I’m always not sure whether my parents love each other or not. Every day they are very busy making money so that they can    a good life for my sister and me. They don’t act in the usual ways that I read in books or I see on TV. Also, they never send    to each other on Feb, 14.
One day, my mother was sewing* a quilt. I quietly sat down beside her.

“Is there love      you and Dad?” asked I.
With a little surprise in her eyes, my mother stopped to raise her head and       me. She said      for long time. At last I heard my mother’s voice:
“Jane,” she said, “Look at this thread*.      sometimes it appears, most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and lasting. If life is a quilt, then        should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there, and       disappears.”
I listened carefully but I couldn’t understand her      the next spring, when my father suddenly got    seriously. My mother had to look after him in the hospital for a month. When they      home, every day in the morning and evening, my mother helped my father walk slowly. They often walked without a word. And after two months, my father still couldn’t walk by      . All of us were worried about him very much.
“Dad,    are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Jane,nothing serious. To tell you the truth, I just like      with your mom. I like this kind of life,even if I cannot walk anymore.” Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.
Once I thought love meant good presents and sweet kisses. But now, I understand that love is just like a thread in the quilt. Love is inside, making our    nice and warm.

小题1:	A．offer B．provide C．give D．take

小题2:	A．money B．books C．gifts D．love

小题3:	A．for B．among C．between D．with

小题4:	A．looked up B．looked at C．looked after D．looked for

小题5:	A．nothing B．something C．anything D．everything

小题6:	A．Because B．But C．Although D．So

小题7:	A．Dad B．Mom C．family D．love

小题8:	A．always B．hardly C．often D．never

小题9:	A．unless B．for C．before D．until

小题10:

A．sick B．angry C．right D．down

小题11:

A．left B．returned C．missed D．stayed

小题12:

A．himself B．herself C．themselves D．ourselves

小题13:

A．what B．how C．when D．where

小题14:

A．talking B．walking C．reading D．eating

小题15:

A．mind B．heart C．life D．quilt

One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he had ten cents left. He was hungry so he decided to beg* for a meal at the next house.

However, he lost his courage when a lovely young woman opened the door. He only asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and then asked, "How much do I pay you?"
"You don't pay me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught me never to accept the pay for a kindness." He said, "Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart." As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically*, but it also increased his believe in God and the whole human. He was about to give up and stop before this point.
Years later the young woman became fairly ill. The local doctors had no idea to deal with her illness. They finally sent her to the big city, where specialists* can be called in to study her strange disease. Dr. Howard Kelly, now famous was called in for the consultation*. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a light filled his eyes. Immediately, he got up and went down through the hospital hall into her room. Dressed in his doctor's uniform he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room and decided to do his best to save her life. From that day on, he gave special attention to her.
After Howard Kelly and his workmates worked hard for a long time, they won and the woman was saved. Dr. Kelly asked the business office to pass the final bill to him for agreement. He looked at it and then wrote something on the side. The bill was sent to her room. She was afraid to open it because she was sure that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off. Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words:
"Paid." (Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly
Tears of happiness came down out of her eyes as she prayed* silently: "Thank You, God. Your love has reached everywhere through hearts and hands of the human beings."
小题1:Little Kelly felt      when the woman opened the door for him.

A．surprised

B．excited

C．upset

D．happy

小题2:The woman was saved at last because            .

A．she wasn’t badly ill

B．Dr. Kelly helped her a lot and paid for her cost

C．the cost for her disease is only the cost for a glass of milk

D．other people knew that she was kind and gave her a hand

小题3:Which following isn’t mentioned in the article?

A．Dr. Kelly lived a poor life when he was young.

B．Little Kelly was thankful when he left the woman’s house.

C．Dr. Kelly didn’t remember the woman at all.

D．The woman believed in God very much when she saw the words written by Dr. Kelly.

小题4:What is the best title?

A．The Boy And The Woman	B．A Glass of Milk
C．A Sick Woman	D．A Strange Disease

Thomas Edison was born in America. He invented plenty of electric appliances(电器) and people from all over the world know him. At that time, there was no electric lamp in the world. And it brought people much trouble. Young Edison decided to invent it. He didn’t know which material was suited to be a lamp filament(灯丝). He failed and failed and he spent a lot of time on it. Some of his friends asked him to stop the experiments, but he didn’t listen to them and tried his best to find the material.
One afternoon, one of his friends came to visit him, he was doing his experiments in the lab when the man came in. But he only asked his friend to sit down and didn’t stop to talk with him. The man sat for a long time and Edison said nothing to him. His friend was angry with him and said, “You’ve done the experiments 1,200 times but you failed 1,200 times too!”
“You’re right, my friend,” Edison went on doing his experiments and said. “But I’ve known 1,200 materials are not suited to be a lamp filament!”
小题1:Why do many people know Edison?

A．Because he was very clever.

B．Because he worked hard.

C．Because he spent much time on his work.

D．Because he invented many electric appliances.

小题2:He tried to find a kind of material which was suited to be ______.

A．a lamp

B．a lamp filament

C．a telephone

D．a light

小题3: Edison was busy with his work, so ____________.

A．he asked his friend to help him

B．he asked his friend to go back first

C．he didn’t stop to talk with his friend

D．he asked his friend to watch him working

小题4:His friend was angry because ____________.

A．he couldn’t persuade Edison to give up

B．Edison didn’t say hello to him

C．Edison failed 1,200 times

D．he didn’t think Edison was polite to him

小题5:From the passage, we learn that ___________.

A．Edison was a hard-working person	B．Edison never gave up
C．Edison was rude to friends.	D．Both A and B

Here are some tips that may help you live a beautiful life.
☆ When you wake up in the morning, think about what you are going to do. 
☆ No matter how you feel, get up and dress up.
☆ Take a thirty-minute walk every day. And when you walk, smile.
☆ Spend more time with old people over the age of seventy and young kids under the age of six.
☆ Smile and laugh more. And try to make at least three people smile each day.
☆Life is very short, so don’t wastetime hating others. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
☆ Call your family and friends often.
☆ Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what they are going through.
☆ Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
☆Each night before you go to bed, say to yourself, “Today, I did … I feel great.”
☆ Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Try to “pass all your tests”. The lessons you learn will last a lifetime (一生).
小题1:How many tips does the writer mention?

A．Nine.

B．Ten.

C．Eleven.

D．Twelve.

小题2:To live a beautiful life, what should we do?

A．We should get up early every day.

B．We should walk a dog for half an hour every day.

C．We should often laugh at others.

D．We should call our family and friends often.

小题3:The writer advises us to spend more time with 　　    　.
① little kids                 ② rich men
③ old people                  ④ beautiful women

A．①②

B．①③

C．②④

D．③④

小题4:What does the underlined word “heals” mean in Chinese?

A．惩罚

B．使……完结

C．记录

D．使……留下

小题5:What do we learn from this passage?

A．How to live a beautiful life.

B．How to get good grades at school.

C．How to get along with others.

D．How to solve problems in our lives.

Once there lived two brothers. The elder was called Simon and the younger was Victor. They always           each other. Every day they worked from morning          night, getting as much grain谷物 as possible from their fields.
One late autumn evening, after their work was done, Simon said to his wife, "Victor got married last month. He has many bills to      . I think I will put a bag of rice in his barn谷仓." "Oh, that's a good idea," said his wife. "But please don't tell him," said Simon, "If he knows I put the rice there, he will         take it.”
So, late that night Simon took a bag of rice to Victor's barn. The next day, while looking at his own barn, he was surprised. "I took a bag of rice to Victor's house last night,      I still have
the same number of bags in my barn.        did that happen?"
Simon decided to take        bag of rice to his brother's barn that night. But the next morning, he found the same number of bags in his barn again! "This is very strange," he thought.
That night he tried again. He carried a large bag of rice on his shoulder, and went out to his younger brother's house. In the bright moonlight, he could see someone         down the road. He was carrying something on his shoulder as well.
"Younger Brother!" Simon cried when he came near the man , "What are you doing?"
"I was         you, Older Brother," said Victor, "Your family is larger than mine. I thought you needed more rice. “The two brothers quickly         that they took rice to each other. They laughed about what had happened. "It is good to have a brother like you," they both said. And they lived happily ever since.

小题1:	A．got down to B．got on well with C．looked down upon D．look for

小题2:	A．until B．at C．through D．with

小题3:	A．spend B．take C．pay D．cost

小题4:	A．never B．sometimes C．usually D．ever

小题5:	A．so B．and C．but D．or

小题6:	A．How B．What C．Why D．Where

小题7:	A．other B．others C．the others D．another

小题8:	A．came B．coming C．to come D．to coming

小题9:	A．proud of B．strict with C．angry with D．worried about

小题10:

A．remembered B． imagined C．realized D．explained

The one-child policy in our country has made most families much smaller than before. That is to say, there are fewer children in a family. But the population of China is still growing faster. Why? In fact, it’s a serious problem not only in China, but also in the whole world. It’s reported that the world population is expected to reach 9,200,000,000 by 2050. There are two important reasons. First, there are still more and more babies born every year. Next, people in the world can live much longer than before.
The earth is too tired, but it has to burden(担负) more in the future. Who can save her?
根据所给短文内容，选择正确答案。
小题1:The passage tells us that the whole world is suffering from(为……苦恼) the      .

A．pollution

B．population

C．flood

D．hunger

小题2:The underlined word “expect” means _______ in the sentence.

A．希望

B．祝愿

C．期待

D．预测

小题3:The population of the world will be about ______ by the year 2050.

A．92 million

B．92 billion

C．9.2 billion

D．9.2 million

小题4:Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The population of China is still growing.
B. The number of women keeps growing these years.
C. It’s difficult for us to control (控制) the population in a few years.
D. One of the reasons for the population problem is that people can live longer than before.
【小5】Which is the best title for the passage?
A. China’s Population         B. The Family Planning
C. The Population Problem      D. China’s One-Child Policy

How much pocket money do you get from your parents every month? Maybe 200 yuan? But for Li Beibei, 30 yuan each month is enough. The only thing she buys is lunch—1.5 yuan each day. “Meat is too expensive for me,” said Li.
Li, 14, is a Junior 1 student at Beijing’s Xingzhi Experimental School. Her parents are migrant workers(外来务工人员). They came to Beijing from a village in Luohe, He’nan two years ago. Her father now works as a cleaner and gets 500 yuan every month. Her mother has no job.
Li Beibei has 460 friends at Xingzhi. Every day, Li gets up at 5:30 am and rides her bike for 20 minutes to get to school. Like many teens, Li has a lot of homework—usually at least one hour every day. But that is not all her work. During the weekdays she helps her mum cook. On weekends, she helps wash clothes. “I could cook when I was eight. Dad said sometimes I cook better than Mum!”
Li said she wanted to be a doctor. “I watch TV and find out there are many people with AIDS in He’nan. Some are kids. They need help,” said Li.
But she is afraid to leave school. “I hope I will always be in school,” said Li. “Dad works hard to get money. I promise him I will study hard to be a good student and a good doctor in the future.”
小题1:Li Beibei came from ______.

A．Beijing

B．Liaoning

C．He’nan

D．Xingzhi

小题2:Which of the following sentences is TRUE? ______.

A．The girl’s parents are both cleaners

B．Her parents gave her 30 yuan to buy books

C．The girl often helps her mother do some housework

D．She studies hardest in her class

小题3:She spends ______ on her homework everyday.

A．20 minutes	B．over one hour
C．half an hour	D．two hours

小题4:Her wish is to be a doctor because she wants to ______.

A．help poor farmers

B．help the people with AIDS

C．make her parents healthier

D．help poor kids

小题5:The best title of the passage should be ______.

A．A City Girl	B．Hard But Happy Life
C．A Village Girl’s Hope	D．A Girl’s School Life

小题1:China Youth says that more and more ______.

A．boys are clever than girls

B．boys can’t go to school

C．girls have entered colleges

D．girls begin to study at school

小题2:42.14% refers to(指) the number of ______.

A．girls at schools in 1998

B．girls in colleges in 2001

C．boys at schools in 2001

D．boys in colleges in 1998

小题3:The writer gave us ______ reasons to explain the question.

A．two

B．three

C．four

D．five

小题4:What does the underlined word “proportion” mean in Chinese?

A．身高

B．比例

C．特性

D．速度

小题5:Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A．Boys may not do well in their study as girls because they don’t like studying.

B．Boys are much cleverer than girls because they’re interested in many things.

C．Girls’ intelligence is the same as boys’.

D．Girls study harder, but they couldn’t get higher marks than boys.

The night before Christmas a man punished his 5-year-old daughter for using up all of all of the family’s expensive gold wrapping peper (包装纸)._ _____was tight(紧张的)， he became very _________when the child tried to wap a box to put under the Christmas trre .
However，the next morning the little girl who was ______with excitement，brought the gift box to her father’s bedroon and said to him ，“This is ______ you ，Daddy! Merry Christmas nad I love you !
The father was ____by his earlier reactions (反应) But，when he opened the box ，he found it ________and became angry “when you give someone a    . you should put _____inside the box !
The little girl looked up him_____around his little gittle said，“Daddy，it’s not empty . Last night I blew kisses into it ______it was all full
The father fell on his knees and put his_____ around his little girl He asked her to ______him for anger
After tjat， the father kept the little gold box _______his bed for all the years of his life Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult ______，he would open the box ，take out a kiss and remember the _______of his beautiful child who had put it there
Choose the best choice from A、B or C according to the passage you read .
小题1:A.Life            B. Money          C. Air
小题2:A.anxious         B.worried          C. angry
小题3:A.filled           B.dealt            C. agreed
小题4:A.for             B. to              C. from   
小题5:A.educational      B. exhausted        C.embarrassed
小题6:A.empty           B.mystic          C.full
小题7:A.sadness          B.happiness       C. present
小题8:A. it               B.something      C.them
小题9:A.imoerssion       B.tears            C.sadness
小题10:A.until          B. as soon as        C.even though
小题11:A. elbow        B. hand            C.arms
小题12:A..forgivc       B. renenber          C.forget
小题13:A.at            B.near              C.by
小题14:A.triouble       B. decision           C.problems
小题15:A.kiss           B. love              C.goodness 

When I was young, I always helped my grandfather in the fields. As I worked beside him, he        to tell a story about a man named Joe, and his wife, who moved to a new farm with their three sons. They were setting into the new place        a nearby farmer told Joe that there was gold in the earth. Joe was very       , and told his sons about it.
They began to dig in one corner, and they got to the end of the field. At the same time, Joe thought he would        some crops where the earth had been       . The plants included corn, tomatoes, potatoes, etc. His sons continued to dig through the soil, made up their mind to find the gold. Since        soil was being turned, Joe could plant more crops. Joe had never farmed before, but it had always been his       .
As different crops came ready to be harvested, Joe started to        that there were more vegetables than he and his family could ever       . One of Joe’s neighbors suggested that he        a vegetable shop. Joe and his wife did that very thing. They called it Joe and Family Vegetable. Joe even had to leave some crops in the fields,        he had more than enough to supply the vegetable shop.
This went on for years, and Joe and his wife became quite        from their little vegetable shop. They were even able to        their sons to college.
Remember the beginning of the story, when Joe was told by his new neighbor that there was gold in the land? Well, the truth is, Joe’s       of the English language was less than perfect. His new neighbor friend actually meant that his land had rich       . So you can see where the concept（概念）of gold comes from.

小题1:	A．feared B．agreed C．used D．failed

小题2:	A．while B．as C．when D．after

小题3:	A．happy B．disappointed C．angry D．calm

小题4:	A．harvest B．plant C．water D．feed

小题5:	A．controlled B．burned C．destroyed D．turned

小题6:	A．more B．most C．much D．few

小题7:	A．job B．problem C．pity D．dream

小题8:	A．realize B．promise C．review D．reply

小题9:	A．feed B．sell C．plant D．eat

小题10:

A．take up B．set up C．turn up D．make up

小题11:

A．now B．though C．so D．because

小题12:

A．careful B．rich C．alone D．cheerful

小题13:

A．bring B．take C．send D．make

小题14:

A．understandin B．knowledge C．thinking D．skills

小题15:

A．mud B．gold C．soil D．material