I do not need a calendar to tell me when it is winter. All I need is my nose. When I wake up in the morning and smell the tasty treats my mom is cooking downstairs, I know winter has arrived.
The first one is the smell of chocolate. During the holiday season (from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day) my mother makes her special hot chocolate. She always adds a peppermint candy cane (薄荷味拐棍糖) to the drink and tops it with cream.
The hot chocolate gets me out of bed, but it is my mother’s chocolate fudge (软糕) that makes me run downstairs. It is a thick chunk (块) of chocolate that tastes like heaven. My mother adds nuts. That gives it more texture (质感).
But my mother isn’t done yet. She also makes a treat she calls “window panes (窗玻璃)”. She takes a few different colored marshmallows (棉花糖) and melts them together with chocolate. The final product looks like a colorful church window, so we call it “window panes”.
These tasty holiday treats are usually eaten after a meal as a dessert. But don’t tell Santa Claus because I secretly eat them all day long.
【小题1】What wakes “me” up in the morning?

A．The alarm clock.

B．My mom.

C．The noise upstairs.

D．The smell of food.

【小题2】 In the author’s eyes, the taste of the chocolate fudge is ____.

A．terrible

B．wonderful

C．awful

D．so so

【小题3】With nuts, the chocolate fudge tastes _____.

A．softer

B．sweeter

C．harder

D．hotter

【小题4】The “window panes” the author mentions refer to _____.

A．special hot chocolate drink	B．decorations on the window
C．chocolate cake with fruits on it	D．a mixture of marshmallows and chocolate

【小题5】Why does the author look forward to the winter?

A．There is plenty of time to play around.	B．The food his mom cooks is mouthwatering.
C．It’s great fun to play outdoors.	D．He can have a good rest during the winter.

Mr. White looks out of his window. There is a boy at the other side of the street. The boy takes some bread out of a bag and begins eating it.There is a very thin dog in the street, too. The boy says to it, “I’ll give you some bread.”

The dog is hungry and goes to the boy, but he does not give it any bread. He kicks(踢) the dog. It runs away, and the boy laughs.

Then Mr. White comes out of his house and says to the boy. “I’ll give you a shilling(先令).”The boy is happy and says “Yes.”“Come here,” Mr. White says. The boy goes to him, but Mr. White does not give him a shilling. He hits him with a stick(用棍子打他).The boy cries and says, “Why do you hit me? I do not ask you for any money.” “No,” Mr. White says, “and the dog does not ask you for any bread, but you kick it.”

1.Where is Mr. White at first?

A．In the room.

B．In the street.

C．In front of the house.

D．Close to the boy.

2.Why does the dog go to the boy? Because _____.

A．it wants to eat

B．the boy asks it to do so

C．the boy is the dog’s owner

D．the boy is friendly to it

3.Mr. White tells the boy to come up to him, because he wants to _______.

A．give him a shilling

B．give him a good lesson (教训)

C．give him some more bread

D．help the boy

4.What kind of man do you think Mr. White is? He is a _____.

A．cruel(粗鲁的)                          B．sympathetic (有同情心的)

C．friendly                               D．Polite

 

下面短文中有十处错, 每处错皆用底线标出, 请将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。( 每小题只填一词, 不得改变原句意思。)

I am a Grade 8 student. I just moved to

Beijing with me parents two months ago.

          1.

Now I am study at a new secondary school

         2.

in Sunshine Town. It is big than my old school.

                   3.

I do not know the new school very good and

                             4.

I have no friends there. I do not know how

               5.

to talk to my new classmate. Sometimes, I

                 6.

am very nervous and I can’t answer them

                              7.

questions. I feel really comfortable when they

                    8.

talk to me. During lunchtime, I always sit

alone at the playground and read books.

   9.

I hope they will not come on because

                     10.

I feel so shy when they try to talk to me.

 

I watched as my little brother was caught in the act. He was sitting in the corner of the living room, a _____in one hand and my father’s hymnbook(赞美诗集)in the other.

As my father walked into the room, my brother cowered slightly(轻微地畏缩). He sensed that he had done something _____. Form a distance I could see that he had  _____my father’s new hymnal and scribbled(乱涂)in it. Now looking at my father fearfully, we _____  waited for his punishment.

My father _____his book, looked at it, and then sat down without saying a word．He was a clergyman(神职人员) and for him, books were knowledge. And yet he _____ his children. What he did next was unbelievable. Instead of punishing my brother, he sat down, _____ the pen from my brother’s hand, and then wrote in the book himself, alongside the scribbles John had made:

“John’s work, 1959, _____ 2.” How many times have I looked into your beautiful face and into your warm eyes looking up at me and _____God for the one who has now scribbled in my new hymnal. You have made the book sacred(神圣的), as have your brother and sister.

“Wow,” I thought. “This is punishment?”

The years and the books came and went. Our family _____ what all families go through and perhaps a little bit more. But we _____ knew our parents loved us and that one of the proofs(证明)of their love was the hymnal by the piano.

Dad taught us about_____really matters in life: people, not objects; tolerance(宽容), not judgment; love, not anger. Now I, too, am a father. But unlike my father, I do not wait for daughters _____ to take books from my bookshelf and scribble in them. From time to time I take one down, and give it to one of my _____to scribble in. and as I look at their artwork, I think about my father and the_____he taught me.

1.A、book         B、pen     C、knife     D、toy

2.A、wrong      B、special         C、dangerous    D、different

3.A、dropped          B、read    C、borrowed   D、opened

4.A、all    B、both    C、either         D、each

5.A、picked up         B、put up          C、made up      D、wrapped up

6.A、hated       B、needed       C、loved          D、disliked

7.A、moved     B、took    C、brought       D、borrowed

8.A、old   B、birthday    C、aged   D、named

9.A、thanked   B、asked  C、respected D、pleased

10.A、spent     B、experienced        C、supported D、afforded

11.A、ever       B、sometimes  C、never         D、always

12.A、what       B、why     C、which D、who

13.A、quickly   B、secretly     C、carefully      D、suddenly

14.A、children          B、sisters C、brothers      D、parents

15.A、skills       B、rules   C、lessons      D、subjects

 

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They  careful  be  fact   take  would  other  stand  what  decide with  year  expect  few  say

I am eighteen 【小题1】_____ old this year. I _【小题2】______ a pupil before and now I’m a university student. My mother was my first teacher when I was very little. Then, I had three【小题3】______ teachers in different schools. Now Miss Williams is one of my university teachers.
I have never _【小题4】_____ that I will be a teacher one day. I am a shy girl and I am afraid of __【小题5】______ before many people. I do not know ____【小题6】___ to say. But I will be a teacher tomorrow morning! I made this _【小题7】_______ just two weeks ago. Miss Williams, my English teacher, told me there was a teacher job, just for two weeks in this summer. She asked if I ___【小题8】____ be interested. I wanted to make some money, so I __【小题9】____ “yes” to her. At once I regretted but it was too late to ___【小题10】___ my word back.
There are about twenty foreign boys and girls in the class. They know very little English. I have ___【小题11】_____ read the book that Williams gave me. Four of the lessons are very simple, in ___【小题12】____ too simple. I do not know what to do _【小题13】_____ these __【小题14】____ simple words and sentences. I will read the lesson to them , and ask them to read after me, and then ask them to read it _【小题15】_____. That will be about ten minutes, what shall I do next ?