-What's 29 in English?

- Oh, it's         ．

A. twenty and nine        B. twenty nine        C. twenty-nine       D. two nine

We kids have different ways to get in touch with each other now. And for the old, they’d like to go to the market or     26      each other’s houses, but for the young, we kids needn’t follow the     27     of doing so.
The easiest way for us to get in touch and make    28     is to use the Internet services, like QQ. A lot of websites such as www.qq.com have     29    in the last few years and offered such kinds of     30     for free. So we can make friends    31     through the Internet. Maybe we do not    32    all these “friend” well. We add friends only    33    we seem cooler with more friends online.
Then how do we kids keep in touch with friends online? We make it by posting our     34      to each other. At times , “friends”     35     “be missing” for months without a message. Is this the friendship in the 21^st century?
Of course, using these Internet services is not     36    for saying “ Hi, what’s up?” Some of us have found long-lost classmates and friends     37    these websites. And at times we     38  a time to go to a movie or get together. What’s more, we kids can      39     our friends’ favourite music when we are on the Internet.
Believe it or not, these Internet services will be    40     for a while, and it is really a convenient way for us to keep in touch.

根据短文内容，简要回答下列问题。

China has the world’s largest population and there are also a lot of poor people. So the government uses a different way from the UN to tell how many of her people live in poverty(贫困). Chinese living on less than 637 yuan a year are in terrible poverty. Those who live on less than 882 yuan are in the low income (低收入) group.

In 1978, 250 million Chinese lived in extreme(极端) poverty. Today, 29 million, or 3 percent of the population, are still very poor. Most are farmers from Central (中部的)  and Western China.

Since 1980, the government has spent more than 102 billion yuan building roads and giving clean water to poor people.

To make life better for them, the government also plans to put 12 billion yuan into helping the poor this year.

The government also plans to help farmers find jobs in cities by teaching them new skills (技能).

They hope that one day no one will have to worry about where to work or where the next meal will come from.

1.Which country has the largest population in the world?

2.How many Chinese lived in extreme poverty in 1978?

3.How much has the government spent in building roads and giving clean water to poor people?

4.How does the government plan to help farmers find jobs in cities?

5.What’s the main idea of this passage?

“What’s the matter, mum?” As soon as I enter the door, I find that my mother is   26 . It’s unusual, she usually    27 the door and welcomes me with a smile!
“She’s dying,” mum says sadly. I   28 what she says. The tulip (郁金香), mother’s   29 is dying.
A month ago, we moved   30 our new house and mum bought a very beautiful tulip. Mum liked it very much.   31 she was free, she would sit   32 her armchair beside the tulip and enjoys its beautiful colour   33 inviting smell.
She treated it like a baby and looked after it   34 . She put the tulip by window and moved it from one place to   35 to give the tulip enough sunshine. The first thing she did when she   36 every morning was   37 the tulip, Mum also fertilized (施肥) it many times.
She hoped that with great care, the tulip would become more and more beautiful and   38 . But the tulip was dying   39 too much sunshine, water and fertilizer.
It’s true that mother loved the tulip. But this kind of love can be ___40___.Love can sometimes kill what you love.

I sat down to read under an old tree in the park. I felt my life was   21  , for my whole world was dark.

A young boy ran up to me, out of   22  . He stood right before me with his head down and said   23  , “Look what I found!” In his hand was a flower, and what a poor sight! The flower was dry and   24  . I gave him a small smile and then turned my eyes aways so that he could take his dry flower and go off to play.

  25  , he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his   26   and said in surprise, “It smells sweet and it’s beautiful, too. That’s   27   I picked it. Here, it’s for you.” The flower before me was dead. But I knew I must   28   it, or he might never leave. So I accepted the flower, and replied, “This is just what I   29  .” Just then, for the first time I noticed that the boy could not   30   —he was blind.

Tears (眼泪) came down my face as I   31   him for picking the best one. “You’re welcome.” he smiled, and then ran off to   32  . I sat there and wondered how he was able to learn about my pain (痛苦).

Through the eyes of a blind child,   33   I could see the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all those years I myself had been   34  . I decided to see the beauty in life, and   35   every second of my life. And then I held that dry flower up to my nose and breathed in the smell of a beautiful rose.

1.A. hopeless           B. colourful            C. simple           D. wonderful

2. A. mind              B. trouble              C. breath           D. work

3.A. sadly              B. strictly             C. angrily          D.excitedly

4.A. dead               B. fresh                C. alive            D. heavy

5. A. So                    B. Or               C. However      D. And

6.A. head               B. nose             C. ear          D. neck

7. A. how               B. when             C. where            D. why

8.A. buy                B. sell             C. accept           D. break

9. A. admire                B. dislike              C. want         D. have

10.A. cry                   B. speak                C. smile            D. see

11.A. forgave               B. thanked          C. paid         D. hated

12.A. sleep             B. study                C. dance            D. play

13.A. at most               B. at times         C. at first         D. at last

14. A. cheerful             B. useful               C. blind            D. deaf

15. A. waste                B. enjoy                C. lose         D. forget