Nick is my pen pal. He is 12 years old. He is from Canada. He lives in Ottawa. He speaks English and French. He likes science best. He likes Chinese, too. And he says he can speak a little Chinese, but he can’t write in Chinese.

  Nick likes sports, too. He likes swimming best. He goes swimming on weekends with his father. He says he can swim very well. He doesn’t like Physics. He thinks it too difficult.

  Nick has a big family. There are eight people in his family, his grandpa, grandma, father, mother and his brothers and sisters. He has two brothers and two sisters. They are Bob, Tim, Jane and Susan. They are happy!

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My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but would never run very well. The first three years of his life was ___1___ in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he has a problem when you saw him ___2__.
Children in our neighborhood always ran around ___3___ their play, and Joey would jump and ran and play, __4___. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be ___5___ to run like the other children. So he didn’t know.
In __6___ grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others, __7__ only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the __8___. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.
He ran four to five mile every day—even when he had a fever. I was __9___, so I went to ___10___ him after school. I found him running ___11___. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He has two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept ___12___.
Two weeks later, the names of the team ___13___ were out. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had ___14___ the team. He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. He just ___15___ it.

Nick is my pen pal. He is 12 years old. He is from Canada. He lives in Ottawa. He speaks English and French. He likes science best. He likes Chinese, too. And he says he can speak a little Chinese, but he can’t write in Chinese.

  Nick likes sports, too. He likes swimming best. He goes swimming on weekends with his father. He says he can swim very well. He doesn’t like Physics. He thinks it too difficult.

  Nick has a big family. There are eight people in his family, his grandpa, grandma, father, mother and his brothers and sisters. He has two brothers and two sisters. They are Bob, Tim, Jane and Susan. They are happy!

短文填空。从下面方框中选出10个单词并使用其正确形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确，通顺（每词限用一次。共10小题，每小题1分；计10分）

    Mr. Brown is    1    English teacher. He has two    2    . They are Jenny and Mary. Mr. Brown    3   a great collection(收藏品). He has ten soccer balls, six basketballs    4   nine baseballs. He    5   has eight tennis rackets and ten ping-pong bats.    6   he doesn't play sports. He only watches them    7  TV. Jenny is five. She likes playing ping-pong _  8   her friend every day. She doesn’t like soccer. Mary    9   nine. She likes playing basketball. She also likes   10    it on TV with her father.