In front of my daughter Sindu was a bowl filled with cabbage. She hated cabbage. She only sat there in silence with tears in her   16 .
“Sindu, darling, why don’t you   17  a little? Your Mom will shout at me.”
Sindu wiped(擦) her   18  with the back of her hand.
“OK, Dad. I’ll eat, just a little.” Then Sindu said, “Dad, if I eat it all, will you give me   19  I want?”
“Yes, of course.”
  20  she began to eat. It took her almost half an hour to finish the   21 . Then she came up to me and said, “Dad, I want to have my head shaved(刮、剃)! ”
“Sindu, why don’t you   22  something else? If we see you with a clean-shaven head, we will be   23 , I said.”
“But, Dad, you promised! Now, you are going back on your words.”
I had to   24  my promise, Sindu had all her hair cut off. She looked beautiful.
On Monday morning, I took her to school. Just when we   25 , a boy got out of a car, and shouted, “Sindu, please wait for me!”
Guess what? The boy had   26  hair either.
“Sir, your daughter is   27 !” a man got out of the car and said, “That boy is my son Harish. He has cancer(癌症). He lost his hair   28  he got ill. Sindu cut hers off so Harish felt less   29 . She is a special girl.”
I stood for a while. “My little girl, you   30  me how selfless(无私的) real love is!

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Zhang Li lies in bed sadly. The 24-year-old young man lost his right leg because of a blood disease. The doctor said that his 10 years of smoking had caused the disease. “I began to smoke when I was in Junior 3. It made me feel like a man and I thought it looked cool. Now I know I was really wrong.” said Zhang.

It is a mistake many teenagers make. It is said that about 40 million of the country’s young people between 13 and 18 have tried smoking. Nearly 68 percent of teenager smokers smoked their first one before the age of 13. Those who live in big cities started even earlier. Many teenagers see people smoking in the movies. But in real life, stars like Jackie Chan think smoking is a bad thing. In fact, smoking is one of the top killers in China. Each year one million people die from smoking-related(与吸烟有关的)diseases. Smoking causes illnesses like lung cancer and heart disease.

Doctors say that the younger a person starts smoking, the worse it will be. If a person starts smoking as a teenager, he or she may live twenty-two years less than non-smokers.

1.What kind of disease did smoking cause for Zhang Li?

   A. Lung cancer.          B. Blood disease.           C. Heart disease.

2.From the passage, we know Zhang Li started to smoke when he was      years old.

   A. 13                    B. 14                       C. 18

3. The city’s young people          .

   A. knew that smoking was a bad thing

   B. tried smoking when they were in Junior 3

   C. started smoking earlier than those in the country

4.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

   A. Zhang Li had a disease and lost his left leg.

   B. Smoking may cause many kinds of diseases.

   C. Smoking may make you have a shorter life.

5. What does the underlined word “non-smokers ” mean in English?

   A. People who like smoking.

   B. People who smoke.

    C. People who don’t smoke.

Mr. King works in a shop and drives a car for the manager. He drives carefully and can keep calm when   16  danger. And he escaped from several accidents. The manager   17  him more and the traffic policemen often speaks highly of him.
Mr. Baker，one of his friends，works in a factory outside the city. It’s far from his house and he has to go to work by bus. As the street is   18  in the morning, sometimes he’s late for the work. His manager warns the young man that he will be sent away   19  he gets to his office on time. He hopes to buy a car，but he hasn’t enough   20 . He decides to buy an old one. One day, he went to the second-hand market and at last he chose a beautiful but cheap car. He said he wanted to try the car，the seller agreed. He   21  Mr King and asked him to help him at once.
Mr. King examined(检查) the car and then drove it away. It was early in the morning and there were few cars in the street. At first he drove slowly and it   22  well. Then he drove fast. And when he reached a crossing，the lights turned   23 . He tried to stop it， but he failed and   24  hit an old woman who was crossing the street. A policeman told him to stop，but the car went on until it hit a big tree by the road.
“Didn’t you hear me？” the policeman asked angrily.
　　“Yes, I did，sir,” said Mr King，“   25  it doesn’t listen to me，can it obey（听从）you？”

按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子，每空一词。

1.Mary坐在 Lucy的旁边，她们经常互相帮助、互相学习。

Mary sits   1  Lucy. They often help each other and   2     3  each other.

2.Tony经常迫不及待地跑回家在电视上看足球比赛。

Tony often   4    5  to run home and   6  football   7  on TV.

3.黄山湖公园比其它地区的空气污染少。

There   8     9     10    11   in Huangshanhu Park than in other   12  .

4.这钱包不是我的。它是李太太的，她的钱包跟我的是相同的颜色。

This purse  13   14  to  15  .  It’s Mrs Li’s. Her purse is the same colour as   16  .

5.你为什么不在地方剧院欣赏京剧呢？

Why don’t you    17   Beijing    18   at the    19      20  ?