短文填空。从下面方框中选出10个单词并使用其正确形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确，通顺（每词限用一次。共10小题，每小题1分；计10分）

完形填空

One day when I was five years old , my mother was washing the kitchen floor. I was telling her about a new girl at school, and she looked up at me and said, “__1___are your two best friends?”

I was not __2___ what to say, “Um--- Jenny and Mary.”

My mother __3___ washing the floor and asked me, “ Well, what about Kate and Cindy?”

“But they’re my __4___.”

“Yes, but they can __5___ be your best friends. Friends may come and __6___, but your sisters will always be there for you.”

At that time I felt __7___. How could my two sisters be my closest friends? We fought all the time over toys, food, and what to __8___ on TV. How could my sisters be my best friends? They weren’t even the same age as me. We all had our own ___9__ at school. But my mother never let us _10___ that sisters are lifelong friends. Like all mothers, she wanted to give us a great gift ___11__ let us know how lucky we were. She let us play together and always punished us in the same way, too.

We didn’t always __12___ well and fought just like any other sisters. Now twenty years have __13___. We realise that our mother is __14___. Today I share things with my sisters that I don’t ___15__ with anyone else.

完形填空
One day when I was five years old , my mother was washing the kitchen floor. I was telling her about a new girl at school, and she looked up at me and said, “__1___are your two best friends?”
I was not __2___ what to say, “Um--- Jenny and Mary.”
My mother __3___ washing the floor and asked me, “ Well, what about Kate and Cindy?”
“But they’re my __4___.”
“Yes, but they can __5___ be your best friends. Friends may come and __6___, but your sisters will always be there for you.”
At that time I felt __7___. How could my two sisters be my closest friends? We fought all the time over toys, food, and what to __8___ on TV. How could my sisters be my best friends? They weren’t even the same age as me. We all had our own ___9__ at school. But my mother never let us _10___ that sisters are lifelong friends. Like all mothers, she wanted to give us a great gift ___11__ let us know how lucky we were. She let us play together and always punished us in the same way, too.
We didn’t always __12___ well and fought just like any other sisters. Now twenty years have __13___. We realise that our mother is __14___. Today I share things with my sisters that I don’t ___15__ with anyone else.

短文填空。从下面方框中选出10个单词并使用其正确形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确，通顺（每词限用一次。共10小题，每小题1分；计10分）

    Mr. Brown is    1    English teacher. He has two    2    . They are Jenny and Mary. Mr. Brown    3   a great collection(收藏品). He has ten soccer balls, six basketballs    4   nine baseballs. He    5   has eight tennis rackets and ten ping-pong bats.    6   he doesn't play sports. He only watches them    7  TV. Jenny is five. She likes playing ping-pong _  8   her friend every day. She doesn’t like soccer. Mary    9   nine. She likes playing basketball. She also likes   10    it on TV with her father.

阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。(共10分，每小题2分)

It's March, 2050.
Frank and Mary Smith wake up in their comfortable house in the morning and switch on the bedroom computer to get the latest news. They used to read the Times, but changed to electronic newspapers many years ago.                                                
There is the usual news about space: another space flight has returned from Mars and scientists have discovered a new planet. Then they turn to business news: the US dollar has risen greatly in Shanghai, one of the world's leading business centers. Mary tells the computer to buy 5,000 dollars, and there is a quick response that it has been done.
As they watch the screen, Mary orders one of the household robots to make coffee for them. Frank disappears into the study to join a video conference with his partners around the world. He is a computer engineer, working for several companies. This is his third job: he used to be in marketing and then television.
Mary has a quick look at the shopping channels - the usual selection of electric cars, household robots and cheap travel offers - before picking up the video phone to talk to her assistant. She also has a job and she is doing medical research. Both she and Frank used to have an office desk in London, but in 2014 they decided to move to the seaside and work from home.
Frank and Mary have one daughter, Louise, who also has her own workstation at home. She goes to school only one day a week, mainly to play with other students. Classrooms disappeared in 2030 because there was no longer any need for them: communications systems have made it much easier to learn at home.
Louise, now thirteen, is studying Chinese at present, which has become a world language as
important as English. Louise has many Chinese friends. They communicate by computer.
According to the family doctor, Louise will live to at least 130. Her wish is to work for a
few decades (十年) and then spend her time on music and painting.
【小题1】Do Frank and Mary get the latest news on the computer in the morning?
【小题2】Who makes coffee for Mary and Frank?
【小题3】What does Frank do?
【小题4】What are the two world languages in 2050?
【小题5】What do you think of Louise's life in 2050? Why?