I watched quietly as my little brother was caught in the act. He sat in the corner of the living room, a   1 in one hand and my father's new book in the other.

  2  my father walked into the room, my brother cowered (畏缩) slowly. He sensed that he had done something   3  . From a distance I could see that he had   4 my father's new book and scribbled (乱画) in it. Now, looking at my father in  5  , he and I both waited for his punishment.

My father   6  up his prized book, looked at it carefully, and then sat down, without saying a word. Books were   7  to him. He was a clergyman（牧师） and for him, books were   8  .What he did next was unbelievable. Instead of   9  my brother, he sat down, took the pen from   10 , and then wrote in the book himself, alongside the scribbles John had made:

John s work, 1959, age 2. How many times have I looked into your beautiful face and into your warm, alert (警觉的) eyes looking up at me? And how many times have I  11 God for the one who has now scribbled in my new book?

"Wow," I thought, "This is punishment?" The years and the books came and went. Our family experienced what all families go through and perhaps a little bit more: happiness and   12  , laughter and tears. We always knew our parents   13  us and that one of the proofs (证明) of their love was the book. From time to time we would   14 it, look at the scribbles, read my father's expression of love, and feel   15  .

1.                A．book           B．pen            C．paper    D．ruler

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

3.                A．interesting      B．wrong          C．useless   D．important

4.                A．dropped        B．read           C．borrowed D．opened

5.                A．surprise        B．excitement      C．sadness   D．fear

6.                A．picked         B．put            C．gave D．checked

7.                A．enjoyable       B．valuable        C．useless   D．attractive

8.                A．courage        B．money          C．health    D．knowledge

9.                A．beating         B．hurting         C．punishing D．forgiving

10.               A．the corner      B．the floor        C．the table  D．my brother's hand

11.               A．thanked        B．asked          C．provided  D．reminded

12.               A．sadness        B．excitement      C．pride D．envy

13.               A．needed        B．loved          C．preferred  D．encouraged

14.               A．open          B．use            C．read  D．explain

15.               A．jealous         B．relaxed         C．confident  D．proud

1. 根据句意及所给中文提示或英文解释，写出句中所缺单词。

51. Children in the west usually wear    ▲    (特殊的) costumes with masks at Halloween.

52. Zhang Shaohan has a sweet    ▲    (嗓音), and many of us like listening to her songs.

53. People around the world love    ▲    (和平)and hate wars.

54. As we know,   ▲    (星期一) is the second day of a week.

55. Sorry, I didn’t know you. Would you please speak more    ▲    (清楚地)?

56. Now we are short of water and we should s   ▲    water in our daily life.

57. Peter’s father is very    ▲    (not free), so he does not have much time for his family.

2. 根据句意，用括号中所给单词的适当形式或句子的语法要求填空。

58. My grandpa likes    ▲    (chat) with his friends under the big tree.

59. —Would you like some bananas?

   —No, thanks. I    ▲    (eat) one already.

60. The style of this dress is popular, but I don’t like    ▲    (it) colour.

61. What a    ▲    (snow) day! The ground is covered with snow everywhere.

62. July 1^st is our Party’s    ▲    (ninety) birthday this year. We Chinese people are going to celebrate it.

63. Beijing is one of    ▲    (beautiful) places in China, and I have been there twice.

64.    ▲    (lucky), they escaped from the burning building with the help of the firemen.

65. We    ▲    (ask) to help our parents do some housework every day.

Time flies! We become mature(成熟的) girls or boys, or at least we   56 __we are. At the same time, our parents are no longer young. They   57 __all to us but never look forward to getting anything back. When we are ill in bed, they stay   58 __ us day and night. When we’re hungry, cold or sad, they always offer    59 __.
But what have we done for our parents?   60 __we grow up, we have our own ideas and we believe we are   61 __enough to think and act by ourselves. So we usually dislike their care.  Sometimes we don't listen to them and sometimes even   62 __ them.
We must doing something now, letting them know that we    63 __them, too. We should try our best to understand our parents, and not to make them feel hopeless. In a word, it’s our duty to bring   64 __ to them because that is the sign that we are really mature.
Children are parents’ hopes and we are carrying both our dreams and    65 __.
The happiness of our parents is what we should try to achieve.

完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Do you think of your parents? “Yes, of course.” You may answer.  Maybe you buy a present for your mother on Mother’s Day, and you give your father _ 【小题1】_ 0n Father’s Day, too. Then 【小题2】__the other days of a year?  Always remember to think of your parents, not just  【小题3】 some important days.
I have a friend who lives _ 【小题4】_.because her parents live in another city.  One day I went to visit her. We had a nice chat. Then she wanted to 【小题5】    a telephone call. She dialed the number, but then she put the phone down. After about ten 【小题6】 .she dialed the number again. “Hi, Mum...”
Later I asked, “why did you dial the number  【小题7】_?”She smiled.“ because my parents are old. They can't get close to the telephone    【小题8】_.I always do so when I call them, I just give them enough 【小题9】___to answer the call.”
My friend is a good girl . She is always thinking about her parents.  What do you think of this? I think: we should do some small things for our parents and make them 【小题10】__every day.