Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest.She had no family and no one to love her，so she often        sad and lonely.

One day, when she was walking in the forest，she found that a small      was trapped unluckily in a bush.The butterfly tried to fly away         failed.The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care.Instead of flying away，the butterfly turned        a beautiful fairy(仙女).The little girl was very       .

 “Thank you for        me.You are so kind.I will make any of your dreams come true，”said the fairy.

The little girl thought for a moment and then said.“1 want to be       !”

The fairy said ,“Very well.I will help you.”And she said something in the little girl’s  ear.Then the fairy disappeared.

As the kind little girl grew up，she was         ready to help people in need and was popular among the villagers.No one in the village was as happy as she was.Everyone asked her the        of her happiness.She always smiled and       ,“the secret of my happiness is that I listened to a kind        when I was a little girl."

When the kind girl became a very old woman and was dying，the neighbours in the      

all gathered(聚拢)around her bed because they were       that her secret of happiness would die with her.They asked,“Please tell us what the kind fairy said.”

The lovely old woman still        and said，“She told me that everyone needed me，no matter how safe they seemed，no matter how rich or poor, no matter how old or      . She said that helping others would make me happy all my life."

1.A. thought              B. found       C. sounded              D. felt

2.A. butterfly        B. bird              C. snake       D. squirrel

3.A. so             B.or                  C. but           D. as

4.A. on                   B. up          C. into          D. down

5.A. surprised            B. tired        C.mad          D. angry

6.A .catching             B .beating               C. killing         D. saving

7.A. active          B. happy           C .energetic             D. humorous

8.A. always         B. never            C .seldom               D. hardly

9.A. success               B. secret                C. power                D.1esson

10.A. asked         B .hoped           C. answered            D. refused

11.A. witch              B. fairy          C .ghost         D. princess

12.A. village              B. town                 C. city         D. world

13.A. excited        B. pleased      C. glad          D .afraid

14.A. shouted           B. cried                C .smiled        D. jumped

15.A. young              B. great                 C .nice          D. quiet

My father took me to try the paragliding. It was very ___________.

A. excited        B. exciting       C. boring         D. interesting

When I was young，my father told me that little acts of kindness may give one great happiness. Since then I have always tried to help people in .

One hot summer afternoon, I was down the highway to New York when another car suddenly into my lane(车道). My car was in the far right lane，so it ran onto the roadside. As a(n) driver，I moved my car quickly and skillfully back onto the highway without causing any accident.

I was with that driver，but I thought that he just did not pay attention to the lane change, and he did not do that on purpose(故意).The car ran away after cutting me off. Very soon it disappeared from sight. After a while，I came around a curve(弯道) and found the car. The driver was walking along the roadside. He was an elderly man and looked . With no telephone nearby and the nearest services twenty miles away. I decided to and see what the problem was.

The man’s car had a flat tire(瘪胎). Although he had a spare tire，he had nothing to work with. I decided to him. I changed the tire for him and allowed him to sit in my air-conditioned

car while I did it. Fifteen minutes later，I the work. I was hot and tired，but I really felt after an act of kindness to the man who had earlier my car run off the road.

You can really enjoy great from kindness acts, so always lend your hands to others in trouble.

1.A. need B. school C. danger D. summer

2.A. walking B. riding C. running D. driving

3.A. fell B. floated C. came D. climbed

4.A. active B. experienced C. frightened D. energetic

5.A. unhappy B. satisfied C. familiar D. friendly

6.A. even B. certainly C. almost D. simply

7.A. quickly B. quietly C. politely D. carefully

8.A. new B. red C. same D. other

9.A. excited B. relaxed C. surprised D. worried

10.A. stay B. research C. stop D. hide

11.A. punish B. train C. help D. encourage

12.A. began B. finished C. took D. continued

13.A. good B. sorry C. angry D. shy

14.A. noticed B. made C. watched D. heard

15.A. friendship B. success C. excitement D. happiness

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 “Cool” is a word with many meanings. It means a little cold at first. As time changes, the word gets many different meanings. We can use “cool” when we talk about something wonderful or somebody looking smart. For example. When you see a beautiful and expensive car in the street, you can say, “It is cool.” You may think the popular singer Jay Chow is cool. You can also use the word to mean something new and surprising. Here is an example. One day a teacher took the students to a farm and then asked them to write something about the visit. One of her students just wrote, “The farm is so cool.” Because he thought “cool” was the best word to show what he saw and felt. It also shows some people don’t have enough words. Without “cool”, they seem to have no other words to use. Can you think of any other words like “cool: with so many meanings? If you can they are also very “cool”.

1.The meaning of the word “cool” ______.

A. is always the same               B. changes a lot

C. is “wonderful or smart”            D. is “new and surprising”

2.“You may think the popular singer Jay Chow is cool”. Here “cool” means

A. a little cold    B. a little hot    C. new and surprising    D. good-looking

3.When some people use “cool” everywhere they don’t have other words, the writer seems a little ______.

 A. excited        B. happy      C. surprised     D. worried

4.The best title is _____.

 A. Meanings of the word “Cool”       B. “Cool”, the Best Word to Use

C. People use “Cool” Too Much        D. “Cool’ Is A New Word

YoYo Ma was born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at four. A year later, when he was     36   years old, he gave his first concert. The family soon moved to New York, America. Later he joined Julliard School, a school   37   gifted musicians. He went to Harvard University to study music and graduated in 1976.

    YoYo soon became famous for his concerts. He always tries to play the cello with music from different countries like Brazil and China. He wrote   38   for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It sounds brilliant.

    YoYo is sometimes forgetful. He once   39   his cello in a taxi in New York. He was really

  40   because it’s worth US $2,000,000.The taxi driver took it to a police station. YoYo was very thankful.

1.A. four           B. five               C. six            D. seven

2.A. for            B. as                C. by               D. with

3.A. a story          B. an article          C. music           D. a poem

4.A. forgot          B. remembered        C. missed             D. left

5.A. excited        B. worried            C. lonely          D. bored