Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet (西藏).Our legs were so heavy and cold that     16  felt like big pieces of ice.Have you    17  seen snowmen ride bicylces? That’s what we looked like! Along the way children who were    18   long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late  19   
we found it was so cold that our water bottles froze (结冰).However, the lakes    20 like glass in the setting sun and loooked wonderful.
Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She was in high spirt and I knew I didn’t need to    21  her.To climb the mountains was hard work but as we    22  us, we were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for miles, and we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. After a while, we began going  23  the mountains. It was great fun especially as it slowly became much    24   .At the foot of the mountains, colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many sheep eating green grass. Then we had to   25  
Our caps, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.
In the early evening we stopped to    26    .We put up our tent and then we ate. Afte supper Wang Wei went to sleep but I stayed    27  .At midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter.As I    29   below the stars I thought about how far we had already travelled.
We will reach Dali in Yunan Province soon, where our cousins will join us. We     30  hardly wait to see them!

Last fall I put a bird feeder outside my window. I thought as soon as I hung up, a great ___16____ beautiful birds would come. Days, weeks and months went by; ____17____, no birds.
I asked many people, why? What was I doing ___18____? “Nothing,” most of them replied. “Just ____19____.” So I waited, waited and waited.
I ____20____ off the deck （露台）, I changed the feed, I ___21____ the feeders, and I ____22____ made the cat go out the other door! But ____23___ seemed to work. So --- I waited, “with patience and hope. ”
Two months later, early in the morning, I was ____24____. A beautiful bird had been on the bird feeder. All of a sudden, I saw hundreds upon hundreds of birds____25____ from everywhere.
____26____ a beautiful lesson this living thing taught me! “Patience and hope” will ____27____ the most beautiful things in life.
So I keep hoping and waiting, waiting and ___28____. I will try to use this “little lesson” in ____29____ many other things in my life. I guess, “____30____ is a virtue （美德）” after all.

It was the last night of my summer camp.  16  I didn’t want to leave, I had to go back home the next day. I didn’t want to pack (收拾行装). I just wanted to make the night go  17  . How I wished that I could make time  18  at that moment! However, it seemed that time flew more quickly than before. I  19   on the bed, but I wasn’t   20  at all. I just closed my   21  , thinking of every minute I had    22   with my friends during the camp.

Just then, someone  23  the door. “Open the door, please.” said a soft   24  . I thought it was my friend, Elle. So I replied, “It’s open.” Then the door   25 . When I looked at the door, I was   26 . There stood all my friends, Elle, Lily, Sally and Allie. Together they walked over to my  27   and then each of them gave me a big hug (拥抱). We  28  our phone numbers and e-mail addresses to each other. We said that no matter how far we would be away from each other, we would  29  forget each other.

Just then, a tear slowly rolled down my face. As I looked up, I noticed all of my friends’ eyes were also   30  .

Our English teacher was like a friend to us, and we all liked her. One day she came into the classroom and shouted,“Who did this?”She held up a piece of broken glass and asked,“Who ____16____ the window?”She seldom became angry.__17__ this time she was.

  I broke the window. I had done __18__ by throwing a baseball. I didn’t want to admit (承认) it __19__ I didn’t have enough money to pay for a big window like that.“My father will be __20__,”I thought. At first I didn’t __21__ my hand, but later something strong in my heart suddenly made me stand up.“I did it,”I said __22__ .How difficult it was for me to say that!

  My teacher __23__ a book from one of our book shelves and then began walking __24__ my desk. I was afraid that she was going to punish(惩罚) me.

  “I know you like collecting __25__ very much,”she said, looking down at my __26__ face.“Here is the book about collecting stamps that you are looking for. Now, the book is __27__ and I shall not punish you. Remember, it’s because you __28__ the truth.”

  I couldn’t believe it! My teacher wasn’t punishing me. I didn’t __29__ to pay for the broken window. And I got my favourite book!

  As time goes, the book is __30__,so is my wonderful teacher. But I will never forget the lesson the teacher gave me that day.

1.A. cleaned             B. climbed               C. broke              D. mended

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

3.A. them               B. one                   C. that               D. those

4.A. because             B. if                    C. when              D. though

5. A. pleased             B. excited                C. frightened          D. angry

6.A. put on              B. put up                 C. put out            D. put away

7.A. terribly             B. honestly               C. easily             D. hardly

8.A. read               B. wrote                  C. took              D. bought

9.A. towards            B. opposite                C, against            D. behind

10.A. books              B. desks                  C. stamps            D. windows

11.A. nervous            B. pretty                  C. happy             D. square

12.A. you               B. your                    C. yours              D. yourself

13.A. talked             B. spoke                  C. said                D. told

14.A. like               B. want                  C. use                 D. need

15.A. opened            B. gone                   C. left                D. closed

Miracles（奇迹）will happen if you don't give up trying. Even if you have  16  for one hundred times, you may succeed when you try for the 10lst time.

  When I was born, my doctor told my mother that there was something wrong with my 17  .  They were too soft to be able to walk. Although the news was bad, my mother didn't become  18  . She didn't believe what the doctor said  19  started to look for other ways.

  My mother kept looking for other doctors for me, and finally she  20  . The doctor and his team in the hospital did   21  they could to help me. They also asked my parents to teach me to do some  22  to help me walk. One day when my mother came to pick me  23   . I crawled(爬) towards her. She was so surprised and happy that she couldn't believe  24   eyes. Crawling was not walking, but it was a good  25  . Day by day, I could walk by myself.

   When I grew up, my mother   26   told me these stories. She said that if I thought of what she said whenever I met   27  , I could do anything successfully. I have been working hard and I have turned out to be a very   28   person. I get best   29  in school and I am a good dancer and swimmer. Thanks to my mother's strong resolution(决心), I live a    30    life now. What the story tells us, as my mother always says, is: Never give up.

1.A. achieved     B. failed       C. suggested          D. told

2.A. legs           B. hands        C. arms                 D. eyes

3.A. patient     B. confident    C. frustrated(沮丧的)  D. proud

4.A. or             B. and         C. if                   D. because

5.A. forgot      B. changed         C. succeeded            D. worked

6.A. nothing     B. somewhere       C. anywhere             D. everything

7.A. time        B. exercise     C. medicine            D. shopping

8.A. away        B. from       C. into                 D. up

9.A. her         B. my         C. his                  D. its

10.A. advice      B. end            C. chance               D. start

11.A. hardly      B. never          C. always               D. nearly

12.A. dreams      B. experiments  C. jobs              D. difficulties

13.A. excellent   B. dangerous      C. busy                 D. special

14.A. presents    B. friends      C. books              D. grades

15.A. happy         B. sad          C. tired                D. boring