There was once a lonely girl who wanted love very much．One day while she was walking in the forest，she found two birds．She took them home and put them in a small  1  ．She was happy to have two“friends”．She  2  them with love and the birds grew strong．One day the girl forgot to close the door of the cage．The   3  of the two flew out of the cage．The girl was afraid that it would fly away．She caught it quickly．She felt glad that she caught the bird before it could fly away．Suddenly she couldn’t  4  a sound from the bird．When she opened her hand，the bird was already（已经）dead．Her  5  killed(杀死)the bird! Then she saw  6  bird jumping up and down  7  the cage．She could feel its great need for freedom．It wanted to fly into the blue sky．So she let it fly away  8  ．The bird circled(转圈)once，twice，and three times．The girl  9  as the bird flew．She didn’t care about losing the bird any more．She wanted it to be happy．Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder．It sang the  10  song she had ever heard(她所听过的)．

    The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly，and the best way to keep love is to give it wings．

1. A．box          B．basket        C．cage         D．bag

2.A．looked for    B．looked at      C．looked after   D．looked over

3.A．stronger       B．lazier        C．weakest      D．smallest

4.A．listen         B．make         C．describe      D．hear

5.A．love         B．joke          C．luck         D．wish

6.A．one         B．the other       C．another       D．other

7.A．outside       B．inside         C．beside       D．behind

8.A．sadly         B．happily       C．loudly       D．highly

9.A．watched      B．saw          C．looked        D．heard

10.A．worst        B．oldest        C．newest       D．sweetest

Mary and Her Friends

Mary has some friends. They are Betty, Peter, Alice and Mike. Mary is the oldest of the five. Betty is thirteen years old. She is younger than Mary and older than Peter. Alice is nine and Mike is seven.

Betty and Peter are good runners（长跑运动员）. But Peter runs faster. Mary and Betty like to play basketball. Mary plays better than Betty. Alice sings best of them.

Mary and Betty study in a middle school. Peter, Alice and Mike study in a primary（小学）school. They all work hard at school. But Betty works hardest. Her handwriting（书法）is good, too.

1. Mary has _______ friends.

2. Mike is ______ than Alice.

3. Peter runs _______ than Betty.

4. Betty’s handwriting is _______.

5.They all ______ .

Yao Ming is one of the top basketball players in the world. We all like him.

A．worst            B．best              C．smart             D．tall

Jack went to a barber’s shop and had his hair cut．But when he  1  out, he was not happy  2  the result．When his friend Bob saw him，he laughed and said，“What has happened to your hair, Jack?”

    Jack said．“I tried a new barber’s shop today． 3  I wasn’t quite satisfied with my old one，but this one seems  4  worse．”

    Bob agreed，“Yes．I think you’re right，Jack．Now I’ll tell you  5  to do when you go into a barber’s shop next time：look at all the barbers’ hair，find out whose hair looks  6  , and then go straight to him．”

    “  7  shall I go to him?”Jack asked．“But that would be foolish!”

    “Oh， No，it wouldn’t，”answered Bob．“Who cut that man’s hair? Just think it．He couldn’t cut it  8  ．could he?  9  barber cut it．So you know he  10  be the worst barber．”

1．A．brought       B．came       C．looked     D．watched

2．A．with          B．on          C．in           D．along

3．A．so          B．when        C．and        D．because

4．A．very          B．too        C．even         D．quite

5．A．why          B．how          C．when        D．what

6．A．worst        B．best          C．shortest    D．longest

7．A．How         B．What         C．Why       D．When

8．A．herself        B．himself      C．yourself    D．myself

9．A．Other        B．Others       C．Another    D．The other

10．A．mustn’t      B．can’t         C．must         D．can

Did you watch NBA All-Star Game（全明星赛）this summer? If you watched it．you should

__1__Shaquille O’Neal’s（沙奎尔·舆尼尔）wonderful play．Shaquille O'Neal is in Cleveland now．

He Was born on March 6th，1972．He is 2.16 meters tall．When he was young。he Was very strong（强壮的）．His strong hands__2__him a good start of life．Shaquille liked playing __3__．But when he Was a high school student in Grade Two，he wasn't good at basketball Just at that time．he__4__his good coach（教练），Dale Brown．Then he began his hard practice．In 1992．he _5__NBA，playing for Magic Team，then Lakers，and later Miami Heat in 2004．He had a great  __6__．He has joined All-Star Game ten times，won NBA Finals MVP（最有价值的球员）three times，_7__got the gold medals（金牌）for the USA in the Olympic Games．They named him one of the fifty__8__players in NBA history．

    Shaquille O’Neal is strong and tall．People call him” Large Shark（鲨鱼）”．But he is good at __9__too．He has six CDs，It's really one of历e happiest things in the world to listen to his CDs and__10__ him play basketball at the same time．

（   ）1．A．remember          B．forget         C．meet          D．say

（   ）2．A．put               B．showed       C．gave           D．took

（   ）3．A．football            B．volleyball       C．tennis          D．basketball

（   ）4．A．missed            B．met           C．left            D．had

（   ）5．A．joined              B．had            C．took            D．became

（   ）6．A．idea               B．success      C．party        D．times

（   ）7．A．and                B．but          C．although       D．so

（   ）8．A．worst                    B．slowest        C．biggest         D．greatest

（   ）9．A．music             B．history        C．math          D．English

（   ）10．A．make           B．help          C．watch        D．look at