在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，词首字母已给。

Helen and Jenny are good friends．They had two tickets for a pop concert in Sydney．They were very excited about the concert．They decided which trains to c  1  , where to eat and where to go shopping in Sydney．Then they got some really e  2   news．A friend of Jenny's said he could help them go backstage （后台）, and he would ask the pop singers if the girls could come to say "Hello"．He was sure he could get them the singers' autographs．Helen and Jenny could hardly w  3  ！

     Then two days before the concert, Helen had a cold．She stayed in bed and took medicine, but it got worse and worse．On the evening before the concert, she had a fever, tlelen's mother called Jenny．"Helen is too s  4   to go to the concert," she said． "You can find someone else to go with．"

     The next day, Helen was feeling unhappy at home．Then she heard someone knocking at the door．A v  5  came．It was her friend Jenny! She came with a big bag of fruit and lots of their favorite CDs．

     "I gave the tickets to Nancy and Tina in the end, and they went to the concert i  6   of us," she said． "We'll go to a  7  concert when you're well．It wouldn't be much fun without you．"

短文填空(每小题1分,共10分)

根据首字母提示写单词完成下面的短文。

Hello, I am Peter. These are my two1. b____ friends in my class. One is Lucy and the2.o____ is Jenny. Lucy is a good singer (歌手), and she takes part in (参加) some3. a________ in the music club. When I am tired, she usually4.s____ lovely songs (歌曲) to make me relaxed. Jenny loves to5. w_____ poems (诗). We can6. r____ some of her poems in our school magazines. Lucy and Jenny often tell interesting7. s_____. They8. b_______ us a lot of fun. They are also9. p______ clever and do well in the tests. All of the boys and girls in my class like them very much.10. E______ thinks they are nice girls.

Jenny, from Germany, spent some time traveling in India. While she was there, she stayed with her Indian friend, Leela. However, there was a language barrier(障碍) for her there. It was very   31   for her to communicate in the new environment, which was very different from   32   of her own country.

  One day, together with Leela, Jenny went to   33   an orphanage(孤儿院). All the children there were very young. At first, Jenny was not sure if she could have a way to communicate with them. She went over to the children   34   and sat beside them. After some time, one of the children    35   her. She felt a little relaxed and smiled back. Then she went close to the child. She slowly put her arm around the child and started   36    a song in German. The child kept smiling and started repeating the words after her. The words that came from the little mouth were different from those that Jenny sang, but the rhythm(节奏) was the same. Jenny sat a little more and the child followed her again. Wanting to join in the   37  , another child went up to Jenny and started singing the rhythm. Then more children joined. They   38   many smiles together.

From the other side of the hall, Leela was smiling and watching them. Noticing Leela’s 39   on her, Jenny had an exciting feeling from her heart: “See, I don’t have any language barriers here. We   40   speak and communicate!” At that moment, she understood: we’re all simple human, and we have the ability to connect with each other.

1.A. nice         B. dangerous             C. difficult           D. easy

2.A. these        B. those                 C. this               D. that

3.A. show         B. visit                 C. build           D. improve

4.A. slowly        B. early                C. hardly          D. easily

5.A. looked at      B. laughed at            C. shouted at       D. smiled at

6.A. singing       B. writing               C. saying          D. playing

7.A. club          B. talk                 C. fun             D. dance

8.A. forgot        B. remembered           C. shared          D. missed

9.A. hands        B. eyes                 C. influence        D. question

10.A. can          B. must                 C. need           D. should

My name is Jim White. I live in America. I had a very u __1.__ experience on Sunday. I s___2.___a UFO in the daytime. Early this spring, I went outside w___3.___ my friend Bill who lived close to me. We were walking to a hill when I saw a l___4.___ bright light dancing in the sky. I called Jim and asked him to look up. He kept a___5.___, “What is that?” “A UFO!” I shouted excitedly. I n__6.__ it was round and red in the center.

After we looked at it for a m__7.__, we found it seemed that it had wings, but it was still round. Bill would not b__8.___ me when I told him it must be a UFO. We shouted t__9.__ it and we wished that it would land. We wanted to know i__10._ there was an alien in it. But soon it disappeared. I guessed we scared it off.

Do you believe me? It’s a true story.