阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

At least thirty times Bobby had tried to climb the snowy mountain, but he had never   36   the top. His friend old Peeper, who knew a lot about his failures,  37  Bobby to try again. He gave Bobby a pair of sunglasses and said, “If it starts clouding over, put on the glasses, or if your feet start hurting, put them on too. The glasses are very 38 . They’ll help you.” Bobby received the gift without much thought.

The day came when he was to have another   39 . About two hours after he started, he felt his feet hurting. Then he  40 what Peeper had said, and put on the glasses. The pain was pretty bad, but   41  the sunglasses he could clearly see the snow-covered mountain top, so he went on.

  42 , clouds were gathering. But this time Bobby could still see the  43 through the clouds. He kept climbing , leaving the clouds behind, forgetting his pain, and finally arriving at the top. It was certainly worth it. His feeling of   44  was extremely good, almost as great as that  45 view. The mountain below was surrounded by a sea of clouds. He couldn’t believe that the clouds were as thick as that, so he looked more closely at the sunglasses, and discovered the  46  . Peeper had engraved (镌刻) the snow-covered mountain top on the sunglasses,  47  Bobby could see it when he was looking upwards!

Bobby __48  that the only difficulty to reaching the top had been losing   49  when he couldn’t see the mountain top. He was thankful that Peeper had used that little trick to help him see that his   50   was never impossible, and that it was still there, where it had always been.

1.                A．left            B．reached        C．jumped   D．ran

2.                A．encouraged     B．ordered        C．allowed   D．warned

3.                A．real           B．safe            C．special   D．expensive

4.                A．try            B．start           C．test  D．training

5.                A．remembered    B．expressed       C．shouted  D．regretted

6.                A．under          B．with           C．for  D．about

7.                A．Happily         B．Hopefully       C．Unfortunately D．Luckily

8.                A．friend          B．top            C．climber   D．village

9.                A．success         B．decision        C．freedom  D．friendship

10.               A．strong         B．popular        C．bad  D．wonderful

11.               A．way           B．words          C．book D．secret

12.               A．and           B．or             C．if D．though

13.               A．suggested       B．realized        C．expected  D．hoped

14.               A．love           B．help           C．face  D．heart

15.               A．place          B．lesson          C．aim   D．story

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Do you often  1 your parents? You may say “Of course, I  2 . I buy a present for my mother on Mother’s Day and on Father’s Day, I give my father  3 , too.” But what about the other days of the year?
I have a friend  4 parents live in another city. One day I went to see her. We had a nice  5 . Then she wanted to  6 , so she dialed(拨号) the number, but then she  7 the phone. After about fifteen  8 , she dialed the number “Hi, Mom.”
Later I asked, “  9 did you dial the number twice?” She smiled, “My parents are old and  10 . They can’t get close to the telephone  11 . I always do so when I call them. I just want to give them  12 time to answer the call.”
My friend is a good girl. She is  13 thinking about her parents. You also want to be a  14 child, right? Please always remember to 15 your parents in every situation, not just on some important days.
【小题1】A、think of            B、think with         C、think
【小题2】A、will               B、do                 C、won’t
【小题3】A、a cake            B、a kiss              C、a present
【小题4】A、who                 B、which                C、whose
【小题5】A、sing              B、conversation         C、drink
【小题6】A、make a call         B、pay a visit         C、have a rest
【小题7】A、put down            B、put away             C、put off
【小题8】A、seconds            B、minutes            C、hours
【小题9】A、How                 B、What                C、Why
【小题10】A、fast             B、slow              C、healthy
【小题11】A、quick             B、quickly             C、slowly
【小题12】A、little             B、quick                C、enough
【小题13】A、always            B、never                C、seldom
【小题14】A、bad               B、clever              C、good
【小题15】A、think of          B、look after           C、ring up

Jennifer was sitting on the beach. After all she had been through, it was just what she needed. It’s getting __31 ,” she thought. “I should go home.”
She wanted to know how her __32  would react（反应）, when she __33  home after the three days she was missing（失踪）.
It was really dark when she finally reached her front door. It seemed different to her. _34_ had taken care of the outside garden for __35  days. She was surprised as her father usually worked hard to keep everything __36  and tidy（整洁的）. She couldn’t understand what was going on.
She entered the _37 _. First, she went into the kitchen where she saw a note written __38  her father. __39 said, “Dear Ellen, here is some coffee. I am out searching(搜寻).” Ellen was her mother, but where was she?
She went to her parents’ room. She found her there. Her __40  was lying on the bed, fast sleep. Her face looked so _ 41 , as if she hadn’t slept for days. Jennifer wanted to wake her up __42  she looked too tired. So Jennifer just fell asleep beside her.
When Jennifer _43_, something was different: she wasn’t in her mother’s room any more and she wasn’t wearing the old clothes she ran away _ 44 . She was on her own bed.
It felt so good being back home. Suddenly she heard a voice ask, “Are you feeling better now, dear? You know you __45  us all very, very worried.”

Today is Sunday, December 2^nd, everyone in Sheep Village (羊村) is very busy. What does he/she do?

I’m Nuan Yangyang. I write a letter(信) to my friend at one o’clock in the afternoon. Then I do my homework.

I’m Fei Yangyang. I want to be healthy, so I go to a sports club to play sports in the morning. I go home at three o’clock in the afternoon.

I’m Lan Yangyang. I have lunch in a restaurant（饭店）. But the food isn’t good, I don’t like it.

I’m Mei Yangyang. I go to a clothes store at nine in the morning. The clothes there are beautiful, so I buy a nice skirt.

I’m Xi Yangyang. I take the bus to the English club at ten thirteen in the morning. There I help two kids（孩子） learn to speak English.

1.Nuan Yangyang writes to a friend at ______.

          A.9:00 am    B. 1:00 am    C. 3:00pm    D. 1:00 pm

2.Fei Yangyang may be ______ at 3:12 pm.

          A. at school    B. in a sports club    C. on the bus    D. at home

3.Xi Yangyang can ______ very well.

          A. sing    B. dance    C.play soocer   D. speak English

4. Which of the following sentences is RIGHT(正确)?

A. Nuan Yangyang does homework on Sunday afternoon.

B. Lan Yangyang doesn’t eat lunch in a restaurant on December 2^nd.

C. Fei Yangyang has a nice skirt.

D. There are no kids in the English club.

One night, I wondered what it would be like if I only asked questions. I decided that no matter what anyone said to me the next day, I would reply only with   36 .
I loved to read about scientists and their discoveries, and I knew that scientists always started their research with a question. I hoped that I could become a scientist. Maybe by asking questions, I could train my mind to be   37 .
I survived the morning easily. “Is there any egg?” I answered when my mother asked what I wanted for breakfast. “Is this seat taken?” I asked when my friend Mike asked where he was going to   38  on the bus.
In the classroom, Mr. Black spoke slowly and clearly while I listened carefully. The problem had been part of my homework the night before. I wrote the answer on the board, “Could the answer be 361?”
Mr. Black smiled and nodded. I thought,“How did I   39  to get through that?” I almost laughed because asking questions really was starting to become a   40 .
I thought I had made it safely through the whole day,   41  what I had come to consider my experiment blew up at the dinner table when my dad asked me about my day. “What do I always do?” I replied.
My parents looked at each other. My father   42  again. “Well, I hope you went to school,” he said.
“Uhhh … why would you think otherwise?” I asked. My parents exchanged another   43   
and were becoming annoyed.
“Do you think questions are a good way to train your mind to be active?” I asked.
“It   44  the question,” said my father. “Some questions are asked for   45  information. Those are good mind-training questions. Sometimes, people use questions to get the other person to say something. Sometimes people ask questions to get someone to agree with them. Those questions don’t really achieve anything.”
“I guess my experiment didn’t work,” I said, and I told my father about my   46 .
“I think it worked   47 !” my father said. “You made a discovery, didn’t you? What matters is that you have put your idea into practice.”