I have always been interested in making things. When I was a child, I enjoyed painting, but I also liked malting things out of day. I won a prize for one of my paintings when I was fourteen.

That may be why I went to art school four years later. But I studied painting at first, not pottery. I like being a potter because I like to work with my hands and feel the clay.  I'm happy working by myself and being near my home.  I don't like mass-produced things, for they are made by machines and are all the same. I think crafts(手工艺) are very important and crafts persons(手艺人)make things cleverly with hands. They make our lives colorful. When I left school, I got some money.  I hope to become a full-time craftswoman. This workplace is small, but I wish tot: move to a larger one next year.

1. The writer went to the art school at the age of___________

2. The writer is talking about her workplace_____________

 A. unhappily           B. hopefully

 C. seriously           D. angrily

3. From the passage we know that the writer prefers

A. a long way to work

B. group work

 C. a small workplace

 D. something different

4. What does "mass-produced" mean in Chinese?

5. From the passage we are sure that the writer is a  ________      (man/woman).

Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子，每空格限填一词)? (共8分)

1.Three ___________ shared 2013 Nobel Medicine Prize.? (winner)

2.Wellington, New Zealand is the ___________ capital city to greet the beginning of a new day.? (one)

3.We live in a world where a lot of things happen around ___________.? (we)

4.How I wish the heavy haze(霾) could ___________ in our city!? (appear)

5.On your computer at home or work, make a note to “call friends” ___________.? (regular)

6.How far does your ___________ go back?? (memorize)

7.Thank you so much for coming. Have a ___________ drive home.? (safely)

8.Only by working hard can we ___________ in doing everything.? (success)

完形填空。

  1 the first time, Zhang Shengyu, a student at Laiyang Middle School in Shandong, didn’t ask her mother to buy her a new schoolbag or any new pens for the beginning of the school term. “My old schoolbag can still be used, so there is no  2 to buy a new one,” Zhang said. “I’ve decided to be thrifty (节约的) from now on. ”

As the center of the  3 attention, many of the one-child generation do not know about the hardships of life. They sometimes have no idea of the value(价值) of money. Many students would  4 away pens and erasers that haven’t been used up and buy new ones. Some like to compete with each other to see whose clothes and  5 are more expensive.

The Ministry of Education put a notice on its website on Jan 20. It called on students to have good habits such as diligence and thrift, to stop wasting food and to pay  6 attention to famous brands. （牌子）

Many schools consider  7 the students the value of money  and encourage their students to be  8 .

Students at No 44 Middle School of Shijiazhuang, Hebei planted many fruit trees in their campus. By taking care of the trees, the students learned  9 to cherish(珍惜) things.

At Tie Yi Middle School in Xi’an, students organized a group to collect used pen refills (替芯) and use them for crafts (手工作品). “What we students do are small things,   10 I think with everyone’s work, we can make a difference,” said Li Dongdong, 16, a student at the school.

1.                A．For            B．In             C．On  D．Of

2.                A．reasons        B．need           C．way  D．use

3.                A．mother’s      B．father’s        C．parent’s D．family’s

4.                A．give           B．throw          C．put D．take

5.                A．houses         B．cars            C．bikes D．school thing

6.                A．some          B．less            C．more D．fewer

7.                A．teaching        B．knowing        C．learning D．showing

8.                A．active          B．thrifty          C．honest   D．careful

9.                A．how           B．where          C．when D．why

10.               A．so             B．but            C．and  D．however

New York is one of the last large American cities to have some of its policemen on horseback. The New York police have 170 horses working in certain parts of the city. The horses are expensive to feed, but it is even more expensive to look after them. Because the horses must walk on the streets, they need special horseshoes. In fact , they need more than 8,000 of them each year. Every police horse in New York gets new shoes every month. Keeping these shoes in good repair is the job of six blacksmiths. There are only about thirty-five of these blacksmiths in the whole United States.
The cost of shoing a horse is between twenty dollars and thirty-five dollars, and it takes a good blacksmith two or three hours to do the job.
A blacksmith’s job is not an easy one. He must be able to shape a shoe from a piece of metal and then fit it to the horse’s foot. The blacksmith must bend over all the time when he is fitting the shoe and must hold the weight of the horse’s leg while he works. Clearly, a blacksmith must be very storng. But even more important, he must be able to deal with horses---for before the blacksmith can begin his work, he has to get the horse to lift its leg.
One of the blacksmiths in New York is James Corbin. He came to the country from Ireland in 1948. He not only makes horseshoes for the police but also works for a group of horse owners near the city. Corbin became interested in blacksmithing because his father did it, and,as the puts it, “It’s a good way to make a living.”
【小题1】According to the reading passage, a blacksmith must be likely a______ man.