The school party was only two weeks away, and our children were all as ___1___as bees(蜜蜂)getting ready for it.

  That afternoon, as I __2___from my desk, Patty was standing there. She had waited to talk to me.

“Every year the other kids are always in a p-p-p-p-play or something, singing or t-t-t-t-taking, but I g-g-g-g-get to do some ___3___work for them. This year, I w-w-want to read a p-p-p-poem, myself! Please, Miss Teresa!”

    She was so ___4___that I couldn’t(拒绝)refuse her. I had to say, “Yes, you will. ”

    I tried to find some poems for her, but ___5___of my books was of good use. At last, I worked out a poem carefully myself. The poem wasn’t beautiful, but it would ___6___best for Patty.

    After a moment’s reading, Patty had remembered all the __7___and was prepared to do the poem. However, I had to stop her from doing too fast. Day after day, we worked together after school. She made wonderful progress.

  The night of the party saw children in __8_.

  The headmaster walked up to me with a piece of paper-the program list. “There is a _9___! Look, Patty here. But she can’t even say her own name well!” I had no __10___to explain(解释) because many of my students were going up there. So I said to him, “We know what we are doing. ”

    Patty’s turn ___11___. She walked up there, neither fast nor slowly. She stood there. She began.

  I could ___12___breathe. I felt time stopped.

  She said every word clearly. She did every line nicely.

  Applause! Applause everywhere!

1A. happy                     B. busy                      C. small                     D. lovely

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

3 A. difficult                  B. important                C. boring                   D. quiet

4 A. hopeful                  B. wonderful               C. thankful                 D. careful

5 A. one                        B. some                      C. none                     D. both

6 A. speak                     B. work                      C. write                     D. look

7 A. words                    B. lines                       C. paragraphs             D. poems

8 A. trouble                   B. surprise                  C. excitement             D. danger

9A. question                  B. mistake                  C. thing                     D. reason

10 A. interest                 B. way                       C. wish                     D. time

11 A. came                   B. went                      C. ran                        D. flew

12 A. easily                   B. possibly                  C. hardly                   D. happily

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A. strange         B. airport         C. children         D. looking forward to         E. at first

F. downstairs       G. wrong         H. differently       I. deliver

When I was sixteen years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It was not the first time I had been abroad. But it made a deep impression on me. Like most English ____51____, I learned French at school and I often went to France. So I was used to speaking a foreign language to the people who didn’t understand English. But when I went to America, I was really ____52____ having a nice easy holiday without any language problems.

How ____53____ I was! The misunderstanding began at the ____54____. I was looking for a public telephone to give my American friend Danny a ring. So I asked an old man, “I want to give my friend a ring. Could you help me?” “Well, that’s ____55____,” he answered in surprise. “You look very young. Are you getting married?” “Oh! No,” I replied, “I just want to give a ring to tell her I have arrived. Could you tell me if there is a phone box near here?” “Oh! Sorry,” he said, “There is a phone ____56____.”

When we met up, Danny told the misunderstanding to me clearly. “Don’t worry! I met such problems ____57____. There are lots of words which the Americans use ____58____ in meaning from us British. But most of the time British and American people can understand each other well! You will soon get used to all the funny things they say.”

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