Leo is 66 years old. But he ___  young. He is a basketball fan. He has two       ---one is a son and the other is a daughter. He has a great ___  __ collection. But he never
 _      sports. He only likes collecting sports ______.  He has 5 basketballs, 7 baseballs and 3 ping-pong balls. His son, Neal, likes soccer. He is in a soccer club. He often plays soccer with______ friends. He has a computer, too. Playing games is ___ __. He likes it very much. And his daughter, Nancy, likes       very much. But she doesn’t have a volleyball and she doesn’t play it. She only likes       it ______ TV.

My best friend is one of my classmates. We have the     hobby. We both enjoy music. I am good      English, but she isn’t. She has great interest in university (大学) life and wants to go to university when she     school. One day, I found her studying     so I wanted to help her with it.     she closed (关上) the book. I asked, "What are you doing?"
"Nothing," she answered shyly. I didn’t know      she closed her book. "I just want to     you," I said. "Please don’t laugh at me. My English is not good and I’m a little     about learning it in front of others."
"      laughs at you. That’s why you don’t make any progress (进步) in English. You should try. You should do your best to     English with your friends. You can also ask for help from them."

The teacher stood before his class and was going to hand out the final exam papers. ‘I know how  you have 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 those who   not to take the test."
Many students thanked the teacher and left. The teacher looked at the remaining（剩下的）students and said, "Does anyone else want to get a 'B'? This is your last chance." Two  students decided to go.
Seven students remained. The teacher then handed out the papers. There were only three sentences on the paper: Congratulations! You have just got an   in this class. Keep believing in   ．
I never had a teacher like that, but I think it is a test that any teacher could give. Students who are not  in what they have learned are 'B' students at best.
The same is    in our daily 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, not only from normal education,       from events in their lives. In the end, they have become    people. You see, one should always believe in himself.

Life is not easy, so I'd like to say “When anything     , believe in yourself.”
When I was 14, I was    nervous to talk to anyone. My classmates often     me. I was sad but could do   .           , something happened. It changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to take part in it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to       in front of all the teachers and students of my school!
"Come on, boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to        ." Then, Mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I     the topic "Believe in yourself ". I tried my best to     all the speech and practiced it over 100 times.        my mother's great love, I did well in the contest. I could    believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first place. I heard the     from  the teachers and students. Those     who once looked down on  me, now all said "Congratulations!" to me. My mother hugged me and cried    .
     then, everything has changed for me. When I do anything, I try to tell myself to be sure and I will find myself. This is true not only for a person but also for a country.

My earliest memories of writing are only school homework, nothing of any creativity. All that       one day, when Mrs Kumar asked us to write “An autobiography(自传) of a pencil”. For me, it was just another piece of homework,   Mrs Kumar reacted(表现) very differently. Maybe she was just being      , or maybe she really liked the work. Whatever her      , she read it out to the class as an example of “fine writing”. A few years later, I went back to my old school. I was walking through the       corridors(走廊) when I passed by Mrs Kumar, who was still teaching her class. She looked up as I passed and I      , not wanting to disturb her. Seeing me, she went out and invited me into her class. “This girl is one of the best      this school has seen,” she said. “She wrote a wonderful autobiography of a pencil. I hope some of you can learn to write like her. ”Even after all these years, I can still clearly remember that moment. My face shines with      whenever I tell someone this experience. I am sure I was not the only student whose school homework Mrs Kumar      . It is likely that she made an effort to make each one of us feel      . However, I had never had anybody praise(表扬) my writing before that. It encouraged me to do better to prove to her that “Look! Your       in me has worked. I am good, because you believe I am. ”Today, I am a successful writer. Thanks to Mrs Kumar, my     are not only a tool(工具) to use. They are also a symbol of little beginnings and the power of a teacher’s encouragement.

Three young men got bored with their jobs in the factory. They felt     , so they get together to visit their old master worker (师傅) for     .
When they saw their master worker, they began to    about their factory and their jobs. The old master worker listened to them without     a word. About twenty minutes later, he gave the three guests green tea, black and milk tea in      cups. Some cups are old, some are new, some are expensive and some are cheap. The old man told them to      what they like.
When all the three young men had a cup of       in hand, the old man said: “Look at the cups in your hands! You   chose the good - looking, expensive cups. What would you like to choose, tea or     ? You should choose what you need. Stop complaining about anybody or anything. And use your head and choose what you really need for yourself. Fall in love     your job and this is what you really need now.”
Life is serious. Jobs and life are just like cups and tea. Jobs are just ways of making a living. If we understand this, we won’t complain about our jobs. Try to choose what you need, and you’ll enjoy yourself and your life.

Chris is 12 years old. He   in a village in England. The school in his village is not far      his home, so Chris often goes to school on foot (步行). Chris usually gets up at about 7:00 in the morning. It is not     . So he has a quick breakfast. He     for school at about 7:50. It takes him about 10 minutes to       to school. He gets to school at about      o’clock. Sometimes Chris rides his bike to school. School starts at 8:10. His favorite subject is math. He thinks numbers are     .
Chris has a    . He hopes (希望) to go to a big city like London some day (某一天). So he can take the subway. “I      take the subway. It must be a lot fun,” he says.
Can his dream   ? “Sure, it can,” says Chris.

An Wang was born in Shanghai, China. He went to America at the age of twenty-five. He studied at Harvard, a famous university near Boston. He was _______ and soon got a doctorate (博士头衔). In 1951, An Wang ________ a small company. It had only one room and two employees (雇员). Every year the company grew and grew. By 1985, Wang had thirty thousand employees and had made 3,000 million dollars. His company became one of the most ________ companies in the USA. It made the newest computers.________An Wang was very rich, money did not change him. He lived with his wife in the same house outside Boston. He only had two suits at one time, and they were blue. He was kind to the poor and liked to give money to them. People in the USA will _______ forget this good man.
Read the passage and choose the correct words. (阅读短文，选择恰当的单词)5%

What should we do to keep healthy? One important rule is to____exercise. The Fang family try to exercise every day. Mr Fang____exercise in the morning because he must get to work at exactly seven o'clock. But he runs every evening. He walks a lot, ____. He walks to school every day, and after school he____different sports with his friends. Mr Fang goes to a yoga （瑜加功） class____.
But it wasn't____this way. Last year Mr and Mrs Fang used to____everywhere in their car, even to the drugstore（药店） two blocks（街区）away. They thought they had to use  the car all the time. They wouldn't walk. [来源:The Fangs all____better now. They believe they shouldn't be lazy. We____exercise every day, but we should try our____to exercise as often as possible.

Why do students go to school? _____ you know? You may say that they go to school to learn Chinese, English, and other subjects. Yes, this answer is partially _____. But do you know _____ they learn all these things for? And ____ these things all that they can learn at school?
The answer is “No”. Students must learn ____ to learn at school. Everyone can learn something from school. When they leave school, they continue to learn. ____ a good teacher at school teaches his or her students to learn something and teaches ______ how to learn something. Then students can continue to learn well ______ they leave school.
【小题1】A. Are         B. Do           C. Does
【小题2】A. wrong       B. bad          C. right
【小题3】A. how         B. what     C. why
【小题4】A.is          B. am        C. are
【小题5】A. how        B. what      C.which
【小题6】A. And        B. But       C. So
【小题7】A. they       B. them       C. their
【小题8】A. before    B. after      C. whe