Do you still remember your dream from childhood? They’re like flowers that never fade(雕谢). The ___26___ Liu Wei,the ___ 27     pianist who plays the piano with his toes(脚趾)，won the final of China’s Got Talent(达人秀) at Shanghai Stadium. ____28____, he seemed quite calm(平静)during his TV interview. He said,“I am _____29     ordinary person and will keep ____30     music of my own.”Liu lost his arms when he was ten after touching a high-voltage wire(高压线)during a game of hide-and seek. “My family and I were sad then.” Liu said. A disabled(残疾的) boy he met at the hospital encouraged ____31    . At the time he dreamed ____32    becoming a soccer player. But he had to ____ 33      playing soccer. Two years ___34___, he started to learn to swim and won two gold medals and one silver medal at the National Swimming Championship for the disabled in 2002.At the age of 19,Liu taught himself ____35     the piano with his feet and started to compose and produce music,practising more than seven hours every day. He said,“The big toe is the most flexible digit (易弯曲的足趾)when ‘toeing,’ but I can only reach five keys at the same time. It means I have to train my toes to move more quickly.”One of the show’s hosts Cao Kefan told the reporter,“He was practising so hard that his feet were cramping(痉挛).” “We’ve all fought for our dreams _____36     we were young but no one has fought___37     you.”commented the pop composers Gao Xiaosong. “You tell us that to realize our dreams we __ 38     to spare no pains(不遗余力).”said Taiwan singer-actress Yi Nengjing. They all praised Liu’s performance. Liu said,“Music is like water and air to me. I can’t live without it. For people like me,there are only two options(选择):One is to give up all dreams which lead to a quick,hopeless ____39____;the other is to struggle(奋斗)without arms to live a(n)___ 40____life.”

(     )26.A.23 years old   B.23-year-old    C.23-years-old    D.23 year-old

(     )27.A.legless       B.footless       C.armless        D.toeless

(     )28.A.But          B.Though       C.After          D.However

(     )29.A.an           B.a            C./              D.the

(     )30.A.composing    B.compose      C.composes      D.composed

(     )31.A.her          B.him          C.he            D.his

(     )32.A.at           B.about         C.around        D.along

(     )33. A.give up      B.gave up       C.give out       D.give off

(     )34.A.after         B.late          C.later          D.since

(     )35. A.what play    B.how play      C.what to play    D.how to play

(     )36. A.when        B.before        C.after          D.soon

(     )37.A.as hardly as   B.so hard as     C.as hard as      D.so hardly as

(     )38.A.needed       B.needing       C.need          D.to need

(     )39.A.die          B.dead          C.died          D.death

(     )40.A.excellent     B.terrible        C.awful         D.sad

In American schools there is something called Home-coming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a home-coming game. This can be the most important event of the year except graduation (毕业) day. Students plan Home-coming Day for many weeks in advance.

Several days before Home-coming ,students start to decorate (装饰)the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team, and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Home-coming twenty or thirty years after their graduation.

The members of school clubs build booths (摊位) and sell lemonade, apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.

During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.

Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over, the band (乐队)comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Home-coming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Home-coming Queen or King. It is a great honor to be chosen.

Home-coming is a happy day, but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses, the students still enjoy Home-coming. Some stay at the school to dance, and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering.

（   ）31. The most important event of the year in high schools and colleges is_______.

A. Home-coming     B. the football game            

C. graduation         D. winning the game

（   ）32. When do students begin to do everything for Home-coming?

A. The day before Home-coming.    B. Many weeks before the day.

C. When the guests arrive.   D. Several hours before Home-coming.

（   ）33. Which of the following is NOT mentioned (提及) on Home-coming Day?

A. To see old friends.         B. To visit teachers they remember.

C. To watch the football game.   D. To go home to see their family.

（   ）34. Who can probably become Home-coming Queen or King?

A. The teacher who is kind to the students.                  

B. The student who is popular with the students.

C. The visitor who is famous to the students.        

D. The player who plays best in the football game.

（   ）35. What’s the best title of this article?

A. Home-coming Day           B. A Happy Day 

C. The Most Important Event     D. Home-coming Queen or King

An armless pianist who plays with his toes has won the first series of China’s version of the internationally popular TV talent show, “China’s Got Talent.”

Liu Wei, a 23-year-old Beijing-born pianist, who lost both his arms at the aged of 10 when he was electrocuted（触电）during a game of hide-and-seek. Liu Wei stayed in rehabilitation（康复）centre for 2 years. When he got out, he was introduced to Beijing’s disabled swimming team, and he managed to take 2 gold medals in the National Disabled Swimming Championship at the aged of 14. But soon he was told not to do too much sport by the doctor.

Liu Wei was very sad. Luckily, the door was shut on sports, but it opened in music. At the age of 18, he started to learn the piano. He could not find a teacher to lead him to play with his toes, so he began teaching himself. Liu said, “I knew if I tried, I might get a chance at success. If I didn’t try, I would lose my future.”

He carried on a daily 7-hour practice, his improvement gave him hope. He kept practicing and made progress gradually. In early 2011, he gave a memorable performance in Vienna’s Golden Concert Hall. In 2012, he received the award “Top Ten People Who Moved China”.

1.Liu Wei lost both his arms when he was______ years old.

    A. 10                       B. 14                       C. 23

2.Besides playing the piano, Liu Wei is also good at _______.

    A. playing games

B. learning from others

C. armless swimming

3.Liu Wei was taught by ________ to play the piano with toes.

    A. his teacher                  B. his mother                   C. himself

4.The sentence “The door was shut on sports, but it opened in music” means that Liu Wei ______.

    A. lost the future of music

B. got other chances at success

C. couldn’t do sports

5.The best title of this passage is “_________”

    A. One is never too old to learn

    B. Time and tide wait for no man

    C. Where there’s a will, there’s a way

In American schools there is something called Home-coming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a home-coming game. This can be the most important event of the year except graduation (毕业) day. Students plan Home-coming Day for many weeks in advance.

Several days before Home-coming ,students start to decorate (装饰)the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team, and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Home-coming twenty or thirty years after their graduation.

The members of school clubs build booths (摊位) and sell lemonade, apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.

During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.

Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over, the band (乐队)comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Home-coming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Home-coming Queen or King. It is a great honor to be chosen.

Home-coming is a happy day, but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses, the students still enjoy Home-coming. Some stay at the school to dance, and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering.

1.The most important event of the year in high schools and colleges is_______.

A．Home-coming                          B．the football game

C．graduation                            D．winning the game

2.When do students begin to do everything for Home-coming?

A．The day before Home-coming.

B．Many weeks before the day.

C．When the guests arrive.

D．Several hours before Home-coming.

3.Which of the following is NOT mentioned (提及) on Home-coming Day?

A．To see old friends.

B．To visit teachers they remember.

C．To watch the football game.

D．To go home to see their family.

4.Who can probably become Home-coming Queen or King?

A．The teacher who is kind to the students.

B．The student who is popular with the students.

C．The visitor who is famous to the students.

D．The player who plays best in the football game.

5.What’s the best title of this article?

A．Home-coming Day                       B．A Happy Day

C．The Most Important Event                 D．Home-coming Queen or King

Mr Bean, who is silly, awkward (笨拙的)    1   always funny and enjoyable, is a world-famous comedy character on TV and in movies. He makes people    2 through a series of simple and funny acts   3  body languages. Rowan Atkinson is the   4  who plays Mr Bean. Mr Atkinson is quite   5   for playing Mr Bean. 
Rowan was born on January 6, 1955, and   6  his early years on the family farm with his mother, three older brothers and his strict father, who did not believe   7  the value of television. For a time, he attended the same school as Tony Blair, who was two years older than him. At the age of 13, he   8   at Newcastle University where he had the highest marks in his year. At Oxford he got his Master’s degree (硕士学位) in electrical engineering. He was particularly  9  fast cars, of which he has a large collection.
Rowan’s career change from an electrical engineer to a famous comedian was partly   10  some speaking problems he had in his childhood.
While he was still at primary school, Rowan had already shown great talent in    11  . Although his teachers predicted (预言) a career in acting, Rowan was not confident   12   he met a group of talented people at university, and he realized this could be a career for him. Another important event    13  . One day in 1976, he was playing around and making faces  14 . He realized something. “I discovered my face,” he said later. John Lloyd, who worked for the BBC, says, “When I watched Mr Atkinson act for the first time, I was   15  that he would be more famous than Chaplin.”