完形填空（本题有10 小题，每小题1分，共10分）

先通读短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。

Sally is 96 years old. She has no sons or daughters. Her husband   1  fifteen years ago. But she didn’t move into a nursing home. She would like to 2   herself every day.

Every night she spends two hours   3   kids with their math for twenty years. All kids living on her street can get her help without payment（付费）. She was a famous  4  before she retired from a middle school.

She gets up early in the morning, then does sports, goes shopping or helps cleaners  5 the street. And she does these happily.

When the kids come for help, she is always  6  and tries her best to help them. People asked her   7__ . She said, “ I love it, it makes me happy to help them.”

She is always happy every day and always says hello to people around her   8  a smile. “I’ve decided to love everything around me. So I’m happy to do   9 . I’m thankful for those kids who come to me for help. Each kid is a  10  for me. I love each day to help them.” She said.

Really, a good decision decides what a person does in life.

1.                A．died           B．woke           C．slept D．went

2.                A．look like        B．look at          C．look after D．look for

3.                A．helping         B．working         C．studying  D．teaching

4.                A．cleaner         B．nurse          C．worker   D．teacher

5.                A．walk           B．run            C．sweep    D．talk

6.                A．awful          B．tired           C．happy    D．boring

7.                A．why           B．where          C．when D．how

8.                A．for            B．on             C．with D．in

9.                A．anything        B．nothing         C．something D．everything

10.               A．example        B．gift            C．teacher   D．helper

Jack is a little schoolboy. He lives in a small town in England. His father works in a factory in London. One day his mother   1  him to post a letter to his father.

Jack walked down the street. He didn’t see a letter box on the street. But he really   2  a basket with a sign on it. The sign said, “PUT LITTER IN THIS BASKET”. “I can read,” thought Jack, but he couldn’t   3  the word “letter” right.

Jack dropped the letter in the basket. Then he ran  4  to tell his mother about the basket.

“Oh, no, child!” said his mother, “You put the letter in a basket. That litter basket is   5  old paper and other useless things.”

“Oh,”said Jack,“does the   6  on the basket mean that?”

“Yes, it does,”said his mother,“The word is‘litter’not‘letter’. Now get the letter and post it.”

When Jack got there, a man was putting the old   7  in a truck.

“Stop!”shouted Jack, and he began to tell the man about the letter.

The man helped him to look for the letter. After a while they   8  it.

Then Jack put the   9  in the letter box. He said,“  10  don’t they tell us all the words when we first go to school? Then things like that can’t happen.”

完形填空

Middle school days are both fun and busy. Students spend __1__their teachers. Students spend their days in class, ___2__to the interesting or boring words of their teachers. At break（休息时间）, they __3__ themselves by running or talking with each other. But ___4_should students spend their__5__time after school?

In western countries,___6_is normal(很正常的) for students to have a part-time _7_after school or on weekends. Students can make their _8_ money and learn more about the “__9_world”. They enjoy the independence（独立） and money, and their parents enjoy the __10_house. However, it seems that, in China, parents__11__so much about their children’s studies that they would like to _12_ their children spending most of their time _13__for all those exams. It is natural for Chinese parents to feel that way, but I think everything should keep balanced. Sometimes, western school children__14__long hours after school to make money, so they__15__too tired to listen in class or do their homework. But Chinese students spend so much time on their studies that anything else becomes less important.

1.                A．in             B．on             C．with D．for

2.                A．adding         B．getting         C．replying  D．listening

3.                A．help           B．take           C．relax D．look

4.                A．what           B．how           C．when D．which

5.                A．busy           B．little           C．past D．free

6.                A．this            B．that            C．it    D．such

7.                A．activity         B．job            C．program  D．plan

8.                A．rich           B．any            C．own D．some

9.                A．real           B．poor           C．public    D．small

10.               A．big            B．quiet          C．noisy D．modern

11.               A．deal           B．worry          C．cause D．concentrate

12.               A．make          B．ask            C．let   D．see

13.               A．chatting        B．studying        C．succeeding D．obeying

14.               A．spend          B．solve          C．regard    D．work

15.               A．face           B．realize         C．achieve   D．become

Some people have very good memories(记忆力) and can easily learn quite long poem（诗歌） by heart. Some people have  1 memories and can only remember things that they have said again and again.

The  2 English writer Charles Dickens said that he could walk down  3  street in London and then tell you the name of every shop on  4 sides of the street. Great men in the world have wonderful memories.

A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns  5   own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child. Some children live with their parents in foreign（外国的） countries and they seem  6 two languages as easily as one. At school it is not so easy to learn foreign languages  7 students have little time for it and they are busy with other subjects as well.

A man's mind is quite like a camera but it 8  photos of what we see and it can also take photos of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo with a camera, there is much work 9  before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends.  10  the same way there is much work to do before we can keep a picture forever（永远）in our mind.

1.                A．wonderful      B．better          C．poor D．badly

2.                A．nice           B．beautiful        C．famous   D．kind

3.                A．much          B．some           C．many D．the

4.                A．every          B．each           C．both D．all

5.                A．her            B．his             C．one’s   D．its

6.                A．to keep         B．to get          C．to learn   D．to take

7.                A．because        B．why            C．what D．when

8.                A．leaves          B．takes           C．gets D．receives

9.                A．to do          B．to have         C．to start   D．to stay

10.               A．In             B．On            C．With  D．As

When I was little, my mother began selling flowers in Camden Market. She couldn’t  36 me at home on my own,   37  I had to go to the market with her.

  38 , I didn’t have to do anything. I just sat there, and my mother told me jokes and stories so I didn’t get   39 .When I got older, I gave my mother a hand and I really enjoyed it.

Then one year, my grandma gave me a book for Christmas. It was all about making candles and I loved it. I was 14, and I didn’t have to go to the market  40 because my mother could leave me at home on my own. I  41 my free time making candles of all shapes and sizes. I made  42 them.

One day, my mother was ill, so I had to go to the market on my own. I decided to  43 some candles with me and see  44 I could sell them. They  45 in 20 minutes! The next week, my mother gave me some money to buy some wax (蜡) to make more candles. They were sold out really quickly, too.

Ten months later, we decided  46 flowers. My mother and I couldn’t make enough candles during the week, so some of my friends started to help us. I paid them one pound  47 every candle, and we   48 sell them for three or four times. It was fun and my friends worked with me in the market.

At the age of 22, my uncle  49 me some money and I opened my first shop in Portobello Road. Since then, I’ve  50 looked back, even in difficulties. In the first store, we only sold candles, but now we sell everything from the designer, furniture to paintings. Oh, and candles, of course.