There is ________“h” in the word“honest”.   

A.a                B.the        C./                D.an

Directions; Complete the following passage by using the words in the box．Each word can only be used once．Note that there is one word more than you need．

A．survey      B．off          C．better      D．care     E．conducted

F．differed．   G．personal     H．prepared    I．contrast    J．differences,

GAN Xiaolin, 18, only gets half a day ____ school every week since the Hubei student started senior high school．Every day, he takes core （核心的） courses from 7:10 am to 10:30 pm．

Sometimes, Gan feels extremely stressed from the heavy workload．But he hopes that his three

years of hard work toward the college entrance examination will change his life for the __．

Gan is a typical Chinese student, as shown m a recently released survey．The new survey, which was ____ by the China Youth and Children Research Center and other foreign institutions, polled（调整） about 4,000 high school and vocational school students in China, Japan, the United States and South Korea．

The five biggest frustrations listed by all the young people were: an over-busy school life, an empty___ life, dissatisfaction with their appearance, a lack of time for exercise and friends, and no spare money．

Although some of the teenage problems were y-niversai, there were big _ __ between the students when it came to the time they spent on sehoolwork．

For example, Chinese students spent the most time at school and on homework．Nearly 80 percent of them spent at least eight hours a week in school, and 56．7 percent spent two or more hours on their homework．By_, only about 25 percent of US students, 20,5 percent of Japanese students, and 15 percent of Korean students had more than two hours of homework each night．

The responses from the Chinese students also __ significantly from their peers （同龄人）

in the other three countries when asked about their life goals．

Only 16．7 percent of Chinese students said that they didn't ___ much about their future, while the figure for that category was 72．4 percent for US students, 59．1 percent for the Japanese and 58．2 percent for the South Koreans．The _ found that Chinese students were more motivated than the other students to work hard for a better life．

根据所给的首字母和中文写出所缺单词的完整形式（每空1分，满分10分）

1.Quite a few v____________(暴力)scenes were cut from the film before it came to show.

2. He s____________(强调) the importance of kindness, duty and order in society.

3.They are collecting money for a c____________（慈善机构）.

4.They can destroy houses, but leave the f____________（家具） inside exactly where it was.

5.I regret that a p____________（先前的）engagement prevents me from accepting your kind invitation.

6. Arthur promised that he would answer the policeman’s questions with h____________（诚实）.

7.The people are fighting to gain their f____________（自由）.

8.Every day, many visitors are attracted by the r____________（遗迹）in the old city.

9.Our English teacher always explains difficult words or s____________（结构）in class.

10.There is plenty of e____________（证据）that smoking is very harmful to people’s health.

Lisa is ten years old. She is disabled because she has brain damage. She could not do even the simplest thing until a year ago. She could not comb her hair or feed herself. Her parents loved her. And they treated her like a baby.
Mr. Ching has a daughter and a son. They are both grown. They live far from their father. Mr. Cling felt lonely. He decided to become a foster grandfather to a handicapped child. And that was how he met Lisa.
Foster grandparents are grandparents who are not related by birth but foster parents love the children they care for. They also help the handicapped children in special ways. They help to dress and feed the children. They read to them and tell them stories. They also help with handicapped children’s therapy. Therapy is the treatment of a disease or disorder. It helps the children overcome their handicaps.
Mr. Cling became a foster grandparent to Lisa when she was nine years old. At first, Lisa was shy. She was afraid because Mr. Cling was a stranger. But he came to see her every day, gradually she began to trust him. At last, Lisa let Mr. Cling do things for her.
Cling speaks for most foster grandparents when he say, “We all benefit. The handicapped children benefit because we help them live more useful lives. And we benefit because we know the children need us and love us. For any person, there is no greater happiness than that.”
【小题1】Why did Lisa need help?

William Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His childhood lacked the harmony that was typical of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered "little of childhood but its pain". In fact, he inherited (继承) excellent taste in art from his family — both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature, particularly drama and poetry. 
Yeats had strong faith in the coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received favorably at the beginning. He didn't lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama. 
Compared with his dramatic works, Yeats's poems attract much admiring notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he brought modern sensibility to them. As his literary life progressed, his poetry grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide recognition. 
He had not enjoyed a major public life since winning the Nobel Prize in 1923. Yet, he continued writing almost to the end of his life. Had Yeats stopped writing at age 40, he would probably now be valued as a minor poet, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who produces his greatest works between the ages of 50 and 75. After Yeats's Death in 1939, W. H. Auden wrote, among others, the following lines: 
Earth, receive an honoured guest:
        William Yeats is laid to rest. 
        Let the Irish vessel (船) lie
        Emptied of its poetry.
【小题1】Which of the following can describe Yeats's family?