Read the letter. Then answer the questions using short answers.

　　Dear Alan,

　　How are you and your parents? Are you planning to visit us anytime soon?

　　We finally had a day off from school this week, but I had an awful day. I got up early but the weather was bad, so I stayed at home and helped my parents clean the garage. Then I went to the store and bought some food. Then I read a boring book and played computer games. My parents wanted to go for a drive, so I went with them. But that wasn't very interesting, either. Then I went to the movies. I saw “Shark!”, but it wasn't a very good movie.

Yours,

Bill

1．Was Bill's day off exciting? No, it wasn't.　　　　　　

2．Did he sleep late? ________________________________

3．Did Bill help his parents? ________________________________

4．Did he buy some clothes? ________________________________

5．Was Bill's book interesting? ________________________________

6．Did he go to a movie? ________________________________

7．Was Shark! a good movie? ________________________________

8．Did Bill have an awful day? ________________________________

    store;buy;too;tell;surprise; many; sell; in; find; he; go; something;

Time spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable . If you go to a good (1) ________, no assistant will come near to you and say, “Can I help you?” You needn’t buy (2) _______ you don’t want. You may try to (3) _______out where the book you want is. But if you want, the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is not interested in (4) ______any books at all.

   There is a story which (5) _______ us about a good shop. A medical student found a very useful book in a shop, but it is too expensive for him to (6) ______. He couldn’t get it from the library, (7) _______. So every afternoon he went there to read a little at a time. One day, however, he couldn’t find the book from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him. To his (8) ________, the assistant pointed to the book (9) _______a corner, “I put it there so as not to be sold out.”said the assistant. Then he let the student (10) ______on with his reading.

1 _________  2 _________  3 ___________  4 __________  5 __________

6 _________  7 _________  8 ___________  9 __________  10 __________

I sat down to read under an old tree in the park. I felt my life was   36  , because my whole world was dark.
A young   37   ran up to me, out of breath（气喘吁吁）. He stood right before me with his head down and said   38  , “Look what I found!” In his hand was a flower, and what a poor sight! The flower was dry and   39 . I gave him a small smile and then turned my eyes away so that he could take his dry flower and go off to play.
  40 , he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his   41  and said in surprise, “It smells sweet and it’s beautiful, too. That’s   42  I picked it. Here, it’s for you.” The flower before me was dead. But I knew I must   43  it, or he might never leave. So I accepted(接受) the flower, and replied, “This is just what I   44 .” Just then, for the first time I noticed that the boy could not   45 －he was blind.
Tears came down my face as I   46  him for picking the best one. “You’re welcome.” he smiled, and then ran off  to  47 . I sat there and wondered how he was able to learn about my pain.
Through the eyes of a blind child,   48  I could see the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all those years I myself had been   49 . I decided to see the beauty in life, and   50  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.

I sat down to read under an old tree in the park. I felt my life was   36 , for my whole world was dark.

A young boy ran up to me, out of breath. He stood  37   before me with his head down and said   38 , “Look what I found!” In his hand was a flower, and what a poor sight! The flower was dry and   39 . I gave him a small smile and then turned my eyes away so that he could take his dry flower and go off to play.

  40 , he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his   41  and said in surprise, “It smells sweet and it’s beautiful, too. That’s   42  I picked it. Here, it’s for you. ” The flower before me was dead. But I knew I must   43  it, or he might never leave. So I accepted the flower, and replied, “This is just what I   44 . ” Just then, for the first time I noticed that the boy could not   45  —he was blind.

Tears (眼泪) came down my face as I   46  him for picking the best one. “You’re welcome. ” he smiled, and then ran off to   47 . I sat there and wondered how he was able to learn about my pain (痛苦).

Through the eyes of a blind child,   48  I could see the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all those years I myself had been   49 . I decided to see the beauty in life, and   50  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.

11.cry               B. speak                C. smile            D. see

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