There was a boy who was sent by his parents to a boarding school（寄宿学校）．Before he was sent away, the boy was the     1     student in his class．He was at the top in every exam．

    But the boy changed after     2     home and studying in the boarding school．His grades started to     3   ．He hated being in a     4   ．He was lonely all the time．And there were especially dark times when he felt like committing suicide（自杀）．All of this was because he felt no one loved him．

    His parents started to     5      the boy．But they even did not know what was wrong

with him．So his father decided to go to the school and    6    him．

    They sat by the lake near the school．The father started asking him some casual questions about his lessons, teachers and     7   ．After some time his father said, "Do you know, son, why I'm here today?"

    "To     8     my grades," the boy replied back．

    "No, no," his father said．"I'm here to tell you that you're the most     9     person for me．I want to see you     10    ．I don't care about grades．I care about you．I care about your

happiness．You're my life．"

     These words caused the boy's eyes to be filled with tears．He hugged（拥抱） his father．They

didn't say     11     to each other for a long time．

     Now the boy had everything he wanted．He knew there was someone on the earth who cared for him deeply．And today this young man is in university at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him     12    ．

1．A．laziest                B．cleverest           C．calmest             D．worst

2．A．coming               B．returning            C．leaving             D．going

3．A．drop                B．increase            C．rise               D．turn down

4．A．term                  B．group              C．party               D．company

5．A．look for              B．learn from          C．worry about        D．shout at

6．A．laugh at              B．look at             C．think about       D．talk with

7．A．friends               B．family             C．study             D．grades

8．A．find                 B．teach              C．check             D．hear

9．A．famous              B．important           C．outstanding         D．interesting

10．A．happy             B．serious             C．excellent           D．honest

11．A．everything          B．something          C．nothing          D．anything

12．A．ill                 B．pleasant            C．pleased            D．sad

Tom woke up unhappy on Monday morning．He always woke up unhappy on Monday mornings．It was the idea of a whole week of school；he almost wished there were no weekends because that made it even more difficult to go back into classrooms．

He lay in bed and wondered what he could invent this time．He listened to his body but could find nothing wrong．A little stomachache? No．Then he realized that one of his teeth was loose （dropping out）．Good! He was just going to start shouting painfully when he thought that Aunt Polly would pull the tooth out and that would hurt．He looked for something else．Suddenly he remembered what the doctor had said about a certain problem with toes （five small front parts of a foot）--sometimes one had to stay in bed for one or even two weeks．He pulled his right foot out and looked at it．One of the toes was really hurting．Tom began to shout．Sid continued to sleep peacefully．Tom shouted more loudly．No result．

“Sid! Sid!” he shouted，shaking his brother．This worked．Sid slowly woke up．

“What's the matter，Tom?”

“Ouch! Don't touch me，Sid．You'll kill me．”

“Oh，Tom! Why didn't you wake me?”

“I forgive you everything，Sid．When I'm gone．．．”

“You aren't dying，are you，Tom?”

Sid ran out of the bedroom and down the stairs．

“Aunt Polly! Come quickly! Tom's dying!”

“Dying?” answered Aunt．“I don't believe it．”

But she went running upstairs anyway．

“What's the matter with you?” she asked in surprise．

“Oh，Aunt!” cried Tom．“My toe hurts．”

The old lady fell into a chair，laughing a little．

“Tom，you frightened me．Now stop crying at once and get out of bed．”

Tom felt a bit silly．

“But it did hurt so much that I forgot my tooth．”

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

“One of them is loose and it aches terribly．”

“No problem，” answered Aunt Polly quickly．“Sid，get the cotton from my sewing-- box．”

“Please! Aunt! Don't pull it out．It's stopped hurting now．Please! I don't want to stay at home．”

“Ah! So all this was because you wanted to cut class．Well，you'll have your tooth out and you'll go to school!”

In fact，everything went quite well for Tom．On his way to school，the hole in his mouth was the envy of all the other boys~ no one Could show off like he could!

1．This passage is most probably taken from a _________．

A．notice              B．report             C．poster             D．novel

2．Why did Tom always feel uncomfortable on Monday morning?

A．Because he was too tired to wake up．

B．Because he didn't have a good weekend．

C．Because he was afraid of the Whole week of school．

D．Because he had to take his brother Sid to school．

3．Which of the following is Not true according to the passage?

A．Sid was sure that Tom was badly ill．

B．Tom lied because he didn't want to go to school．

C．Aunt Polly pulled the loose tooth out for Tom．

D．Tom went to school and was laughed at by other boys．

4．Which of the following is the most suitable title for this passage?

A．Monday sickness     B．A clever boy         C．Aunt Polly         D．An unusual day

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　　Agatha Christie was born on September 15th, 1890. She didn't go to school because her mother wanted to teach her at home. She studied the piano and singing in Paris.

　　She got married(结婚) in 1914 to a pilot and they had one daughter. During the First World War(战争), when she was working as a nurse, she began to write detective novels(侦探小说). In the hospital, she learned a lot about drugs, and she used these in her novels.

　　She wrote her first novel in 1920. The hero(主人公) was a detective, Hercules Poirot. The book soon became a best-seller and made her famous.

　　In 1928, Agatha Christie was lost. The police found her two weeks later. She didn't know anything. This was front page news in all the newspapers in Britain, and even today nobody knows what happened to her during those two weeks.

　　In 1929, Agatha Christie went on holiday to the Middle East. She came home to England in 1930.

　　After that, she travelled with her husband to the Middle East many times, and a lot of her later stories took place there, for example, Murder On The Nile. She also wrote the detective in the West End of London in 1952, and still on later.

　　During her life she wrote nearly eighty detective stories. She also wrote other novels under the pen name of May Westmacott. She died in January 1976 at the age of eighty-six.

　　Agatha Christie's detective novels are famous for their surprising endings.

1．Christie began to write detective novels ________.

[　　]

2．What may the word “drugs” here mean ________.

[　　]

3．Why was Christie lost for two weeks in 1928?

[　　]

A．Because she was ill.

B．Because she got married.

C．Because she wanted to write novels herself.

D．Nobody knows.

4．Who is Mary Westmacott?

[　　]

5．Why did her detective novels interest so many readers? Because ________.

[　　]

A．they have a sad ending

B．they have an unusual ending

C．there is always a murder in her novels

D．Christie was very famous

When I was in my first year of middle school, my father died. And my mother was ill just after I got into the high school. I had to   29  going to school because my mother had no money to pay my school bills.
We began to work in people’s gardens to save up money for me to go back to school. Finally I re­turned to school. 30 my mother __31  the next year. And my world went dark. I asked my headmaster if I could work for the   32 this summer vacation, so I could pay my bills. He was a nice man and let me work in the school garden during the  33 . I can’t study well because of my mother’s death. At the end of my second year, I didn’t        34 most of my exams and the teacher told me I had to re­peat the year. After _35  summer working in the school garden, I went   36  to lessons again. But suddenly I fell ill.
Because of my disease (疾病) I was  37  and couldn’t work at school. I was hopeless(无望的). My headmaster told me not to give up. And my teachers and classmates     38  me a lot. Now, I’m feeling better and will finish my third year.
My life is still not   39 . A few students laugh at my poor clothes. They also call me “farmer” because I work in the school garden. But I   40  hard days will always be followed by sunshine.

【小题1】

A．stop B．start C．keep D．finish

【小题2】

A．and B．but C．so D．although

【小题3】

A．go B．die C．gone D．died

【小题4】

A．school B．zoo C．park D．museum

【小题5】A afternoon      B year             C. weekends      D. holidays

【小题6】

A．pass B．take C．have D．give

【小题7】.A .others         B. the other       C another         D other

【小题8】

A．along B．back C．down D．up

【小题9】A fine           B weak          C healthy         D strong

【小题10】

A．helped B．gave C．worried D．taught

【小题11】

A．terrible B．hard C．easy D．difficult

【小题12】

A．find B．makes C．thinks D．believe