The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not ___1__ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced___2___ long after he died.

　　A person riding a bicycle uses ___3___ energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed ____4___, most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel___5____ if they ride to work. It’s because __6___ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___7___ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work ___8___ their cars cars, and in this way, the situation is made more serious.___9___ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths (开设通道) only for bicycles, and to make ___10___ so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.

Yesterday Princess Eva(夏娃公主)was happy. She went to a carnival. The weather was sunny, and the food was       . There were Clowns and a band(魔杖). She had a good,      there was a bad magician at the party.

　Princess Eva saw the magician and she laughed. The magician didn’t        . He touched her mouth with a wand. He said, “From now on, you can’t talk. You can’t laugh. ”And Princess Eva        make a sound.

　Princess Eva could feel, and hear, and see, and smell, and taste. But she couldn’t      . She couldn’t laugh. A doctor came and looked at her fingers, her      , her eyes, her nose, and her tongue. She wasn’t sick. But something was      . Even a clown couldn’t make her laugh!

　But then one day, a nice man came to town. He had a band of      . His dog, his cat, and his horse sang for the princess. They made loud noises. They sounded      ! The Princess started to      . “Look! I can laugh! I can talk!” she cried. It was a happy day.

1.A. bad    B. terrible   C. delicious   D. awful

2.A. Because B. But      C. So       D. though

3.A. tell     B. shout    C. say      D. laugh

4.A. can’t   B. mustn’t   C. couldn’t  D. needn’t

5.A. talk    B. listen     C. smile    D. laugh

6.A. leg     B. feet      C. neck     D. ears

7.A. right    B. OK      C. wrong    D. nice

8.A. plants   B. colors    C. shapes    D. animals

9.A. good    B. nice      C. terrible   D. happy

10.A. cry    B. walk     C. laugh    D. run

I am a middle-school student. Now let ___1___ tell you something ___2___ our classroom.

It's very ___3___. There are two maps ___4___ the back wall. ___5___ is a map of China.

___6___ is a map of the world (世界).

    There are ___7___ desks and chairs in our classroom. There is a big desk ___8___ the

teacher in the front of it. We ___9___ four classes in the ___10___ and two in the afternoon

    1. a. I　　　　　　b. my 　　　　　　　c. me　　　　　　d. we

    2. a. about　　　　b. in 　　　　　　　c. on 　　　 　　d. at

    3. a. small 　　 　b. big 　　 　　　　c. bigger 　　 　d. biggest

    4. a. in 　　　　　b. on 　　　　　　　c. under 　　　　d. over

    5. a. It 　　　　　b. It's 　　　　　　c. One 　　　　　d. one

    6. a. Other 　　 　b. Others 　　　　　c. Another 　　　d. The other

    7. a. fourty　　　 b. forty 　　 　　　c. forteen 　　　d. fourteenth

    8. a. for 　　　 　b. of　　　 　　　　c. to 　　　　　 d. about

    9. a. there is 　　b. there are 　　 　c. has 　　　　　d. have

    10. a. moning　　　b. mourning 　　　　c. morning 　　　d. moring

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Time is very important in our lives. But it never had any importance in my life until I 　1　 a watch from my father that made me responsible(有责任). It 　2　 me the importance of time in my life.
I got this gift on a grey-sky day. I had to go to the 　3　 at 9:00 a.m. to pick up（接）my uncle Ali and take him to my father’s house. However, I forgot it 　4　 I was playing with my friends. Later on that day, around 11:00 a.m., I 　5　 my uncle, but I was late for him. He had got out of the plane and 　6　 a taxi to my father’s house.
I　7　 my father’s house at 2:00 p.m. at the same day . My father looked at me angrily. I said “hi” to him and my 　8　 uncle. My father asked me to sit 　9　 him and handed me this watch which was a gift from 　10　. It weighed 8 oz（盎司）and all of it was made of silver（银）. Then he said, “Essa, did you have fun 　11　 your friends today? What you did was not very nice and you should be sorry for your 　12　.” I felt sorry and told my father that I wouldn’t do it again. Then he said, “This watch will be a reminder(提醒物) for you. I hope today you have learned something 　13　.”
I learned a lesson from my father: to respect(尊重) time and 　14　 be late. The watch is important to me, not because of its  15　, but because of the lesson that I learned from it.