Every person needs friends. Friends are __1.__ who open their hearts to us. They always encourage us to try our __2.__ to do everything, and they even make us face challenges bravely. __3.__ in touch with our friends is important to us all. In this way, we can know how everything is going on with our friends. Friends communicate with each other in different ways. Some make phone calls to their friends __4.__. Some send postcards to their friends when they go on holiday. Others prefer to send interesting articles and __5.__ along with their letters. Among the ways, there must be your favorite one. Anyway, let’s communicate with our friends as often as possible.

 (B)

Music touches our hearts and shortens (缩短) the distance between people of different countries. The super star Jay Chou has cooperated with the American NBA star Kobe Bryant to create a song named The Heaven and Earth Challenge. That’s a song written by Jay Chou whose favorite sport is basketball. It expresses the love for basketball. And it encourages young people to be more confident. Jay Chou has learned much from Kobe’s sports spirit. In the song, Jay Chou does most of the singing part while Kobe plays a part of rapper (说唱者). People can download the ring tone (铃声) of the song from the Internet. All the money from the downloads will go to Project Hope, which aims to improve educational environment in poor areas in China.

任务1. 用方框里所给的单词的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理（每词限用一次）

任务2. 根据英文释义及首字母提示，拼写单词。

6.d__________: space between two points or places

7.e__________: give confidence or hope to somebody

任务3.同义句转换，每空一词。

Jay Chou has learned much from Kobe’s sports spirit.

Jay Chou has learned 8.______ 9.______ from Kobe’s sports spirit.

任务4. 根据短文内容简答问题。

10.What does the song express?

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根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。(每空一词)

Almost every child in cities has the chance to go to school,but not all children in the countries are  s_▲_ lucky.

There is a girl called Xiao Wen.She is 8 years old and lives in a small v_▲_ in Guangxi.When she was young,she wanted to go to school.But she could not,because her family was too poor to a_▲_ the school fees(学费) for her,  so her parents had to keep her at home. I _▲_ of studying, Xiao Wen worked in the fields with her parents every day.Then Project Hope heard about Xiao Wen.It helped her to go to school. Her wish of study came t_▲_ ,and now she is studying in a school.

U_▲_ ，there are many thousands of children who can not go to school .You can join in Project Hope and help these children.You know all the work n_▲_ money and Project Hope needs your help.

If you give Project Hope ￥300 each year, it can pay for one child to go to school for a w_▲_ year. With more money, Project Hope can b_▲_ new schools,buy good desks,chairs,blackboards and books.Let’s help the children together and give them a c_▲_ to have a good start in life.

Because of  Project  Hope ,_____children have better lives .
A. thousand  of     B.  thousands of      C.  two thousands of

Project Hope is a social service program to help poor students. It started on October 30^th, 1989. It aims to bring schools into poor areas of China, and to help poor families afford an education for their children.

    In the past sixteen years, Project Hope has raised about 3 billion yuan from people at home and abroad. It has paid for the education of 2.5 million poor students and sent 2.3 million students to high schools. Minmin comes from a poor family. She has received help from Project Hope. Without the help of project Hope, she couldn’t go on her studies. Project Hope changes her life. She has been a college student for two years. With the money, Project Hope has built thousands of schools and libraries and trained 2300 teachers. But 40 million children from poor families still need help, so Project Hope still has a lot of work to do.

1. Project Hope is a social service program to _______________.

A. help homeless people          B. help poor students                 C. help disable children

2.Project Hope started ___________.

A. in 1998                B. 14 years ago                      C. in the past sixteen years

3. Minmin has been a college student with the help of ___________.

A. Project Hope                   B. her classmates                 C. her teachers

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Project Hope has raised money to build ring roads.

B. Project Hope has raised money from Home and abroad.

C. Project Hope has trained 2.5 million teachers.

5.The writer wrote this article to ______________.

A. tell us what Project Hope does

B. tell us how poor China is   

C. raise money

根据对话内容，用方框内所给的句子补全对话, 其中有两项是多余的。（5分）

A: Good morning, Li Fei. I want to write a story.

B: 1._______________

A: A Chinese girl. Thanks to Project Hope, she finished her art dream.

B: Please tell me your main writing idea.

A: OK. 2. _______________Her parents died in a car accident. And she had to drop out of school.

B: What’s next?

A: Next? The girl’s art teacher found her talent on art, so she wanted to help the girl.

B: 3. ________________

A: She reported the girl’s story to Project Hope. She also raised some money for the girl.

B: Then, How was the end of the story?

A: With the help of Project Hope, the girl finished her education. 4. ________________

B: That sounds wonderful! When are you going to start the story?

A: This weekend. 5. ________________

B: Wow! You’re great! After all, you aren’t Chinese.

A: Thank you! My Chinese is very good!

A. What did the kind teacher do?

B. What is the story about?

C. And I will write it in Chinese.

D. She was a fan of pop.

E. First, I will describe the poor girl.

F. She returned to her hometown and taught the children art.

G. No one knows what will happen in the end.