Reading letters from the children he has    1    , and in the letters they call him "Dad", is the most enjoyable and happiest thing for singer Cong Fei, who now    2    .stay in bed.

   The 36-year-old singer has used nearly all his   3  from business performance, to   4   the tuition fees (学费) of 178 children in poor areas over the past 11 years.

   He has diagnosed (诊断) with stomach cancer in May. One of the first things he asked for after being diagnosed was that his friends and family  5   to help the 178 students finish  6   .

   “   7   they can't keep on studying, what they can expect is a   8   future. You must find   9   to let them continue their education." Cong said.

   Cong ’s first    10   began at a charity performance for children who returned to school after dropping out in Southwest China's Chongqing in 1994. He was then 11  to learn that his 2,400 yuan could help 20 children complete two years' education and realized how   12  the donation (捐赠 ) was to the children. From then on, he   13   took part in more than 20 charity performances in poor areas in Guizhou, Hunan and Sichuan provinces.

In the past two months, much  14  has come to Cong and his story because of lots of reports on him. Li Hongzhong, Part, Secretary of Shenzhen, visited him in June and encouraged him to fight the disease so that he could, as his name suggests, "   15   again."

1. A. visited           B. known             C. supported          D. wanted

2. A. has to            B. used to             C. must              D. can

3. A. things            B. time               C. gifts              D. money

4. A. change           B. pay                C. plan              D. check

5. A. offered           B. hoped              C. continued          D. refused

6. A. school            B. work               C. dream            D. childhood

7. A. While            B. Unless             C. As                D. If

8. A. good             B. hopeless            C. comfortable        D. possible

9. A. books            B. families            C. ways              D singers

10. A. donation          B. action             C. idea               D. success

11. A. moved            B. encouraged         C. asked             D. surprised

12. A. possible           B. important          C. interesting         D. exciting

13. A. rightly            B. happily            C. actively           D. seriously

14. A. attention           B. information        C. pressure           D. news

15. A. sing              B. walk               C. help              D. fly

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One day when I was five years old , my mother was washing the kitchen floor. I was telling her about a new girl at school, and she looked up at me and said, “__1___are your two best friends?”

I was not __2___ what to say, “Um--- Jenny and Mary.”

My mother __3___ washing the floor and asked me, “ Well, what about Kate and Cindy?”

“But they’re my __4___.”

“Yes, but they can __5___ be your best friends. Friends may come and __6___, but your sisters will always be there for you.”

At that time I felt __7___. How could my two sisters be my closest friends? We fought all the time over toys, food, and what to __8___ on TV. How could my sisters be my best friends? They weren’t even the same age as me. We all had our own ___9__ at school. But my mother never let us _10___ that sisters are lifelong friends. Like all mothers, she wanted to give us a great gift ___11__ let us know how lucky we were. She let us play together and always punished us in the same way, too.

We didn’t always __12___ well and fought just like any other sisters. Now twenty years have __13___. We realise that our mother is __14___. Today I share things with my sisters that I don’t ___15__ with anyone else.

Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest.She had no family and no one to love her，so she often        sad and lonely.

One day, when she was walking in the forest，she found that a small      was trapped unluckily in a bush.The butterfly tried to fly away         failed.The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care.Instead of flying away，the butterfly turned        a beautiful fairy(仙女).The little girl was very       .

 “Thank you for        me.You are so kind.I will make any of your dreams come true，”said the fairy.

The little girl thought for a moment and then said.“1 want to be       !”

The fairy said ,“Very well.I will help you.”And she said something in the little girl’s  ear.Then the fairy disappeared.

As the kind little girl grew up，she was         ready to help people in need and was popular among the villagers.No one in the village was as happy as she was.Everyone asked her the        of her happiness.She always smiled and       ,“the secret of my happiness is that I listened to a kind        when I was a little girl."

When the kind girl became a very old woman and was dying，the neighbours in the      

all gathered(聚拢)around her bed because they were       that her secret of happiness would die with her.They asked,“Please tell us what the kind fairy said.”

The lovely old woman still        and said，“She told me that everyone needed me，no matter how safe they seemed，no matter how rich or poor, no matter how old or      . She said that helping others would make me happy all my life."

1.A. thought              B. found       C. sounded              D. felt

2.A. butterfly        B. bird              C. snake       D. squirrel

3.A. so             B.or                  C. but           D. as

4.A. on                   B. up          C. into          D. down

5.A. surprised            B. tired        C.mad          D. angry

6.A .catching             B .beating               C. killing         D. saving

7.A. active          B. happy           C .energetic             D. humorous

8.A. always         B. never            C .seldom               D. hardly

9.A. success               B. secret                C. power                D.1esson

10.A. asked         B .hoped           C. answered            D. refused

11.A. witch              B. fairy          C .ghost         D. princess

12.A. village              B. town                 C. city         D. world

13.A. excited        B. pleased      C. glad          D .afraid

14.A. shouted           B. cried                C .smiled        D. jumped

15.A. young              B. great                 C .nice          D. quiet

Mr. Li had never been up in an airplane before and he had read a lot about accidents. So one day  when a friend came to his house and wanted to take him for a ride in his own small plane, Mr. Li was very     . He thought to      . "If I don't agree, my friend may not be happy.      if I agree, I am really afraid that there might be some danger. "       ,however, his friend made him believe that it was  very      , and Mr. Li got on the plane. His friend       the engine发动机 and the plane began to move along on the  ground of the       . Mr. Li was very frightened and      his eyes. After a minute or two he opened them, looked out of the window of the plane, and said to his friend,"Look        those people down there. They look as      as ants蚂蚁, don't they?"

   "Those are ants,"answered his friend. "We are still on the ground. "

1.A. excited                         B. pleased                   C. worried                   D. glad   

2.A. him                           B. himself            C. he                            D. his 

3.A. And                          B. For                            C. So                   D. But 

4.A. Finally                           B. First                         C. Last                          D. Slowly

5.A. interesting          B. safe                          C. comfortable           D. dangerous

6.A. began                            B. carried                    C. moved                     D. started 

7.A. airport                          B. town                        C. station                     D. garden  

8.A. opened                         B. closed                     C. with                         D. looked

9.A. up                                  B. over                         C. at                              D. after  

10.A. slow                            B. big                            C. strange          D. small 

One day, the wind starts an argument with the sun. "I'm much ( 1 ) than you are!" says the wind. "No." answers the sun, "I'm much stronger than you are!"

While they are arguing, they see a man walking down the road. He is wearing a heavy ( 2 ) . The sun says to the wind "Now let ( 3 ) see which of us can make the man take off his coat, then we will know ( 4 ) is stron­ger. "

First the ( 5 ) tries. It begins to blow very hard. It blows so hard that the man pulls his coat round him. The wind is ( 6 ) with the man. Then the wind says to the sun, "Now it's your ( 7 ) . Let me see if you can make him take off his coat "The sun ( 8 ) to shine on the man. Soon it gets very hot! The man ( 9 ) his coat. The argument is ( 10 ).

1.A. strong         B. strongest        C. strongly         D. stronger

2.A. trousers       B. hat          C. coat        D. shoes

3.A. us             B. we           C. ourselves        D. our

4.A. whose          B. who          C. when         D. what

5.A. sun            B. rain             C. cloud        D. wind

6.A. happy          B. worried      C. angry        D. sad

7.A. way       B. home         C. hope         D. turn

8.A. began          B. begins       C. begin            D. beginning

9.A. takes off      B. takes down   C. puts on      D. puts down

10.A. out           B. over             C. on            D. off