One day, a boy found the cocoon(茧) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small   36  in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make   37  body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped. So the boy   38  to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be   39 .He took a pair of scissors and cut the hole   40  .The butterfly came out of the cocoon but it   41 a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin   42  .The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.

The boy acted with   43  but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawls out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of   44  out of the cocoon makes the fluid(液体) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be   45  to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze(挤压) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never get the fluid and it can never fly.

  46   struggles are what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be  47   we could have been and we would never fly.

In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even  48   growth, without it , there’s no way of life. We can’t avoid   49  or problems. So, next time you are   50 a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little—then fly!

1.                A．hole           B．worm          C．tall  D．snake

2.                A．it             B．it’s           C．itself D．its

3.                A．decided        B．asked          C．showed   D．ordered

4.                A．afraid          B．interested       C．surprised D．grateful

5.                A．slimmer        B．bigger          C．shorter   D．smaller

6.                A．touched        B．sounded        C．looked   D．smelt

7.                A．wings          B．feet            C．eyes D．head

8.                A．success         B．excitement      C．kindness  D．humour

9.                A．get            B．getting         C．to get    D．got

10.               A．ready          B．quiet           C．glad  D．used

11.               A．Somewhere     B．Something      C．Some time D．Sometimes

12.               A．as helpful as     B．as weak as      C．as strong as D．as creative as

13.               A．repeats        B．recommends    C．requires   D．represents

14.               A．happiness       B．difficulties      C．pleasure   D．hope

15.               A．served with     B．growing into     C．bringing in D．faced with

On the way to school, a school bus driver stops the bus in front of a washroom and then he goes in. But the bus doesn’t stop. After the driver gets off, the bus begins to run down the road, and there are 27 students on the bus.

Luckily(幸运的是)，the 11-year-old student, David, goes to the driver’s seat and begins to drive the school bus. He can’t stop the bus, but he drives the bus away from a car. At last, he stops the bus near a shop and everyone is all right.

A woman worker in the shop sees the whole thing. She says the bus nearly(几乎) runs into a river. We do not know how the boy stops the car.

David is very quiet about the accident(事故), but he is a hero. “If he doesn’t drive the bus, all the students will go down into the river with the bus.” says a teacher in the school.

1.Where does the driver go on the way to school?

A. He goes to school. B. He goes to a washroom.

C. He goes to a mall. D. He goes to a hospital.

2.Who helps to drive the bus after the driver gets off it?

A. A student. B. A teacher.C. A policeman.D. A parent.

3.Where does the bus stop at last？

A. In the school. B. At the bus station. C. Near a shop. D. In the hospital.

4.Does anyone see the accident(事故)?

A. Yes, a woman worker sees it.

B. No, no one sees it.

C. Yes, a man doctor sees it.

D. All the teachers and students see it.

5.What is the passage mainly about?

A. A child plays in the street.

B. A school bus driver.

C. A bus runs into a river.

D. A boy does something good.

John Thomas was an 18-year-old student, but he had been a famous champion (冠军).  Everybody at Boston University liked this tall, quiet boy. Once he was hurt, everybody at Boston University was  36  . People all over the country  37  about John Thomas and often asked, "Will he ever jump again ?"
John' s mother went to the hospital to see her son. She looked at his 38 leg. Then she looked into his  39  .She knew what her son would  40 . "You're going to jump again, John, I know it," she said. "  41  will be all right. "
If John hoped to jump again, he would have a  42  to do. He began at once. Even in his hospital bed John started to exercise. He used a wheel(轮子) and other metal things. Soon his  43  looked like a machine shop!
It was May when John  44  the hospital. "Is it all right if I go camping( 宿营) this summer?" he asked the doctors.
" Yes," the doctors said.  " But take it easy on that foot. "
John took only  45 walks at first. He was taking it easy on his foot. But not on anything else. He went swimming and did other kinds of exercises. He exercised  46  his body cried for a rest. Some days later, he exercised a little  47  . In late summer John went back to  48  . He asked if he could practise with the football team. Football wasn't his favorite, but he had to get that leg  49  again! He worked hard. "No one pushed him as hard as he pushed himself," said one of his friends. "To  50 a champion fighting back is a wonderful thing to watch. ":

Take a look at the label(标签) on almost any bottle of milk and you may see the word PASTEURIZED. What does that mean? Let’s find out by meeting Louis Pasteur.

Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 in a little town in France. As he grew up, he loved to paint. He loved to look at the world around him. When he went to college in Paris, he showed interest in looking through a microscope. A microscope makes things look a lot bigger; it lets you see things you can’t see just with your eyes. Looking through a microscope, Pasteur found a living world in a drop of water. He saw and drew pictures of the small living things -- he called them “microbes” or “germs”-- that crowded in a drop of water.

One day a winemaker came into the lab, hoping that someone could help him with his problem. “Sometimes my wine tastes delicious, but sometimes terrible,” he said to Pasteur. “Can you help me find out why?”

Pasteur put some drops of the wine under the microscope. He noticed that the terrible wine had some unusual germs. If he killed these germs, maybe he could keep the wine from turning terrible. He tried with different ways to kill the germs. In the end he found heating (加热) the wine seemed to work best. The winemaker tried it, and every bottle of wine tasted good.

Pasteur’s idea worked for other people, too. When farmers heated milk, it didn’t turn bad so quickly. When breweries heated beer, it tasted better. People called it “pasteurization” ---heating a liquid to kill bad germs. Aren’t you glad that the milk you drink has been pasteurized?

1. The Chinese meaning for the word “microbes” is____.

2. Which is the right order in Pasteur’s life story?

(1). He received college education in Paris.

(2) He helped to find some unusual germs in some drops of wine.

(3) A new way of killing bad germs--pasteurization was found out.

(4)He was born in 1822 in a little town in France.

(5) Microbes were found by Louis Pasteur with the help of a microscope.

3. What do you think Louis Pasteur was like from the passage?

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

5. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A bag is useful and the word “bag” is useful, too. Here is an interesting phrase（短语）, “to let the cat out of the bag”. In meaning it is the same as “to tell the secret（秘密）”. And there is an old interesting story about it.

　　Long ago, when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market, they would usually just throw the chickens in cloth (布) bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens at that time, so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags but not chickens. One day, a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat.      When the man opened the cloth bag, a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man’s secret was out and everyone knew it.

　　Now when we say someone gives away a secret, we say “he lets the cat out of the bag”. And that is the story where the interesting phrase came from.

1.The underlined word “it” in the passage refers to (指的是)     .

A. the useful bag                 B. the phrase              C. the cat                     D. the chicken

2.The farmers put cats but not chickens in the bags to      when they sold chickens.

A. tell the secret                                                      B. sell the cats

C. get more money                                                  D. keep the cats quiet

3.Which is the best for the blank (空白处) in the passage?

A. The woman was angry to see a cat.                 B. The man put a cat in the bag.

C. The man asked her to see the chicken.         D. The woman wanted to see the chicken.

4.The writer wrote the story to tell us     .

A. the woman was smart                                         B. how farmers sold their cats

C. the phrase is useful                                             D. where the phrase came from