任务型阅读 阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容完成相关任务。

There is a family of ants close to my house, but I don't know when they came here.

They work hard all day long cleaning their house and looking for food outside. There is not a lazy one in their family. They are friendly to each other and help each other. I like them very much and often go to see them.

One day I went to see the ants just before a heavy rain. They were busy carrying earth in their mouths to stop up the door of their house. Just then the rain came down. I ran back into the house. I thought,“The ants will be in danger. How heavy the rain is!”

When the rain stopped, I went out to see the ants. The earth at the door kept the rain out. They were busy carrying it away.

It was late, and the people all went home. I thought that the ants must be tired.I went to see them again with the help of the lamp. They were still working quietly. What good, hard-working neighbours they are!

1.Who is the writer's neighbour?

2.What did they do all day long?

3.They aren't very kind to each other, are they?

4.What did they use to keep the rain out?

5.Do they go to sleep just as the people do in the evening?

用所给单词的适当形式填空（每空1分，共5分）
grade      fail        great       get        because
Dear Dad ,
The day before yesterday was Father’s Day .I couldn’t celebrate it for you because I was busy taking the high entrance exam . But I have said “I love you, Dad !” in my heart many times .
You are an ordinary (普通的) man ,but in my eyes, you are the【小题1】father in the world . Every time I have trouble, you always give me advice and help me out. I remember once I【小题2】in a competition ,and I felt very upset . Instead of complaining, you just said to me quietly, “It doesn’t matter . A real man must learn to face many failures (失败) in life bravely .Cheer up !”
Dad,I am not going to buy you anything as a present【小题3】I don’t think it express my thanks to you .I’ll try my best to get good【小题4】.I think that is the best present you are looking forward to【小题5】. I’m sure I won’t let you down .
Hope my dear dad is healthy forever.

Learning to Accept
I learned how to accept life from my father.  1 , he did not teach me to learn to accept when he was strong and healthy, but when he was   2 and ill.
My father was 3  a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness  4 all that away. Now he can   5  walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair 6 . Even talking is  7 . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started   8  about life, and I told them about one of my  9 . I said that we must very often give things up as we grow —our youth, our beauty, our friends -- but it always seems that after we give something up, we get  10  in its place. Then suddenly my father spoke up. He said, “But Peter, I gave up   11 ! What did I get?” I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. 12 , he answered his own question: “I 13 the love of my family.” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes,  14 hope and thankfulness, I was also  15  by his words.

将下列打乱的句子重新排序，使其意思连贯完整。

Balzac was a great French writer.

A．Balzac went to bed early but he couldn't sleep. He didn't have anything for supper.

B．He lived in a dirty, wet room and was often worried about food.

C．Balzac got up quietly, lit a lamp(点上灯) and said, "Don't waste time, my friend! I couldn't find any money in the daytime . How can you find some in the dark?"

D．The man began to steal (偷) something on his bookshelf.

E. But he was very poor before he became famous.

F. All his friends were as poor as he was and they could not help him.

G. One night it was very cold. The wind blew and it was snowing heavily.

H. And he didn't know where he could get some food for the next breakfast.

I. At midnight he saw a man crawl (爬)in through the broken window.

J. He thought and thought, but he couldn't have a good idea.

完形填空。（共12分，每小题1分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

Eleven-year-old Angela had something wrong with her nervous system（神经系统）.She was unable to __1__. In fact, she could hardly make any __2_. Although she believed that she had a good chance of recovering, the doctors said that __3__ , if any, could come back to normal after getting this disease. Having heard this, the little girl was not discouraged. There, lying in her hospital bed, she insisted that no matter what the doctors said, her going back to school was __4__. 

She was moved to a specialized health center, and whatever method could be tried was used. Still she would not __5__. It seemed that she was undefeatable(打不败的). The doctors were all fond of her and taught her about __6_ that she could make it . Every day Angela would lie there, faithfully doing her mental exercise.

One day, __7__ she was imagining her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle（奇迹）happened: The bed began to move! “Look what I’m doing! Look! I can do it! I moved! I moved! ”she shouted___8___!

Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was __9__. More importantly, they were running __10__ safety.

People were crying, and equipment was falling .You see, it was an___11___. But don’t tell that to Angela. She has believed that she did it, just as she had never doubted that she would recover. And now only a few years later, She’s back in school. You see, to such a person who can __12__ the earth, such a disease is a small problem, isn’t it?

1.                A．see            B．hear           C．talk  D．walk

2.                A．progress        B．difference       C．movement    D．achievement

3.                A．few            B．all             C．some D．most

4.                A．true           B．doubtful        C．certain   D．impossible

5.                A．get up          B．give up         C．turn up   D．stand up

6.                A．thinking        B．expecting       C．pretending    D．imagining

7.                A．as             B．since           C．after     D．before

8.                A．quietly         B．happily         C．quickly   D．carefully

9.                A．frightened      B．pleased         C．touched  D．encouraged

10.               A．in             B．by             C．for   D．with

11.               A．appointment    B．earthquake      C．achievement   D．instruction

12.               A．push           B．shock          C．save  D．shake