We ____ the last bus and didn’t have any money for taxi, so we had to walk home.

A．reached          B．lost              C．missed            D．caught

I had the meanest (最吝啬的) mother in the whole world. While other kids were________ candy for breakfast, I had to have porridge, eggs or toast. _________ others had Cokes and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. But at least I wasn't_________ when I was sad. My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did.?
My mother _________ to know where we were all the time. She knew who our friends were and where we were going. We had to wear clean clothes and take a bath every day. While the other kids could wear the same __________ for days. We could not lie in bed "sick" in order to miss school.?
The worst is yet to come. We had to be in bed by nine each night and get up at six the next morning. We couldn't sleep __________ noon like our friends. So while they slept, my mother was brave to ___________ the Child Labour Law (儿童劳动法). She made us work. We had to wash dishes, make beds, and learn to cook and all kinds of things at home. I believe she lay awake __________ all things for us to do. ?
But my mother was successful as a mother. All of __________ children received further education. She forced us to grow up into educated and honest adults. I am trying to keep my three children this way. I am filled with __________ when my children call me mean. Because I had the meanest mother in the world, and yet she gave me a happy life.
【小题1】

What can people do when natural disasters (灾难）happen? Can we stop them? No, we can't. The only thing we can do is to  41   after the disasters.

    Last year I met Mr. Flood. It started raining and   42   raining almost a month: the water on the streets got higher and higher every day. We used   43   instead of cars. We lost lots of things, including our businesses, our jobs and our homes.

    Schools   44   and farms were destroyed. We ran out of food and clean water. In some places the water was higher than the buildings. I felt like we lived in a(n)  45 _ world.

    Because of the flood, lots of  46  broke out. Because of the dead animals, some people  47  . The soil and other things made the water become very, very  48 _. That was in summer time, so though it was raining, the  49  was still high. The hot weather and really dirty water  50  the air very bad. Hospitals didn't have enough rooms for  51  .

    When the flood was over, I looked around my city. The word “ 52 ” can describe the situation. Everything was destroyed and lots of people were sick, but we were very  53  .1 think.

    We had to 54  our city, take care of the sick people, and start our schools again. I just 55 that one day, people can stop the natural disasters whenever they happen. After all, people are very clever.

1.A. wake up       B. make up         C. clean up

2.A. kept          B. finished          C. stopped

3.A. bikes         B. trains            C. boats

4.A. started        B. closed           C. opened

5.A. water.        B. fire              C. ice

6.A. happiness     B. illnesses          C. hardness

7.A. ran          B. slept             C. died

8.A. dirty         B. clean             C. clear

9.A. temperature   B. weather           C. water

10.A. had.         B. made             C. changed

11.A. nurses       B. doctors            C. patients

12.A. sad          B. beautiful          C. good

13.A. weak        B. strong            C. happy

14.A. rebuild       B. return            C. remain

15.A. want         B. hope             C. see

Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet (西藏).Our legs were so heavy and cold that    felt like big pieces of ice. Have you     seen snowmen ride bicylces? That’s what we looked like! Along the way children who were      long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late      we found it was so cold that our water bottles froze (结冰).However, the lakes     like glass in the setting sun and loooked wonderful.

Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She was in high spirit and I knew I didn’t need to     her. To climb the mountains was hard work but as we     us, we were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for miles, and we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. After a while, we began going      the mountains. It was great fun especially as it slowly became much       .At the foot of the mountains, colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many sheep eating green grass. Then we had to      our caps, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.

In the early evening we stopped to make camp .We       our tent（帐篷）and then we ate. Afte supper Wang Wei went to sleep but I stayed       .        midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter.As I        below the stars I thought about how far we had already travelled.

We will reach Dali in Yunan Province soon, where our cousins will join us. We      hardly wait to see them!

1.A.we              B.you               C.they               D.it

2.A.never                        B.ever                                    C.even                             D.yet

3.A.dressed in                B.put on                                C.taken off                           D.dressed up

4.A.morning                         B.afternoon                        C.evening                    D.night

5.A.shine                     B.shining                               C.shines                                D.shone

6.A.follow                   B.encourage                        C.remind                              D.discover

7.A.looked at                  B.looked after                       C.looked for                         D.looked around

8.A.up                                   B.down                                 C.around                              D.into

9.A.colder                            B.drier                                  C.warmer                             D.wetter

10.A.charge                         B.check                                 C.chase                                 D.change

11.A.put out                  B.put away         C.put up                             D.make up

12.A.alive             B.alone                                   C.away                                  D.awake

13.A.At                           B.On                              C.In                                   D.From

14.A.lie                                 B.lied                                     C.lay                             D.laid

15.A.may                         B.can                                     C.must                                   D.shall

We spent a day in the country and picked a lot of flowers. Our car was of flowers inside! the way home we had to stop at traffic lights, and there my wife saw the bookshelf.

  It stood outside a furniture（家具）shop. “Buy it,” she said at once. “We’ll carry it home on the roof-rack（车顶架）. I’ve always wanted like that.”

  What could I do? Ten minutes I was twenty dollars poorer, and the bookshelf was tied on to the roof-rack. It was tall and narrow, quite heavy .

  As it was darker, I drove slowly. Other drivers seemed more polite than usual that evening. The police even stopped traffic to let through. Carrying furniture was a good idea.

  After a time my wife said, “There a long line of cars behind. Why don’t they overtake（超车）?”

  Just at that time a police car did overtake. The two police officers looked at us seriously when they went past. then, with kind smile they asked us to follow their car through the busy . The police car stopped at our village church. One of the officers came to me.

  “Right, sir,” he said. “Do you need any more help now?”

  I didn’t quite understand. “Thanks, officer,” I said. “You’ve very kind. I live just down the road.”

  He was looking at our things: first at the flowers, at the bookshelf. “Well, well,” he said and laughed. “It’s a bookshelf you’ve got there! We thought it was else.”

  My wife began to laugh. Suddenly I understood the police drove here. I smiled at the officer. “Yes, it’s a bookshelf, but thanks again.” I drove home as fast as I could.”

1.A. fill B. fullC. fulledD. filles

2.A. InB. AtC. OnD. With

3.A. itB. thatC. oneD. this

4.A. afterB. inC. lateD. later

5.A. too B. alsoC. eitherD. neither

6.A. gettingB. goingC. comingD. driving

7.A. we B. usC. ourD. ours

8.A. beB. beingC. areD. is

9.A. ButB. BecauseC. SoD. Although

10.A. anB. theC. aD. /

11.A. carsB. trafficsC. busesD. traffic

12.A. isB. areC. beD. been

13.A. thanB. thenC. secondD. third

14.A. anythingB. everythingC. somethingD. someone

15.A. whyB. becauseC. whenD. where