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Liu Mei is a nice girl. She is twelve   16  old. She is tall and   17  long black hair.

  18  eyes are big. She   19  a wide mouth. She is in blue clothes. She likes this   20 . Now guess, whose skirt is blue? Yes, you are right. The skirt is   21 . Liu Mei’s mom is a teacher. She is tall and   22 . She   23  white. She   24  a new car. Do you know its (它的) color? Yes. It is   25 . It is very nice.

As a teenager, I am often asked what I am going to be in the future. A lawyer? A doctor? Or a scientist? No, my ideal career is to be a teacher. One of the  1. for that is I want to be a teacher like Mr. Chen.

“Look! Do you know what it is? A-ha, it’s the   2.  ! And it will always move around the sun.” Mr. Chen said and pointed to his head. He then touched the nose and   3.  , “Can you tell me the name of this mountain? It is the highest mountain on Earth! What’s the   4. of it? Yes, it’s 8844.43 metres…” I’ll never forget my first geography lesson. He was   5. humorous that we all fell in love with his lessons   6. . It’s Mr. Chen who opened the door of geography for us.

Generally speaking, most of the teachers are strict 7. students and sometimes a little bit demanding（苛求的）, not so with Mr. Chen. He is a lighthouse, showing us the way to the treasure of knowledge. He is a friend and easy to get   8.  with, always encouraging us to speak out loud without  9. our shyness and other disadvantages. He is an example, volunteering his time to students and other teachers.

One day I happened to meet him in the hospital. Seeing the cut on his arm, I realized he was donating his  10. . I was moved and was   11.  another lesson, a lesson of love and devotion.

Every time I see my globe（地球仪）, it would  12. me of Mr. Chen. He is the most unforgettable teacher I have   13. met and he will always be. Someday I hope I am   14.    to be a teacher like him.

Thank you, Mr Chen, thank you for making learning not a job but a joy.

Thank you for helping me to discover what I do best and to do it even   15.Thank you for understanding all of us and giving us the time and care each of us needs.

16.A. replies  B. reasons                C. rewards                      D. results

17.A. moon             B. earth                   C. star                D. sun

18.A. advised      B. announced    C. added                     D. answered

19.A. distance          B. weight                     C. size                      D. height

20.A. very      B. too                        C. really                            D. so

21.A. at present   B. at once                      C. at times                        D. at first

22.A. with            B. to                         C. in                               D. for

23.A. away            B. together            C. angry                 D. along

24.A. thinking           B. caring               C. considering                  D. supposing

25.A. money  B. blood                      C. clothes                        D. time

26.A. taught    B. given                      C. taken                            D. had

27.A. remembers  B. represents      C. warns                           D. reminds

28.A. just                  B. never                     C. ever                           D. yet

29.A. able      B. about                      C. allowed              D. available

30.A. well       B. good                       C. better                         D. best

Do you know who invented tea? It is said that the emperor Shen Nong  discovered   tea when he was boiling drinking water 21 an open fire. Some leaves from a nearby tree fell into the water and the leaves were in the water for   22 . The emperor noticed that the leaves in the water produced a   23   smell. Later he decided  24  the hot water with the leaves. It was quite delicious. And  25 , one of the worl’s favorite drinks was invented.

26 is the home of tea. And tea has more than 4,000 years history. 27  the three drinks—tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by  28  people in the world. Tea  29 China began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export (出口商品)  30  .

Tea leaves  31  mainly in the south of the Yangtze River, 32 the warm climate (气候)there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all   33   kinds of tea.

Over the past centuries, Chinese people   34   their tea culture(文化), including tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making and so on. We know tea is   35   a popular topic(主题) in dances, songs, poems and novels.

1.A. in               B. by                    C. over                  D. to

2. A. sometimes        B. some time         C. some times           D.some days

3.A. pleasant          B. pleased                C. bad                      D.terrible

4.A. not to taste            B. to taste                   C. tasting           D.taste

5.A. by the way     B. on the way              C. on its way            D. in this way

6. A. Japan                   B. China                     C. America               D.England 7.A. In                        B. For                        C. Of                       D. By

8.A. the number of                     B. a number of          

C. a large number of                                   D. the largest number of

9. A. to                   B. from                   C. in                        D. off

10.A. At that time  B. from now on           C. since then             D. since now

11. A. produce              B. are produced           C. make                   D. are made

12. A. becauuse of       B. because                  C. as                        D. for  

13.A. interesting           B. important        C. famous                 D. expensive

14.A. had developed      B. have developed       C. developed          D.are developing

15.A. too               B. as well                   C. either                D. also

A lady once wrote a long story. She sent it to a famous editor. After a few weeks the editor   21  the story to her. The lady was   22  . She wrote back to the editor:

 “Dear Sir.

Yesterday you sent back a story of mine. How do you know that the story is not good? You did not read it.   23   I sent you the story, I pasted together pages 18, 19 and 20. This was a  24   to see whether you would read the story. When the story came back yesterday, the pages were   25   pasted together. Is this the way you read all the stories that are sent to you?”

The editor wrote back:

 “Dear Madam,

At breakfast then I have an egg. I don’t have to eat the whole egg in order to discover(发现) that it is bad.”

1.A. gave           B. came back         C. handed          D. returned

2.A. angry          B. happy             C. satisfied       D. glad

3.A. After          B. until             C. Before          D. Since

4.A .lesson         B. test              C. question        D. thing

5.A. already        B. still             C. even            D. yet

Mr. White was holding a party at home to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. To make him happy, one of his women friends __21__ to sing a song for him. Now she was singing. One guest turned to a __22__ by his side and criticized the singer.

“What a __23__ voice!" he said. "Do you know __24__ she is?"

“Yes," was the answer, " She is my wife. "

“Oh, I beg your pardon,” the man said. "Of course her voice isn't bad, __25__ the song is very bad. I wondered who wrote that awful song?”

“I did," was the answer.

1.A. dreamed   B. decided     C. forgot    D. remembered

2.A. woman     B. girl       C. man     D. boy

3.A. terrible    B. beautiful    C. exciting   D. sweet

4.A. what    B. who       C. where     D. which

5.A. and    B. or      C. so      D. but