The Cat That Showed Up

　　Li Ping was the pet (宠物) cat of a young woman named Vivian. Vivian lived in Ohio. She decided to take a job in Florida. She could not take Li Ping with her right away, so she left the cat with her sister.

　　In a month, Vivian found a good place to live. She wrote to her sister and asked her to send Li Ping to Florida. Vivian missed her cat very much. She mailed the letter and went to visit a friend. She started up the steps of her friend' s house. Suddenly, something caught her eye. A cat was coming toward her. It looked thin and very hungry.

　　“That cat looks like Li Ping, ” thought Vivian. But it couldn't be. Li Ping was more than a thousand miles away. The cat ran straight to Vivian. She picked it up and looked at it. The cat opened its mouth and let out a tiny squeak(吱吱叫声) . Then Vivian knew the cat was hers. Li Ping got hurt when he was a kitten (小猫) . The only sound he could make was a little squeak.

　　Vivian called her sister in Ohio. Li Ping had been missing for two weeks, her sister said. She was afraid to tell Vivian. She knew how much Vivian loved her cat.

　　How did Li Ping make such a long trip? How did the cat find Vivian? She was not even at her own home. No one knows the answers to those questions. No one knows how a cat's mind works.

1．Vivian moved to Florida so she could ________.

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2．The only sound Li Ping could make was ________.

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3．At first Vivian could not tell if the cat was Li Ping because

________.

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4．The story does not tell ________.

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5．Another title for this story could be ________.

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1. I often r______ my bike to school. What about you?

2. Nick missed the school bus this morning. L______, his friend’s dad took him to school.

3.. Did Li Ping jump f______ than any other boy in the sports meeting?

4. Singing English songs makes me more i______ in learning English.

5. The girl was hurt by a traffic a______ on the way to school this morning.

6. I had a w______ time on Saturday night, we sang and danced all night.

7. Please t______ the soup and see if it has enough salt.

8.Teaching is sometimes t______, but interesting.

9. Although they are twins, there are some d______ between them.

10. ---I can’t see the words on the blackboard c______ now.

---Let’s turn on the light.

用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

This week we asked some students about the best ways to learn more English. Some students had special   1   . 

Li Ping,   2   , said the best way to learn new words was by reading English magazines. She said that learning the words of pop songs also helped a little. When we   3   about studying grammar, she said, “I never study grammar. It’s too   4   .”

   Wei Ming thought   5   . He had learned English for seven years and really loved it. He thought studying   6   was a great way to learn a language. He also thought that watching English movies was a   7   way because he could watch the actors say the words. Sometimes, 8    , he found watching movies difficult because the people spoke too quickly.  

   Liu Chang said that joining the English corner was the best way   9   her English. She could get lots of practice and also have fun there. She added that   10   classmates was not helpful at all. “We get excited about something and then end up speaking in Chinese,” she said.