Mother’s Day is celebrated in the US．It’s also a holiday in some  1  countries．It is on the second Sunday in May．It is a day to thank mothers．

    2   that day mothers usually  3  flowers and cards．On the cards，children will write ” Thanks．Mum．” ”To my best mother in the world” ”Best wishes for Mother’s Day” and so on．

    Where does the idea for the holiday  4  ? We should thank Miss Anna M．Jarvis．She brought up the idea of having  5  day．She lived in West Virginia．Her mother died  6 

May 9，1925．

    She  7  her mother．She wrote letters to some  8  persons．In her letters she asked them to decide a day for  9  mothers．Then Mother’s Day was made on the second Sunday in May by the US in 1913．

    On Mother’s Day，children give presents to their mothers，or the whole family go out and try to do  10   for their mothers．   

1．A．the other           B．other    C．else D．another

2．A．In                  B．On        C．At         D．of

3．A．send               B．give       C．receive     D．buy

4．A．be from          B．is from   C．come from      D．comes from

5．A．a such           B．such a    C．so a        D．a so

6．A．in           B．on         C．at            D．about

7．A．had a deep love for        B．had a good time with

   C．got on well with              D．was very pleased with

8．A．kind               B．smart    C．great        D．important

9．A．every             B．all          C．none        D．each

10．A．nice something            B．something nice

    C．anything nice                 D．nice everything

__Will you please _____it to me on Friday?

__What about Saturday? My computer doesn’t work well these days.

A．send              B．give               C．e--mail            D．bring

There are many ways for us to reduce(减少) waste. For   16 , we can reduce paper and plastic bags. We can also recycle newspapers, glass, and cans(易拉罐) to make new things. Here are some useful ways to   17  waste.
Write on   18  sides of paper
Many people write on only one side of their paper. Why not stop wasting the other side? Some students only use half the pages of their   19  before getting new ones. Try to use up all the paper. People often give cards on birthdays or festivals. How about trying to   20  e-cards instead?
Don’t throw away your old batteries.
Maybe you do not know that old batteries make the earth   21 . This is because they have poisonous parts in them. So, don’t throw away batteries.   22  them together. Try to use rechargeable(充电的) batteries for your games and CD players.
Give off all your unwanted clothes
There are many poor families in China. You may ask your mother to   23  your unwanted clothes. Then you can pass them on to those poor children. You will feel
  24  that you are helping someone else. Also, you can understand   25  your friends or relatives(亲戚) want them before throwing them away.

One Saturday morning, John and his mother went    31    a shoe shop    3

John a pair of new shoes. Mrs. Lee put her bag on a chair    33   she

looked at some shoes. She could not see    34  she liked and went away.

Suddenly(突然) she said, “Oh, my bag, someone    35    it away!” All the

other people in the shop stopped    36    and looked at her. John ran after

the man at once(立刻). A few minutes    37   , John came back with 38  .

He    39    it to his mother. She opened the bag and had a look in    40.

Then she said,“ Oh, god, nothing is lost.”

1.A. by           B. on         C. to             D. at

2.A. to buy        B. to give      C. to know        D. to take

3.A. although      B. so          C. but            D. when

4.A. some         B. a           C. any shoes       D. any bags

5.A. went         B. had         C. took            D. came

6.A. sitting        B. thinking     C. talking          D. eating

7.A. before        B. later        C. next            D. after

8.A. the bag       B. the shoes     C. the man         D. his son

9.A. give         B. buy          C. take            D. gave

10.A. one          B. it            C. them           D. her

We are all busy talking about using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet?

Many people are ___36___ when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers ___37___ large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network ___38___ down, the whole network stopped. ___39___ a new network system（系统）had to be set up. It should be ___40___ to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, ___41___ could be sent through another part. In this way computer network system would keep on ___42___ all the time.

At first the Internet was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and ___43___ to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing”（浏览）the Internet more convenient.

Today it is easy to get on-line and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day. ___44___ e-mail is more and more popular among students. The Internet has now become one of ___45___ parts of people’s life.