I was 15 months old, a happy and carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I ____ on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. From then on, my ugly, sightless, cloudy grey eye lived on ____ me.

    Sometimes people asked me embarrassing (使人难堪的) questions. Whenever the kids played ____, I was the "monster". I was always imagining that everyone looked down on me.

    Yet mum would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world." I began to depend on that ____.

    As a child, I thought mum meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or run into something ____ because you are not looking." As a teenager, I usually looked down to ____ my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me.

    In high school I even became the ____, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would ____ to my mum and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is ____ instead of your appearance (外貌).”

    My mum's love was the ____ that made me bright. I had faced hard times, and learned not only to be ____ but also to have deep compassion (同情) for others.

    “Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I tell ____ to my children. The gift my mum gave me will live on.  286

1.A. stood                   B. landed                     C. found                      D. worked

2.A. for                       B. like                           C. by                   D. with

3.A. games                           B. jokes                        C. toys                          D. sports

4.A. glass                     B. topic                        C. reply                        D. saying

5.A. immediately                 B. accidentally            C.continuously  D. expectedly

6.A. show                    B. meet                        C. behave                    D. hide

7.A. president            B. teacher                   C. teenager                 D. adult

8.A. write                    B. add                          C. cry                           D. face

9.A. beside                           B. outside          C. inside                      D. alongside

10.A. suggestion                 B. experience            C. sunshine                 D. introduction

11.A. confident                   B. unusual                   C. similar                     D. ordinary

12.A. it                                  B. them                        C. that                          D. those

My mother was telling me about how she and her family got their first television when she was a teenager. Of course it was black and white. She said she only watch it at night. She doesn’t remember over watching it in the morning or afternoon. When I was young we had only about 3 or 4 different channels(频道). My bothers, my sisters and I would sometimes fight(打架) about which channel to watch. But we usually enjoyed the same shows. Now we can get hundreds of channels on TV. I can’t believe it! There are channels with old films, cooking, fishing and so on. It’s surprising! There is a channel for everything. I wonder how much my bothers, my sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child. Of course we had only one television set. These days I find families with 2 or 3 or more television sets in their homes. I guess it stops people from arguing(吵架) about which channel to choose from .

1.In those days, how many television sets did people have?

A．more than one     B．one              C．3 or 4            D．more than 4

2.What kind of TV channels do we have now?

A．Channels with cooking                   B．Channels with old films

C．Channels with fish                       D．A, B&C

3.Now how many channels can we get on TV?

A．3 or 4 different channels.                 B．Only one channel.

C．Hundreds of channels.                   D．Less than 10 channels.

4.When my mum was a teenager, her brothers, sisters and she usually enjoyed______.

A．different channels                      B．the same shows

C．different shows                         D．all the shows

5.Which of the following in NOT true?  

A．My mum’s brothers and sisters would fight about which channel to watch when she was a child.

B．These days, there is only one channel with old movies, cooking and fishing.

C．People have many channels to choose from now.

D．Family members will not fight for the television set.

My mother was telling me about how she and her family got their first television when she was a teenager. Of course it was black and white. She said she only watch it at night. She doesn’t remember over watching it in the morning or afternoon. When I was young we had only about 3 or 4 different channels(频道). My bothers, my sisters and I would sometimes fight(打架) about which channel to watch. But we usually enjoyed the same shows. Now we can get hundreds of channels on TV. I can’t believe it! There are channels with old films, cooking, fishing and so on. It’s surprising! There is a channel for everything. I wonder how much my bothers, my sisters and I would fight if we had hundreds of channels when I was a child. Of course we had only one television set. These days I find families with 2 or 3 or more television sets in their homes. I guess it stops people from arguing(吵架) about which channel to choose from .
【小题1】In those days, how many television sets did people have?