I will tell you a funny story about a bird．Last year I went to Hawaii to  1  the summer holiday with my friend．One day when I was  2  and eating some delicious food on tile beach，there were a lot of wild birds that hung around on the beach for  3  ．A little bird flew to me．I put a little food on the beach．The little bird   4   it and flew to eat it．So I continued to put more food closer and closer to the bird．To my  5  ，the little bird landed on my hand．I was very happy and wanted to laugh．And then the bird  6  all the food I gave it to my hand and played with me for a while．

This was the   7   time in my life I personally saw a wild bird trust（信任）someone enough to land on his hand．  8  for the bird，I wasn’t someone that would ever think of hurting it．I was lucky to have a chance to communicate（交流）with a wild  9 ．To someone this story seems to be nothing surprising，  10  to me it was a little miracle（奇迹）．

1．A．take                         B．cost                        C．have                       D．spend

2．A．swimming                B．running                   C．sleeping                  D．sitting

3．A．friends                     B．information             C．food                      D．beaches

4．A．turned                     B．hated                      C．saw                        D．agreed

5．A．time                        B．feeling                    C．surprise                  D．interest

6．A．bought                     B．drank                     C．caught                    D．ate

7．A．second                    B．final                       C．last                         D．first

8．A．Hardly                      B．Luckily                  C．Unluckily                D．Finally

9．A．person                     B．traveler                  C．player                     D．bird

10．A．and                        B．but                         C．so                          D．since

Water, it’s a problem for the whole world. A bottle (瓶) of water may not seem like much to us,   1  it can help the people who live in drought-hit (遭受旱灾的) areas in China.
In the past few months, many places in southwest China have  2  a serious drought. There has been very little  3  since last autumn. More than 20 million people are   4  trouble finding safe drinking water.
After learning about the drought, many people around the country helped by   5   away water, money and other resources (资源) to the people there.
Last week, the Young Pioneers and the Communist Youth League in China called on (号召) each student to give one bottle of water to the drought-hit area. In Xi’an, 900 students bought over 100 bottles of water  6  their pocket money. They also wrote their   7  on the bottles. “I hope you get more rain there. I hope you are happy.”
A bottle of water isn’t much, but thousands of bottles will be very   8 . The serious drought has also made students   9  the importance of saving water. One student said, “I have decided to take a shower twice a week   10  every day to save water.”

Someone says，“Time is money”，but I think time is  1 important than money．Why? Because when money is spent，we can get it back．However，when time is  2 ，it’ll never 3 ．That is  4 we mustn’t waste time．It goes without saying that the  5 is usually limited（有限的）．Even a second(秒) is very important．We should make full use of (充分利用)our time to do 6 useful．But it is a pity that there are a lot of people who do not know the importance of the time．They spent their limited time smoking，drinking and  7 ．They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own  8 ．
In a word，we should save time．We shouldn’t  9 today’s work for tomorrow．Remember we have no time to  10 ．

Mr. Johnson lives outside the town. He works in a post office. His wife is often ill and six children __26____ at school. He works hard but he is often short of __27____. In the end of every month his family are always__28____.

One afternoon, on his way home, it suddenly began to __29____. When he got home, he was wet through. He hurried to go __30____ after supper and his wife washed the clothes and shoes for him. __31____ she went to bed, she brought the clothes into the room but __32____ the shoes. The next morning Mr. Johnson couldn’t find his shoes. His wife found a pair of __33____ shoes under the bed for him. Then he went to __34____ and told the policeman about it.

“I __35____ ten dollars for my shoes, sir,” said the man. “Look! I have to __36____ such a pair of worn-out shoes!”

Several days later the police __37____ a thief and found the shoes. They were as worn-out as the __38____ which Mr. Johnson was wearing.

“You’ve fooled us, Mr. Johnson,” said a policeman. “The shopkeeper told me a pair of new shoes like them __39____ only seven dollars!”

“You’re right, ,sir,” said Mr. Johnson. “I’ve __40____ them for five years and I had them mended six times. And I paid three dollars to the shoemaker for mending them!”

Jason and Harry joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked very hard.
After several years, the boss made Harry sales manager but Jason   31  a salesman. One day Jason could not take it anymore. He handed in his resignation letter (辞职信) to the boss and complained that the boss did not   32  hard-working employees, but only raised those   33 tried to please him. He thought that it was really   34  .
In order to help Jason to realize the   35  between him and Harry, the boss asked Jason to do the   36  --- "Go and find out if there is anyone selling watermelons in the market." Charlie went, returned and only said, "Yes." The boss asked, "How much per kg?" Charlie went back to the market to ask and returned to   37  , "$ 12 per kg."
The boss told Jason that he would ask Harry the  38  question. Harry went, returned and said, "Boss, only one person selling watermelons. $12 per kg, $ 100 for 10 kg. He has a total of 340 melons. On the table are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 15 kg,   39 from the South two days ago. They are fresh, red, and of good   40 ."
Jason was   41  and he realized the difference between himself and Harry. He decided not to leave but to learn from Harry.
My dear friends, you know, a more   42  person is more observant(观察力敏锐的), thinks more and understands in   43  . For the same matter, he sees several years ahead,   44  you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you   45 ?
Think: how far have you seen ahead in your life? How thoughtful are you?