Although it was only autumn，everything outside was covered in white．Unexpectedly, we were hit with a big  36  storm and no one was prepared．

    We have two apple trees in our backyard．Prana，our dog，loves  37．When she goes outside，she usually grabs a dirty apple from the ground to eat later on．Prana knows that when she brings her treasure into the house，I am not always  38，so she tries to hide it from me．It is our little game．

    On the day that it snowed too  39  in the season，Prana went outside and I  40  her from the window．I noticed that she was  41 lots of holes and bringing out the apples buried beneath the snow．She seemed to be  42 to dig up as many apples as she could．

    But when she came back inside，she brought back only one．About five minutes later,I looked outside．The yard was completely  43 with birds．Prana had dug up all those apples for her bird friends to eat．She knew that they hadn’t prepared  44 food for the early winter.

    This beautiful act of unconditional love from a(an)  45 taught me what real kindness was．

1.A．sand    B．snow    C．thunder D．rain

2.A．apples    B．winter    C．games D．bones

3.A．clear    B．correct    C．happy D．surprised

4.A．1ate    B．beautifully    C．1ightly D．early

5.A．met    B．watched    C．called D．heard

6.A．hiding    B．finding    C．cutting D．digging

7.A．determined    B．suitable    C．nervous D．encouraged

8.A．hit    B．marked    C．covered D．taken

9.A．delicious    B．enough    C．1ess D．extra

10.A．teacher    B．friend    C．animal D．bird

Dear Bill，

    I'm a middle school student now．I’m very  1  to come to this new school．I have new teachers  2  many more friends．They are all very friendly and   3  ．

   I often get up at 6：30 in the morning．  4  I have breakfast at 7：00．I usually go to school at 7：15．Our classes  5  at 8：00．We have Math，Chinese，Science and English lessons 6 8：00 to 11：40．In the afternoon，we have other lessons  7  Music，Art，P．E．and Computer．I often  8  with my classmates after 5：00．I like playing basketball，football，tennis and volleyball．I go  9  and do my homework．I have dinner at 7：00 p．m． 10  dinner, I often watch TV. I go to bed at about l 0：00．I enjoy my day very much．

                                                              With love from

                                                                 Nancy

1．A．beautiful         B．early             C．happy             D．1ate

2．A．also              B．and               C．else                D．too

3．A．pretty             B．scary            C．helpful            D．glad

4．A．Then              B．After            C．Before             D Again

5．A．begins           B．begin            C．have             D．has

6．A．at                   B．from             C．about              D．in

7．A．like                B．are like          C．likes               D．look like

8．A．meet              B．come            C．get                 D．play

9．A．on                  B．away            C．home               D．down

10．A．After            B．In                 C．As                  D．For