Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her three-year-old son, Michael, prepare for a new baby. They found out that it was going to be a girl, and day after day, night after night, Michael 21._____ to his sister in Mommy's tummy.

   The pregnancy progressed 22._____for Karen. Then the labor pains came. Every five minutes ... every minute. But complications   23.__  during delivery. Finally, Michael's little sister was born. But she was in serious 24._____. With siren （警报）howling in the night, the ambulance 25.____ the infant to the Intensive Care unit at St. Mary's Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee.

  26.______ inch by. The little girl got worse. The doctors told the parents, "There is very little hope. " Karen and her husband contacted a local cemetery (墓地) about a burial plot. They had 27.______ a special room in their home for the new baby — now they planned a funeral.

   Week two in Intensive Care. It looked as if a funeral would come 28 _____the week was over. Michael, kept begging his parents to let him see his sister, "I want to sing to her," he said. Kids were never 29______in Intensive Care. But Karen made up her mind. She would take Michael 30._______they liked it or not.

   She 31.______ him in an oversized scrub suit and 32.____ him into ICU. He looked like a walking laundry basket, but the head nurse33. _____him as a child, "Get that kid out of here now! " The usually 34._____ lady glared into the head nurse's face, her lips a 35.____ line. "He is not leaving until he sings to his sister!" Karen towed Michael to his sister's bedside. He gazed at the tiny baby 36.____ the battle to live. And he began to sing 37._____ the pure hearted voice of a 3-year-old, Michael sang:

   "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray"

   38. ______ the baby girl responded. The pulse rate became 39._____ and steady.

   Keep on singing, Michael. "You never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away — " The breathing became as smooth as a kitten's purr.

   Keep on singing, Michael. "The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping,… " Michael's little sister relaxed as rest.

Funeral plans were 40______. The next day — the very next day — the little girl was well enough to go home!

The medical staff just called it a miracle. Karen called it a miracle of God's love!

1.A. talked      B sang          C. played        D whispered

2. A. quietly      B peacefully     C hopefully      D normally

3. A. arose        B. raised       C rose           D aroused

4. A situation      B condition     C place          D position

5.A took         B sent          C carried         D rushed

6.A The years     B The months    C The weeks     D The days

7.A fixed up      B made up       C built up        D set up

8. A until         B before         C after          D when

9.A asked        B allowed        C admitted       D acquired

10. A no matter      B even if        C whether       D as if

11.A put          B dressed         C wore           D fit

12. A marched        B forced         C hid           D followed

13.A required        B replied         C recognized      D regarded

14. A   warm-hearted                B well-managed

   C   mild-mannered               D cold-blooded

15. A firm           B strong       C hard           D tough

16. A losing         B lost          C to lose         D having lost

17.A in            B on           C at             D with

18.A Finally        B Instantly       C Patiently       D Interestingly

19.A calm          B quiet          C slow          D fast

20. A put off        B put away       C put up         D put down

Computers might not be clever enough to trick adults into thinking they are intelligent yet, but a new study, led by Javier' Movellan at the University of Califomia San Diego, shows that a giggling (咯咯笑的) robot is clever enough to get toddlers (初学走路者) to treat it as a peer (同龄人).
The researchers stationed a 2-foot-tall robot Called QRIO in a classroom of a dozen toddlers aged between 18 months and two years. QRIO stayed in the middle of the room using its sensors (传感器) to avoid bumping (碰撞) into the kids. It was programmed to giggle when the kids touched its head, to occasionally sit down, and to lie down when its batteries died.
"We expected that after a few hours, the magic was going to disappear," Movellan says.  "That's what was found with earlier robots." But, in fact, the kids remained interested in the robot over several weeks, eventually communicating with QRIO in much the same way they did with other toddlers.
The researchers measured the relationship between the children and the robot in several ways. Firstly, as with other toddlers,  they touched QRIO mostly on the arms and hands, rather than on the face or legs. For this age group, "the amount of touching is a good predictor of how you are doing as a social being," Movellan says.
The children helped the robot up when it fell, and when QRIO's batteries ran out and it lay down, a toddler would come up and cover it with a blanket and say "night, night". However, when QRIO was programmed to spend all its time dancing, the kids quickly lost interest. When the robot went back to its old self, the kids treated it like a peer again.
"The study shows that current technology is very close to being able to produce robots able to develop a special relationship with toddlers," says Movellan. But, he adds, it is not clear yet whether robots can interest older children or adults in the same way.
1. What does the underlined word  "stationed" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Hid.     B. Observed. C. Placed.   D. Named.
2. At the beginning of the experiment, researchers          .
A. feared that the robot would harm the toddlers
B. programmed the robot to move freely about the classroom
C. expected the robot to communicate with the toddlers
D. thought the toddlers' interest in the robot wouldn't  last long
3. Kids aged between 18 months and two years behave
as social beings by.
A. giggling  B: touching  C. toddling  D. dancing
4. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Giggling robot becomes one of the kids
B. Giggling robot used as a classroom assistant
C. Giggling robot makes kids more active in class
D. Giggling robot attracts more attention from kids

At Harton College—an English boarding school for boys —there are many rules . 15-year-old Bob Sanders often breaks them .

The boys can go into the town in the afternoon after class . But they must return to the school at six o’clock . One afternoon Bob walked to the town . He looked at the shops and then went to the cinema . After the film , he looked at his watch . It was after eight o’clock . He was a little worried . He walked back to Harton College as fast as possible .

When he arrived , he ran quickly to the main entrance . It was locked . He went round the school building to another door , which was locked too . He looked up at the window of his dormitory on the third floor . The window was open . But it was quite dark , and he could not climb up the wall easily . Then he saw another open window on the ground floor . It was the window of the headmaster’s study .

He looked into the room —no one was there . Bob quickly climbed on to the window sill（窗台）and jumped into the room . Just then he heard a noise . Then someone turned on a light in the corridor（走廊）. Bob looked around and then hid under the sofa . One minute later , Mr. Mannering , the headmaster , came in . He turned on the light on his desk , and sat down on the sofa . Then he opened a book and began to read .

Bob lay under the sofa as quietly as possible . He couldn’t move . The floor was cold and uncomfortable . He looked at the headmaster’s shoes and socks for an hour .

“Why doesn’t he get up and go to bed ?” Bob thought .

Mr. Mannering read his book for another hour . Finally , the headmaster closed his book and stood up .He put the book on a shelf and walked towards the door .

“Thanks heavens , he didn’t find me under the sofa ,” thought Bob .

Then Mr. Mannering stopped and spoke towards the sofa . “ Would you turn off the light when you leave ?” He said , and left the study .

1．Bob didn’t go to his dormitory because______________.

A．its door was locked

B．the window was shut

C．it was quite dark

D．the wall was too high for him to climb up

2．Who had turned on a light in the corridor ?

A．Bob himself        B．Another pupil     C．An office clerk    D．Mr. Mannering

3．When the headmaster came in , Bob______________.

A．was sitting on the sofa

B．was lying under the sofa

C．hid himself behind the bookshelf

D．hid himself under the sofa

4．It can be inferred that Mr . Mannering ______________.

A．knew that Bob was still at the cinema

B．knew that Bob was in the dormitory

C．knew exactly where Bob was

D．didn’t know clearly where Bob was

Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her three-year-old son, Michael, prepare for a new baby. They found out that it was going to be a girl, and day after day, night after night, Michael 21._____ to his sister in Mommy’s tummy.
The pregnancy progressed 22._____for Karen. Then the labor pains came. Every five minutes ... every minute. But complications   23.__  during delivery. Finally, Michael’s little sister was born. But she was in serious 24._____. With siren （警报）howling in the night, the ambulance 25.____ the infant to the Intensive Care unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee.
26.______ inch by. The little girl got worse. The doctors told the parents, "There is very little hope. " Karen and her husband contacted a local cemetery (墓地) about a burial plot. They had 27.______ a special room in their home for the new baby — now they planned a funeral.
Week two in Intensive Care. It looked as if a funeral would come 28 _____the week was over. Michael, kept begging his parents to let him see his sister, "I want to sing to her," he said. Kids were never 29______in Intensive Care. But Karen made up her mind. She would take Michael 30._______they liked it or not.
She 31.______ him in an oversized scrub suit and 32.____ him into ICU. He looked like a walking laundry basket, but the head nurse33. _____him as a child, "Get that kid out of here now! " The usually 34._____ lady glared into the head nurse’s face, her lips a 35.____ line. "He is not leaving until he sings to his sister!" Karen towed Michael to his sister’s bedside. He gazed at the tiny baby 36.____ the battle to live. And he began to sing 37._____ the pure hearted voice of a 3-year-old, Michael sang:
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray"
38. ______ the baby girl responded. The pulse rate became 39._____ and steady.
Keep on singing, Michael. "You never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don’t take my sunshine away — " The breathing became as smooth as a kitten’s purr.
Keep on singing, Michael. "The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping,… " Michael’s little sister relaxed as rest.
Funeral plans were 40______. The next day — the very next day — the little girl was well enough to go home!
The medical staff just called it a miracle. Karen called it a miracle of God’s love!
【小题1】A. talked      B sang          C. played        D whispered
【小题2】 A. quietly      B peacefully     C hopefully      D normally
【小题3】 A. arose        B. raised       C rose           D aroused
【小题4】 A situation      B condition     C place          D position
【小题5】A took         B sent          C carried         D rushed
【小题6】A The years     B The months    C The weeks     D The days
【小题7】A fixed up      B made up       C built up        D set up
【小题8】 A until         B before         C after          D when
【小题9】A asked        B allowed        C admitted       D acquired
【小题10】 A no matter      B even if        C whether       D as if
【小题11】A put          B dressed         C wore           D fit
【小题12】 A marched        B forced         C hid           D followed
【小题13】A required        B replied         C recognized      D regarded
【小题14】 A   warm-hearted                B well-managed
C   mild-mannered               D cold-blooded
【小题15】 A firm           B strong       C hard           D tough
【小题16】 A losing         B lost          C to lose         D having lost
【小题17】A in            B on           C at             D with
【小题18】A Finally        B Instantly       C Patiently       D Interestingly
【小题19】A calm          B quiet          C slow          D fast
【小题20】 A put off        B put away       C put up         D put down