--- I can’t hear a word.

---It’s none of your business. This is a private conversation.

A. Your business is great

B. You need to do it

C. It has nothing to do with you

---Why do you look so __________?

---I will have a job interview in a minute. I’m afraid I will mess it up.

A. angry B. crazy C. nervous

---Look at these dirty rivers.

---We should not _____ our rivers with waste.

A. pollute B. waste C. clean[]

---I lost my favourite book on my way home.

---__________ ! I hope you can find it.

A. What a pity B. Thank goodness C. What fun

--- When we hurt those who are close to us, we had better make an _____ first.

--- Yes. But sometimes we want to save our face so we may keep _____.

A. agreement; still

B. advantage; quiet

C. apology; silent

If you _____ someone or something, you like and respect them very much.

A. admit B. advise C. admire

--- You look upset. What happened?

---I just had a fight with my mom and I felt__________ it. I shouldn’t have done that.

A. frightened of B. ashamed of C. amazed at

--- The kid’s eyes _____ after hearing what you said. You really gave her a big surprise.

--- It means that my words made a good _____ on her.

A. pour out; expression

B. pop out; impression

C. put out; depression

完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的三个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将相应的字母编号涂黑

Night after night, my mom came to help me sleep, even long after my childhood years.

I don’t remember when it first started annoying me – my mom’s hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, for her hands felt rough against my _____ skin. Finally, one night, I _____ at her, “Don’t do that anymore –your hands are too rough!” She didn’t say anything, but she never did it again.

Years later, I _____ my mother’s hands and her goodnight kiss on my face. I’m not a little _____ anymore. My mom is in her seventies, and her rough hands are still doing things for my _____ and me.

Now my own children have _____ . It was late on Thanksgiving Eve. As I slept in my bedroom, a familiar hand ran across my face to push the hair from my head. Then a kiss, ever so _____ , touched my forehead.

Taking my mom’s hand, I told her how _____ I was for that night I shouted at her. But my mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had _____ it long ago.

That night, I fell asleep with a new appreciation for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was _____ to be found.

1.A. white B. young C. beautiful

2.A. smiled B. looked C. shouted

3.A. missed B. caught C. needed

4.A. mother B. girl C. woman

5.A. company B. school C. family

6.A. grown up B. brought up C. built up

7.A. slowly B. roughly C. gently

8.A. worried B. sorry C. angry

9.A. admitted B. apologized C. forgotten

10.A. nowhere B. nobody C. nothing

My mother used to say things just to make me mad. Like most teenagers, I thought I knew everything. And what I didn’t know, I didn’t want to be told. For example, if I said I was going to a movie, my mother would roll her eyes. On my way out, she’d shout, “You need to slow yourself down before something bad happens! You don’t want to learn that the hard way!” I didn’t know what that meant. I thought she just wanted me to stay at home.

Many years later I had three teenagers of my own. They thought they knew everything. I would say the same things to them like my mom. That’s when I first saw it. My mother wasn’t trying to help me.

Why do we always have to learn things “the hard way”? Why can’t we just accept our elders’ wisdom? It’s a good lesson for anyone. Clearly, I still haven’t learned it.

Yesterday, I stepped out of the shower when I heard my cell phone ringing in the kitchen. Grabbing a towel, I ran through the house. I grabbed the phone and hit my left foot against the table. The X-ray showed that I’d broken two toes.

We all need to slow ourselves down once in a while, before something bad does it for us. My mother was right about a lot of things. I wish I could have told her.

1.The writer felt ______ when mother used to say things.

A. happy B. nervous C. angry D. Surprised

2.The underlined sentence means_________

A. The writer knew everything.

B. The writer should stay at home.

C. Mother wasn’t trying to help the writer.

D. We all need to slow ourselves down before something bad.

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Mothers know everything in their lives.

B. Listening to elders’ suggestions can help us.

C. The writer’s mother had three children.

D. Achieving a goal helps you build self-confidence.

4.What's the best title of the passage?

A. An hurt experience

B. Learning the hard way

C. Mother’s words are always right

D. Teenagers should learn from their mothers