An old man lived in a nice house with a large garden. He took care of his  1 all the time, watering and fertilizing(施肥)them.  

One day a young man went by the garden. He looked at the beautiful flowers, imagining how happy he could be  2 he lived in such a beautiful place. Then, suddenly he found the old gardener was  3 . He was very surprised about this and asked, “You can’t see these flowers.  4 are you busy taking care of them every day?”  

The old man smiled and said “I can tell you four reasons. First, I was a gardener when I was young, and I really like this job. Second,  5 I can’t see these flowers, I can touch them.   6 , I can smell the sweetness of them. As to the last one, that’s you.”

“Me? But you don’t know me,” said the young man.

“Yeah, it’s  7 that I don’t know you. But I know that flowers are angels(天使) that everybody  8 . We enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us.”

The blind man’s work opened our eyes and  9 our hearts, which also made his life  10 . It was just like Beethoven, who became deaf in his later life and wrote many great musical works. Beethoven himself couldn’t  11 his wonderful music, but his music has  12 millions of people to face their difficulties bravely. Isn’t it one kind of happiness?

1.                A．flowers         B．trees           C．vegetables D．grass

2.                A．after           B．as             C．before   D．if

3.                A．deaf           B．blind           C．smart D．strange

4.                A．What          B．Who           C．Why D．Which

5.                A．although        B．since           C．because  D．unless

6.                A．First           B．Second         C．Third D．Fourth

7.                A．true           B．hard           C．cool D．fair

8.                A．greets          B．knows          C．meets    D．doubts

9.                A．broke          B．hurt           C．pleased   D．treated

10.               A．emptier        B．busier          C．luckier    D．happier

11.               A．write          B．hear           C．play D．believe

12.               A．changed        B．directed        C．discovered D．encouraged

1. She b         two books from the school library yesterday.

2. In China Teachers’ Day is on S         10th.

3. Quite a few kinds of animals are very f         to human beings.

4. -What’s the b         hours of that supermarket? 

-From 8:30 a.m.- 9:00 p.m.

5. -I h         go to bed before midnight.

-I think that’s too late and it’s bad for your health.

6. All of the students were         (激动) about the report given by him yesterday.

7. Tom will go back to England after he finishes         (旅行) to Beijing.

8. Of all the         (发明)，that is the most important one in his life.

9. Computers are very         (帮助). Many people want to buy one.

10. The shop is         (关门) at 7:30 in the evening.

11. I’ve         (write) down what we saw in the factory.

12. There are ten         (deer) in the zoo.

13. This cup is         (difference) from that one.

14. She waited         (quiet) for her mother to return.

15. England is a          (west) country.

16. The book on the desk is         (her).

17. The girl looks very         (health).

18. His father is much         (well) than before.

19. The teacher told us the         (mean) of the word?

20. Do they think they can do it         (they)?

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Years ago, if a teenager（青少年）had some problems in her life, she might write in her diary. Now a teenager with the same problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客）. In many ways, a diary and a blog are almost the same. So, what makes a blog different from a diary?

The biggest difference is that a blog is much more public than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of secrets .Both diaries and blogs tell what happened to the writer that day.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I go on line to read her blog. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry exam. When I was her age, I wrote about the same thing, but only in my diary. Then , （3）after I finished writing. I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was worried that my sister might read it!

Because a blog is such a public way of writing ,it has both good and bad points （特点）. The biggest problem with a blog is that anyone can read what you write. Blogs can help people stay in contact with their friends. If I am angry with a friend during school and write something bad about her in my dairy. she will never know .However . if my sister writes something bad about a friend , that friend may read her blog and get angry. So we have to be very careful of what we write.

A blog has good points, of course .People choose to write in blogs they know that their friends will read what they write .If I am feeling sad one day and write in my dairy,” Nobody cares about me,” no one will know about it . However , my sister writes the same words in her blog, her best friends will quickly reply and tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people stay in contact （联系）with their friends and hear what the people around them are doing.

（4）If people are careful about what they write, blogs are a very good way to write about everyday life .However, I still prefer my old diary!

1. What are the advantages of writing blogs?

2. Why does the writer still prefer his old diary?

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3.___________________________________________________________________________

4.___________________________________________________________________________

5. The best title for the passage is____________________________________________.

Everyone needs friends

Everyone needs friends. We all like to ___1___ close to someone. ____2___ is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh, and do things with. ___3____, sometimes we need to be alone. We don't always want people __4___. But we would feel lonely if we ___5___ had a friend.

No two people are __6____. Friends __7____ don't. That doesn't mean __8____ they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up（和好） and become __9____ again. Sometimes friends move away（分离）. Then we feel very ___10___. We miss them very much, but we can __11___ them and write to them. It could be that we would even see them again. And we can __12___ new friends. It is surprising to find out ___13___ we like new people when we get to know them. There's more good news for people who have friends. They live longer than people who don't. Why? It could be that they are __14___. Being happy helps you stay well or it could be just knowing that someone cares. If someone cares about you, you take __15___ care of yourself.

1．A．look           B．watch             C．feel               D．see

2．A．It                     B．He                C．There             D．Someone

3．A．Hardly                 B．Nearly              C．Suddenly         D．Certainly

4．A．alone                  B．away    　        C．all over            D．around

5．A．ever                  B．never              C．just               D．really

6．A．friendly                B．kind               C．just the same       D．quite different

7．A．always                B．sometimes         C．often              D．usually

8．A．that                   B．whether          C．how              D．why

9．A．friendly                B．good              C．pleased            D．friends

10．A．angry                      B．sad               C．happy             D．alone

11．A．call                  B．ask              C．tell                D．talk with

12．A．look for              B．find             C．make              D．know

13．A．how often            B．how long         C．how many          D．how much

14．A．happier              B．stronger           C．kinder             D．richer

15．A．less                 B．better             C．little               D．no