Have you ever planted trees before?   Every year, millions of people, both   1   ,   plant many trees. But this may not be the best way to make your home a    2   place.
Last week we visited a park in Hebei. We were     3    to  find most of the trees had been burned. The workers told us that the trees    4    soon after they were planted because they weren’t watered well enough.    5    workers burned them and cleaned the place for     6   trees to be planted this year.     7    a card found in one of the dead trees, a student wrote, "I hope this tree will grow up with me to     8    the backbone(栋梁) of our country.”The workers said that the survival of the trees was really more    9   than the number of the trees that were planted.
Some people in Beijing now have a  new idea that they can donate(贡献) some  money and let professionals (专业人员)  plant and  10  the trees.
1. A. boys and girls
B. the old and the young
C. mother and father
D. students and teachers
2. A. larger        B. warmer     C. greener     D. smaller
3. A. surprised      B. pleased     C. happy       D. interesting
4. A. planted        B. grew      C. bought      D. died
5. A. When          B. So        C. Because     D. Though
6. A. new          B. old        C. dead        D. few
7. A. From          B. Over      C. Above       D. On
8. A. hold          B. need      C. be          D. plant
9. A. interesting                  B. beautiful
C. impossible                 D. important
10. A. takeaway                   B. take down
C. take care of                D. take out

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What do you do at the weekend? Some people like to    21   at home, but others like to go    22   a walk or play football. My friend Sam works hard in a factory during the      23   . At the weekend, he always     24   the same thing. On Saturday he    25   his car and on     26   he goes with his family to a village by car. His uncle and aunt have a farm there. It isn’t a    27   one but there is always     28   to do on the farm. The children help with the animals and give them their     29   . Sam and his friends help in the fields. At the end of the day, they are all     30   and Sam’s aunt gives them a big meal.
【小题1】  

A goal for life
Do you have a goal for life? What is it? Do you want to become a great writer, a   16  singer or just become a rich person?
A survey   17  that in modern society (现代社会), most people choose practical   18  such as “making money to buy a house and a car”, “making one’s life better” or “finding a good job”.
Wang You   19  in a small company in Nanjing 3 years ago. The job was good and he didn’t need to work on Saturday or Sunday. However, he felt the work wasn’t   20  at all and the life was  _21 . So he gave up his job and went to Beijing in February, 2009. When he   22  in Beijing, he had his new __23  as finding a good job.
Now   24  people want to live a better life. This fact shows that the society is making progress __25  people’s life goals have become more practical. One researcher says, “Everybody   26  his or her own life goal. If one man is poor,   27  life goal will be to make more money. If one man doesn’t  __28  a diploma (文凭), studying hard to get a diploma will become his life goal. And if one man doesn’t have love, his life goal will be to look   29  it. If one man has no life goal, he   30  idle away (虚度) his lifetime.”

Many objects that people use each day started with a simple idea. These objects have often changed the way we  46 . Some help us to do a job more   47 . Others fill a need or solve a problem.
In 1858, Lipman had such an  48 . He took out a pencil, a piece of paper,   49 an eraser. Then he began to write. Sometimes he needed to  50  a word. Each time he had to search under his books and papers to   51  the eraser. “ I wish my eraser would stay in one 52 !” he said.
Then Lipman had his simple idea. He   53  a groove(凹槽) in one end of the pencil. He glued(粘牢) the eraser into the groove. Lipman had solved his problem. Later he thought that others might like to have such a pencil. So he sold his  54 .Some pencils with erasers were 55 . His design earned $ 100000.

One will feel happy when others flatter( 奉承) him in his face. It is said that the best way of flattering someone is to give him a “top hat” 31 .
A student was going to leave the capital to become  32  official (官员) in a city far away. Before he started, he came to say  33  to his teacher.
“It is  34   job to be a good official.” his teacher said. “ you must be strict  35  yourself and never be careless.”
“Don’t worry about me, sir.” The student answered. “I have already   36  anyone hundred top hats, which will  37  those people quite happy.”
“But we are really gentlemen!  38  could a real gentleman do such a thing ? ” His teacher was a bit   _39  . “ Never forget  40  I taught you in class!”  
“  41  are always right, sir. I also hate such things. But, sir,   42  no one really gentleman like you can be seen in the world now.” said the student. It seemed that he had to do so.
  43  hearing this, the teacher was pleased. “What you said is true!”
“I have  44  one top hat already. Now I have ninety-nine  45  .” the student said to his friend later on when he asked the student what he had talked with the teacher about.
(   ) 【小题1】 A. to dress        B. dressing            C. wearing      D to wear
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Everybody dreams. Some people think dreams can tell us about the future. Other people think dreams tell us about ourselves. It’s like our   36  is talking to us. Why are dreams   37  
strange and hard to understand? Some people think our brain uses   38  to talk to us. When
we fly, swim, or fall down in our dreams, it has a   39  meaning. Lots of doctors help people ___40 __ their dreams. They find that dreams tell us about our   41  and fears.
These days, many scientists   42  that dreams are very important. During the day, we have many   43 ,and our brain receives a lot of information. When we dream, our brain   44  
information that is not important, and puts the most important information into our   45 .As we learn more about the brain, we may find answers to our questions about dreams.

Dear Nancy,
You asked about places to go and things to do in our town. The Downtown Mall is always  51  . It’s a   52  place in the oldest part of town. There are some good stores and restaurants there.    53  , Trendy Clothing Store is in Downtown Mall. It’s a fun place to shop, and it has the   54   quality clothes. The shop assistants are friendly   55   people. My favorite     56   in town is Nick’s Restaurant. It is close to my house. It’s cheap and the hamburgers there are great. I like Dragon City Restaurant,    57  . You can eat wonderful noodles there and the beef noodles are the most delicious! You must try the dumplings there, too. But it’s more expensive than Nick’s. The Big Cinema is the best cinema in town. It has the biggest screen and the most  58   seats. The Del Ray Complex is also a good place to see movies. It doesn’t have the 59  movies, but the tickets are the cheapest.
Anyway, there are lots of things to do and to see here. Come for a   60  soon!
Love,
Kate

Do you  1   the movie “Mr Bean”（憨豆先生）?  I like this movie. It’s a funny   2 . The actor(演员) is Rowan Atkinson, a great   3  star. He often makes people   4  in the movie. Mr Bean is a lovely and funny man. He often   5   wrong(错的) things,  6   people like him. He  7   drive a yellow minicab and he often takes a Teddy bear  8 him. He acts the story from our  9  . My friends and   10  like him very much.

Of all the things we eat and drink，water is the  1 important.The human body can go 2    food for a long time，but two  3 three days without water could make people  4 .
A lot of people don’t understand how  5 water the human body needs  6 well and many people don’t drink enough，esecially in  7 weather. Most people drink  8 they are thirsty but in fact they need more water，expecially when they take  9 .
A man’s body is 65 to 75 percent of  10 . If we don’t have enough water. We fell tired and may become ill.
1.A.more  B.most  C.less  D.least
2.A.with  B.on  C.without  D.by
3.A.or  B.and  C.of  D.but
4.A.died  B.to die  C.dies  D.die
5.A.many  B.little  C.few  D.much
6.A.work  B.working  C.to work  D.works
7.A.hot  B.cold  C.cool  D.warm
8.A.so  B.that  C.when  D.since
9.A.fun  B.exercise  C.exercises  D.work
10.A.blood  B.water  C.air  D.food

Learning Chinese may seem difficult to foreigners outside China. However, Daisy Raffan, an
36   girl in Britain, hopes to bring the   37   to the young people.
Daisy has   38   an online learning website to teach the language to as   39   people as possible, all over the world.
With China’s fast development in the world, Daisy thinks   40   important for people to learn the language sooner rather than later.
Daisy has been learning Putonghua   41   the age of five. Two years ago,   42   she decided to pass on what she had learned, she   43   the idea for the website, kidschineseclub.com.
She said: “People are afraid to learn Putonghua. One of the main reasons is that they think it’s an   44   language to learn, but I have had fun   45   it .And I hope what I have done is easy and fun.”
Her   46    offers a series of lessons, which are videos of Daisy teaching a group of students on topics from greetings and numbers to Chinese culture.
Daisy’s website has   47   the support of several important persons —the teenager says she has received a letter praising(赞扬) her work from Gordon Brown,   48   is the British Prime Minister(首相).
She said: “I wrote to him and told him what I was doing and got a letter   49  . He said that what I was doing was a really good idea. I thought it was amazing. I was excited that   50   was supporting what we’re doing.”