Once there was a king and his daughter. The king asked his daughter how much she loved him. She said that she loved him as much as she loved _______. Her answer made the king very happy. Salt is simple thing, ______ it is very important. So the king thought his daughter cared a lot about him.

Salt has many _______. Bodies need salt. If we don’t have enough, our bodies can't work properly. We put salt on icy roads to make them _______.We also use salt to produce other products, like paper and glass. But for many years salt's most important job was to ______ food. Like other living things, most bacteria (细菌) need water to live. Salt lakes in plenty of water, so most bacteria (细菌) can not live ______ a salty environment. As a result, salt protects food and many other things. For much of humans history, this ability has made salt _______. Every ancient culture from Egypt to China depends on suit. Even today, the hard-working useful people are ______ as “the salt of the earth”.

For centuries, salt was also hard to ______ .Its usefulness, together with rarity (稀有) made it very expensive. Salt could even be used like ______ . In fact, the word salary (薪水) comes from the word salt.

Today, salt fs used more widely and it still plays an important role in our life.

1.A.salt B.air C.gold

2.A.and B.so C.but

3.A.forms B.secrets C.uses

4.A.wide B.safe C.smooth

5.A.protect B.provide C.produce

6.A.in B.outside C.for

7.A.hopeful B.comfortable C.valuable

8.A.saved B.dreamed C.described

9.A.sell B.get C.take

10.A.money B.medicine C.earth

Read the following story and choose suitable sentences for Haw to fill in the blanks(空白处).

A. When you stop being afraid,you feel good!

B. Moving in a new direction helps you find new cheese(奶酪).

C. Imagining yourself enjoying your new cheese leads you to it.

D. The quicker you let go of old cheese,the sooner you find new cheese.

Haw looked down at the dark corridor(走廊)and was aware of his fear. He began to imagine all kinds of frightening things that could happen to him.

Then he laughed at himself. He realized his fears were making things worse. He moved in a new direction. He kept going,even though he did not know what would happen.

To his surprise,Haw started to enjoy himself more and more. "Why do I feel so good?" he wondered. Before long,he knew why he felt good.

He stopped to write again on the wall:1.

Now he felt the cool fresh wind. He took in deep breaths and felt energetic. Haw hadn't felt this way for a long time.

To make things even better,Haw started to paint a picture in his mind again. He saw himself sitting in the middle of all his favourite cheeses. He saw himself eating many cheeses he liked. and imagined how much he would enjoy them.

The more clearly he saw the image(图像)of himself enjoying new cheese,the more real it became. He could sense that he was going to find it.

He wrote:2.

Then he raced through the corridor with greater strength. Before long,he found a cheese station and became excited as he noticed some new cheese near the entrance(入口). He ate most of it and put a little in his pocket to share with Hem.

He entered the cheese station,but he found it was empty. Someone had already been there and had left only a little new cheese. He realized if he had moved sooner,he would very likely have found a good deal of new cheese here. Haw decided to go back and see if Hem was ready to join him.

Before leaving,he wrote on the wall:3.

Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, having enough experience and knowledge, we regard these failures as a necessary and________part of the learning process. But often as parents and teachers, we don't ________ this right to our children.

Donnie was a third-grader. His________about failure kept him from classroom games that other children enjoyed. He didn't often answer my questions — he was afraid of________mistakes. I tried my best to build his self-confidence. But nothing changed________ midterm, when Mary, a new teacher, came.She was young and pretty, and she was loved by every student, ________Donnie. It was her who made a big difference to Donnie later.

One morning, we were working on math problems on the blackboard, Donnie had copied the problems clearly and________, But he'd missed the fourth problem and began to cry with his head in his arms. I didn't know what to do. Suddenly, a smile ________on Mary's face from her desk she got a box ________pencils. "Look, Donnie, "she said gently, kneeling(蹲在) beside him. “I've got something to ________ you. "She removed the pencils, one at a time, and placed them on his desk. "See these pencils,Donnie,”she continued, "They________Mrs Landon and me. See how the erasers(橡皮) are worn?, That's because we make mistakes too. But we erase the mistakes and try again. That's what you ________learn to do, too. "She kissed him and stood up. "Here. she said, "I'll leave one of these pencils on________desk,so you' ll remember that everybody makes mistakes, even teachers. Donnie looked up with________in his eyes and a smile.

The pencil became Donnie's prize. That, together with Mary's encouragement, gradually made him understand ________the meaning of making mistakes is — it's all right to make mistakes, as long as you erase them and try again.

1.A.similar B.active C.important D.interesting

2.A.write B.pass C.send D.give

3.A.doubt B.worries C.hopes D.happiness

4.A.make B.made C.making D.to make

5.A.since B.after C.until D.when

6.A.including B.include C.without D.with

7.A.simply B.carefully C.carelessly D.hurried

8.A.appeared B.retell C.disappeared D.refused

9.A.made of B.covered with C.full of D.written by

10.A.show B.interest C.pass D.find

11.A.come to B.listen to C.belong to D.go to

12.A.might B.must C.could D.may

13.A.its B.his C.her D.your

14.A.hate B.love C.fear D.trouble

15.A.how B.why C.what D.that

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