______ beautiful the flower is!

A. How B. What C. What a　　D. How a

   What is the most beautiful flower in the world? Do you know? Peony,rose or violet?You may give me a list of the   16   of different flowers. I once asked my mother the same question.

   Looking at me with a big smile, she answered,“My child, as for the   17  ,children’s smiling faces are the most beautiful flowers in the world.”

   Our smiling faces are the most beautiful flowers in the world for our parents? Are we   18   to give the most beautiful flowers to them every day? In the morning we eat the food that mother   19  us, impatient to respond to her words. In the evening we   20   the broken bike to our father and think it is the most natural thing to find a repaired one the next morning. We pay   21   attention to the things of our own. We    22   what our parents do for us. We   23   forget to do the smallest thing to satisfy them. We said too many times “I will…”,but we forget that we are really able to do many things for our parents   24  .

   My friends, if you did not spend too much time   25   your parents, think about them now. You are sure to find how kind, how patient and how great they are. Next time when you see them, smile from your heart. That is the most precious(珍贵的)gift for them.

(   )16.A.kinds          B.sorts           C.colors          D.names

(   )17.A.friends        B.teachers        C.parents         D.mothers

(   )18.A.enough happy   B.so pity         C.sorry enough    D.generous enough

(   )19.A.cooks          B.prepares for    C.ready for       D.ready to

(   )20.A.take           B.give            C.send            D.leave

(   )21.A.too much       B.too many        C.many too        D.much too

(   )22.A.are used       B.used to         C.are used to     D.are using to

(   )23.A.even           B.just            C.never           D.always

(   )24.A.just now       B.right now       C.just then       D.at once

(   )25.A.thinking about B.to think about  C.to worry about  D.worrying about

In Britain, the first day of the month of May is known as May Day. May day marks the end of the harsh(严酷的) winter months, welcomes the beginning of Summer, and optimistically looks forward to the bright and productive months.


For their ancestors, largely in rural areas, it was a major annual festival and was celebrated(庆祝) through out the country, especially on the first day of May with music, dancing and games.
How was May Day Celebrated in the past?


May Day began early in the morning. People went out before sunrise in order to gather flowers and plants to make their houses and villages beautiful in the belief that the vegetation spirits(神灵) would bring good luck.
A traditional May Day dance is Maypole Dancing，On May Day, people used to cut down young trees and stick them in the ground in the village to mark the arrival of summer.People danced around the tree poles in celebration of the end of winter and the start of the fine weather that would allow planting to begin. Maypoles are still a part of some
village life and on May Day the villagers dance around it.


May Day celebrations have their origins(起源) in the Roman festival of Flora, goddess(女神) of fruit and flowers, which marked the beginning of summer. So the highlight of the day was the crowning(为…加冕) of the May Queen(女皇), the human replica (模型) of Flora. By tradition she took no part in the games or dancing, but sat like a queen in a flower-decked chair to watch her 'subjects'.
Ever since 1978, for the convenience of the general public, many May Day activities have now been moved to the new May Day holiday on the first Monday of the month. This Monday is a bank holiday, a day off school and work. There are more intereting celebrations on this day.
【小题1】In the old days, most people in Britain made their living by             .
A. fishing                B. farming                 C. working in factories
【小题2】People in Britain celebrate May Day is to express their         
A. pleasure and hope       B. thanks and harvest       C. freedom and new life
【小题3】Britain’s May Day holiday is on          in 2010.
A. May 1^st               B. May 3^rd                 C. May 5^th
【小题4】What is not mentioned in this passage?
A. Special food.          B. Special custom.           C. Special activity.
【小题5】Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Only children can take part in the Maypole Dancing.
B. The queen of the UK came to watch her “subjects”.
C. Children needn’t go to school on May Day holiday now.

When I was in the third grade, I was chosen to be the princess in the school play. For weeks my mother had helped me practice my lines（台词）. But once on the stage, every word      from my head. Then my teacher asked me to change my role to be a narrator（解说者）for the play.        I didn’t tell my mother what had happened that day, she noticed my       and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the garden.

 It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions（蒲公英）popping（炸开）      the grass in bunches（束）. I watched my mother bend down by one of the bunches. “I think I’ll dig up（挖光）all these weeds（野草）,” she said. “From now on, we’ll       have roses in this garden.”

“But I like dandelions,” I protested（抗议）. “All the flowers are        -- even dandelions!”

My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded. “And that is        of people, too.” She added.

When I       that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her the truth. “But you will be a wonderful narrator,” she said,       me of how much I loved to read stories aloud.

Thanks to my mother’s encouragement, I got to know everybody had his or her own      in the world, I felt proud of the role in the play.

1.A. developed                      B. left                     C. failed                         D. disappeared 

2.A. If                         B. Because           C. Though                   D. Since

3.A. difficulty           B. mistake            C. danger                       D. unhappiness

4.A. through                     B. past                  C. beyond                   D. behind

5.A. hardly                           B. only                 C. still                           D. also 

6.A. harmless                              B. healthy        C. beautiful                        D. fresh 

7.A. true                      B. kind         C. same                         D. clever 

8.A. remembered                B. realized    C. explained                 D. promised

9.A. representing                    B. complaining        C. recommending          D. reminding 

10.A. honour                        B. progress       C. value                D. interest