I have only seen my father cry once. It was at the Alton Train Station, back when the trains will ran. I was on my way to Philadelphia to 1   the train that would take me to Boston and the college. I was eager(热切的) to go. College, with its 2  and the promise of the better future had become more interesting. It 3  me to see tears in my father’s eyes as he shook my hand and said goodbye.

For eighteen years, we had never had a(n) 4  to say goodbye like this. He was taller than me, 5  I was not short. I was going somewhere, and he was seeing me off. He 6   me, but he had not needed to say before, and now his tears were 7   it.

The tears in my father’s eyes told me that we would have less and less to do with each other. I had taken my 8   from his, and now I was learning it. The train 9    and I boarded(登上) it. My father looked smaller from the train. We 10    goodbye to each other through the window. I was wearing the heavy winter coat that my father had bought for me to keep me from catching a cold in New England.

1.                A．return         B．catch           C．design    D．watch

2.                A．habits          B．license         C．courses   D．advertisements

3.                A．shocked        B．supposed       C．helped   D．encouraged

4.                A．time           B．luck            C．chance   D．interest

5.                A．because        B．though         C．so   D．and

6.                A．taught          B．beat           C．forgot    D．loved

7.                A．saying          B．knowing        C．creating  D．describing

8.                A．money         B．time           C．present   D．life

9.                A．continued       B．broke          C．arrived   D．left

10.               A．reached        B．waved         C．talked D．cheered

“Jane, please let me borrow a dollar,” Jenny asked as they stood in the school lunch line. “I have one in my jacket, but I don’t want to   1  and lose my place.”
“OK,” agreed Jane.
Jane waited all day for Jenny to   2  back the dollar she borrowed, but Jenny always seemed to be   3 . “She’s just forgotten,” thought Jane. “I don’t want to make her angry.” Still, her money didn’t go   4 . Some classmates, like Jenny, were   5  five dollars a week.
Weeks went by. At last Jane got up enough courage (勇气) to tell her about the money.
“Oh Jane, I   6 !” Jenny said. “I’ll bring the dollar tomorrow.”
The next day Jenny seemed to have forgotten again. During the noon hour Jane saw her buying sweets for Mary and Ann. Jenny saw Jane looking at her.   7  she said something in a low voice to the other two girls. Jane felt   8  and asked her teacher if she could go back to the classroom.
In the classroom, Jane saw two new pencils in Jenny’s desk. An   9  came to her. “Jenny’s not   10  lately, and anyway, she really owes (欠) me. Besides, she has all money to buy more. A dollar doesn’t mean anything to her, but it means a lot to me.”

Madison Stump is a 13-year-old entrepreneur (企业家) in the USA. To save our planet, she has  1  a green business, PaperAgain.

Madison lives in a “green” family. She is   2  trying to be 100% earth friendly. One day, Mandison was thinking over what else she could do to help the environment.  3 , she thought, “Why not  4  those used boxes and paper to create beautiful notebooks? And I can sell them to help people in need.” That night, Mandison made her first notebook with scrap paper (废纸), and she used an empty gum box for a 5 . It was the  6  of her green business.

Mandison’s first customer was her sister. She, of course, never   7  it! However, Mandison didn’t mind because she got to see her use it. Before you know it, all Mandison’s school friends were asking to buy the amazing notebooks. Then, Mandison’s dad came up with the   8  idea of starting a website, PaperAgain.com, so that these notebooks could be bought online.

Now Mandison is the   9  of a real business! Her notebooks are selling at the store in her hometown. And she is often  10  on the local television news!

1.                A．set out         B．set off          C．set up    D．set at

2.                A．always         B．already         C．never    D．nearly

3.                A．Happily         B．Luckily         C．Finally    D．Suddenly

4.                A．return         B．recycle         C．repair    D．replace

5.                A．cover          B．paper          C．face D．book

6.                A．end           B．change         C．start D．entrance

7.                A．paid for        B．made for        C．sent for   D．waited for

8.                A．familiar         B．silly            C．dull  D．wonderful

9.                A．worker         B．winner         C．owner    D．master

10.               A．explained       B．reported       C．replied    D．spread

Someone says，“Time is money”，but I think time is  1 important than money．Why? Because when money is spent，we can get it back．However，when time is  2 ，it’ll never 3 ．That is  4 we mustn’t waste time．It goes without saying that the  5 is usually limited（有限的）．Even a second(秒) is very important．We should make full use of (充分利用)our time to do 6 useful．But it is a pity that there are a lot of people who do not know the importance of the time．They spent their limited time smoking，drinking and  7 ．They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own  8 ．

In a word，we should save time．We shouldn’t  9 today’s work for tomorrow．Remember we have no time to  10 ．

1.                A．much          B．less            C．mush less D．more

2.                A．cost           B．bought         C．gone D．finished

3.                A．return         B．carry           C．take D．bring

4.                A．what           B．that            C．because  D．why

5.                A．money         B．time           C．day  D．food

6.                A．nothing         B．something       C．anything  D．everything

7.                A．reading         B．writing          C．playing   D．working

8.                A．time           B．food           C．money   D．lives

9.                A．stop           B．leave           C．let   D．give

10.               A．lose           B．save           C．spend     D．take

---When did your parents get back home last night?

---At around ten o’clock.

A．return            B．leave             C．go back           D．leave for