Dear Peter,

School is going well. I am so  36    and I have little time to go and play  37    the weekend. I always go to the library to   38   newspapers or study English.

If you’re free, you can come to  39  me. You can go straight down Centre Street.  40   you see Blue Bar, just turn left. The name of my apartment (公寓) is Victor. That’s easy to  41 .  I like my house. It isn’t very big,  42  it’s a nice home. If you come to my house, we can watch movies and we can  43  Chinese food. I’m often at home after 7 pm, and I  44  at around 10:30 pm every day because I have to go to school early the next morning. You can give me a  45  before you come.

　　                                                   Your best friend,

Linda

1.A. lazy           B. busy                 C. happy           

2.A. in             B. with                 C. at        

3.A. read           B. look                 C. watch               

4.A. tell           B. teach                C. visit

5.A. So             B. Because          C. When            

6.A. find           B. look                 C. live                

7.A. and            B. but              C. so          

8.A. sell           B. clean                C. cook

9.A. get up         B. go to bed            C. take a walk     

10.A. call          B. number           C. talk                  

David came from a poor family. When he finished his high school, however, he was given a wonderful present. “Some of my friends got new clothes and a rich boy even got a new car,” he remembered, “My dad reached into his trousers pocket and took something out. I held out my hand, and his present dropped into it — a nickel (五分镍币).”
Dad said to me, “Buy a newspaper with that. Read every word of it. Then turn to the classified section (分类栏目) and get yourself a job. Get into the world. It’s all yours now.” I always thought that was a great joke my father had played on me until a few years later when I was in the army, sitting in a foxhole (战壕), and thinking about my family and my life. It was then that I realized that my friends had got only new cars, or only new clothes. My father had given me the whole world. What a great present!
1. When David left school, he received ______ as a present.
A. a new car        B. new clothes         C. a newspaper     D. hardly anything
2. What did David become a few years later?
A. A college student.  B. A rich person.      C. A soldier.     D. A newspaper reporter.
3. The title of the passage may be ______.
A. How to be a Soldier  B. How to find a Job    C. A Great Joke D. A Great Present

Can you or do you wash your clothes? Can you cook meals for yourself when your parents are not at home?   1.

Today, many young people can’t look after themselves when they leave home.   2. I don’t want to be a person like that. I want to be more independent(独立的).

When I was only seven years old, I was in the kitchen with my mother enjoying cooking. I always helped her.   3. She was really interested in teaching me how to cook. But when my mother got married (结婚), she didn’t know how to cook. My grandmother never allowed her to stay in the kitchen when she was cooking. My mother did not start cooking until she was 25 years old.   4. She had to take cooking lessons. So she decided to teach us how to cook because she didn’t want us to have the same experience.

 5. I always wash my own clothes, and sometimes I wash my parents and my brother’s clothes, too. When my parents are not at home, I can cook meals for my brother and me.

A. At the beginning, it was difficult for her.

B. I did nothing at home, because my mother could help me.

C. My mother likes doing chores.

D. And now I can do many chores myself.

E. Do you often help do some chores at home?

F. I learned cooking from my mother.

G. They even can’t wash a pair of socks.

根据语篇内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺、连贯。方框中有两个词为多余项。

Years ago, I lived in a house in a large city. The house next door was only a few meters away from   1. . Through the window, I could often see a woman   2.   I had never met doing some reading in the house every afternoon.

     Several   3.   went by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was not very clear through the dirty window. 1 wondered why the woman didn't wash her window, it 4.   looked terrible.

     One bright morning, I decided to clean my house, including   5.  the window inside.  Late in the afternoon when I finished all the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. How   6. ! I found that the woman's window was actually so clean that she could  7.  clearly sitting by the window.

     That was quite an   8.  lesson for me. How often had I looked at others through my own shortcomings (缺点) !

      Since then, I   9.  used to asking myself whether I am looking through my own dirty window. Before I want to judge (判断) someone, I always think   10.  than before and try to clean the dirty window so that I may see the world around me more clearly.