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Xia Ming was worried about his study, so he wrote a letter to a magazine.

Two readers read the letter from the magazine and here are their answers:

1.Xia Ming worried about ______.

2.Thumbelina gave ______ examples in the letter.

3.Thumbelina wrote about those famous people _______.

4.Which is NOT true?

5.“Tomorrow is another day.” tells us ______.

When I was 13 years old, a boy gave me an important gift. It was a   41 .
It was the early autumn of my   42  year at a junior high school, and my old school was far away.   43 , no one knew who I was. I was very   44 , and afraid to make friends with anyone.
Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt my heart   45 . I couldn’t talk to anyone about my problems. And I didn’t want my parents to    46  me.
 Then one day, my classmates talked happily with their friends, but I sat at my desk unhappily   47 . At that moment, a boy   48  the classroom. I didn’t know who he was. He passed me and then turned back. He looked at me and,   49  a word, smiled.
Suddenly, I   50  the touch of something bright and friendly.   51  made me feel happy and warm.
That smile   52 my life. I started to talk with the other students and made friends. Day by day, I became   53  to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now.
One day I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn’t   54  smiling at me!
It doesn’t   55  because all the dark days have gone. Now I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think you are lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.

【小题9】

A．in B．with C．besides D．without

When I was about 12, a girl in my class liked to point out my problems. I was too thin; I wasn’t a good student; I talked too much, I was too   46  , and so on. At last, I became very angry and ran to my father.                                                                                                                                         He listened to me   47  . Then he asked, "Are these things true or not? Do you know what you are really like? Go and make a   48  of what she said and find the   49 that are true."
I did as he told me. To my great   50 , I discovered that about half of the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin). But there were things I could and wanted to change. For the   51  time, I got a clear   52  of myself.
I brought the list back to Dad. He refused to take it. "That’s just for you. " he said, "You know the truth about   53  better than anyone else.  When people say something that is true about you, you should find it helpful. "
Our world is full of people who think they know your business. Don’t   54  your ears and feel   55 . Listen to them.