My friend, David Smith, kept birds. One day he phoned and   26   me he would be away for a week. He asked me to feed the bird   27   him and said he would leave his key in my mailbox.

Unfortunately, I did not remember to feed the birds  28  the night before David was going to return. I rushed out of my house and it was already dark when I arrived at   29  house. I soon found the key he gave me could unlock neither the front door   30  the back door! I kept   31  of what David would say when came back.

Then I noticed   32  one bedroom window was open. I found a big tone and pushed it under the window   33  the stone was very heavy. I  of niose. But in the end, I managed to climb up.

I had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone  34   a torch(电筒)up at me. I looked down and saw  35  policeman and an old lady, one of David’s neighbours. “What are you doing up there?” Said the policeman. Feeling like a fool, I replied, “I was just going to feed Mr. Smith’s birds.”

Many parents want their children to be famous one day. But do children have the same___26___?

A new__27____—Hi, Ke'ai is on at Beijing Children's Art Theatre. It tells the story of a boy called Ke'ai. His parents would like him to become a painter or a __28_____ one day. They teach him to ___29___and to play the violin, but Ke'ai doesn't enjoy these activities. Then one day Ke'ai's parents see Liu Xiang win a gold___30___ at the Athens Olympic Games, and they want him to be a sportsman.

  "___31___do they want me to be someone else?" Ke'ai asks and says, "I only want to be____32______."

 The play shows us that it is good for parents to learn to _____33_____their children. It helps parents to think about what kids want to do.

Young audiences(观众)enjoy the story, and also the___34___in the play. There are two songs in the play. One of them, "Ke'ai's Song" is very ___35 _____to learn, so the audiences can sing the song on their way home after the play!

26.A.jobs    B.dreams   C.habits    D.hobbies

27.A.song     B.film   C.play      D.opera

28.A.writer   B.teacher    C.sportsman    D.musician

29.A.paint   B.write    C.run    D.drive

30.A.match   B.ring    C.medal  D.race

31.A.How   B.Why   C.When   D.Where

32.A.myself    B.different    C.alone    D.great

33.A.encourage   B.understand   C.criticize  D.inspire

34.A.light    B.clothes    C.skill    D.music

35.A.easy    B.difficult     C.important    D.necessary

Miracles（奇迹）will happen if you don't give up trying. Even if you have  16  for one hundred times, you may succeed when you try for the 10lst time.

  When I was born, my doctor told my mother that there was something wrong with my 17  .  They were too soft to be able to walk. Although the news was bad, my mother didn't become  18  . She didn't believe what the doctor said  19  started to look for other ways.

  My mother kept looking for other doctors for me, and finally she  20  . The doctor and his team in the hospital did   21  they could to help me. They also asked my parents to teach me to do some  22  to help me walk. One day when my mother came to pick me  23   . I crawled(爬) towards her. She was so surprised and happy that she couldn't believe  24   eyes. Crawling was not walking, but it was a good  25  . Day by day, I could walk by myself.

   When I grew up, my mother   26   told me these stories. She said that if I thought of what she said whenever I met   27  , I could do anything successfully. I have been working hard and I have turned out to be a very   28   person. I get best   29  in school and I am a good dancer and swimmer. Thanks to my mother's strong resolution(决心), I live a    30    life now. What the story tells us, as my mother always says, is: Never give up.

1.A. achieved     B. failed       C. suggested          D. told

2.A. legs           B. hands        C. arms                 D. eyes

3.A. patient     B. confident    C. frustrated(沮丧的)  D. proud

4.A. or             B. and         C. if                   D. because

5.A. forgot      B. changed         C. succeeded            D. worked

6.A. nothing     B. somewhere       C. anywhere             D. everything

7.A. time        B. exercise     C. medicine            D. shopping

8.A. away        B. from       C. into                 D. up

9.A. her         B. my         C. his                  D. its

10.A. advice      B. end            C. chance               D. start

11.A. hardly      B. never          C. always               D. nearly

12.A. dreams      B. experiments  C. jobs              D. difficulties

13.A. excellent   B. dangerous      C. busy                 D. special

14.A. presents    B. friends      C. books              D. grades

15.A. happy         B. sad          C. tired                D. boring