缺词填空（每空一词，每空1分，计10分）

American schools begin in September a_____1______ a long summer holiday. There are two terms(学期) in a school year: the f________2______ term is from September to J___3________ , and the second is from February to June. Most American children begin to go to school when they are five years old. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they f______4______  high school(中学). High school students have only four or five s_____5_______ to learn each term. They u_____6____  go to the same classes every day and they have to do their h_____7_______  for every class. After high school, many students go to college(大学). They can go to a small one or a l ____8_______ one. Students have to s______9________ a lot of money on their studies. So many college students w_____10______  after class to make money.

用括号内所给词的适当形式填空。
【小题1】My birthday is on the ________ (five) of June.
【小题2】Look! There are some books on these ________(shelf).
【小题3】There is ________(little) money in this pocket than in the one.
【小题4】The book doesn’t belong to ________(he), his book is on his desk.
【小题5】At weekends, there are so many ___________(shop) in the supermarkets.

--What’s the _________of her birth?

--It’s June eighth.

A. date      B. day       C. birthday   D. month

词语填空。（共10小题，计10分）

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）

learn, bored, drive, young, until, live, enough, move, with, teenager

“Can I borrow the car, Dad?”

“Not   1   you finish mowing the lawn(除草).”

“But I have to go to work!”

Such conversations often happen to American   2  . A job, a car, spending money, walking the dog and mowing the lawn, this isn’t just the   3   life of middle age but, in fact, this is the life of many American teenagers.

In the US, it is common for kids as   4   as 14 to hold part-time jobs.

They might save up their money to buy a car and, at 16,   5   it. But this kind of independence (独立) isn’t always fun. US kids have to take care of themselves and their younger brothers and sisters so that they are ready   6  alone.

The average (平均的) age of a high school graduate in the US is 17. Traditionally, a US student graduates(毕业) in June and  7   out of his or her parents’ house by September. Of course, one must be ready for this.   8   a small amount of homework, US high school students have more time for working and   9    adult(成人) responsibilities (责任).

Is it better to live this way? It is good to cook for oneself and do the laundry, but US students don’t study    10  . While American kids are working, Chinese and Indian students are studying. But, whatever you do now, you will never feel ready to be an adult.

阅读下面短文，从方框内选择恰当的句子填入文中空白处，使短文内容完整、意思连贯。

Tens of thousands of people of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province took part in the funeral(葬礼) of “the most beautiful driver” Wu Bin on June 4, 2012.      1.

At noon on May 29, he drove the Zhejiang A19115 large bus from Wuxi back to Hangzhou, carrying 24 passengers.      2.       It hit Wu in the abdomen(腹部). He looked very painful and put the right hand over the abdomen, then drove slowly down, stopped at the side of the road, playing two flashing lights to let other drivers be careful, and pulled a good handbrake(拉好手刹). At last he tried his best to stand up, turned to the frightened passengers and said: “     3.      ”

The passengers saw he couldn’t speak and blood kept running from his abdomen. At once they called the police. Wu Bin was later sent to Wuxi Liberation Army 101 Hospital.      4.      But he saved 24 passengers’ lives on his bus.

     5.

A. Don’t run, safety first.

B. On the morning of June 1, Wu Bin died.

C. Wu Bin made the greatest thing in the last minute.

D. Many of them volunteered（自愿）to help to keep traffic orders.

E. At about 11:40, a piece of iron suddenly dropped from the sky.