选择恰当语句填入文中，使文章连贯完整。

Old habits die hard. Choosing what we do at first is important for the young.

1. It is easier to go downhill than to climb uphill.2.Bad habits do not come suddenly. They come little by little without one being aware of their danger. School boys first pick up little bad habits in school and on the street.3.If they see bigger boys smoking, they also want to learn to smoke. If they see their friends gambling（赌博），they want to gamble.4.From copying they learn to steal, from gambling, they learn to cheat. At last they become suspected（不被信任的） by everybody.5.

A. When they can’t write their lessons, they copy from their schoolmates.

B. When they see the old in trouble, they will come to help them quickly.

C. The way of developing（培养）habits is just like the way to hills.

D. How necessary it is that we get up the bad habits in the beginning!

E. It is difficult to do something right for everyone.

F. So it is easier to fall into bad habits than into good ones.

G. When they get bigger, the habits become stronger and stronger so that they can no longer give up them.

书面表达

请根据本单元所学内容，写一篇描述自己生活方式的短文，词数80左右。

提示：你叫刘涛，是一名中学生。你身体好，每天锻炼身体，早晨跑步半小时，然后骑车上学。你爱运动，每周和朋友打两次篮球，一到周末，你就到操场踢足球。你喜欢吃各种食物，尤其是蔬菜。

The story was so________that we couldn't help laughing.

A.selfish B.patient C.humorous D.generous

This question is________difficult for me to answer.

A.too B.very C.so D.such

—Which do you like better, coffee or tea?

—I________tea________coffee.

A.like; better B.prefer; better C.prefer; to D.like; better

The old man prefers________at home to having a picnic.

A.staying B.to stay C.stay D.stayed

____ the beginning of the fable，I found it interesting.

A.At B.By C.On D.To

连词成句。(注意各小题的词形变化)

1.learn, write, this, we, to, story week

_____________________________________________________.

2.we, different, read, kinds, poem, of

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3.the, must, you, follow, rule, the, school, of

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4.be, I, encourage, to, confident, yesterday, her

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5.it, at, the, he, in, be, not, beginning, interested

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May our friendship be not like the tides(潮汐)

Tides rise. tides fall.

May it be like the ocean,

Whose face may show smile, frown(皱眉), or anger,

But whose mind is at bottom unchanging.

May our friendship be not like the flowers,

Flowers bloom, flowers fade(褪色).

May it be like grass and trees,

Their leaves may wither(枯萎),

But their roots live long.

May our friendship be not like the moon

The moon waxes(月圆), it also wanes(月亏)

May it be like the stars,

They appear or do not appear in the sky.

But always exist with mysterious(神秘的) light

1.The writer thinks their friendship is like_________according to the poem.

A.the tides B.the flowers C.the moon D.the grass and trees

2.The underlined word “exist” means “_________”in the poem.

A.存在 B.生存 C.生活 D.升起

3.The best title for this poem is “_________”.

A.Unchanging Bottom B.Long Live Root

C.Forever Friendship D.Mysterious Light

4.May our friendship be like grass and trees, their leaves may_________.

A.winter B.fade C.wax D.wane

5.Which one is not mentioned?

A.Ocean B.Grass and trees C.Stars D.Weather

When asked about poetry, most people will say that a poem is a text that has rhythm(节奏) and rhyme押韵). Famous are the lines by William Blake, which have clear rhythm and rhyme.

Other people will add that poems must have a certain form, with a fixed(固定的)number of lines, such as a sonnet(十四行诗). With rhyme, most people mean the rhyme of sound of words at the end of the lines. It is also true that much of the classical(古典的)poetry that we have looks like that. John Milton was one of the first poets who started writing poems without rhyme at the end of the lines. He wrote other poems too, though he is famous for his long poems without rhyme. This style of poetry became known____ free verse(自由诗 ). It was not until the twentieth century that modem poetry was really developed. Modem poets wanted to break all the traditional forms of poetry. One of the characteristics(特征)of modern poetry is that it usually does not have rhyme at the end of a line, and it is also often about common topics(主题).

In China, free verse was known and used much earlier. The Unhappy official(《悲哉行》)by Bai Juyi is an example of a poem written in free verse.

第1小题完成句子; 第2~3小题简略回答问题; 第4小题将文中横线处空缺的一个单词填写在下面的答题线上; 第5小题将文中画线句子翻译成汉语。

1.Most people think that a poem is a text that has_______________________________________________.

2.What is John Milton famous for?

________________________________________________________________________________________.

3.What is the characteristic of modem poetry?

________________________________________________________________________________________.

4.______________________________________________________________________________________.

5.______________________________________________________________________________________.