单词拼写（共5小题; 每小题1分, 满分5分）

1.Don’t drink too many soft drinks in your d__________ life. They are harmful to your health.

2.Please don’t make any n___________. The students are having exams now.

3.After school, a lot of students stand in line and w___________ for the school buses at the school gate.

4.You cannot l___________ your son at home by himself. He is too young.

5.Even t__________ he didn’t sleep at all last night, he kept on working.

Every scientist has a childhood dream. A scientist in China once had a(n)   36 . He wished to grow a new type of rice which could produce a lot. This person is Yuan Longping   37  was born in 1930. He graduated from the Southwest Agricultural(农业) University in 1953. Yuan Longping came up with an idea for a hybrid rice in the 1960s. Since then, he has devoted himself to the research and development of new varieties(品种).
In 1973, together with other people, he   38  in the development of hybrid rice. This made China be a worldwide leader in rice production. For this, he was called Father of Hybrid Rice. In 1980, the technology for hybrid rice was   39  to the United States.   40  Professor Yuan’s hard work, China now produces enough rice to   41  her people every year.
In his spare time, he loves playing   42  violin and listening to music. Every night, he reads   43  half an hour before he goes to sleep. He likes swimming, too.
It is said that Professor Yuan is one of the   44  people in China. And he cares about   45  but his research.
Now Professor Yuan is working on developing super hybrid rice. He goes to the fields twice a day.

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.

1.                A．letter          B．call            C．card D．email

2.                A．topics          B．regrets         C．thoughts D．words

3.                A．man           B．group          C．stage D．chance

4.                A．read           B．spell           C．see  D．recite

5.                A．had            B．forgot          C．realized  D．improved

6.                A．asked          B．checked        C．explained D．wondered

7.                A．useful          B．successful       C．difficult   D．common

8.                A．wrote          B．prepared        C．gave D．finished

9.                A．knew          B．felt            C．believed  D．hoped

10.               A．easy           B．great          C．helpful    D．possible

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Nogoba was a cavegirl. She lived in a cave with about 40 other people. Cavepeople lived in big groups to help each other. Their l    1     were very dangerous. There were many w   2
animals near the caves — lions, tigers, bears and elephants.
The cavemen hunted. They k    3   the animals for food. The children’s jobs were dangerous, too. Nogoba and her friends went to the river every day to get w   4   . Sometimes, the river was very deep. S    5   , there were animals near the river.
For many months of the y    6   , Nogoba was cold. There was ice and snow everywhere. It was difficult to be w    7  . The children sometimes went to sleep by the fire. Sometimes they were too n    8   the fire.
Sometimes Nogoba and her friends went to f    9     fruit and nuts to eat. Sometimes the fruit and nuts were poisonous and everyone became i   10  . There weren’t any cave doctors or cave hospitals!