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.

1.A. stop           B. start            C. keep         D. finish

2.A. and            B. but         C. so               D. although

3.A. go             B. die          C. gone         D. died

4.A. school         B. zoo          C. park              D. museum

5.A afternoon       B year              C. weekends       D. holidays

6.A. pass           B. take         C. have              D. give

7..A .others         B. the other       C another         D other

8. A. along         B. back         C. down              D. up      

9.A fine           B weak          C healthy         D strong

10. A. helped           B. gave         C. worried           D. taught

11.A. terrible          B. hard             C. easy          D. difficult

12.A. find         B. makes        C. thinks            D. believe

During these years fashion is more and more popular. Many young students  1   going after fashion. Girls like to wear short skirts or color their hair, and  2  like to wear long hair. Some of  3   try to be more original so that they can  4   others’ attention(注意).

However, another group of students  5   pay much attention to fashion. They like to go their own   6  . They don’t wear the clothes in style. They wear what they really like.

Students going after fashion sometimes  7  look really great, but sometimes may be  8. As for me, I think it is crazy  9  after fashion. Everyone has his own style. Why do we go after fashion and finally make people everywhere look the same? I think we should find things that 10  ourselves, so we will be ourselves.

1.A enjoy B want    C practice       D finish

2.A men  B women C children      D boys

3.A them B their    C theirs   D they

4.A find   B get       C send     D compare

5.A often B don’t   C no       D always

6.A questions  B problems     C thoughts      D ways

7.A may  B must    C need    D should

8.A upset B terrible C ill D original

9.A go  B to go        C and go D to going

10.A like B surprise    C fit    D include

Wang Hai has just     1   his middle school but he couldn’t go to high school because there wasn’t    2    for it. His father wanted him to help with his business and let his little brother go to school. Soon Project Hope    3    it. They gave his father some money and asked his father to let him    4    to school again. He thanked the uncles and aunts in Project Hope a lot. Now he has been in school for a year. His teacher said he was a good student and     5      very hard.

1.                A．finishing        B．to finish         C．finished   D．finish

2.                A．money enough   B．enough money   C．few money    D．much money

3.                A．know          B．have known      C．to know   D．knew

4.                A．to go           B．goes           C．go   D．going

5.                A．studied         B．study           C．studies   D．studying

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