根据句子意思，从方框中选用恰当的单词或短语填空。

in need, is crazy about，would rather, used to , kind, a lot of traffic, throughout，getting lost, so patient

【小题1】The children were afraid of __________ while going through the forest .
【小题2】It’s necessary for us to help the people ________.
【小题3】His brother __________ listening to music and he can sing lots of songs.
【小题4】Bob _________ go to school on foot . But now he takes the school bus.
【小题5】The professor (教授) worked very hard _____________ his teaching career.
【小题6】I feel too tired. I ________ stay at home.
【小题7】Sorry for being late. But there’s __________ in the street.
【小题8】Timmy is _________ that we all like to ask him for help when we are in trouble.

While I was waiting to go into university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wanted at a school about ten miles from where I【小题1】. Because I was in great need of  【小题2】and wanted to do something useful, I applied(申请).
Three days later, a letter【小题3】. It asked me to see the【小题4】at Croydon. It proved to be a (n) 【小题5】journey —a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of【小题6】a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. Clearly, the principal【小题7】opened the door. He was【小题8】and round.
“The school” he said, “has a group of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen.”
I should have to teach all the 【小题9】except art, which he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into 【小题10】groups and teach them at three different  【小题11】, and I was not【小题12】at the thought of teaching maths —a subject which I didn’t do very well in at school. It was 【小题13】that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon 【小题14】most of my friends would be 【小题15】themselves at that time.
Before I had time to ask about my salary(薪水), he got up to his feet. “Now,” he said. “You’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school.”

【小题16】

A．lived B．played C．studied D．worked

【小题17】

A．help B．money C．rest D．force

【小题18】

A．arrived B．received C．returned D．wrote

【小题19】

A．editor B．teacher C．principal D．student

【小题20】

A．comfortable B．easy C．short D．unpleasant

【小题21】

A．at least B．at first C．at last D．at most

【小题22】

A．herself B．themselves C．itself D．himself

【小题23】

A．bad B．glad C．short D．smiling

【小题24】

A．people B．subjects C．boys D．knowledge

【小题25】

A．two B．three C．four D．five

【小题26】

A．subjects B．lessons C．levels D．schools

【小题27】

A．glad B．surprised C．angry D．sad

【小题28】

A．better B．more exciting C．worse D．nicer

【小题29】

A．until B．after C．if D．because

【小题30】

A．enjoying B．helping C．studying D．arguing

Liu Bing is Zhang Kun’s friend,  and now he is in a high school in Ottawa.  This is a letter   1    Liu Bing to Zhang Kun. 

Dear Zhang Kun, 

Thank you    2    your postcard.  I’m    3    to you in the reading-room.  Now I have many new friends here.  Henry is one of them.  He is my classmate.  He is 14    4    old.  His mother is a Canadian,  but his father is from Australia.  He often    5    me to go to his home for dinner    6    his parents. 

His family like China very much.  At school,  we have many good teachers.  One of them is from the USA.  We    7    her Miss Green.  She teaches English.  Our French teacher is Mr.  Smith,  and he is from Paris.  He loves    8    very much,  and we all love him.  Our Chinese teacher is Mr.  Scott,  and he likes Chinese kung fu very much.  After school,  he often talks to me in Chinese.

   9    is your English now?  I want to know something    10    you very much, please write to me soon.

                                                           Yours,

Liu Bing

1.A. for            B. to           C. from             D. at

2.A. for            B. with         C. at               D. to

3.A. telling        B. talking      C. writing          D. speaking

4.A. year       B. month        C. months           D. years

5.A. tells      B. asks         C. ask              D. call

6.A. and            B. with         C. for              D. in

7.A. calls      B. tell         C. tells            D. call

8.A. us         B. we           C. I                D. it

9.A. What       B. How          C. Where            D. Who

10.A. about     B. at           C. in               D. for

 

Once there was a piano player in a bar(酒吧). People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.

      "I don't sing," said the man.

     But the lady told the waiter, "I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!

     The waiter shouted across the room, "Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!'

     So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!

     He had talent(天赋) he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.

     You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all ff you just sit on your talent.

1. The lady asked the player to sing a song because _____.

    A. she had paid him for this           B. she knew him very well

     C. she wanted to have a change       D. she enjoyed his singing

2. Nat King Cole succeeded because _____.

    A. the lady helped him a lot            B. he caught the chance

     C. he continued to play in the bar       D. he stopped playing the piano

3.The words "sit on" in the passage probably mean"

A. fail to realize          B. forget to use

C. try to develop          D. manage to show

4.From the story we know if you have some talent, you should _____.

     A. hide it and wait       B. ask others for help

    C. pay no attention to it     D. work hard to improve yourself

5. Which could be the best title (标题) for the passage?

     A. Sing in the Bar              B. Achieve Success in Life

     C. Never Lose Heart            D. Find Your Hidden Talent

 

Schools and parents in Shenzhen City have been asked to take better care of children’s eyesight as 45 percent of them were found to be shortsighted. Too much reading, poor lighting and too much TV are blamed(责备). Of the city’s high school graduates(毕业生) who applied to study at colleges this summer, but now he gets up earlier.
【小题1】The purpose(目的) of this passage is to_________.

A．criticize(批评) children who are shortsighted.

B．blame parents and schools for children’s being shortsighted.

C．ask the high school graduates to pay attention to their eyesight.

D．draw people’s special attention to eye hygiene(卫生).

【小题2】Only_______ of the children in Shenzhen City have good eyesight.

A．45 percent	B．less than half
C．55 percent	D．two thirds

【小题3】Generally speaking, high school students have_____ eyesight than primary school students.

A．poorer	B．better
C．brighter	D．good

【小题4】Because of being shortsighted many school graduates_______.

A．weren’t allowed to enter college

B．couldn’t graduate from high school

C．couldn’t choose to study what they liked best

D．lost their limited time

【小题5】In order to take care of eyes, children shouldn’t_______.

A．read books

B．watch TV

C．make their eyes too tired

D．see things far away