A woman repeated a bit of gossip（流言） about a neighbor. Within a few days, the whole village knew the story. The person she talked about was deeply hurt and angry.

Later, the woman spreading the rumor（谣言） learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise man to find out what she could do to repair the harm.

"Go to the marketplace," he said, "buy a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pick its feathers and drop them one by one along the road." Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told.

The next day the wise man said, "Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me."

The woman followed the same road, but she was so discouraged when she found the wind had blown the feathers all away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand.

"You see," said the wise man, "it's easy to drop them, but it is impossible to get them all back. So it is the same with gossip. It doesn't take much to spread a rumor, but once you do, you can never completely undo（ 弥补） the wrong."

1.Why did the the woman feel sorry ?

2.What did the wise man tell the women to do?

3.The underlined word “discouraged” might mean       .

4.Which of the following statements is true?

5.What the wise man said has nearly the same meaning as the Chinese phrase______.

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）

Once there was a baby eagle (1)_________(live) in a nest on a cliff(山崖). The baby eagle loved his nest. It was warm, soft and comfortable. And even better, he had all the food and love that his mother could give. Whenever the baby eagle was hungry, his mother would always come just in time with the delicious food he liked.

He (2) ___________ (grow) happily day after day. But suddenly his world changed. His mother stopped (3) _________ (come) to the nest. He was full of sadness and fear. He thought he (4) _________ (die) soon. He cried, but nobody heard him.

Two days later his mother appeared with some nice food. The baby eagle was wild with joy. But his mother (5) __________ (put) the food at the top of the mountain and then looked down at her baby. The baby eagle cried out. “Mum, why did you do this to me? I’m hungry. Don’t you know I will die if I have nothing (6) __________ (eat)?”

“Here (7) _____ (be) the last meal I give you. Come and get it by yourself, ”his mother said. Then she flew down and pushed the baby eagle out of the nest.

The baby eagle (8) ________ (fall) down, faster and faster. He looked up at his mum, “Why do you abandon me?” He looked down at the earth. The ground was much closer. Then something strange happened. The air caught behind his arms and he began (9) ______ (fly)! He wasn’t moving to the ground any more. Instead, his eyes were pointed up at the sun.

“You（10）_______ ( fly)! You can make it!” His mother smiled.

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。

Do you get angry at your friend’s singing loudly while you are working? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?

If you do，you need to control your feelings and try to (1) s_______ getting angry. Getting angry with people can make you (2) l______ friends. They won’t be with you!

Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It (3) t____ teenagers how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems (4) w_________. It can never make them better. Getting angry is not a natural way to act. It is just a bad (5) h________, like smoking. The book says that you can control your anger easily ------ all you have to do is telling (6) y______ not to be angry.

When a baby falls, it only cries if its (7) p______ are watching it. Like a baby, you should only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do .

The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily. Here are our top three.

① Keep a record. Every time you get angry, (8) w_____ down why you are angry. Look at it later, and you will see you get angry too easily.

② Ask your friends to stop talking to you and be (9) q______ when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.

③ Do something (10) d_______. When you get angry, don’t keep thinking about the problem. Walk away from it and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!

BEIJING---Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has visited the“left-behind” children whose parents are working in cities before Children’s Day.

During a visit to northwest China’s Shanxi Province, Wen visited the home of Yang Saike, a primary school boy in a village of Xingping City, Yang, whose parents were working in Fujian, thousands of kilometers away, was cared for by his grandparents. His parents fail to go home even once a year.

The premier held Yang in his arms and looked through his exercise books and praised him for his hard work. (83) Wen talked with many children and asked them many questions about their schooling and life.“ You are so pretty,” Wen said to Liu Mengqi, a seven-year-old girl living with her grandmother. Liu’s parents were also working in the city.

“Have you been to school yet?” Wen asked two other girls.

“ We are going to the pre-school class,” said one.

“ Mon and dad at home?” Wen asked. The children shook their heads.

“ Children cannot see their parents very often, which is a new problem in the countryside. We should give them more care and love,” said the premier.

(84) “ With fast economic（经济）development, more people in the country chose to work in cities and left their children with grandparents or relatives back home”，said Wen. The premier asked local governments to do something to protect and care for such children at home and free their parents in cities from worries about their children.

A. 根据短文内容简要回答问题。

1.What questions did Wen Jiaobao ask the children in the countryside?

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2.What did the premier ask local governments do?

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B. 将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。

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C. 请给短文拟一个适当的标题。

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初中的学习生涯即将结束了。四年来，在你获取知识的同时，你的外貌，兴趣爱好，习惯…都有了一定的改变吧！请你以(How I Change)为题，写一篇短文，告诉我们你的变化好吗？字数在80词左右。

要求：1.短文中请勿使用真实姓名、地点或所在学校名称。

2.短文开头已经给出（字数不计入总数）。

3.这些词汇也许对你有帮助:hobby, habit, used to, enjoy oneself

My life has changed a lot in the past four years.                   

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We all agree that a pair of shoes _____________a nice present.

A. are B. is C. were D. have

One of the wonders of the _____ world is the pyramids in Egypt.

A. old B. natural C. modern D. ancient

He met many problems------ he was going over his lessons.

A. before B. as soon as C. since D. while

The teacher explained the question again to make herself ________.

A. understand B. to understand C. understanding D. understood

Jamie is a cook ________ ideas are changing school dinners.

A. who B. whom C. whose D. that