two     noisy        grow        rain         be          peace

good    follow       art         someone     close        one

What's the real meaning of the word "peace" ? The   1   story may tell us something about it.

There was once a king who offered an award to an artist who could paint the   2   picture of peace. Many   3   tried. The king looked at all the pictures. But there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.

One picture was a calm lake. The lake was a perfect thing for peace because of the high mountains around it. Overhead was a blue sky with white clouds.   4   who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had mountains too.  But they were rugged (高低不平的). Above was the dark sky, from which heavy rain fell. A waterfall was rushing down the side of the mountain. This did not look   5   at all. But when the king looked   6  , he found behind the waterfall a very small bush  7   in the midst 在….中 ) of the waterfall and a mother bird sitting on her nest (鸟窝)  in perfect peace.

The king gave the award to the artist who painted the   8    picture. Why? "Because," explained the king, "peace does not mean   9   in a place where there is no   10   , no trouble

or hard work. Peace means in the midst of all those things, you're still calm in your heart. That's the real meaning of peace. "

A）. 根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。 （答案填在提前括号内。）

    Some teenagers think that newspapers are boring and only for adults. But that's not true. There are many interesting stories in the paper. You just need to make clear what you are looking at. "I spend about half an hour reading newspapers every day," said 15-year-old Gao Ming from Beijing. "I'm interested in things happening at school. " School news is just one kind of news story in newspapers. There's also world news: from international problems to pop stars.

Read the newspaper carefully, we'll find different types of articles on the pages:

News stories － these stories are about events. Reporters try to show all points of a story to help readers understand what happened. Reporters try to speak to as many people as possible. They also use pictures and numbers to show the readers that the stories are true. The newspaper Teenagers has lots of news stories on the news page and front page. When we read them, we learn more about the facts, not the writers' ideas.

Opinion writing -- opinion writing is usually about something happening right now. But it isn't just facts. Here writers add their own opinions to the news. Writers pick only the facts that help back up their ideas. They make readers believe that they are telling the truth. This is usually the kind of story that gets people thinking. Go to "Speak Out" on Page Two for an example of opinion writing in Teenagers.

Advertisement -- Don't get happy too early when you read them. Those sweet words and lovely pictures are just ways to get us interested in their products! People have to pay to put advertisements in newspapers!

(    ) 1 . The underlined sentence" You need to make clear what you are looking at." means

        that the readers "       ".

              A. should understand interesting news stories

              B. ought to know which kind of things to read

              C. need to look at the school news first

              D. must know the contents of all the news