Denny Crook was a famous photographer. He traveled all over the world, taking pictures for magazines and newspapers, and won many prizes.

“I’ll do anything to get a good photo,” he often said. “I’ll go anywhere at any time, even if it is

  1 .”

And he told the   2  . He had photos of earthquakes, forest fires, floods and even wars. If something interesting happened, Denny went to photo it.

He was a married man and his wife often asked him to take her with him, but he always    3 . “I’ll travel for my work, not for   4 ,” he told her . “You won’t enjoy yourself, and I won’t have

  5   to look after you. Sometimes there’s not even anywhere to   6 , and I have to sleep outside. I often don’t have a good    7  or a bath for days. You won’t like it.”

“Denny, I’m not a child,” his wife didn’t   8 . “I can look after myself. Please take me with you the next time you go overseas.”

Denny did not say anything, but he  9  about it, and when he was asked to go to Africa he said to his wife, “You can come to Africa with me if you want to. I’ve got to take photos of wild

   10  there. It should be interesting and not too uncomfortable.”

His wife was very    11 , and at first she had a very enjoyable time.

Then Denny went off to  12  some lions to photo. His wife went with him, but before long they became separated. She walked down one path while he walked down the other.

Suddenly, Denny heard her   13 . He ran back and saw her running toward him. A huge lion was chasing her.

Quickly Denny took his camera out of its case and   14  it at his wife and the lion.

Then he shouted, “  15 , woman! I can’t get you both in the picture!”

1.                A．dangerous      B．natural         C．convenient    D．impossible

2.                A．lie             B．reason          C．news     D．truth

3.                A．allowed         B．refused         C．failed D．joked

4.                A．wealth         B．prize           C．pleasure  D．luck

5.                A．money         B．time           C．interest   D．ability

6.                A．meet           B．work           C．shop     D．stay

7.                A．meal           B．picnic          C．room     D．party

8.                A．agree          B．understand      C．reply     D．complain

9.                A．worried        B．forgot          C．asked    D．thought

10.               A．land           B．flowers         C．animals    D．people

11.               A．sad            B．excited         C．surprised D．amazed

12.               A．find           B．feed           C．drive D．shoot

13.               A．singing         B．crying          C．laughing   D．cheering

14.               A．threw          B．fired           C．showed   D．pointed

15.               A．Hurry up        B．Look out        C．Slow down     D．Go ahead

下面是四位同学写给《21世纪中学生英文报》编辑 Editor Lee的求助信。在信中，四位同学分别谈了自己在学习或生活中的问题。

A. 请将四封信与问题进行配对，并把序号A、B、C、D填入题题后相应的横线上。

     (A)

Dear Editor Lee,

Recently I have much difficulty in falling asleep. When I go to bed, though I feel sleepy,

I always think a lot and can’t fall asleep. So I always feel tired in class and sometimes my head hurts badly. Can you give me some advice?

Steven

(B)

Dear Editor Lee,

I am a student from Junior middle school.I am good at all the subjects except English.I can’t remember words well. I am not good at speaking and listening .

What shall I do?Could you give me some advice?

John                                                                 

(C)

Dear Editor Lee,

I have a problem. I really don’t know what to say when I meet strangers .I find it hard to talk with others because I am afraid they might laugh at me.I’m not as clever and funny as my friends .If people start to talking to me, they will think that I’m just boring.

Please help me.

Ann

(D)

Dear Editor Lee,

I was getting on well with my best friend .But a few days ago, another friend of mine told me that my best friend often said bad words about me. When I heard this, I was very angry. What shall I do? Should I stop being her friend or stay with her as usual ?

Betty

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!”
【小题1】A live      B. lives       C. is live      D. living

I usually get up at 5:00. I make coffee, go to my desk and work. When my boys get up, I’m theirs. I follow the min to the kitchen and make them breakfast. While they’re eating, I make their lunch, pick out their school clothes and get the little one dressed.
My wife takes them to school. I bring them home. I am not the only father at the school gate. The boys and I walk the 12 blocks home unless the weather is terrible. Then we take the subway. I remind them of looking out, like an animal looking after their babies.
At home, they play on the computer and the little one will draw, sometimes for hours. When their mother comes home, they run to her. She has been in the official day and tired, but her attention is all on them.
I have made dinner. We sit down and eat together. After they do their homework, Karen takes them to bed. I listen to the noise of the boys’ and their mother’s voice.
One afternoon when we were on the way home from school, the boys and I stopped at the clothing store. The saleswoman looked at the boys and said to me in a low voice, “You’re Mr. Mom, aren’t you?” I felt very angry. I’m not Mr. Mom. That’s not how I look at myself. The boys have a mother, a wonderful mother. She works outside the home, I work in the home. We are parents together. I’m a father!
【小题1】The first paragraph talks about_____________.

阅读下面语言材料，根据要求作答。根据短文内容，判断文后句子的正确(T)与错误（F）
“How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly way that people in the U.S.A greet each other. But “How are you?” is also a very unusual question. It’s a question that often doesn’t need an answer. The person who asks“ How are you?” hopes to hear the answer “Fine”, even if the person’s friend isn’t fine. The reason is that “How are you?” isn’t really a question and “Fine” isn’t really an answer. They are simply other ways of saying “Hello” or “Hi”.
Sometimes, people also don’t say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone Asks “Do you agree?”, the other person might think, “No, I disagree. I think you’re Wrong...”But it isn’t very polite to disagree so strongly, so the other person might say “I’m not sure.” It’s a nicer way to say that you don’t agree with someone.
People also don’t say exactly what they are thinking when they finish talking with other people. For example, many talks over the phone finish when one person say “I’ve to go now.” Often, the person who wants to hang up gives an excuse: “Someone’s at the door.”“Something is burning on the stove.” The excuses might be real, or not. Perhaps the person who wants to hang up simply doesn’t want to talk any more, but it isn’t polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn’t hurt the other person.
Whether they are greeting each other, talking about an idea, or finishing a talk, people don’t say exactly that they are thinking. It’s an important way that people try to be nice to each other, and it’s part of the game of language.
【小题1】“How are you?” is another way of saying "Hello." or" Hi."
【小题2】It is polite to say" No. I disagree I think you are wrong, "if you don’t agree with others.
【小题3】When someone says "I have to go now "On the phone.it means he wants to go on talking.
【小题4】"Someone is at the door." may be an excuse for finishing a phone.
【小题5】Sometimes people don’t say exactly what they are thinking about just because they try to be nice to each other.