Mary didn’t understand such sentences as“She is blue today”，“You are yellow”，“He has a green thumb”，“He has told a white lie”and so on．And she went to the teacher Mrs James for help．
Mary：Mrs James，there is a colour in each of the sentences．What do they mean?
Mrs James：In everyday English，Mary，blue sometimes means sad，yellow afraid．A person with a green thumb grows plants well and a white lie is not a bad one．
Mary：I'm afraid I don’t understand them all．Would you give me an example for “a white lie”?
Mrs James：Certainly．Now I just give you some cakes．In fact you don’t like it，but you don’t want to let me know it．Instead you say，“No，thanks．I’m not hungry．”That’s a white lie．
Mary：It sounds very interesting．Thanks very much．
Mrs James：You are welcome．Colours are meaningful．I think you will meet more sentences like these in the future．Please come to me if you have any questions．
【小题1】Blue sometimes means sad in ________ English．

A．good

B．spoken

C．usual

D．poor

【小题2】I don’t have a green thumb，so all my plants________．

A．die off

B．grow well

C．look nice

D．are good

【小题3】He is ________today．He is told that his father is seriously ill．

A．blue

B．yellow

C．green

D．white

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　　If you notice a teenage boy singing his way down the street, completely lost h 1 in the beauty of music, it is likely to be Zhou Min.

　　Aged sixteen, Zhou Min was awarded Best Male Singer in the national finals of the MTV c 2 . He is a middle school student in Beijing. He couldn't b 3 he would win an award. “My l 4 of singing pushed me to enter,” he said.

　　As a student, he didn't have much spare to p 5 singing. So, he sang during breaks from study on his way home, or to school.

　　Singing is only a small part of Zhou's colorful life. His other i 6 are ball games and s 7 the Web. He is one of the top students in his class.

　　Zhou thinks that enjoying hobbies can help with studying. “Singing eases the pressures,” he said. “They can open new windows of opportunity. “S 8 the singing contests, Zhou has learned to be at ease with all kinds of d 9 and c 10 in front of large audiences. “When you do a job with great enthusiasm, sometimes even a hard one, it becomes surprisingly easy and fun.”

1．h　　　2．c　　　3．b　　　4．l　　　5．p　　

6．i　　　7．s　　　8．S　　　9．d　　　10．c　　

Top student Liu Weijian had a problem recently. The 14-year-old from Xiamen used to get marks of over 110 points (out of 120 points) on his math tests. ①But during last semester’s final exams, his math score was only 90 points.
“I didn’t know what happened,” said Liu, who kept feeling nervous and frustrated about math during the following month.
Like Liu, many of us experience setbacks (挫折) in life. ②你会怎样应对这些挫折呢？ Would you just let them be and give up?
Liu chose to face his problem. His parents and teacher also gave him help. After some hard work, he now gets marks between 100 and 110 points on his math tests. “Don’t be afraid of setbacks,” he said. “You will beat them.”
Guo Xingjuan in Shenzhen also has a story to tell. The 15-year-old girl is not good at doing sit-ups (仰卧起坐), ③which is necessary for the coming high school P.E. entrance test (体育中考). One has to do at least 35 sit-ups in a minute to pass the test. However, she could only do 20.
Feeling worried, Guo decided to do something. She did sit-ups for half an hour every day after school. Now, after a month, she can do 30 sit-ups a minute. “I finally found what made me slow through practice, and then I improved the skill little by little,” said Guo. “I believe next month I will be able to do 40!”
根据短文内容，完成下列任务。
【小题1】将文中划线的句子①翻译成汉语。
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【小题2】将文中划线的句子②翻译成英语。
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【小题3】指出文中③处划线的关系词which指代的内容。
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【小题4】猜测词义。
The underlined phrase “little by little” means “_____________” in Chinese.
【小题5】回答问题。
What did both Liu Weijian and Guo Xingjuan do when they met with setbacks?
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I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago. Her husband died because of traffic accident. About a week after his death, she shared some of her insights with us.
The class was clearly over. She said,＂Before class is over, I would like to share with all of you an important thought.”  “Each of us is on Earth to learn, share, love and *appreciate. We must *cherish every single day.”
Her eyes beginning to water, she went on, “So I would like you to make me a *promise. From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful. It could be a *scent----perhaps of freshly baked bread, or it could be the sound of the *breeze slightly *rustling the leaves in the trees.”
“Please look for these things, and cherish them. For, although it may sound * trite, these things are the *stuff of life. They are the little things on Earth to enjoy. They are the things we often take for *granted. We must try to notice them because it can be easily taken away at any time.”
The class was completely quiet. We picked up our books and went out of the room silently. That afternoon I noticed more things on my way from school than I had that whole semester.
I often think of that teacher and try to appreciate all off those things that sometimes we *overlook.
Take notice of something special you see on your lunch time today. Walk *barefoot along the beach at *sunset. For as we get older, it is not the things we did that we regret, but the things we didn’t do.
【小题1】In the writer’s eyes , the high school teacher was ________________________.

A．weak

B．happy

C．strict

D．special

【小题2】The words “insight” in the first paragraph means_____________________.

A．promise

B．thought

C．love

D．thing

【小题3】From the underlined sentence in the third paragraph we know the writer’s teacher suggests ____________.

A．cherishing every single day

B．finding something beautiful

C．cherishing even very little things

D．taking for granted

【小题4】The best title for the passage may be __________________________.

A．My high school days	B．Making a promise
C．My teacher’s insights	D．Little things in life

A very old lady won a million dollars in a lottery(彩票). Her son and her husband heard the news on the radio.

“How are we going to tell your mother?” the man asked. “The news might kill her!”

“That’s true,” the son said. “Perhaps we’d better speak to her doctor about it. He’ll know how to bring her the news gently.”

They told the old lady’s doctor about this.

“I’m glad you told me, ” he said “A shock(震惊), even a happy one, could give her a heart attack, leave it to me. I’ll find a way of bringing the news to her.”

The doctor thought about the problem for several days, then decided what he would say.

He called on the old lady and sat by her. He took her hand in his.

“Let’s play a game, my dear,” he said. “‘Let’s pretend(假装)’ game.”

“Oh, yes, ” the old lady said. “I love ‘Let’s pretend’ game.”

“Good, I’ll ask you a question first, ” the doctor said, “Then you can ask me one.”

He pretended to think for a few minutes. Then he said, “Tell me, what would you do if you won a million dollars in the lottery?”

“Oh, that’s an easy one,” the old lady said, “I’d give most of it to you, doctor, because you have been so good to me all these years, doctor!” But the doctor was now lying on the floor. He had died of shock.

1.Who won a million dollars in a lottery?

A. The man.        B. The son.       C. The old lady.   D. The doctor.

2.What does “heart attack” mean in Chinese?

A. 攻击心脏.       B. 惊喜.          C. 心情.           D. 心脏病.

3.Why did the doctor play ‘Let’s pretend’ game with the lady?

A. Because he wanted to get the money.                

B. Because he wanted to bring her the news gently.

C. Because he didn’t want to tell her the news.      

D. Because he wasn’t honest.

4.Who had died of shock?

A. The man.        B. The son.       C. The old lady.       D. The doctor.

5.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. A Sad Shock                      B. A wonderful Shock

C. An Interesting Shock             D. A Lucky Shock