The little boy entered the house unhappily. His mother was  1 cakes in the kitchen. She smiled as she  2 ,but stopped when she saw his face.“Tyler,  3 happened? Is everything okay?”

“Nothing is okay,Mom,” said the boy.” Today, in our science lesson, Mrs Green talked about the 4 .The whole world is getting dirtier and many animals and plants are dying, She wants us to think of something we can do to help. I thought all the way home, but there is  5 I can do to make a difference.”

“Let me tell you a  6 ,”the mother said after thinking  for a while .“ One morning a man was walking down a beach, there he saw thousands of dying starfish（海星） covering the beach, they were pushed up by the   7 . and it was too far for them to make their way back by  8 . The man shook his head as he walked along,“What a pity!So many starfish will die on the beach.” The man felt very  9 for those starfish . He went on walking and just at that time he was  10 to find a boy in front who was throwing the starfish back into the sea as  11 as he could. “How silly you are! My  12 ,” the man said.“There are so many starfish, and can you throw all of them back?” The boy didn’t stop but kept throwing. “  13 I can’t help them all, I can make a difference to this one, and this one, and this one,”said the boy.“Thinking for a moment, the man  14 to help return the starfish to their home. He smiled and said to himself, “Sometimes the biggest lesson in life comes from the   15 person.”

1.                A．drinking        B．making         C．selling    D．washing

2.                A．turned around   B．turned down     C．turned on D．turned off

3.                A．what           B．when          C．where    D．why

4.                A．air            B．land           C．water    D．environment

5.                A．something      B．anything        C．everything D．nothing

6.                A．lie             B．joke           C．story D．way

7.                A．wind           B．rain            C．waves    D．sands

8.                A．himself         B．itself           C．ourselves D．themselves

9.                A．tired           B．sorry           C．happy    D．excited

10.               A．afraid          B．surprised       C．sad   D．angry

11.               A．slow           B．fast            C．soon  D．high

12.               A．father          B．mother         C．son   D．daughter

13.               A．Or            B．So             C．Because   D．Though

14.               A．began          B．continued       C．forgot D．waited

15.               A．shortest        B．tallest          C．smallest   D．biggest

Many Chinese people like American country music(乡村音乐 ),such as（例如） the songs of John Denver. But still some people don’t know when country music began.
Country music is from the folk music （民间音乐）of the Appalachian Mountains in the east of America. There, people sang while playing the violin and guitar. They sang about everyday life, love and their problems. So the songs were sometimes a little sad.
One of the most popular country music singers is John Denver, who is also quite famous to the Chinese. For Denver, music was a language that could bring the world together. He says music can bring people together. We will understand（理解） each other better through（通过） music. People are different in colour and they may speak different languages, but people are the same in mind and body（在心灵和精神方面）. All of them love music and can understand music.
The world lost a great man when John Denver died in 1997. But his music and words will live on.
【小题1】 John Denver is a great         singer.

When I______ the cinema, the film ______.

A. arrived at; began?? B. got; began?? ????????????? C. got to; had begun?? ????????????? D. had got; had begun

One day, the wind starts an argument with the sun. "I'm much ( 1 ) than you are!" says the wind. "No." answers the sun, "I'm much stronger than you are!"

While they are arguing, they see a man walking down the road. He is wearing a heavy ( 2 ) . The sun says to the wind "Now let ( 3 ) see which of us can make the man take off his coat, then we will know ( 4 ) is stron­ger. "

First the ( 5 ) tries. It begins to blow very hard. It blows so hard that the man pulls his coat round him. The wind is ( 6 ) with the man. Then the wind says to the sun, "Now it's your ( 7 ) . Let me see if you can make him take off his coat "The sun ( 8 ) to shine on the man. Soon it gets very hot! The man ( 9 ) his coat. The argument is ( 10 ).

1.A. strong         B. strongest        C. strongly         D. stronger

2.A. trousers       B. hat          C. coat        D. shoes

3.A. us             B. we           C. ourselves        D. our

4.A. whose          B. who          C. when         D. what

5.A. sun            B. rain             C. cloud        D. wind

6.A. happy          B. worried      C. angry        D. sad

7.A. way       B. home         C. hope         D. turn

8.A. began          B. begins       C. begin            D. beginning

9.A. takes off      B. takes down   C. puts on      D. puts down

10.A. out           B. over             C. on            D. off   

Mr. Smith worked in a big computer company. He had no wife, and of course, had no child,   41  . He lived in an old house   42  . He liked nothing but drinking. He almost spent all of his money   43  drinks.

One night, Mr. Smith met a friend of his on his way home. The man asked him to have dinner in a   44 . He was happy and drank a lot. When they   45  the meal, Mr. Smith could hardly walk. His friend had to stop a taxi and asked the driver to take him   46 .

Soon the taxi arrived at Mr. Smith’s house. With the help of the   47 , he got out of the taxi.

“Thank you, sir,” said Mr. Smith. “And I can   48  the door by myself.”

The taxi driver then went away. But Mr. Smith couldn’t put the key into the key hole. He tried many times   49  he still failed. At that time, a policeman passed there.

“Can I help you open the door, sir?” asked the policeman.

“Thank you, sir. But I don’t think you can.” said Mr. Smith. “My house is circling (转圈) now. If you can stop it from   50  , I can open the door by myself.”