When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never invited us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person. When Dr. Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and wanted to make it a forest. The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled(毁坏) them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early on.

He talked about how watering trees made for shallow(浅的) roots(根), and how trees that weren't watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important. So he never watered his trees. He'd planted an oak(橡树)and instead of watering it every morning, he'd beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention.

Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They're very big and strong now. I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them for a whole summer. After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.

Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray (祈祷) that their lives will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won't be beaten down.

1. We know from the passage, the doctor______.

A. didn't know how to plant trees at all  

B. wasn't good at his own medical job

C. had his own ways of planting trees   

D. had nothing to do but plant trees

2. When Dr. Gibbs said "... pick out the weaker trees early on.", he meant that______.

A. some weak trees would be easily found out at the beginning

B. he would choose the weak trees to water earlier

C. the weak trees would be sent to his patients later

D. he would not plant weak trees so early anymore

3. The passage tells us that the writer______.

A. should beat his trees with a rolled-up newspaper 

B. didn't often water his trees

C. didn't have a large field                     

D. took too much care of his trees

4.The writer wants to change his prayer, hoping that______.

A. his trees will be stronger than Dr. Gibbs'  

B. his trees will not be beaten down

C. his sons will be better at planting trees    

D. his sons will be able to face difficulties

5.Which can be the best title of the reading?

A. Watering Trees                 B. Growing Roots 

C. Doctor and his Neighbor         D. Father and his Children

 

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Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult without their parents. They don’t know how to d  1.   with housework. Because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big problem.

   Joy is 14 years old. One day her parents went away on business(出差), so she had to stay at home alone. At first she thought she would be happy b 2.    her parents were not in. She could do e  【小题3   she liked. But at dinner time, she felt h 3.  . “Oh, it’s time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to h  4.  .  Later she found some food in the fridge, but she didn’t know h  5.   to cook. At that moment, she missed her p  6.  very much. At last she could only go to the supermarket and b  7.   some bread to eat.

  Many teenagers are the s 8.   as Joy. So I think they should l   9.   some basic(基本的) life skills, like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves properly. They shouldn’t depend on(依靠) their parents too much.

 

—It's time to go to bed, Betty! —OK.      , Mum.

A．Good morning     B．Good night  C．Good evening      D．Good afternoon

 

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at that time;  go on a trip;  beautiful views;  delightful;  Of course

A: Hello, nice to see you again.
B: Me too.
A: How is your holiday?
B: Great! I had a  66 holiday. I traveled to Japan with my parents.
A: Really? What did you see there?
B: I saw a lot of  67  ,such as Mount Fuji and Sanrio Puroland. Mount Fuji is so wonderful    that all of us want to climb up to the top. And Sanrio Puroland is the Hello Kitty’s land. We also      visited the Hello Kitty’s house. How lovely it is!
A: You must have a great time.
B: 68  . How about you? What were you doing  69  ?
A: I didn’t  70  . But I had a good time staying at home .I read a lot of books.
B: Oh, that’s interesting . It’s time to have lunch. I have to go. Bye.
A: Bye.

Jack worked in a shop that sold clocks. He was always telling Harry  26  a new clock. But Harry,  27  lived next door to Jack, said he didn’t need one.

“  28  needs a clock,” Jack said. “How do you know when it’s time to get up?”

“My landlord Mr. Smith turns on his radio at seven o’clock and listens  29  the news,” Harry said. “That’s my morning call.”

“Ok. But how do you know when to go to work?”

“By the time I  30  my breakfast, it’s eight o’clock, time to leave for the office. Then I walk there. When I arrive at my office, it’s nice o’clock. That’s  31  time I start work.”

“Ok. But how do you know when it’s time to go home?”

“The factory bell  32  ” Harry told him.

“But how do you know when it’s time to go to bed?”

“The television programs come to end.”

By now Jack was really  33  . “Ok,” he shouted. “Now tell me what would happen  34  you woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to know the time.”

“That’s easy,” Harry said, “I would knock heavily on  35  wall. Then you would shout at me, ‘What are you doing knocking on my wall at three o’clock in the morning?’”

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

2. A. which        B. whose           C. that           D. who

3.A. No one       B. Neither one       C. Everyone      D. Someone

4. A. at            B. to              C. in             D. on

5. A. eats          B. have eaten        C. ate            D. was eating

6.A. a            B. an              C. the             D.不填

7. A. ring          B. rings            C. was rung        D. ringing

8.A. anger         B. angrily          C. angry           D. angering

9. A. if            B. that             C. why            D. how

10. A. his           B. their            C. her             D. your