Charlie is twenty-three now. He1a university(大学) and found work in a factory last year. It’s2and there are no more than fifty workers in it. And only he3in a university. So he looks down upon his 4 . He always thinks he’s right and never agrees with5. He likes to say, “I’ve never made a mistake!”
But once the young man couldn’t6 a foreign instructions （说明书）. An old worker studied it for two days and7Mr. White, the boss of the factory,8it meant. The boss asked Charlie why. He made a few excuses to say for9. And he didn’t agree with the old man. The boss became angry and asked, “ Is it10 that you’ve never made a mistake?”
The young man wouldn’t make Mr. White11 and had to say, “No, it isn’t, sir.”
Having12 this, the workers were happy. One of them asked, “ It means that you also make some mistakes!”
Charlie13 his mind at once and said, “ I made only one mistake in my14 !”
“When?” the boss asked in surprise.
“ Just now, sir.” Answered the young man. “When Mr. White15 me acknowledge （承认）I was wrong!”

Many parents want their children to be famous one day. But do children have the same___26___?

A new__27____—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 __28_____ one day. They teach him to ___29___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___30___ at the Athens Olympic Games, and they want him to be a sportsman.

  "___31___do they want me to be someone else?" Ke'ai asks and says, "I only want to be____32______."

 The play shows us that it is good for parents to learn to _____33_____their children. It helps parents to think about what kids want to do.

Young audiences(观众)enjoy the story, and also the___34___in the play. There are two songs in the play. One of them, "Ke'ai's Song" is very ___35 _____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

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Tom woke up on Monday morning.  He felt   1 . He always felt sick on Monday mornings. He had to go to school for a   2  week! He almost wished there were no week-ends.   3  was even more difficult for him to go back to school!

He   4  in bed and wondered what excuse（借口）he could make this time. He looked at his body, but could find   5  wrong, A little headache?  6 . He had used that excuse many times. Then he realized that one of his teeth was loose（松动）. Good! He was just going to start groaning（呻吟）   7  he thought that Aunt Polly would pull the tooth out. That would  8 ! He looked for something else. Suddenly he remembered what the doctor had said about a certain problem with toes. He pulled his right foot out and looked at it.  9  of the toes was really hurting, Tom began to groan.

“What’s   10  with you?” Aunt Polly asked.

“My toe hurts.”

The old lady fell into a chair,   11  a little. “Tom, you frightened me. Now shut up at once and get out of 12 .”

Tom felt like a thief being caught. “Well, it seemed all right. It hurt so much   13  I forgot my tooth.”

“Tooth, eh? What’s wrong with your tooth?”

“One of them is loose and it hurts   14 .”

“No problem,” answered Aunt Polly. “I can pull it out.”

“Please, Auntie! Don’t pull it out. It has   15  hurting now. Please!”

“No way! Well, you’ll have your tooth out and you’ll go to school?

先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Seven cats are good friends. They live in the same town. They always go   1  together on Saturdays. Every time one of them finds a place to go.
Today, a   2  called Mimi should find a place, but she doesn’t give   3 calls to her friends. The other cats are angry (生气). They all go to Mimi’s house and ask her, “You give us no call.  4 ?”
Mimi hears (听到) this and begins to cry. She  5  , “I will move to a new house with my father. It is in another town. I can’t go shopping with you    6 .”
Her friends hear that and talk for a long time. Then they have an idea. “Don’t   7 . We will go to that town and do the shopping    8   your new house.”
Mimi is very happy. She jumps high.
Two days later, Mimi comes to her friends and says, “I don’t need to move. My father    9  a new job here in this town.”
Her friends are happy again. They still go shopping together on    10  .

－Dad, can I buy _______ of these two T-shirts, they are really cool.
－I’m afraid you can’t. You can only have one of them.