Most children don’t enjoy doing housework. They like playing computer games rather than cleaning the rooms. But in Australia, Jim and Robert’s mother, Mrs Black, has good and proper methods to get their children to do housework.
Here is an example.
“Mum, have you worked out next week’s housework? Let Jim and me choose the cards I can’t wait. It’s fun!”
When Robert shouted out, his mother had already put all the cards on their big table. On the cards, there are some words like these, “sweep the floor, clean your bedroom, help mum cook, wash vegetables, make beds, feed the fish, cut the wood, clean the bathroom” and many others, Jim and Robert chose two cards for each day from Monday to Friday. Then they would hang them on the week day task board. Jim likes to clean the bathroom, so he picked up the card “clean the bathroom”. Robert loves to make the bed so he picked up his favorite card. Jim again picked up “wash vegetables” and Robert chose “feed the fish”. Soon the two boys were happy to take away all the cards
To help the children do housework, their mother thought hard and came up with this idea. Of    course, the parents did the housework on the weekends and left Jim and Robert two days free.
【小题1】 From the passage we know that most children like       .

用括号内所给动词的正确形式填空（共5小题；每小题1分。满分5分）
【小题1】—I hear that Sam has gone to Beijing for his holiday.
—Oh, how nice! Do you know when he ________ (leave)? 
【小题2】—What’s wrong with my computer, Jim?
—Let me see. Oh, it _________ (break) down. You’d better ask Mr. Li to mend it.
【小题3】The reporter said that the UFO _________ (travel) from east to west when he saw it.
【小题4】Look! The teenagers are making cards ________ (show) love for their mothers.
【小题5】－That important problem __________ (discuss) for nearly two weeks.
－Yes, it’s hard for us to solve it.

根据下列句子的汉语意思和英文提示，完成句子；每空一词。（满分10分；每空1分）
【小题1】我此刻感觉不舒服。
I don’t                at the moment.
【小题2】他昨晚直到午夜才回来。
He ____    come home ___     midnight.
【小题3】我不喜欢离开太长时间。
I don’t like _____  ____    for too long.
【小题4】今年我打算在课堂上练习说英语。
I’m going to ___          English in class this year.
【小题5】除了我之外，其它每个人都被邀请了。
Everyone ____   was invited, ______ me.

My name is Ben Mansury. I’m fifteen years old and study in a middle school. In school, I never join in any group discussion or stage (舞台) program. So, I never knew what stage nervousness was.
Our community (社区) has a weekly “Students Ideas” program. About two years ago, I received a(n)   1   from the chairman of our community. He invited me to the “Students Ideas” talk the next morning to speak to the group.
The time between his call to the next morning was like several weeks for me. The whole night, I could not sleep. Many   2   were coming. One of them was to call the chairman, with regret, and tell him that I could not come. But finally, I thought, if I missed this   3  , the community would never invite me again to any of their programs. So, I decided to go.
I reached the hall in time. When my turn came and I started, my heartbeat increased and my mouth went dry. I wasn’t even able to   4   the words on the paper properly. I had no idea where I was standing and what I was talking. That was the day when I   5   my biggest weakness: public speaking.
After I finished, I met with the chairman and   6   what happened to me. He said that this happens to everyone. It is very   7  . He suggested that I should come again the next week.
I   8   a talk carefully. This time when I gave the talk, I was somewhat comfortable but not confident (自信的). Afterwards, I met with the chairman again and told him about the improvement I   9   I had made. He was kind enough to invite me again.
For around one month, I practiced a lot for my talk. This time I was feeling comfortable and both the chairman and my neighbors thought I did a good job.    
I learned that everything is   10   if we take the first step, as the saying goes: A journey of thousand miles begins with first step.