My husband and l were talking about possible colours because it was time for painting the kitchen again. The children, sat nearby and suddenly shouted, "Not the measuring（测量）stick!”

    The measuring stick isn't a real stick but the kitchen side of the door between our kitchen and the dining room. Along the edge we have    each child's growth by making a mark showing his or her     on every birthday. Over the ten years so many     pens, pencils and markers were used that the door came to be    like a painting.

    Names and dates    different hand-writing, and I can    by the script(手迹)who measured whom. An eight-year-old brother measured his three-year-old sister, a grandchild measured her grandmother, my husband measured me. At parties, when this door swings, friends stop to      the names and dates. When we ask if they would like to leave their marks, they usually had a smile.

    Many of these listed on the door are still     While some have stopped. Some is still with us only in memory. When my mother came to see our eldest daughter graduating from university, we measured her, too. It was her last visit to our home.

    We haven't decided on the new kitchen colour plan yet, but one thing is    :Whether we paint the trim curry gold, Chowning's Tavern red or Federal blue, the back of the kitchen door will be always      with lots of names and dates in different colors.

1.A. celebrated        B. explain       C. encouraged       D. congratulated

2.A. progress    B. weight                       C. height                  D. size

3.A. new        B. coloured             C. long                     D. short

4.A. simply    B. clearly                 C. unusually            D. unclearly

5.A. make      B. show                    C. give                      D. keep

6.A. tell                    B. understand        C. remind      D. think

7.A. find         B. notice                  C. read                     D. write

8.A. changing           B. adding                 C. putting       D. growing

9.A. curious            B. certain                C. ready                   D. common

10.A. white             B. red                       C. gold                     D. blue

阅读短文,在其后空白处写出各单词的正确形式。单词的第一个字母已经给出。

Fred didn’t like to use his head. He never put his heart into his studies when he was at school. So he f 1.  behind his classmates and couldn't pass the exams. Before long he l  2.  school and stayed at home. With his father’s help, he found a job in a factory. At first he worked in an office, but he was u   3.  to do his job well. So he was sent to a workshop. He had to do some heavy work there. He was always tired when he got home and went to bed as soon as he finished s  4.   .

One day, he went to have his long hair cut. He found the work clean and l 5. . He decided to be a barber, too. So he left the factory. He t 6.  a barber as his teacher. Three month passed, but he didn’t learn anything and the barber lost his p   7.   . The young man had to go home. His father helped him to open a barber’s in their town, but nobody would have their hair cut in his shop. His father wanted others to b       8.   .Fred and decided to be the first customer.

However, the young man was so c  9.     that he hurt his father’s ear. His father shook his head s 10.   and said, “Have you ever done something nicely?” “Oh, Dad, I’m dreaming of it.”

根据句意和首字母或汉语提示，将单词的正确形式写在题中相应的横线上。

1.I hope to go to Taiwan one day to enjoy the b______________ sights there. 

2.He is too fat. His mother asks him to eat more vegetables and l______________ meat.

3.She was very ill, but ______________（幸运地）she is now out of danger.

4.We will have a meeting on ______________（周四）afternoon.

5.It is well-known that there are four ______________（季节）in a year.

My mind seems always to return to the day when I met Carl. The city bus stopped at a corner to         the passengers(乘客).1 was included. After getting on the bus, I looked for a place to sit. At last, I found a seat near the back.

    The passenger of the         next to the one I was going for was an old man in a grey suit. Seated myself, I began to read the book I had been carrying which was Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The man in the seat next to me introduced himself by asking if I        any other book like the one I was holding. When I told him I had, he seemed to become        and so did I. He said he was Carl. And asked if I like jazz(爵士乐),and l told him that I didn't really listen to it and that I like rock and roll. Waiting for Carl to tell me that I          listen to real music, I was shocked when he just smiled and nodded. He said, "You          me of myself when I was your age. I remember how my parents hated jazz, how they couldn't see how I could listen to that terrible noise. I bet your parents say the same thing, don't they?" Now it was my        to smile and nod.

    As the bus took us from one side of the city to the' other, Carl and I talked about a lot of different things. The more we talked, the more amazed I became at          the two of us really had in common, although we had the        difference. I haven't seen him         we parted, but the thought of our relationship that day never leaves my mind.

1.A. take up            B. pick up                 C. put up                   D. turn up

2.A. seat              B. bus               C. city                       D. book

3.A. read            B. was reading          C. had read             D. would read

4.A. worried           B. silent                   C. interested          D. bored

5.A. mustn't            B. shouldn't            C. must                    D. should

6.A. remember B. warn                    C. make                   D. remind

7.A. turn            B. time                      C. day                       D. honor

8.A. why             B. where                   C. how                        D. how much

9.A. race               B. age                       C. sex                       D. color

10.A. after    B. when                   C. since                    D. before

There is      “u”and          “l” in the word “ruler”.