Kate is both my best friend and my neighbour.She lives next door.I got to her ten years ago .Kate is tall and slim.She has a round face and a long nose.I like her bright , s___【小题1】___ eyes .They make her l___【小题2】____ really pretty and kind .
Kate is a very clever girl and she likes to help people.She always helps me with my homework.When I feel b___【小题3】____ or unhappy, she talks to me and t___【小题4】____ me funny jokes .She always wears a smile on her face a____【小题5】____ looks happy .
Kate likes to work with children.She would like to be a teacher when she grows up.I believe she will be a very good teacher .

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【小题1】There are many p_______________ on the bus. It’s very crowded.
【小题2】She feels l__________ because she has no friends to talk with.
【小题3】The problem is very difficult. It seems i___________ for him to work it out.
【小题4】Lily is very sad because she f__________ the math exam yesterday.
【小题5】I i_________ Xiao Ming to my birthday party last Sunday.
【小题6】Yesterday he _________ _________ ( 收到…来信 ) Michael. Michael said he would come to Beijing soon.
【小题7】The headmaster called on the students to _________  __________(筹钱) for the poor boy.
【小题8】I’d like to book a _____________ (标准) room with two single beds.
【小题9】The teacher was able to ________ _________(使振作起来)the class by teaching them to sing lively songs.

Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult without their parents. They don’t know how to do 1.h        because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big 2.p       .

Joy is 14 years old. Last month her parents went aboard on 3.b       , so she had to stay at home alone. At first she thought she would be 4.h        when her parents were not in. She could do everything that she liked. 5.B        when it was six o’clock in the afternoon, she felt 6.h       . “Oh, it’s time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to herself. 7.L        she found some food in the fridge, but she didn’t know how to cook. At that moment, she 8.m        her parents very much. At last she could only go to the supermarket and bought some food to9.e       .

Many teenagers are the same as Joy. So I think they should 10.l        some life skills, like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves properly. They shouldn’t depend too much on their parents.

Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12,a white gardenia（栀子花）was sent to my house. No card came with it．Calls to the flower shops were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender's name and was just very pleased with the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be, Some of my happiest moments were  spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged this imagining. She'd ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man who I looked afier when he was ill. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy.
One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt very sad and didn't want to go to the  coming graduation dance at all. And I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after l was married.1 was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
【小题1】Which statement is true according to the passage?