When I was a tiny baby crying all night, my mom sang to me and stayed by my side.
When I was tired and hungry, she gave me food and warm arms to sleep   【小题1】  .
When I was two     【小题2】   through the field, she made sure I was safe and kept me from     1    【小题3】   .
When I   【小题4】  _and hurt myself, she gave me a hug and lifted me up.
When I was seven coughing badly, she said    【小题5】   ice cream for me.
But I talked back loudly, “I should be allowed to eat some! Give it to me now!”
When I was nine watching scary movies, she said it’d give me awful dreams.
But I shouted back     【小题6】  , “I should be allowed to watch it! I’m not a baby!”
When I was a teen going out with friends, she said, “Please be back   【小题7】  ten!”
【小题8】   I talked back again----“I should not be told what to do! I’m seventeen now!”
Now I’m an adult, thinking back to     【小题9】   times.
I coughed for days after eating that ice-cream.
And had scary dreams after watching that film.
I was late for school from staying out past ten.
I regret talking back, not listening to Mom.
Mom knows best,  【小题10】   for me she wanted only the best！

I was late for school this morning, because the bus was too＿    for me to get on.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving _________.

At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was _________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned _________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, _________ there I sat, waiting for the light to _________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any _________.

I started wondering why I _________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was _________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no _________ in going through it.

Much later that _________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light _________ me. I think I stopped _________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’ s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow _________: we don’t go through red lights.

We do _________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.

I was so _________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.

1.A. fast                           B. slowly                       C. carefully                    D. hard

2.A. late                           B. alone                        C. worried                      D. afraid

3.A. green                       B. yellow                       C. red                              D. dark

4.A. and                           B. or                     C. so                                D. but

5.A. return                      B. change            C. start                            D. continue

6.A. attention                 B. background             C. direction                    D. information

7.A. refused                   B. decided          C. prepared                   D. forgot

8.A. hardly                      B. luckily                   C. usually                D. clearly

9.A. danger                     B. excuse                      C. space                    D. energy

10.A. moment                B. night                         C. afternoon                  D. morning

11.A. depended on       B. looked forward to C. stayed away from   D. came back to

12.A. though                  B. unless                       C. because                     D. until

13.A. me                         B. it                                C. him                             D. us

14.A. what                            B. how                         C. why                             D. that

15.A. tired                            B. ready                       C. proud                D. sorry

Time is very important in our life. It      our everyday moments. However, time never had any importance in my life until I       a watch from my father, which organized my life and made me more responsible. It's around my wrist with two silver bands.

    I received this gift on a gray-sky day. I went to the airport a.m. to       up my uncle Ali and take him to my house. However, I was late because I was       with my friends. Later, around 11:00 a.m. I      my uncle , but he had left the airport and taken a taxi to my house. I got to my house at 2:00 p.m. and felt       of myself at that moment. After I said hello to my angry father and tired uncle, my father asked me to sit next to him and handed me this watch as a gift from him. Then he said, "Peter, did you have       with your friends today? I answered, "Yes, Father, and I apologized for not meeting my uncle Ali." He said, "What you       was not very nice and you should feel sorry for your action." I was ashamed and said, "Father, I'll never do it again. I promise." He said, "I hope today you learned something important, and this watch will be a       for you." He told me to take this watch and use it as an organizer of my life.

    I learned a very important lesson from my father: to respect time and never to be late to get someone. This watch is       to me, not because of its price, but because of the lesson that I learned from it.

1.A. makes    B. organizes            C. orders                 D. deals

2.A. received     B. accepted      C. won                     D. achieved

3.A. call                   B. put                       C. pick                      D. bring

4.A. going      B. leaving       C. standing    D. shopping

5.A. forgot    B. remembered       C. saw                      D. visited

6.A. ashamed           B. frightened          C. disappointed        D. shy

7.A. lunch              B. quarrel                C. chance                D. fun

8.A. said       B. did              C. thought      D. forgot

9.A. wonder            B. hope                    C. requirement    D. reminder

10.A. useful            B. necessary           C. important           D. helpful