （拆开）the star"

Who does Wang want to make a lucky star for? He said he wanted to make one for his head teacher．

"I’ll write: ‘Dear teacher, you always look so serious," said Wang．"But we know you have a warm heart．Smile more!"

In Xiao Xia’s school in Beijing, each Junior 3 student will get a yearbook, in which the graduating classes will put their photos and self-introductions．

"Most classes have written an article as the self-introduction," said Xiao, 14．"We have written a poem in the ancient style!"

The poem records the big events of the class’s history and is in the shape of the number 9．

"Nine is our class number," said Xiao, who felt very proud of the idea．

"Our class may he not the one with the best school grade but it must he the most creative one," said Xiao．"I feel lucky to study in such a class!"

1．What are the students in the picture doing?

2．What are the students in Leng jingze’s doing for their graduation ?

3．Where does the head teacher plan to put the students’ photos and compositions ?

4．What are the cheerful lucky stars made from ?

5．Why is the poem in the shape of the number of 9 ?