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Young people are often unhappy when they are with their parents. They say that their parents don’t 1.u       them. They often think their parents are too strict 2.w       them.

Parents often find it difficult to win their 3.c       trust, and they seem to forget how they themselves felt when they were young.

For example, young people like to do things without much4.t      . It’s one of their ways to show that they grow up and they can solve any difficult5.p      . But older people always think6.m       than young people. Most of them plan things ahead and don’t like their plans to be 7.c      , so when you want your parents to let you do something, you will succeed easily if you ask before you really start doing it.

Young people often make their parents angry by the 8.c       they wear, the music they enjoy and something else. But they don’t mean to cause any trouble. They just want to be cut off(摆脱) from the old people’s world and they are 9.t       to make a new culture of their own. And if their parents don’t like their music or clothes or their ways of speech, the young people feel very sad. Sometimes instead of going out with their parents, they just want to stay at home10.a       and do what they like.

If you plan to do something, you’d11.b       win your parents over and get them to understand you, if so, your parents will certainly let you do 12.w       you want to do.

Many parents want their children to be famous one day. But do children have the same    1  ?

A new   2  —Hi, Ke'ai is on at Beijing Children's Art Theatre. It tells the story of a boy called Ke'ai. His parents would like him to become a painter or a   3  one day. They teach him to   4  and to play the violin, but Ke'ai doesn't enjoy these activities. Then one day Ke'ai's parents see Liu Xiang win a gold   5  at the Athens Olympic Games, and they want him to be a sportsman.

"   6  do they want me to be someone else?" Ke'ai asks and says, "I only want to be   7  . "

The play shows us that it is good for parents to learn to   8  their children. It helps parents to think about what kids want to do.

Young audiences(观众)enjoy the story, and also the   9  in the play. There are two songs in the play. One of them, "Ke'ai's Song" is very  10  to learn, so the audiences can sing the song on their way home after the play!

1.                A．jobs           B．dreams         C．habits    D．hobbies

2.                A．song           B．film            C．play D．opera

3.                A．writer          B．teacher         C．sportsman D．musician

4.                A．paint           B．write           C．run  D．drive

5.                A．match          B．ring            C．medal    D．race

6.                A．How           B．Why           C．When    D．Where

7.                A．myself         B．different        C．alone D．great

8.                A．encourage      B．understand      C．criticize   D．inspire

9.                A．light           B．clothes         C．skill  D．music

10.               A．easy           B．difficult         C．important  D．necessary

Many parents want their children to be famous one day. But do children have the same___1__?
A new__2____—Hi, Ke'ai is on at Beijing Children's Art Theatre. It tells the story of a boy called Ke'ai. His parents would like him to become a painter or a __3_____ one day. They teach him to __4__and to play the violin, but Ke'ai doesn't enjoy these activities. Then one day Ke'ai's parents see Liu Xiang win a gold___5___ at the Athens Olympic Games, and they want him to be a sportsman.
"___6___do they want me to be someone else?" Ke'ai asks and says, "I only want to be____7______."
The play shows us that it is good for parents to learn to _____8_____their children. It helps parents to think about what kids want to do.
Young audiences(观众)enjoy the story, and also the___9___in the play. There are two songs in the play. One of them, "Ke'ai's Song" is very ___10_____to learn, so the audiences can sing the song on their way home after the play!

Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest. She had no family and no one to love her. So she often   1  sad and lonely.
One day, when she was walking in the forest, she found that a small   2  was trapped unluckily in a bush. The butterfly tried to fly away   3  failed. The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care. Instead of flying away, the butterfly turned   4  a beautiful fairy (仙女). The little girl was very   5 .
“Thank you for   6  me. You are so kind. I will make any of your dreams come true.” said the fairy.
The little girl thought for a moment and then said, “I want to be   7 !”
The fairy said, “Very well. I will help you.” And she said something in the little girl’s ear. Then the fairy disappeared.
As the kind little girl grew up, she was   8  ready to help people in need and was popular among the villagers. No one in the village was as happy as she was. Everyone asked her the   9  of her happiness. She always smiled and   10 , “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a kind   11  when I was a little girl.”
When the kind girl became a very old woman and was dying, the neighbours in the   12  all gathered (聚拢) around her bed because they were   13  that her secret of happiness would die with her. They asked, “Please tell us what the kind fairy said.”
The lovely old woman still   14  and said, “She told me that everyone needed me, no matter how safe they seemed, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how old or   15 . She said that helping others would make me happy all my life.”

Joe lost his arms in an accident that killed his father. Since then, he has had to depend on the     1   of his younger sister Ella. In order to take care of him, Ella became his shadow, never leaving him     2    for years. Except for writing with his toes, he was completely unable to do anything in his life.

As they grew up together, they had their share of     3   and they would often quarrel. Then one day, Ella wanted to separate from Joe, living    4    own life. So Joe was heart-broken and didn't know what to do.

A     5    misfortune (不幸) struck Rosa, too. One night her mother, who suffered(受苦) from mental illness,     6    . So her father went out looking for her mother. She tried to cook meals for her parents, only to overturn the kerosene light on the stove, resulting in a fire which took her hands away.

Though her elder sister Susan showed her willingness to take care of her, Rosa decided to be    7    independent. And most of all she learned to do things on her own. Once she wrote the following in her composition: “I’m lucky. Though I lost my arms, I still have legs. Though my wings are broken, my heart can still     8  .”

　　One day，Joe and Rosa were both invited to a television interview program. Joe told the TV host about his     9    future at being left on his own, while Rosa was full of hope for her life. They both were asked to write something on a piece of paper with their toes. Joe wrote：My younger sister's arms are my arms;     10     Rosa wrote: Broken wings, flying heart.

They had both stood the same sufferings, but their different     11    determined(决定) the nature of their lives. It is true that life is unpredictable. How you deal with misfortune is the true test of your character. If you choose only to complain and run away from the suffering，it will always     12    you wherever you go. But if you decide to be strong, the hardship will turn out to be a fortune on which new hopes will arise.

1.                A．legs           B．arms           C．eyes D．hands

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

3.                A．questions       B．accidents       C．problems D．business

4.                A．his            B．her            C．my  D．their

5.                A．serious         B．sudden         C．terrible   D．similar

6.                A．returned       B．disappeared     C．seriously  D．immediately

7.                A．break          B．beat           C．fly   D．jump

8.                A．unfair          B．uncertain       C．unsafe   D．undoubted

9.                A．and            B．so             C．while D．or

10.               A．opinions        B．values          C．senses    D．attitudes

11.               A．follow          B．catch          C．disturb    D．hurt