It's raining heavily. But ________ of the farmers are picking up the apples ________ the trees.

1. A.
   every, in
2. B.
   none, in
3. C.
   none, on
4. D.
   some, on

Have you ever planted trees before?   Every year, millions of people, both   1   ,   plant many trees. But this may not be the best way to make your home a    2   place.
Last week we visited a park in Hebei. We were     3    to  find most of the trees had been burned. The workers told us that the trees    4    soon after they were planted because they weren’t watered well enough.    5    workers burned them and cleaned the place for     6   trees to be planted this year.     7    a card found in one of the dead trees, a student wrote, "I hope this tree will grow up with me to     8    the backbone(栋梁) of our country.”The workers said that the survival of the trees was really more    9   than the number of the trees that were planted.
Some people in Beijing now have a  new idea that they can donate(贡献) some  money and let professionals (专业人员)  plant and  10  the trees.
1. A. boys and girls
B. the old and the young
C. mother and father
D. students and teachers
2. A. larger        B. warmer     C. greener     D. smaller
3. A. surprised      B. pleased     C. happy       D. interesting
4. A. planted        B. grew      C. bought      D. died
5. A. When          B. So        C. Because     D. Though
6. A. new          B. old        C. dead        D. few
7. A. From          B. Over      C. Above       D. On
8. A. hold          B. need      C. be          D. plant
9. A. interesting                  B. beautiful
C. impossible                 D. important
10. A. takeaway                   B. take down
C. take care of                D. take out

One day a man found a cocoon(茧) of a butterfly in the forest. He sat there for several hours and watched the butterfly. Suddenly a small opening appeared, and the butterfly made its great effort to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon so that the butterfly could come out easily. But to his surprise, the butterfly got a heavy body and very small wings when it came out of the cocoon.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that the body would grow smaller at any moment and the wings would become larger and be able to fly. But neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling (爬) around with a heavy body and small wings. It was never able to fly.
The man was in his kindness, but he did not understand the nature rules. Before the butterfly came out of the cocoon, fluid(流体) from its body must be forced into its wings, and then it would be ready for flying. It must have a hard struggle (拼搏) to get through the small opening to get its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any difficulties, it would make us fail. We would not be as strong as we could have been; we could never fly.
【小题1】What was the butterfly doing at the beginning of the story ?