Laura lived in a small village near the sea. One day she decided to go for a swim in the sea. She knew that the sea near the ____1____ has a strong tide (浪) , but she was a good swimmer, so she wasn’t __2______. Laura left her friends lying on the sands and ran into the sea. She swam quite far from the beach and waved（挥舞） to her friends in the distance. After a short while she decided to swim ____3___. She tried her best, but she couldn’t get any closer to the beach . The tide kept___4___her back. She waved her arms in the air to let her friends know that she was____5____, but they just waved back, for they didn’t know what she___6_____. After a long time, Laura became very ______7___ and she couldn’t swim any more. Her legs ____8____and she lost hope. Suddenly, her foot touched ____9____! All the time she had been swimming in a place where the water wasn’t deep! When at last she went back to the beach, one of her friends asked, “ Did you ___10____your swim?”“Yes, it was lovely.” She answered. She never told them what really happened.
【小题1】 A town        B city         C village          D country
【小题2】A lonely       B surprised     C interested        D afraid
【小题3】 A up          B back        C down           D on
【小题4】A pulling      B pushing      C throwing        D putting
【小题5】A in trouble     B happy       C out of trouble     D in the water
【小题6】A found       B meant        C said             D saw
【小题7】A hungry      B sleepy       C thirsty           D tired
【小题8】A came up     B were broken  C went down       D moved on
【小题9】A a tide       B the sand      C a fish           D one of her friends
【小题10】A enjoy       B remember    C drop            D forget

单词拼写（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

1. I was f__________ to take a taxi because the last bus had left.

2. Mary gave b__________ to a healthy baby girl.

3. In spite of her problems, she carried on working as u__________.

4.The mother held the baby in her arms and kissed him g__________

5.Mr. Huang i__________ us in long distance running yesterday.

6. Parents can influence the __________ (behave) of their children.

7. We’d like to take up your __________ (invite) to visit you some time.

8. He drove her __________ (direct) to her hotel.

9. We should __________ (consideration) what to do next.

10. Mozart is a very __________ (create) musician.

When my son, Mark, was in the third grade, he saved all his pocket money for over three months to buy holiday presents. The third Saturday in December Mark said he had made his list and had twenty dollars in his pocket.
I drove him to a nearby supermarket. Mark picked up a hand basket and went in while I waited and watched in the car. It took Mark over 45 minutes to choose his presents. Finally he came to the checkout counter (交款处) and reached into his pocket ... Mark stood there holding his basket, tears falling down his face.
Then a surprising thing happened. A woman came up to Mark and took him in her arms. “You would help me a lot if you let me pay for you,” said the woman. “It would be the most wonderful gift you could give me. I only ask one day you will pass it on. When you grow up, I would like you to find someone you can help. When you help others, I know you will feel as good about it as I do now.”
Mark took the money, dried his tears and ran back to the checkout counter as fast as he could. That year we all enjoyed our gifts almost as much as Mark enjoyed giving them to us.
I would like to say “thank you” to that very kind woman, and tell her that four years later, Mark went house to house collecting blankets and clothes for the homeless people in the fire. And I want to promise her that Mark will never forget to keep passing it on.
【小题1】When did the story probably happen?

Jim, a successful businessman, told the experience of his childhood.

When he was 12, his parents       . He was alone and didn’t get on well with others. People always laughed        him. No one showed kindness (友善) to him. His only friend was a dog named Tige.

One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. Suddenly one of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped       , she dropped other bags. He came to help her.“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!”She said kindly, smiling.

A special feeling came to him. These were        kind words he had ever heard. He watched her        she went far away, and he whistled（吹口哨）to his dog and went directly to the river nearby.

“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!”he repeated the woman’s words. Then in a low        he said to his dog,“You are a nice little dog!”Tige raised        ears as if（似乎）it understood.

“Uh! Even a dog likes it!”he said,“Well, Tige, I won’t say unkind words to you any more.”Tige waved its tail happily.

The boy thought and thought. Finally he looked at himself in the river. He saw        but a dirty boy. He washed his face       . Again he looked. He saw a clean nice boy. He was amazed (震惊). From then on, he had a new life.

After telling this, the businessman stopped for a while, and then he said,“Ladies and gentlemen, this is the place where that kind woman planted in me the first seed (种子) of kindness. All of us should learn about kindness.        a great power it has!” If you show kindness to others, you will be an able man.

1.A.dead                           B. die                             C.died

2.A.at                                      B.to                                    C.of

3.A.picking it up               B to pick it up     C.to pick up it    

4.A.the first                      B.first                            C. the first time

5.A.until                            B.before                            C.when

6.A.sound                     B.noise                    C..voice

7.A.it                                       B.it’s                             C. its

8.A.something                  B.nothing                           C. somebody

9.A.carefully                     B.careful                            C.careless

10.A.What                   B.How                             C.It