The FIFA World Cup is _______ fantastic that a lot of people in the world are crazy about it.

A. such              B. so             C. very                   D. too

- Yao Ming is very popular among teenagers.

- Yes. Many middle school students are his ______.

　 A. heroes　　　 B. stars　　　　　　　　 C. fans　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. brothers

 Kim Jong Il (金正日) ______ for about seven months.

A. died                 B. has died            C. has been dead   D. has dead

 “Hold” has become         hot word this year. 

A. a                      B. an                     C. the                          D. /

你喜欢什么样的老师呢？假如你是一位老师,会如何做呢？请以“If I were a teacher…”为题,谈谈你的看法。

要求:

1. 喜欢的老师类型。（至少含一个定语从句）

2. 词数80左右。

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阅读短文,根据要求完成下面各小题。

When children are faced with problems, they may not be able to deal with them. Children need to learn how to solve problems. You can help them to learn it. The best way is to take the time to talk about problems as they happen. Of course, this is not easy to do. Problems have a way of bursting upon (突然发生) someone at the worst time. But even if the time is not the best, you should try to help.

There are many things you can do to help children learn problem-solving skills. One good way is to find out what made the problem happen. This is a skill that children won’t learn without help. A child may knock over a glass of milk at the dinner table, but he may not realize that the glass was too close to the edge. You can show the child what the problem is. Then it can be solved.

The next step for children is to learn how to solve the problem alone.  This step takes courage. 83 Some of them are so afraid of being wrong that they cannot solve problems. You can help them by talking about some possible answers. Then two of you can decide which answer is the best. Let the children try it out. Now the children will see that problems can be solved, and you can praise them for choosing an answer.

Another step to problem-solving is to help children see the laws of cause and effect（因果规律）. If a glass is knocked over, it will fall and break. If children might like to write on the wall, the pencil always leaves a mark. Soon the children will see the link between cause and effect, and then they are on the road to growth. When children see someone else knock over a glass. They now know that it will break. When they see writing on the wall, they can tell how it got there.

84 The ability to solve problems is not easy for children to learn. It is not easy for adults either. It takes patience for you, and it takes practice for the child. But problem-solving can be taught. All you need is time and effort.

A. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。

81. How many steps are mentioned in the passage to help children learn to solve problems?

____________________________________________________________________

82. Is it easy for adults to learn the ability to solve problems?
    ____________________________________________________________________

B. 短文中划线的句子译成汉语。

83. _______________________________________________________________________

84. _______________________________________________________________________

请给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。

85._______________________________________________   

阅读短文,根据短文内容及首字母提示,在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

Ashley Smith is a 26-year-old single mother (71) w_____ a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta, Georgia early on the (72) m_____ of March 12, when a man followed her to her door, and put a gun (枪) to her side.

“I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really (73) f______,” she said in a TV interview (采访) last week.

The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He killed three people at an Atlanta courthouse on March 11. The police were searching for him.

Nichols tied Smith up with tape, (74) b____ set her free after she begged him not to take her (75) l______ again and again. “I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn’t have a mummy,” she said with tears.

“I just talked to him and tried to (76) m_____ him believe me,” Smith said.

She asked Nichols (77) w_____ he chose her. “He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and God asked him to do so.”

Smith even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was   (78) s________ when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing the police (79) l______ for him. “I cannot believe that’s me on the TV!” Nichols told the woman.

Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he (80) s_____ do. She said, “I think you should turn yourself in. If you don’t, lots more people are going to get hurt.”

Finally, he let her go. Then she called the police.       

阅读下面短文,用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空 (必要时可加情态动词或助动词)。

Miss Carter is a beautiful girl. Her father (61) _______ (die) two years ago. They began (62) ______ (live) a hard life. When she finished middle school, she couldn’t go on studying. Her uncle helped her (63) ______ (find) a job. Mr. Baker, a rich shopkeeper, hired (雇) her. Her work was to clean the rooms and sweep the floors. She tried her best and worked hard. Mrs. Baker liked her and paid her more than the other servants (佣人).

It was Sunday, Mr. Baker was reading and Mrs. Baker (64) ______ (watch) TV in the sitting room. The girl came in and said, “I’m sorry, Mrs. Baker. I have to tell you I (65) ________ (not work) for you any longer.” It surprised Mr. and Mrs. Baker. The woman asked, “What makes you (66) ______ (say) that? Aren’t we friendly to you?”

“Yes, you are, Madam,” the girl said. “(67) ______ you ______ (find) a piece of better work yet?” Mrs. Baker asked.

“No, I haven’t,” Miss Carter said. “but I don’t think you trust me.”

“You are wrong, Miss Carter,” said Mr. Baker. “I always think you are a good girl, and I often (68) ______ (leave) my keys in my study.” “It was true that you often left the keys in your study,” said the girl. “But none of them (69) _____ (use) to open the safe (保险箱).”

“Well,” said Mr. Baker. “You (70) ______ (go) right now!”      

　  When I was at university, I studied very hard. But a lot of my friends did very little work. Some did just enough to pass exams. Others didn’t do quite enough. Fred Baines was one of them. He spent more time drinking in the Students’ Union than working in the library.

　　Once at the end of the term, we had to take an important test in chemistry. The test had a hundred questions. In my room the night before the test, Fred was watching TV. Fred usually worried a lot the night before a test. But on that night he looked perfectly calm. Then he told me of his plan. “It’s very simple. There are a hundred questions and I have to get fifty correct to pass the test. I’ll take a coin into the examination room. I haven’t studied a chemistry book for months, so I’ll just toss the coin. That way, I’m sure I’ll get half the questions right.”

　　The next day, Fred came happily into the exam room. As he sat tossing a coin for half an hour he marked down his answers. Then he left, half an hour before the rest of us.

　　The next day, he saw the chemistry professor in the corridor. “Oh, good,” he said, “Have you got the result of the test?” The professor looked at him and smiled, “Ah, it’s you, Baines. Just a minute.” Then he reached into his pocket and took out a coin. He threw it into the air, caught it in his hand and looked at it.

　　“I’m terribly sorry, Baines,” he said, “You failed!”

51. This story mainly wants to tell us ________.

A. chemistry is really hard to learn

B. there were too many questions for students to prepare for

C. good exam results needs hard study

D. tossing a coin can not always decide the result

52. Fred Baines was one of those who ________.

A. did just enough to pass the exam

B. didn’t work hard enough for their studies

C. had too much other work for the Students’ Union

D. were quite good at passing exams

53. Fred came happily into the exam room because ________.

A. he had got ready for the exam

B. he knew the answers already

C. the other students would be behind him

D. he had his way to finish the exam

54. The chemistry exam in fact ________.

A. was not very hard

B. took the other students an hour to finish

C. had more than one hundred questions

D. needed to be done by tossing a coin

55. The professor tossed the coin to tell Baines that ________.

A. he was satisfied with his way for the exam

B. he wanted to make friends with him

C. his way for the exam would never work

D. the exam result depended on the coin

Once a tiger was in a cage. Soon a good man went by. As soon as the tiger saw the man, the tiger began to cry. “Please! Please!” the tiger called. “Please, let me out.” “No,” said the good man. “If I do, you will eat me.” “I will not eat you,” the tiger said. “Please let me out.”

The good man believed the tiger. He opened the door of the cage. The tiger jumped out. “How silly you are,” the tiger laughed. “Now I am going to eat you.” “Wait!” the man cried. “You ought not to eat me. Let us ask others what they think.” “You may ask three others.” the tiger said.

The good man asked a tree. The tree said, “I give shade (树荫). And yet I am cut down. Let the tiger eat you.”

Next, the good man asked a bird. The bird said, “I hurt no one. Yet people hunt and kill me. Let the tiger eat you.”

The last one that the good man asked was a road. The road said, “I don’t care if the tiger eats you. People could not get along too well without me. Yet all day and all night people step on me without even a ‘thank you’.”

The tiger was ready to eat the good man. Just then a dog came by. “What is happening?” asked the dog. The man told the dog the whole story.

“I don’t understand,” said the dog. “The tiger wants to eat you because you put him in a cage?”

“No, no,” said the man. “Some other men put him in a cage.”

“Oh,” the dog said. “He is going to eat you because you do not have a cage.”

“Silly dog!” the tiger cried. “Don’t you understand? I was in the cage. This man let me out.”

“Oh, I see,” the dog said. “When the man was in the cage, you let him out.”

“I was in the cage!” the tiger cried. “In this way!” with that, he jumped back into the cage.

At once, the dog closed the door of the cage. “Oh,” the dog laughed. “At last I understand!”

The good man and the dog walked off. The tiger looked sad in the cage. If he waited long enough, perhaps another good man would come by.

46. When the tiger saw the man, he began to cry, because _____________.

　 A. he wanted the man to help him out of the cage　　

B. he wanted to eat the man

　 C. he wanted to eat the dog　　　　　　　　　　　

D. he wanted to eat the bird

47. After the tiger jumped out of the cage, he wanted _____________.

　 A. to thank the man　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. to eat the man　 　

　 C. to ask the others　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. to run away

48. The tree ____________ with the tiger because _______ to the tree.

　 A. agreed; humans were kind　　 　　　 B. agreed; humans were not kind

　 C. disagreed; humans were kind　 　　　　　　 D. disagreed; humans were not kind

49. The bird let the tiger eat the man because __________.

　 A. people helped birds　　　　 　　　　　　　　 B. it liked tigers　

C. it liked the man　　　　　 　　　　　　　　 D. people hunted and killed him

50. What happened to the tiger at last?

　 A. The dog agreed that the tiger could eat the good man.

B. The tiger jumped back into the cage and was closed in the cage again.

C. The tiger ate the good man and the dog.　　　

D. The tiger made friends with the good man and the dog.