One night I was sitting in my room half-listening as my 15-year-old brother Tommy fought with my 12-year-old brother Kevin. I didn’t pay attention when Kevin rushed up the stairs with the hurt on his face.
About 20 minutes later, as I was walking upstairs I heard Kevin crying inside the bathroom. I knocked on the door and asked, “Hey Kevin, do you want to talk?”
No answer.
I tried again, “Why don’t you come out of there?”
Again, no answer.
So, joking around, I grabbed a stack of （一摞）cards and a pencil and wrote, “If you don’t want to talk, we can write notes to each other.”
An hour later I was still sitting on the floor outside the bathroom with two stacks of cards in front of me. One was blank and one was cards from Kevin on which he had translated all his yucky feelings into words for me. As I read one of Kevin’s notes, tears came to my eyes. It said, “Nobody in this family cares about me. I’m not the youngest, and I’m not the oldest. Tommy thinks I’m silly and Dad wishes he had the other Kevin as a kid because he’s better at basketball. And you’re never around to even notice me.”
Tears came to my eyes as I wrote back to him. “You know Kevin, I really do love you and I’m sorry I don’t always show it. I am here for you and you are loved in this family.”
There was no answer for a while, but then I heard a tearing sound coming from inside the bathroom. Kevin, who had run out of cards wrote on a torn paper cup. “Thanks.”
I wrote back “For what?” it returned to me with “Loving me” on it.
Since then, I try my best to never only half-notice my family members any more. Kevin and I have a closer relationship now. And sometimes when one of us notices that the other is upset, we’ll smile and say “Write it on a paper cup.”
【小题1】The underlined word “yucky” most probably means ____.

There is nobody in the world the same 36_____ you；you are unique(独特唯一的)!Everybody is  37 _____from everyone else．That is good! 38 _____it makes the world an interesting place．
   There are people taller 39______ you, and shorter than you．Maybe your hair is the same color as your friend’s hair, but maybe it is longer than 40_____. Another difference is your hair may be straight, hers may be curly.
   I am sure you have some friends who are 41______ than you. And you also have some friends, they are as 42______ at sports as you. But there are also people around you who are not good at some things. 43_____ does your best friend look like? Do you both 44 _______to finish your homework at school? Do you both want to wear the same clothes every day? I think 45______ some ways you are the same, but in many other ways you are different. So say loudly to the world, “I am who I am – I’m unique!”

（   ）36．A．with    B．as          C．of     D．from
（   ）37．A．better   B．different     C．smart   D．good
（   ）38．A . Because  B．So        C．Although  D．But
（   ）39．A．after    B．than     C．then   D．in front of
（   ）40．A．her     B．she         C．hers     D．she’s
（   ）41．A．smart    B．smarter     C．smartest   D．a smart
（   ）42．A．bad    B．better      C．well       D．good  
（   ）43．A．Where  B．What      C．How    D．How often
（   ）44．A．like    B．enjoy     C．would like   D．going
（   ）45.．A．through  B．by      C．in           D．on

根据短文内容，从各题的四个选项中选择一个最佳答案。

Last Friday our class had a barbecue（烧烤）in the Forest Bay（海湾）．At 7：00 in the morning，we   1   at the school gate．One and a half hours later our school bus   2   us to the Forest Bay．Our wonderful day began．When we arrived there，we started playing different ball games on the beach．At 11：00，we began to prepare   3  ．We had many things to do．First，  __4   of us walked around the hill near the bay to pick branches（树枝）for fire，and then we began cooking the food on the barbecue by   5  ．For most students，it is the first time to cook with wood，  6   we got very excited．We cooked meat，potatoes and other foods on the fire  __7  ．They smelled good．I was sure our food tasted   8    than food in any other restaurant．After lunch，we put out the fire and cleaned the beach．At 3：00，we   9   into several groups and swam in the beach．It is quite different   10    indoor swimming．We left the Forest Bay at 5：00 and went back to school on the school bus．

1．A．collected                B．met                        C．came                     D．went

2．A．takes                      B．took                    C．brings                    D．carry

3．A．lunch                      B．breakfast                C．supper                   D．dessert

4．A．either                      B．neither                   C．both                             D．all

5．A．yourself                 B．yourselves               C．ourselves                      D．myself

6．A．then                     B．but                      C．so                         D．or

7．A．happy                 B．happily                    C．happiness               D．happier

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

9．A．were divided          B．are divided              C．divide                    D．will divide

10．A．of                       B．in                        C．into                       D．from