I stood in the doorway，watching my older brother carefully putting clothes into his bag．I coughed uneasily．Finally  1   that I Was there，Rocky turned toward me with a sad smile.

   “I’m leaving tomorrow．”He said．

   “I know．”My  2  was almost a whisper(低声)．I was angry at myself for being so weak, but I Wasn’t about to cry．

    “My  3  is early，so there is still enough time to come to the airport，”he said．Seeing the  4   look on my face，he quickly added，“I promise(答应)1 won’t leave without saying goodbye．”

    I tried to say  5  ，but didn’t．It’s always better to keep quite if you’re about to cry． “You promised you wouldn’t cry，”he said to me，thinking that I was close to tears(流泪)．

    I remember the day he taught me how to ride a bike．  6   I thought he was always right behind me，holding the seat to keep me from   7  ．I was happy with this，but he knew he couldn’t hold me up all my life． He told me that one day he would have to let go．

    His coughing stopped my thinking．What was left to say? How could I say  8  to the person who taught me everything?

    The next morning I  9  looked at my alarm clock, and I realized he had left

10  ago．We never even said goodbye．

    Goodbye，Rocky! Although he may have been many miles away，I knew he heard me，even if it was only an answer in his heart．

1．A．forgetting    B．realizing     C．watching    D．learning

2．A．voice         B．sound         C．noise       D．word

3．A．ship          B．flight        C．train       D．bus

4．A．surprised     B．excited       C．sad         D．happy

5．A．anything      B．everything    C．something   D．nothing

6．A．At 1ast       B．From now on   C．At first    D．So far

7．A．riding        B．running       C．walking     D．falling

8．A．goodbye       B．hello         C．yes         D．sorry

9．A．gave up       B．stood up       C．looked up  D．woke up

10．A．minutes       B．hours          C．days       D．weeks

My father and I used to climb the mountains near my house．Climbing has been a very  1   thing for me since I was a kid．

Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations and from them I learned a lot．In fact, without mountaineering（登山）, Dad couldn't have had enough time to spend with me because he was very   2  himself．

Once we climbed Palgoly Mountain．It was very   3   for me because I was only ten years old． At first, I felt very   4  ．But soon I had pain（疼） in   5  of my legs, so I wanted to give up  6  ．My father said, "  7   is a season when everything comes to life（复苏） again．The mountain and the field where we are standing are beautiful．You can   8  see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can't see it before you   9   the top．You can always enjoy a lot of beautiful scenery at the top, but you can't when you are halfway（中途） up．"

At that time, I was   10   young to understand his words, but now I get it．And I also have new hope and confidence．

（    ）1． A．strange            B．unforgettable（不可忘记）    C．natural      D．sad

（    ）2． A．free            B．busy                    C．happy             D．angry

（    ）3． A．easy                   B．interesting           C．excited         D．challenging

（    ）4． A．happy            B．annoyed                C．worried         D．sad

（    ）5． A．neither           B．both                  C．some             D．several

（    ）6． A．climb            B．climbing               C．run               D．running

（    ）7． A．Spring            B．Summer               C．Autumn        D．Winter

（    ）8． A．never             B．always                  C．hardly            D．ever

（    ）9． A．arrive            B．get                     C．reach             D．go

（    ）10． A．so             B．enough                  C．such             D．too

Bessie Coleman was born in the USA．Her family was   1  ．She was in college for only one year．She had to   2  because she did not have enough money to finish her studies．But during that year，she learned about   3  ．She read about the first flight of the Wright Brothers and the first American woman pilot，Harriet Quimby．Bessie often thought about what it would feel like to fly like a bird．

4  the age of 23，Bessie Coleman went to Chicago．There，she did some ordinary（普通的）jobs．But she wanted to do something more important．She decided to learn   5  to fly planes．She soon found  6  was almost impossible to get into a flight school．Which flight school would admit（接受）a  7  woman?

Bessie learned that she would have a better chance in Europe．So she began to study   8  at a language school in Chicago．

After World War I ，Bessie Coleman went to France．She went to the famous   9  school in northern France．She learned to fly in a plane there．She   10  seven months of flight training and in 1921 got her international permit（许可证） to fly in France．She became the first black woman ever to have an international pilot's license（执照）．

1．A．rich                 B．poor               C．big                D．small

2．A．leave               B．come              C．arrive              D．stay

3．A．singing              B．jumping            C．flying             D．driving

4．A．With                B．To                C．For               D．At

5．A．where               B．when            C．how                    D．why

6．A．that                 B．this                C．it                 D．there

7．A．beautiful             B．smart             C．white             D．black

8．A．English             B．French                  C．Chinese          D．Japanese

9．A．art                 B．flight              C．language            D．dance

10．A．finished          B．provided         C．missed             D．changed

— How about climbing the hill?

—I would rather           along the river than           the hill. I’m a bit tired.

A. walk; climb                      B. walking; climbing

C. walking; to climb                D. walk; to climb