Once there was a father and a son. They were ill-tempered(坏脾气的) and never gave way（退让）to 1.     
One day the father 2  to ask some friends to dinner in his house. He 3    his son to buy some meat in town. When the son walked towards the town gate, a man was coming from the outside. The gate wasn’t 4  enough to let two men in and out at the same time. But neither of  5 would give way to the other. They stood straight face to face inside the gate hour after hour. But the father was worried. “What shall I do? My son hasn’t 6  yet. I can’t wait any more.” He wanted to know what was the 7   with his son. So he left his friends at home ,and went to town 8   his son.
“You may first take the 9  home for my friends .Let me 10    here against him instead.” he said to his son when he knew what had happened.

短文填空（本大题有10小题，每小题1.5分，共15分） 

Li Ming was a good school boy before. He  1.  to do well in all his lessons. But these days he turned out to be another Li Ming. He  2.  asleep in class. He has been late for school three times since last Friday. Yesterday they took an English test. He failed. But he always got over 90 before. His head teacher, Rose, didn’t know  3. . So she decided to go to his home and found out the reason. On her 4. to his home, she passed by a net bar. To her  5. , she saw Li Ming playing computer games excitedly inside. Then she  6. what had happened. She went into the net bar and pulled him out. Li Ming was very frightened because she was very  7. with him. He didn’t know how she would deal with him. She  8. beat him nor punished(惩罚) him. Instead, she told him playing computer games was bad for his health and  9. . She also asked him not to lose himself in it. Li Ming  10. to give up computer games and study hard to achieve his dreams.

If you want to find out a piece of information about anything, the best place to search for it is Wikipedia. This online encyclopedia(百科全书) is written by thousands of people around the world. Anyone can add or change the information if he or she finds it not correct or not well written. In this way, people who know a lot about a certain subject can write about it even if they are not university professors.

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So, if you are looking for some information, why not try Wikipedia?

1.Wikipedia is ___________.

A．a computer game                       B．an online magazine

C．a free university                        D．a website encyclopedia

2.People who write on Wikipedia__________.

A．know much about a certain subject          B．likes writing different stories

C．can’t be university professors             D．are usually famous scientists

3.The underlined word “accurate” means __________.

A．错误的           B．准确的           C．有条理的         D．逻辑的

4.Which is TRUE according to the passage?  

A．Wikipedia includes articles written in about 253 languages.

B．People can find information about different subjects on Wikipedia.

C．Wikipedia is the only truly international website on the Internet.

D．Half of the articles on Wikipedia are written in English.

Once there was a father and a son. They were ill-tempered(坏脾气的) and never gave way to others.

One day the father decided to _46___some friends to dinner in his house. He __47____ his son to buy some meat in town. When the son got _48____his father wanted, he turned back and walked towards the town gate. Just then a man was coming from the outside. The gate wasn’t __49___enough to let two men in and out at the same time. But __ 50 of them would give way to the other. They___51___ straight face to face inside the gate hour after hour. But the father was worried. " What shall I do? My son hasn’t____52___ yet. I can’t wait any longer.” He wanted to know what the ___53____ with his son was. So he left his friends at home, and he himself went to the town to look for his son.

“You may first take the ___54_____ home for my friends. Let me stand here against him ____55____.” He said to his son when he knew what had happened.

1.A. speak B. answer   C. say      D. ask

2. A. hoped     B. told         C. let      D. wished

3.A. why    B. where    C. what         D. which

4. A. long  B. wide         C. high         D. narrow

5. A. either    B. all      C. both         D. neither

6. A. stood     B. went         C. lay      D. walked

7.A. gone   B. bought   C. returned     D. been

8.A. wrong B. accident     C. thing        D. matter

9. A. meat B. dinner   C. bread        D. money

10.A. politely B. instead C. safely   D. kindly

Rose didn’t see her school IC card at lunch time. She asked her classmates and looked for it everywhere. But she couldn’t   1  it. Later, one girl said that she saw Kate take a card from Rose’s desk. So Rose got very   2  .
When she met Kate in the afternoon, Rose   3 , “You have stolen(偷) my card!” Hearing this, Kate began to cry, “No, no, I didn’t steal it! I only took it by   4  .” But Rose didn’t think so and they began to fight.
Just then a teacher came up and   5  what had happened. Kate told the whole story. She said her pen pal came to see her in the morning. She was so   6  that she took the card carelessly. Then they went for lunch happily. “I used the card, but I had thought it was mine. I didn’t know it was Rose’s   7   she asked. I was too afraid to explain it to her. So I decided to put the 8 back with some money secretly. I am sorry, Rose.” Kate said in a low 9 .
“It’s just a misunderstanding（误会)！” said the teacher. Tears(泪水) came into Rose’s eyes. Then she said, “I am   10   sorry, Kate! I hope we are still good friends. ”
【小题1】A.  find  B.  buy    C.  put
【小题2】A.  happy     B.  angry   C.  afraid
【小题3】A.  sang   B.  shouted     C.  read
【小题4】A.  card  B.  words  C.  mistake
【小题5】A.  asked     B.  understood     C.  allowed
【小题6】A.  sad   B.  excited    C.  interested
【小题7】A.  until     B.  after  C.  if
【小题8】A.  pen   B.  book   C.  card
【小题9】A.  voice     B.  sound  C.  noise
【小题10】A.  not  B.  also   C.  never