Christmas was coming and my ten-year-old Alice told her father and me that she wanted a new bike.  Her bike was too   1  , and it needed repairing as well.

As Christmas   2 ,  her dream for a bike seemed to disappear, we thought, for she didn't say it again. We were busy  3  some beautiful story books, a doll house, a holiday dress and toys. Then to our surprise, on December 24, she said she really wanted a bike more than   4 .

Now we didn't know   5  to do. It was just too late. We were busy with Christmas dinner and packing  6  presents, parents' presents, a brother's present and friends' presents till midnight. So there was   7  time to take to buy the "right hike" for our little girl. Thinking we were parents who would make their child unhappy, we felt sorry and   8 .

Suddenly my husband had an idea. "What about making a little bike with clay (黏土) and writing a note that she could trade in (交换) the model bike for a real one?" So he spent the next five hours carefully __9__ with clay to make a small bike.

  10  Christmas morning, we were so excited for Alice to open the little box with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. She opened and read the   11  loudly. She looked at me and said, "So, does this mean I can trade in this bike for a real  12 _?" Smiling, I said, "Yes!" Alice had tears in her eyes when she replied, "I would  13  trade in this beautiful bike Daddy made me. I __14 _ keep it than get a real bike. This is the best Christmas present   15  I have ever got in my life!"

1.                A．new           B．old            C．beautiful  D．modern

 

2.                A．came nearer     B．was over        C．went by  D．passed

 

3.                A．buy            B．bought         C．to buy    D．buying

 

4.                A．something else   B．anything else     C．else something D．else anything

 

5.                A．what           B．how           C．why D．where

 

6.                A．children        B．children's       C．boy  D．girls

 

7.                A．enough         B．no             C．much D．still a little

 

8.                A．happy          B．excited         C．sad  D．angry

 

9.                A．works          B．worked         C．working  D．to work

 

10.               A．In             B．On            C．At    D．For

 

11.               A．book          B．story           C．note  D．newspaper

 

12.               A．one           B．ones           C．some D．any

 

13.               A．usually         B．certainly        C．never D．of course

 

14.               A．am going to     B．would like to     C．had better D．would rather

 

15.               A．who           B．those          C．what  D．that

 

 

______, the boy won the prize. 

A. In surprise  B. To our surprise  C. Be surprised  D. Be surprising

 

The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes (态度) surprisingly shows that their family life is happier than it has ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive (积极的) today’s young people seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “They’re expected to be rebellious（叛逆的）and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that these parents are much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-year-old Daniel LaSalle. “I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. When they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Cromer, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call talk or discussion. For example, when I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion（叛逆）is not based on real facts. A researcher explains, “Teenagers were thought to be different from others in a part of time in our social history. But to our surprise, they say they are getting on well with their parents. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled.”
【小题1】The study shows that teenagers don’t want to ______________________.

A．share family duties	B．cause trouble in their families
C．go boating with their family	D．make family decisions

【小题2】Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents ___________________.

A．go to clubs more often with their children	B．are much stricter with their children
C．care less about their children’s life	D．give their children more freedom

【小题3】According to the writer, teenage rebellion ____________________.

A．may be a wrong opinion	B．is common at present
C．lived only in the 1960s	D．was caused by changes in families

【小题4】Which title best gives the main idea of the passage?

A．Discussion in family.	B．Teenage education in family.
C．Harmony in family.	D．Teenage trouble in family.

根据句子意思用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。

1.Dad, Mum asked you and ________ (I) to do the cleaning at home today.

2.To our surprise, an excellent student ______(murder) by his roommate in a university.

3.Don't drink the ____________(pollute) water. It will make you ill.

4.I can’t stop ______(take) photos at this tourist attraction. I have no enough time.

5.The terrible traffic accident happened because the truck driver was so _______ (care) that he didn’t notice the sign of speed.

 

 Nick _______ a job in a bank, but to our surprise, he didn’t take it.

A. is offered       B. offered        C. was offered      D. has offered