Thanksgiving Day was near. The Grade 7 teacher asked her students to   16  a picture of something for which they were thankful.

People celebrated the   17   with turkey and other traditional goods of the season. So,   18   of her students’ pictures were about them.

However, Jack made a ___19____ kind of picture. Jack was not the same as other boys. He always looked sad. When asked to draw a picture of something for which he was   20  , he drew a hand. Other students were all very    21   in the picture. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, because farmers feed    22   . Another suggested a police officer, because the police   23   and care for people. Still    24   guessed it was the hand of God, for God feeds us. And so the    25   went on until the teacher almost forgot the young artist himself.

When the children had gone on to other subjects, she stopped at Jack’s desk and asked him   26    it was. The little boy looked up and said in a   27   voice, “It’s yours, teacher.”

She remembered the times she had taken his hand and    28    with him here or there, as she had with the other students. She often said, “   29   my hand, Jack. We’ll go outside.” Or, “Let me show you how to use your pencil.” Jack was most thankful for his  ___30____ hand.

1.A. print          B. find         C. draw         D. take

2.A. festival   B. week         C. night            D. Sunday

3. A. little        B. none         C. few          D. most

4.A. nice           B. different        C. same         D. best

5.A. thankful   B. pleased     C. sorry            D. afraid

6. A. sad   B. interested       C. careful          D. angry

7.A. chickens       B. dogs         C. cats         D. turkeys

8. A. hurt          B. protect          C. harm         D. smile

9.A. another    B. other            C. others           D. the other

10. A. tile       B. speech         C. discussion       D. talk

11.A. what          B. where            C. which        D. whose

12.A. high          B. low          C. hard         D. beautiful

13.A. walked            B. said         C. sang         D. taught

14.A. Touch             B. Look         C. Take         D. Push

15.A. mother’s B. classmate’s C. teacher’s      D. friend’s

 

Mr Brown is a      . He drives for a big company. He is very      , so he can’t look after his family. His wife became     after their little son Peter was born.     Mr Brown has to take little Peter to work with him. The boy likes     and never feels tired and     his father a lot of questions.

Now Peter is 15 years old. He      all of his subjects except Geography. He works hard at it and wants to be a      , so he listens to the teacher in class      and studies the map when he is free. He does well in       . sometimes he fails in Maths, History or some other subjects, but he doesn’t       it.

     Now Class Two are having History. Miss Lee is telling the class       about James I(詹姆斯一世). Peter isn’t listening to her. He is thinking of        he is going to visit next Saturday and Sunday. The teacher finds it and       , “What is the first thing James I did when he came to the throne, Peter?”

     The boy can’t        the question at all. He thinks for a while and says, “ He sat down, Miss Lee.”

1.A. worker      B. cook        C. driver           D. doctor

2.A. busy        B. free         C. hardworking      D.  lazy     

3.A. fat         B. thin         C. ill              D. beautiful

4.A. Because     B. But         C. Or             D.So

5.A. reading      B. singing      C. shopping        D. travelling

6.A. tells        B. asks         C. thinks          D. answers

7.A. likes        B. loves        C. hates           D. enjoys

8.A. worker      B. teacher       C. farmer          D. traveler

9.A. slowly      B. carefully      C. quickly         D. beautifully

10.A. Maths      B. History      C. Geography      D. Chemistry

11.A. matter      B. think        C. hope           D. mind

12.A.everying    B. nothing     C. something       D.anything

13.A. where      B. when        C. what           D. which

14.A. says        B. speaks       C. tells            D. asks

15.A. talk        B. say          C. tell             D. answer

 

Just a Little Smile
Mark was walking home from school one day when he saw the boy in front of turn fall over and drop all of the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a basketball and a walkman (随身听). Mark stopped and helped the boy pick up these things. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry some of his things. As they walked, Mark knew that the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved computer games, basketball and history, and that he was having lots of troubles with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
They arrived at Bill’s home first and Mark was invited(邀请) in for a Coke and to watch some television. The afternoon passed happily with a few laughs and some small talk, then Mark went home. They often saw . each other at school, had lunch together once or twice, and then they both finished middle school. They ended up in the same high school where they sometimes saw and talked with each other over the years. At last just three weeks before they finished high school, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
Bill asked Mark if he still remembered the day years ago when they had first met. "Did you ever think why I was carrying so many things home that day?" asked Bill. "You see, I cleaned out my locker(锁柜) because I didn’t want to leave anything for anyone else. I had put away some of my mother’s sleeping pills and I was going home to kill myself. But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, ! began to understand that if I killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up those books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life. "
【小题1】 When Mark met him the first time, Bill was going

A．to have a basketball game

B．to his classroom

C．to see Mark

D．back home

【小题2】From what Bill was carrying, we can know that he        .

A．was a good student

B．liked sports and music

C．liked all the subjects in school

D．was a g

【小题3】Mark and Bill    .

A．were in the same middle school and high school

B．were in the same middle school but not in the same high school

C．of ten had lunch together at school

D．had known each other before they began to study in middle school

【小题4】 In this passage, the phrase "break up" means"    ".

A．相处很好

B．和好如初

C．关系破裂

D．保持联系

【小题5】 When Mark helped Bill to pick up some of his things, he.      .

A．knew he could save Bill’s life

B．knew who Bill was and wanted to help him

C．didn’t know why he was going to help him

D．didn’t know what he was doing was very important to Bill

We each have a memory(记忆力). That’s why we can still remember things after a long time. Some people have very good memories and they can easily learn many things by heart, but some people can only remember things when they say or do them over and over again. Many of the great men in the world got surprising memories.
A good memory is a great help in learning languages. Everybody learns his mother language when he is a small child. He hears the sounds, remembers them and then he learns to speak. Some children are living with their parents in foreign countries. They can learn two languages as easily as one because they hear，remember and speak two languages every day. In school it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because the pupils have so little time for it, and they are busy with other subjects, too.
But your memory will become better and better when you do more and more exercises.
【小题1】Some people can easily learn many things by heart because __________.

A．they always sleep well

B．they often eat good food

C．they read a lot of books

D．they have very good memories

【小题2】The underlined word “pupils” in the second paragraph means__________.

A．teachers	B．parents
C．students	D．great men

【小题3】In school the pupils can’t learn a foreign language easily because __________ .

A．they have no good memories

B．they have no good teachers

C．they don’t like it

D．they are busy with other subjects

【小题4】The best title of this passage is ____________________.

A．How to learn a new language

B．The great men’s surprising memories.

C．How to have a good memory

D．Children’ memory.

Some people have very good memories(记忆力) and can easily learn quite long poem（诗歌） by heart. Some people have  1 memories and can only remember things that they have said again and again.

The  2 English writer Charles Dickens said that he could walk down  3  street in London and then tell you the name of every shop on  4 sides of the street. Great men in the world have wonderful memories.

A good memory is a great help in learning a language. Everybody learns  5   own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small child. Some children live with their parents in foreign（外国的） countries and they seem  6 two languages as easily as one. At school it is not so easy to learn foreign languages  7 students have little time for it and they are busy with other subjects as well.

A man's mind is quite like a camera but it 8  photos of what we see and it can also take photos of what we feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo with a camera, there is much work 9  before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends.  10  the same way there is much work to do before we can keep a picture forever（永远）in our mind.

1.                A．wonderful      B．better          C．poor D．badly

 

2.                A．nice           B．beautiful        C．famous   D．kind

 

3.                A．much          B．some           C．many D．the

 

4.                A．every          B．each           C．both D．all

 

5.                A．her            B．his             C．one’s   D．its

 

6.                A．to keep         B．to get          C．to learn   D．to take

 

7.                A．because        B．why            C．what D．when

 

8.                A．leaves          B．takes           C．gets D．receives

 

9.                A．to do          B．to have         C．to start   D．to stay

 

10.               A．In             B．On            C．With  D．As