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There was once a lonely girl who longed so much for love. One day while she was walking in the woods she found two starving birds._1____ She cared them with love and the birds grew strong. Every morning they greeted her with a wonderful song. The girl felt the great love from the birds.

__2___. The larger and the stronger of the two birds flew from the cage. The girl was so frightened that he would fly away. As he flew close, she grasped him wildly. Her heart felt glad at her success in capturing him. __3______. She opened her hand and stared in horror at the dead bird. Her desperate love had killed him.

She noticed the other bird moving back and forth on the edge of the cage. She could feel his great need for freedom. He needed to fly into the clear, blue sky. ___4_____. The bird circled once, twice, three times.

The girl watched delightedly at the bird’s enjoyment. ____5______ .She wanted the bird to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It sang the sweetest songs that she had ever heard.

The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tight, while the best way to keep love is to give it wings!

A．She gave them some delicious food and left.

B．Suddenly she felt the bird go softly.

C．Her heart was no longer concerned with her loss.

D．One day she left with the two birds at home alone.

E. She took them home and put them in a small cage.

F. One day the girl left the door of the cage open.

G. She lifted him from the cage and threw him softly into the air.

The girl _____ to be a good dancer if she is well trained in an art school.

   A. expects B．allows         C．wishes        D．promises

Each time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my mom if Dad had gone to heaven. “Yes, honey. Of course.” she said.

    “Can we write him a letter?”

    She paused, the longest pause of my short life, and answered, “Yes.”

    My heart jumped. “How? Does the mailman go there?” I asked.

    “No, but I have an idea.” Mom drove to a party store and returned with a red balloon. I asked her what it was for.

    “Just wait, honey. You’ll see.” Mom told me to write my letter. Eagerly, I got my favorite pen, and poured out my six-year-old heart in the form of blue ink. I wrote about my day, what I learned at school, how Mom was doing, and even about what happened in a story I had read. For a few minutes it was as if Dad were still alive. I gave the letter to Mom. She read it over, and a smile crossed her face.

    She made a hole in the corner of the letter where she looped (缠绕) the balloon string. We went outside and she gave me the balloon. It was still raining.

    “Okay, on the count of three, let go. One, two, three.”

The balloon, carrying my letter, darted upward against the rain. We watched until it was swallowed by the mass of clouds.

Later I realized, like the balloon, that Dad had never let his sickness get him down. He was strong. No matter what he suffered, he’d persevere, dart up, and finally transcend this cold world and his sick body. He rose into sky and became something beautiful. I watched until the balloon disappeared into the gray and white and I prayed that his strength was hereditary. I prayed to be a balloon.

1.What does the underlined sentence imply?

A. When the girl asked if they could write to her father, her mother felt it hard to answer.    

B. When the girl asked if they could write to her father, her mother thought her a creative girl.

C. When the girl asked if they could write to her father, her mother believed it easy to do so.        

D. When the girl asked if they could write to her father, her mother found it easy to lie.

2.When the girl was told that she could send a letter to her father, she _________.

A. jumped with surprise                     B. became excited

C. didn’t know how to write                           D. was worried that it couldn’t be delivered

3.In the eyes of the author, what was the rain like?

A. An incurable disease.                              B. An unforgettable memory.

C. The hard time her father had.        D. The failures her father experienced.

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A. An unforgettable experience.                     B. The strong red balloon.

C. Fly to paradise.                       D. A great father.

Sometimes, people are required to fill in personal information when they register online, which may lead to some unexpected trouble. Recently, the BBC is reporting that a 17-year-old girl in Australia posted a(n) 1.  of her grandmother at home counting a large sum of cash that she  2.  hidden in the house. Just eight hours later, two armed men  3.  the girl’s house. They demanded to speak to her to find out where the grandmother’s house was,   4.  they could get the money they had seen.   5. , the girl was not home at the time, so the robbers 6. a small amount of cash from the mother and left.

Because the 7. is still under investigation(调查), local police aren’t saying 8. else about it. It’s not known yet whether the girl had used privacy setting on the Facebook profile page, and even whether the robbers 9. the girl in the past.

Two other 10. were at home then, a 58-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy, the girl’s father and brother. Luckily, no one was 11. . The robbers left peacefully after  12.  that the girl was not home and that no one else there knew anything about the  13.  that had appeared in the photo.

Police in both Britain and Australia are using the case to 14.  citizens of the dangers of posting personal information on social networks and to suggest users of websites  15.   doing so. The police say it is  16.  that the girl posted a comment in the past that gave clues to the address,    17.  that the robbers knew the girl in another way.    18.  , they suggest, a posting by a friend on their site could have   19.  such information. To find it, the robbers would only have had to search for those posting on other pages that  20.  the girl’s name.

21.               A．picture         B．story           C．blog  D．video

22.               A．kept           B．made          C．let   D．got

23.               A．knocked at      B．looked at       C．broke into D．ran into

24.               A．even if         B．so that         C．as soon as  D．in case

25.               A．Usually         B．Suddenly       C．Fortunately D．Finally

26.               A．spent          B．left            C．asked D．took

27.               A．robber         B．family          C．case  D．girl

28.               A．few           B．many          C．little  D．much

29.               A．ignored        B．knew          C．remembered   D．followed

30.               A．members       B．adults          C．characters D．neighbors

31.               A．escaped        B．harmed        C．killed D．buried

32.               A．showing        B．realizing        C．discovering D．recognizing

33.               A．cash           B．grandmother    C．house D．website

34.               A．inform         B．accuse         C．rob   D．warn

35.               A．enjoy          B．stop           C．keep D．consider

36.               A．possible        B．important       C．necessary  D．strange

37.               A．so             B．or             C．and  D．but

38.               A．Besides        B．However       C．Therefore D．Instead

39.               A．taken up        B．set up          C．put away  D．given away

40.               A．included        B．drew          C．contained  D．attracted