Charles Dickens，one of the great English writers，  1  born in l812，in one of the small  2  of England．

    When Dickens was nine years old，the family  3 to London，the capital of England．There were several young children in the family．Their life was hard，so Dickens could not  4 to school．

    Only until his father was  5  of prison(监狱)could Charles go to school．At that time he was already twelve years old．But he did not finish school．Two years later be began  6．The future(未来)writer often went to the library  7  books．He read  8 ．Then Dickens wrote lots of novels(小说)all his life．Dickens  9  over a hundred years ago，but people are still reading his books  10  great interest．

1．A．is                          B．was                     C．were

2．A．town                     B．towns                  C．family

3．A．moves                   B．moved                 C．moving

4．A．go                         B．to go                    C．going

5．A．out                        B．at                        C．off

6．A．works                    B．worked                C．to work

7．A．read                      B．reading                C．to read

8．A．a lot                      B．a lot of                 C．very much

9．A．died                      B．die                       C．dying

10．A．to                        B．in                        C．with

Tom is the son of a farm owner. One New Year’s Day, when he was 15, his father asked him 36  on the farm for one year when he was free. Tom was 37  with his father’s idea.“That isn’t my job. I have  38 school work to do.” Hearing this, his father said, “I promise to give you the best present if you  39  finish one year’s work.” Tom thought for a while and 40  .

Starting one Saturday, the boy got up early and worked hard until evening, just like  41 farmer. Time passed quickly. Tom’s crops(庄稼) grew well. 42  the last day of the year, the father called his son to him. “I’m happy to see that you have worked very hard the whole year,” said the father. “Now, tell me  43  you want.”

The boy smiled and showed his father a big piece of bread   44  his wheat. I’ve already got the best present: No pain, no gain. I think this is what you wanted me to know.” His father was  45  to hear that.

I like movies best. Last week, I   1  a movie called ⅠRobot. It tells us a story about the future with robots. It is the year of 035 and people can see robots everywhere. Robots can help people do a lot of things, like looking   2 the old people or babies, washing, cooking, cleaning or taking dogs for a walk. Robot does everything people ask them to do   3 . But a policeman ,    4  Spooner ,doesn’t like robots. Because he doesn’t think that people can live well   5 robots. One day a scientist kills himself. He leaves（留下） a robot. Some time later Spooner finds    6  wrong with the robots in the world. A   7  robots have their own thoughts(思想) and want to control(控制) the people. If the robots succeed（成功）, it will be very   8 for people. Susan is another scientist working on robots. Finally, Susan and Spooner decide to   9  together to fight against these robots. At last, they succeed. People control the robots again. I think the movie is very interesting. If you are  10   in it, why not go and see it?