It may be good to live your life according to strict rules, but Taiwanese pop star Ken Wu also prefers to follow his own heart and emotions.” The best thing for everyone is to live in a _1_____way ,”he said ,”You don’t need too much burden on your mind .Be who you are .”He showed up on April 20 in Beijing to give love and _2_____to the children with hearing disabilities at a Nokia charity event.”_____3__is a big part of my life .I couldn’t imagine days____4___it,”he said ,”One of my friends has a strong desire for singing ,but ___5__lost his hearing ━it’s a painful_____6_.So I wish to bring beautiful sound back to those kids who can’t hear.”￣

Wu says that he admires the ____7__of the ancient philosopher ,and ___8___with things advocated in Tao Te Ching(道德经),like living naturally.

“In this song ,I just __9____young people to have their own path in life ,”he said ,”They can decide what they want to be like .”

Wu has always been ___10___in his misic style .He _11_____to stay on the same track for a ling period of  time .

At first glance ,the name of the song Laotze Says __12_____that of the last hit General’s Order, but Wu says that the two songs have very__13___styles.

“The new song is not the Chinese tradional style.____14___,its electronic music ,”he said ,”I’ll never be __15____by following the same route, I-ll keep trying new things and seeking after variety in my work . ”

1.A.usual          B. normal               C. careless          D. natural

2. A. songs        B. care                  C. food            D. gifs

3. A. Sound        B. Music                C. Drawing      D. Dancing

4. A. of           B. being                C. without       D. with

5. A. suddenly      B. luckily                C. eventually        D. unfortunately

6. A. illness        B. experience                   C. decision         D. result

7. A. wisdom      B. freedom                     C. reputation       D. carefulness

8. A. deals         B. plays                  C. agrees          D. compares

9. A. persuade      B. encourage             C. forbid          D. allow

10. A. serious      B. anxious                C. slow           D. inventive

11. A. refuses     B. prefers                C. promises       D. continues.

12. A. replaces    B. protects               C. follows         D. includes

13. A. special     B. different                C. typical         D. similar

14. A. Therefore   B. Thus                 C. However       D. Instead

15. A. excited      B. embarrassed           C. satisfied        D. disappointed

Mr Reese was born in a big city. His father had several companies and got a lot of money. He could give his son all the young man wanted. He was busy with his business and never asked him how he got along with his studies. So the boy spent most time in the restaurants or cinemas. Of course he was weak at his lessons and learned nothing at school. He made many friends but none of them was good and when they knew he came from a rich family, they began to teach him to gamble（赌博）. Of course he lost much money.

Now Mr Reese was twenty and finished middle school. He could not do anything. But his father didn't mind it until one day he found the young man had sold one of his companies. He became so angry that he made him leave his house. The young man couldn't gamble any longer. His friends made him pay his debt. He had to ask his mother to help him and the woman often gave him some money. But one evening his father happened to find it. The old man stopped his wife from doing so. They began to fight in the room. The young man brought out a knife and killed his father. His mother helped him to run away, but soon after that he was caught and sentenced（判刑）to death.

It was a cold and wet day. Suddenly it began to rain hard when Mr Reese was being sent to the execution ground（刑场）. Soon both he and the soldiers were wet through. He said angrily, “Bad luck! I shall be shot in such bad weather!”

“Don't complain（抱怨）, brother, ”said one of the soldiers. ‘You're luckier than us all. We'll have to go back to the city after that!”

Old Reese never wanted to know about his son's studies because ____.     [    ]

A. he was sure his son was good at his lessons

B. he spent all his energies on his business

C. he knew nothing about the education

D. his wife looked after their children

The bad young men taught Young Reese to gamble in order ____.      [    ]

A. to play with him

B. to spend spare time

C. that the could get much money from him

D. that they could find jobs in his father's companies

Old Reese became angry because ____.       [    ]

A. his son had learned nothing at school.

B. his son was weak at all his lessons

C. his son couldn't do anything in the companies

D. his son had lost one of his companies

Mr Reese complained ____.   [    ]

A. he was sentenced to death

B. he would be shot

C. he went to the execution ground on foot

D. he would be shot in bad weather

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1). Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to ___1_____ the ancestors, who might return _____2__ to help or to do ____3____. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in ____4____ of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music because they think this will __5_____ the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico, people celebrate the Day of the Dead in early November. _6____ this important feast day, people eat food in the _7____ of skulls and cakes with “ bones” on them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also had its ___8______in old _____9_ about the return of the spirits of dead people. It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets. If neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a __10____ on them.

According to a widely ____1___ theory, the universe began _____2__ a “Big Bang” that threw matter in all _____3____. After the “Big Bang”, the earth was still just a cloud of dust. ___4____ it was to become was uncertain until between 4.5 and 3.8 billion years ago when the dust _____5___ into a solid _____6__. The earth became so _____7___ that it was not clear ____8_____ the shape would last or not. It ____9______ loudly with fire and rock. They were in time to produce carbon, nitrogen, water vapour and other gases, which were to make the earth’s ___10______.