题目内容
The best gift I’ve received was from two young boys. At that time, I didn’t have a lot of money or a huge home. As a single mom with three young children of my own, life is so .
They were boys with dirty faces a bit older than my children, but they always my yard. I must feed my children who were thirsty and hungry, so I a lot of time baking so many healthy muffins(松饼).These two boys almost grew up in our yard, and they were glad to pray with us before they would have a with my family.
We would also food, laughter, books and games with them. And a while later, they . I didn’t know where they had gone and I often wondered what had in their lives, and meanwhile I hoped for the best.
During one of the darkest times in my personal life, no one came to visit me. I felt really lonely these days. I even wondered God had forgotten me. On _, my children arrived home from school. We were sitting together talking when I heard a on the door.
I went to answer it, and there stood two clean-faced, tall, smiling boys holding two bundles of beautiful flowers I had ever seen. They said to me “Do you us? You used to feed us muffins! They were so . We wanted to come back and thank you and say Happy Mother’s Day you were really like a to us!” I was so moved that I couldn’t help crying, and thanked them again and again.
1.A.boring B.exciting C.interesting D.hard
2.A.visited B.repaired C.cleaned D.tidied
3.A.always B.never C.seldom D.hardly
4.A.spared B.saved C.spent D.wasted
5.A.meal B.rest C.drink D.bath
6.A.buy B.share C.collect D.pack
7.A.changed B.agreed C.refused D.disappeared
8.A.happened B.lost C.gone D.changed
9.A.that B.if C.why D.what
10.A.Women’s Day B.Teachers’ Day C.Christmas Day D.Mother’s Day
11.A.shock B.voice C.noise D.knock
12.A.need B.remember C.influence D.greet
13.A.bad B.expensive C.delicious D.cheap
14.A.before B.if C.though D.because
15.A.teacher B.mom C.friend D.sister
—I saw Susan in the library just now.
—No, it _______ be her. She went to Shanghai this morning.
A. mustn’t B. can’t C. shouldn’t
It was a Sunday afternoon. a girl was unhappy. She complained to her father about her hard life. There were so many problems! One problem wasn't solved but_________came. She wanted to give up.
Her father smiled and took his daughter into the_________.He filled three ________with water. And he put some carrots in the first one. In the second one, he put some eggs. Coffee was put in the third one. Then he boiled them. The girl watched her father. Her father just waited______saying a word.
The girl wondered_________her father was doing that for. About 20 minutes later, her father _______the carrots and put them into a bowl. The eggs were put on a plate and the coffee was poured into a cup. Turning back to his daughter__________, Dad asked, "What do you see? ""Carrots, and coffee.” she answered
Her father told her to close her eyes and let her touch the carrots. She did and felt the carrots
were soft. After that he asked his daughter to take the eggs and feel them. The eggs were hard. At last, her father asked her to taste the coffee. “What's the meaning, Dad?” He explained that______of the things had met with the same unlucky experience—the boiling water, but the three things had ________results.
The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after they were put into the boiling water. The eggs became hard after being cooked. The coffee was very special and it ______ the water. "Which one will you choose to be, a carrot, an egg or coffee? That's up to you to decide. "said her father.
1.A. the other B. another C. other D. others
2.A. kitchen B. dining room C. hotel D. bedroom
3.A. bowls B. plates C. pots D. cups
4.A. with B. without C. of D. for
5.A. what B. why C. how D. where
6.A. took place B. took off C. took after D. took out
7.A. usually B. exactly C. lately D. slowly
8.A. every B. neither C. each D. none
9.A. different B. difficult C. same D. similar
10.A. divided B. discovered C. changed D. invented
--- Can I swim in the river?
---No way. Look at the sign. It says No Swimming.
A. It's possible.
B. No door.
C. It’s impossible.
D. No problem.
Milk as a kind food has a long history.
The old word "milk” come from Sanskrit(梵文)——one of the oldest l1.known to humans. A very old picture of milking has been found. It was d2. five thousand years ago.
In the years long ago people got their milk from their own a 3..But in modern times new inventions made the milk industry a big b4. .
In 1851 Gall Borden found a way to take some of the water from milk. This made it keep
l5.. Four years later, Louis Pasteur introduced a way to k6.bacteria(细菌) in milk. So in the same year a special milk bottle was made. This was followed b7. the invention of machines that could fill bottles with milk. Some people are sure that milk drinking will be less p8. than it has been. But remember how long milk has ever been important
f9. in our life every day. It’s s 10.that the milk industry will always be important.
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"Look, it's Baldy!" A boy shouted in my direction across the playground. I was used to it because of the scars(伤疤 )on my , it was still horrible to hear. I sighed (叹气) as I headed back to the class.
When I was just 20 months old, I suffered serious after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head. I was sent to hospital and had to stay there for weeks while the doctors to save my life. "Holly's very to be alive," they told Mum and Dad. "But she'll be left with scars on her head, and of course her hair won't grow there."
As a child, I cared much about my scars, so I wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home .If I didn't, people would call me horrible names like Baldy. Although my friends were always comforting me , they never understood how it felt.
Then through the hospital I was to a children's burns camp, where children like me can get any help. There, I 14-year-old Stephanie, whose burns are a lot more serious than mine. But she is so that she never lets anyone put her down. "You shouldn't what people say about what you look like because we're not different from anyone else, Holly," she me, "And you don't need to wear a scarf because you look great it!" For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who'd been through something . So weeks later, at my 13th birthday party, encouraged by her bravery, I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars. It felt amazing not having to hide away behind my scarf.
Now, I am of what I look like and much happier, because I have realized it is your personality that decides who you truly are.
1.A. As B. When C. Although D. While
2.A. head B. ear C. face D. back
3.A. hunger B. cold C. loss D. burns
4.A. learned B. tried C. returned D. decided
5.A. happy B. lucky C. lonely D. poor
6.A. never B. usually C. seldom D. hardly
7.A. correctly B. nicely C. easily D. really
8.A. promised B. introduced C. reported D. carried
9.A. met B. organized C. remembered D. caught
10.A. honest B. strong C. active D. young
11.A. write down B. agree with C. pass on D. listen to
12.A. promised B. encouraged C. ordered D. calmed
13.A. in B. for C. without D. beyond
14.A. similar B. strange C. hard D. important
15.A. sick B. sorry C. tired D. proud
The tour guide has made the route for the school trip.We don't need to ________ that.
A. be worried about B. be afraid of
C. be sorry for D. be good at
Long, long ago there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people move form place to place over the land, hunting animals for food.
No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any more. They could stay in one place and grow it.
People began to live near one another. And so the first village grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew very big. When machines appeared(出现), life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities grew very big.
Today some people are moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?
1.The underlined word "They" in the second paragraph refers to ___.
A. villages B. animals C. cities D. people
2.When factories were built, ___.
A. more people live near the factories
B. people began to live in the factories
C. many people began to work in villages
D. many machines appeared in big factories
3.In what order did people do the following things?
a.Worked in villages b.Lived near the factories. c.Learned to grow food.
d.Built factories. e.Began to live near each other.
A. d, b, a, e, c B. e, a, c, d, b C. c, e, a, d, b D. a. c. d. e. b
4.We can learn from the passage that ___.
A. people like to work only in big cities
B. some people don't like to live in big cities
C. there will be no small towns in the future
D. it is better to live in cities than in villages
5.The best title of the text should be ___.
A. Cities or Villages B. Back to Towns
C. How Cities Grew D. People and Animals
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(2016·宜宾中考)The Boy and the Drum
There was once a poor woman with only one son.One day, she asked her son if there was anything he wanted.1.The mother left for the market, feeling very sad, because she did not have enough money to buy a drum.
On the way home, she found a piece of wood and gave it to her son to play with.Later that day, the boy went outside to play.Along the road, he saw an old woman crying.The old woman was trying to start a fire to cook some food, but she didn't have any wood.2.The old woman gave him a piece of bread she had made.
Then, further down the road,the boy met a pot maker's wife and her crying child.The boy asked her what was wrong.3.The boy gave the woman the piece of bread, and she gave him a pot.The boy walked on.
Before long, he saw a husband and wife arguing.He asked them why they were arguing.They said, “We have broken our pot and have nothing to clean our clothes in.”The boy gave his pot to them, and they gave the boy a new coat.
Next,the boy saw a man who had no shirt.The man said he had been robbed on his way home.The robbers had taken his money, and his shirt.4.The man was so happy, he gave the boy his horse.
5.There were musicians,the bridegroom(新郎), and his family.Everyone looked sad.The bridegroom's father said,“We are waiting for a horse.If it doesn’t come soon,we will be late for the wedding.”The boy gave them his new horse.The group asked the boy what they could give him, and he replied,“A drum.”So, the musicians gave him their drum.The boy ran home to tell his mother how he had a last gotten the drum he had wanted.
A.Finally,on his way home,the boy met a huge group of people going to a wedding(婚礼).
B.The boy gave the man his new shirt.
C.The woman said she had no food to give to her hungry child.
D.Hearing this,the boy gave her his piece of wood
E.The boy said he wanted a drum