John was sad. Nothing could make him     . "I don't want to go to school today." "Come on, sleepy head. Let's go for a      ”said his mum.
When they walked down the street, his mum said, "John, do you see the     in Mr. Butler's garden? Would you like to sniff(嗅)them?
"    "，said John.
"But I want to. Come with me", His mum sniffed the flowers. "Oh, these flowers    me my son should(应该)be happy, and they also tell me my son should go to      .”
"Aha, mum, you are joking(开玩笑).How can flowers    ?”laughed John.
They walked on. "Perhaps we can have a dog cat cow chicken sheep ice cream," said his mum.
John     again. "Don't be so silly(傻的)，Mum. That sounds(听上去)    . You can't have that kind of ice cream."
John kept smiling from that moment. Mum felt happy now that John was happy. John thanked his mum very much to make      happy. He thought his mum was great.

There was a woman in Nanjing , who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially(尤其) the younger one, Ben,      he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed(看似) so      .
The mother       that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the library to read a     a week and do a report about it for her.
One day, in Ben’s      , the teacher held up a rock（石头） and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him      . Why did Ben raise his hand? They wondered（想知道）. He   said anything, what could he possibly want to say?
Well, Ben not only       the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew       the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were   . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book      .
Ben later went to the       of his class. When he finished high school, he went to University （大学）and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.
After Ben grew up, he       something about his mother that he did not know as a    .
She, herself, had never learned how to      .

Everyone needs friends. We all like to       close to someone.       is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh, and do things with. Certainly, sometimes we need to be alone. We don't always want people      . But we will feel lonely if we     have a friend.
No two people are just the same. Friends       don't get on(相处的) well. That doesn't mean that they no longer like each other. As time passes, they will make up(言归于好) and become       again.
Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very      . We miss them very much, but we can       them and write to them. It is likely that we would never see them again. And we can       new friends.
There's more good news for people who have friends. They live longer than people who don't. Why? It could be true that they are       . Being happy helps you keep healthy.

In learning English, one should first pay attention to listening and speaking. It is the groundwork (基础) of reading and writing. You’d better    your best to speak while you do much listening. Don’t be       of making mistakes. But be careful not to let them stop (阻止) you from improving your       . While you are doing this, a good        is to write or keep a diary, write notes or letters. Then if you can, ask some others to go through (浏览)        you have written and tell you where it is wrong. Many mistakes in your speaking will be        found when you write. Through correcting mistakes, you can do better in learning English.
If you are slow in speaking, don’t       about it. One of the helpful ways is reading, either aloud or to yourself. The important thing is to choose       interesting to read. It mustn’t be too difficult for you. When you are reading        this way, don’t stop to       the new words if you can guess their meanings when they have nothing to do with the sentences. You can do that some other time.

Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Rakesh, he studied and lived in a boarding school(寄宿学校). Every night he jumped over the wall and played outside. He        returned before dawn (黎明) and lay on his bed again, so no one knew that Rakesh went out at        .
One night as usual, Rakesh found         asleep. He decided to play outside again. He went into his teacher—Mrs. Green’s room        and saw her        . Then Rakesh walked out towards the wall. Near the wall, there was a ladder in the bushes, he hid it there. He         the ladders and he climbed up it , then jumped over the wall.        at that time his teacher was awake and saw him going out.
      got up and took away the        from the wall. A few hours        , Rakesh returned. In the dark, he tried to climb        from the wall. Sadly, there was no ladder, instead, Mrs. Green was standing where the ladder was and waited for him. Rakesh was very        to be punished (处罚), but to his surprise, she just helped Rakesh to get onto the ground , said, "Rakesh, at least        a warm coat with you, when you go out at night."
Mrs. Green's        made Rakesh know his own faults. He apologized (道歉) and never went out at night again. It is the        lesson that he has ever had.

Many of you are studying English and you may be wondering why it is so difficult      . It’s actually not too difficult to learn       you know some       about the language and culture that it reflects（反映）.       the first thing you need to know about English is that it is made up of several       languages such as French，German，Latin，Greek and Anglo-Saxon. In addition（除此以外），there are words from Spanish in English and       American Indian words and names，even some Chinese and Japanese       can be found in the English language. This borrowing of words      other languages is       of the key reasons why some of the difficulties that people meet with（遇到）     they are learning English.

We students enjoy our school life, but sometimes we feel unhappy.It’s every student’s       dream. At the       of every term, we have six exams.
Last week, I finished my final exams. The math exam was the easiest one of all. Most of the problems were from early exams，so I       it soon. The biology exam was hard. The questions were so difficult       I had to guess the answers to them. And there wasn’t enough       to check every answer. But after the exam, my teacher said I did well in it.
In the computer exam, we had a lot to do. I thought I needed more time, but some of my classmates didn’t think      . They just wrote down the answers quickly and then       games.I didn’t think I could get a good mark in the English exam because it was a little difficult       me and I didn’t work hard enough at English.
In our school, we can       some elective courses (选修课). That means students can learn these courses by       and then take the exam. If they pass, they don’t have to have these courses any more.
Now, I am very glad that all the exams are over. The summer holiday is coming and I will enjoy it.
【小题1】A. bad                   B. good                C. interesting
【小题2】A. middle                 B. beginning               C. end
【小题3】A. gave                      B. finished                C. passed
【小题4】A. if                        B. that                    C. until
【小题5】A. time                      B. idea                    C. people
【小题6】A. also                  B. so                      C. too
【小题7】A. made                   B. played                  C. got
【小题8】A. for                      B. at                      C. of
【小题9】A. go                     B. teach                   C. take
【小题10】A. themselves            B. them                    C. they

We have an English corner in our classroom. Every morning many of my classmates come to the corner. My teacher Miss Zhang comes here, too. At the corner, we all speak English.
The corner started last year. At first, there were only__ students because many were ____to speak English. After several weeks, more and more students came here. At first, some students just _____to the other students. I was one of them. I was afraid to speak English. I thought someone would ______me, but I wanted to speak. I always spoke English in my heart. My teacher went on saying, “Don’t be afraid. Open your mouth.” I tried and tried to open my mouth. At last, I said, “Hello!” to the teacher. The teacher was very ____. She said “Hello!” to me at once. From ___on, I began to speak English. I work hard at English and I try my best _more. I learn __my teacher and my classmates at the corner. Now I can speak a little English. Every Sunday morning, I come to the corner ___.
It’s a good ___ to speak English. Please join us.

The teacher stood before his class and was going to hand out the final exam papers. “I know how ______you have all worked to prepare for this test,” he said. “And because I know you can do it well, I am willing to offer a B to anyone who would ______not to take the test.
Many students jumped up to ______the teacher and left the classroom. The teacher looked at the _______students and said, “Does anyone else want to get a B? This is your last _______.” Two more students decided to go.
Seven students remained(留下，余下). The teacher then handed out the _______. There were only three sentences typed on the paper: Congratulations! You have just ______an A in this class. Keep believing in yourself.
I never had a teacher like that, but I think it is a test _______any teacher could and should give. Students who are not ______in what they have learned are B students at best(充其量).
The same is ______in real life. The A students are those who believe in what they are doing because they have ______both successes and failures. They have learned life’s lessons, either from normal education ______from events in their lives, and have become ______people.
Scientists say that by the age of eight, 80% of what we believe about ourselves has already been formed. You are a big kid now, and you _____that you have some limits (限制). However, there is _____you can’t do or learn or be. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest said, “It’s not the mountain we conquer(克服) but ourselves.

There is no quick and easy way to learn English. But there is a simple and        way. Speak English as much as you can. Try to talk in English       your teacher and your classmates. Try to        to English on the radio and on TV.
Don’t just read the        that you use in the class. Go to the        or a bookshop and read easy English books.
Try to        something in English as much as you can, such as the things you did during the day.
These         are not hard, but they are the work that you        do. If you do them, with the       of your teacher, you will learn English       .