ago, age, reply, modern, good, even, someone, seem, what, be, specially, impossible

“Mommy, am I special?” asked nine-year-old Ali.
“How special do you want to be?” asked his mother.
“Like the inventor of the computer,”     【小题1】  Ali.
“Well, you are always special to me    【小题2】   if you did not invent the computer,” said his mother.
Ali felt happy every time his mother said he was special. But deep inside, Ali really wanted to be someone     【小题3】   .
Ali said, “Mommy, almost all of my best friends    【小题4】   to have something that makes themselves special. Kimberly is top in math. Nigel is the    【小题5】   football player in my class. Gopal is the fastest runner in the school. When it comes to drawing, Rajoo won first prize in the city drawing competition three days     【小题6】 …”
“Ali, you should be pleased with yourself. You’re friendly and polite. You’re healthy,” said his mother, as if she knew   【小题7】  he was thinking.
“Thanks, Mommy, but I really want to be  【小题8】 special and do something different. I don’t want to be an ordinary person.”
“Dear, when I was your  【小题9】, I also wanted to do something special and make myself different. But I’ve realized that a simple life is a true life and a peaceful life is a happy life.   【小题10】  an ordinary person is great.”
Ali lost in thought.

survey, on, compare, both, find, opposite, to, low, necessary, whether, increase, high

At present, quite a few teens spend much time with their iPods listening to music, but a new study suggests that teens who spend too much time listening to music may be at【小题1】       risk of depression (抑郁症).
The study, led by Brian, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,
【小题2】      that teens who listened to music more often had 80% higher risk of depression, 【小题3】       with teens who listened to music less often.
According to the study, teens who most often listened to music could listen for at least four 【小题4】       five hours a day.
“At this point, it’s not clear 【小题5】       depressed people begin to listen to more music to escape, or whether listening to large amounts of music can lead to depression, or 【小题6】      ,” said Brian in a statement. However, researchers found that reading books had the 【小题7】      result: with increase in time spent reading, teens’ risk of depression dropped 50%.
For the study, the researchers 【小题8】      106 teens of 7 to 17 for two months. According to the survey, music showed strong associations (联系) with 【小题9】      depression risk. But that doesn’t 【小题10】      mean that music causes depression — for some depressed teens, music may even help.

you    buy    twenty-one     high     please

【小题1】 Can you tell me the ____________ of the mountain?
【小题2】Children, did you enjoy ____________ during the vacation?
【小题3】Travelling by sea is a ____________ experience for most people.
【小题4】He often ____________ gifts for his parents on their birthdays.
【小题5】They live on the ____________ floor and they take a lift up and down every day.

make up  shop  clear    win     help oneself to

【小题1】Alice explains things very well, what she says can be understood very ___________.
【小题2】 I think Susan will be the ____________ of the English competition in our school.
【小题3】--Where is your mother? –She is ___________ in the supermarket.
【小题4】__________ the fish and chicken, my boys!
【小题5】I must well prepare my English test, because it___________ 40% of the final exam.

wrok as       et up     receive education     is thankful to     raises money

Li Yan is a girl from a remote mountain village. She had to work in the field all day. She said not go to school and she could not read or write.
One day, a UNICEF officer came to Li Yan’s village. He said it was important for children to  【小题1】  . He wanted all the children in the village to learn to read.
UNICEF is part of the United Nations. It was  【小题2】   in Europe in 1946. It works all over the world now. UNICEF    【小题3】   by selling Christmas cards and organizing other activities.
Half a month later, Li Yan entered a local school. Now she goes to school every day. She enjoys studying with her new friends. She can read and write. She  【小题4】    UNICEF for helping her.
Li Yan says that she hopes to   【小题5】    a volunteer teacher in the futhre. She wants to help more children like her.

milk    clean   along   one   rain

【小题1】Turn right at the ______crossing.
【小题2】 If you can’t sleep well, you can have some _____.
【小题3】In summer, it is usually ______ in my town.
【小题4】 I spend forty minutes _______the room..
【小题5】Go _____the street and you can see a bank on your right.

 

difficulty,  master,  position,  different, hungry,  dare,  insist,  industry,  method, retell

【小题1】With the development of        the pollution is becoming one of the most serious problems in our  country.
【小题2】 We shouldn’t be afraid of       . Instead, we must face it with confidence; try our best to solve them.
【小题3】As a student, you must study hard and        scientific technology to make contributions to our country.
【小题4】Learning a kind of language, we should not only learn its grammar, pronunciation, but also master the  learning        .
【小题5】Wherever you are, we can use GPS to find out your actual       .
【小题6】The English teacher asked Wang Tao to read the passage again and again and        it.
【小题7】Tom is so        that he has to stop to have something to eat.
【小题8】Compare the two words carefully, then tell me their       .
【小题9】If you         on trying out your ideas, I think you can succeed. 
【小题10】 Tom didn’t pass the exam again. He doesn’t         to tell his parents the truth.

find out   fall ill  come up with    work as a doctor   take care of

【小题1】My brother ____________ with a bad cold last week .
【小题2】Please _______________ when the ship leaves for Guangzhou.
【小题3】Norman Bethune is well-known for __________________ in wars .
【小题4】Let’s_______________some questions about life .
【小题5】Since then she __________ her mother at home .

everything   seem   get   about  success  close  climb work  teacher    yourself

Everybody wants success. Some people work hard at it, others just talk   【小题1】 it. There are many successful people around us, so we all know what success looks like. Sometimes it just   【小题2】  like something too far to get.
But the truth is that success is   【小题3】  than you think. It’s just over there. You must want it enough, and be willing to   【小题4】  it.
Success has no excuses. If you have a reason that you can’t make it, you’ll not be   【小题5】 . Success comes after many failures. Not   【小题6】 is suitable for you, even if it’s fit for others. What we need to do is to let the failures become our   【小题7】 . Then we can learn something from them.
Success is like a ladder(梯子). You need to  【小题8】  it. But it’s not an escalator. You can’t just stand there and let it do the   【小题9】 for you. You must do the work  【小题10】. Sometimes it will be easy, other times it’ll be difficult. It’s necessary for you to keep climbing. Just start, you’ll be on the way to success.