The price of the computer is a little . I can’t afford it.

A. high B. low C. expensive D. cheap

—Do you like this sofa, sir?

—Yes. It’s not expensive and I can sit on it .

A. cheaply B. comfortably C. seriously D. beautifully

—Did you go to the Pear Blossom Festival in Yangxin?

—Yes. The flowers were beautiful and the bees were flying them.

A. in B. between C. among D. through

—What did the guide say just now?

—Sorry, I didn’t catch it. I to the music.

A. listen B. am listening C. was listening D. had listened

—I’d like to know when he tomorrow.

—Well, when he , I will tell you at once.

A. comes; comes B. will come; will come

C. comes; will come D. will come; comes

—Could you tell me every morning?

—She cooks breakfast for us.

A. why does your mother get up early B. why did your mother get up early

C. why your mother gets up early D. why your mother got up early

I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not________Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d got?” Just when I started to accept that there would not be a Christmas gift that year, three women turned up at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. What a________I felt! I would no longer have to be satisfied when I returned to school. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody had thought ________of me to bring me a gift.

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my first Christmas there special and memorable, I________the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of importance for as many children as I could possibly__________.

So I came up with a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans ( 孤 儿 ) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages ________with toys, clothes, and school things with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were__________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I reminded them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally, the _______they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles lit up the room. I know for sure the_________wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling-the feeling I had from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. ________ thought of me. I matter.

1.A. send B. receive C. make D. exchange

2.A. relief B. loss C. pity D. regret

3.A. highly B. little C. poorly D. enough

4.A. believed B. recalled C. memorized D. impressed

5.A. touch B. collect C. reach D. spread

6.A. mixed B. decorated C. covered D. filled

7.A. fine B. special C. helpful D. normal

8.A. chance B. plan C. moment D. luck

9.A. shock B. joy C. interest D. trouble

10.A. Nobody B. Anybody C. Somebody D. Everybody

Last week, my father and I went fishing. He handed me the rod ( 鱼 竿 ), held my arms and taught me how to throw my line into the water. The sun warmed us. We sat and talked. “I remember when I could sit here and watch the fish swimming in the water,” he said. “Sometimes, they’d jump out and land beside me. I didn’t even need a fishing rod then. “We have to be patient,” he continued. “The fish may come or they may not. It doesn’t matter. We’re out in the sun. It’s a beautiful day. If it rained, we couldn’t be here. We’re lucky to have the warmth of the sun.”

He sat under a tree. “Yes, it’s a great day,” he said. I watched our bobbers ( 浮 子 ). No fish pulled them under the water that day. It didn’t matter. I was with my father. I felt grown up. Just being with him was special.

He was well liked by everyone. He had worked hard all his life for what little he had, but he could still find time to laugh. I wanted to be like him when I grew up. He was an amazing man. In the short time we had been together, he taught me many things: how to fish, the value of a good laugh, the value of a good friend, respect for my elders and the importance of working hard and loving harder. The list is long.

根据短文内容选择最佳答案。

1.The weather was that day.

A. foggy and wet B. sunny and warm C. windy and cold D. rainy and cool

2.We can infer the relationship between the writer and his father is _.

A. strange B. just so-so C. close D. terrible

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The father felt disappointed for not catching any fish.

B. The writer really enjoyed the time with his father.

C. The father didn’t want to fish with the writer again.

D. The writer learned to fish without a fishing rod that day.

4.In the writer’s eyes, his father .

A. didn’t like to fish at all. B. didn’t get along with others.

C. became very rich in his later years. D. taught him a lot of things.

5.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Fishing is good for people’s minds. B. Keep a good heart and enjoy life.

C. Poor people often have a rich heart. D. Listen to old people and learn.

When kids are young, we make them read aloud, before the teacher and other children, so that we can be sure they “understand” all the words they are reading. This means that when they don’t know a word, they are going to make a mistake, right in front of everyone. They may lose face in public. After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try at all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously (冒险地).

One day soon after school had begun, I said to them, “Now I would like you to read a lot of books this year, but I want you to read them only for pleasure. I am not going to ask you questions to find out if you understand the books. If you understand enough of a book to enjoy it and want to go on reading it, that’s enough. Also I’m not going to ask you what words mean.”

The children sat amazed and silent. Was this a teacher talking? One girl, who had just come to us from a school where she had had a very hard time, looked at me for a long time after I had finished. Then, still looking at me, she said slowly and seriously, “Mr Holt, do you really mean that?” I said just as seriously, “I mean every word of it.” During the spring she really surprised me. One day, she was reading Moby Dick 《白鲸》 at her desk. I said, “Don’t you find parts of it rather heavy going?” She answered, “Oh, sure, but I just skip over (略过) those parts and go on to the next good part.”

This is what reading should be, an exciting, joyous adventure. Find something, dive into it, take the good parts, skip the bad parts, get what you can out of it, go on to something else.

根据短文内容选择最佳答案。

1.According to the passage, the writer wants his students to .

A. read aloud in front of others

B. make no mistakes while reading

C. throw themselves into the adventure

D. enjoy the pleasure of reading

2.The underline word “rid” in Paragraph 1 means .

A. 消除 B. 唤起 C. 思考 D. 适应

3.At first, the children felt when hearing the teacher’s talk.

A. serious B. difficult C. unbelievable D. dangerous

4.From the teacher’s point of view, .

A. children cannot tell good parts from bad parts while reading

B. children should be left to decide what to read and how to read

C. reading is never a pleasant and exciting experience in school

D. reading means understanding every little piece of information

5.We probably read the passage in a(n) .

A. education magazine B. science magazine

C. art magazine D. music magazine

根据图片内容选择最佳答案。

1.We can read the above material mostly .

A. on TV B. in the newspaper

C. in a school report D. in the guitar factory

2.From the reading we know the shop .

A. only sells guitars B. only sells parts of guitars

C. also has lessons about music D. can’t help to repair guitars

3.The reading doesn’t tell us .

A. the address of the shop B. the name of the shop

C. the phone number of the shop D. the price of the guitar

4.If you want to know some information about the shop, you can .

A. call 604 525-8152

B. go to 829-12th ST(Kingsway), New Westminster

C. visit their website

D. send them an email

5.In this shop, you can do things except .

A. getting your guitar repaired B. taking a drum class

C. learning something about singing D. buying a piano for yourself