— Hello, Betty! Where are you now?  
— I ________ on the Great Wall of China and talking to you.        

Hello, I’m Robert Croft. I don’t have many  1  at home. In my room, for example, I can do 2   I want to do. Mom thinks it’s OK. My favorite pop  3  is Take Four. I can play  4  music loudly, but sometimes Mom is not happy about this. I have a TV in my room.  5  Monday to Friday, I usually don’t watch TV. But if I  6  to watch TV, I have to do my homework first. “7  comes first.” On weekends, I can watch TV till 11 o’lock. On Sundays, I do some 8. I clean my room. It only takes me half an hour, so it’s not too  9 . But Mom often has a lot of housework to do, so I have to 10  her. When we have time, we go shopping.

The teacher shouldn’t make the student _____ all the class.
A. to stand   B. stand   C. to listen

On the evening of last Sunday while I was reviewing my lessons in my room, it suddenly began to rain.   1   as usual, I stopped to listen to the rhythm（韵律）of the rain. For many years, whenever it rains, I couldn’t   2  listening to it and thinking of the garden in which I spent my childhood（童年） in my hometown.

When I was a little girl, my family lived in a big house with a big garden in the countryside. The garden was full of flowers and   3 , with some bamboo in front of the wall. Whenever it rained, I    4   to sit in the front of the house, listening to the rhythm of the rain and watching the    5   raindrops（雨点）.

When small drops of rain fall from the heaven in a row（持续不断地）, they    6  a curtain made up of pearls（珍珠）; when the raindrops   7  the ground, a lot of small sprays（水花）will splash（溅出）and then disappear slowly.

I have been   8  interested in watching such a scene. Listening to the rhythm of the rain, I feel calm and peaceful in my heart. This feeling of peace makes me think a lot about life. We are the    9  of the earth, and one day we will embrace（拥抱）our earth and stay with her forever. Life is short and we should treasure it.

Listening to the rhythm of the rain, I learn to understand the    10   of life.

1.                A．Surprised       B．Sad            C．Excited   D．Angry

2.                A．stand          B．stop           C．like  D．think

3.                A．leaves          B．animals         C．children D．trees

4.                A．happened       B．wanted         C．wished   D．used

5.                A．falling          B．singing          C．fallen    D．broken

6.                A．make          B．form           C．cause    D．rise

7.                A．see            B．get            C．reach    D．cover

8.                A．always          B．never          C．sometimes    D．seldom

9.                A．children        B．owner          C．friends   D．master

10.               A．length         B．meaning        C．number   D．quality

Jack ___1___in Canada. His father___2___a big shop and his mother is a teacher. He is six years old and ___3___to go to school this year. It’s ___4___far from their home, and his father drives a car to take him to school every day. So he is never late___5___ class and his teachers like him very much. .

It’s Monday today. Miss White is teaching them to count numbers from one ___6___ten. Jack studies very hard. Soon he can count them. Miss White is happy and asks “How ___7___ people are there in your family, Jack?”

Jack___8___ up and says “Two, Miss White.”

“Who are ___9___?”

“My father and my mother.”  Says Jack.

“Oh?” Miss White says “There are three people in your family, not two.”

“But now I’m not at home. I’m at ___10___, you know!”

1.A live      B. lives       C. is live      D. living