It was the beginning of a new term. As a new teacher in that school, I didn't know any of the students. A little girl was   1   at the gate of the classroom. She looked very   2 .

I walked up to her and asked   3   she stood there. But she said nothing 4 , a boy shouted, "She is from Grade Four, the   5 student in her grade." I looked at the little girl, who didn't seem to be the smart kind. I   6   why her teacher asked her to stay in Grade Three. I took her hand and   7   her into the classroom.

    "Sit here. Now you are my student and I'm your teacher. "I said to her kindly.

    I gave her respect （尊重） and never looked down upon her. I helped her after school and as time went by, she was making   8   little by little. She was not one of the best students when she left that school,   9  at least, she was not that shy girl any longer.

    In the following years, she would send me a card on each Thanksgiving Day. Three days ago, I received a（n）. 10  to her wedding （婚礼）. And now I am at her wedding, and she is smiling brightly.

Everyone deserves respect and everyone can be happy!

1．A．smiling              B．sitting              C．standing            D．crying

2．A．boring               B．shy                C．beautiful             D．happy

3．A．when               B．how               C．if                  D．why

4．A．Instead             B．However            C．But                D．Yet

5．A．smartest           B．shortest            C．ugliest              D．worst

6．A．asked              B．understood         C．remembered        D．thought

7．A．threw               B．pushed              C．led                 D．pulled

8．A．grades              B．progress           C．surprise            D．mistakes

9．A．but               B．so                 C．because            D．although

10．A．letter            B．present             C．card               D．invitation

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【小题1】The fight ________(反对) financial crisis(金融危机) has lasted for almost ten years.
【小题2】We hope that the little girl can tell us the _______________（真相）.
【小题3】There is no doubt that you’re ________(完全地) wrong, and you must say sorry for what you did..
【小题4】Space boots will probably become even ______________________in the future.(fashion)
【小题5】He took a few deep ________(breathe) to make himself relaxed.

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Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest. She had no family and no one to love her. So she often   1  sad and lonely.
One day, when she was walking in the forest, she found that a small   2  was trapped unluckily in a bush. The butterfly tried to fly away   3  failed. The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care. Instead of flying away, the butterfly turned   4  a beautiful fairy (仙女). The little girl was very   5 .
“Thank you for   6  me. You are so kind. I will make any of your dreams come true.” said the fairy.
The little girl thought for a moment and then said, “I want to be  7 !”
The fairy said, “Very well. I will help you.” And she said something in the little girl’s ear. Then the fairy disappeared.
As the kind little girl grew up, she was   8  ready to help people in need and was popular among the villagers. No one in the village was as happy as she was. Everyone asked her the   9  of ther happiness. She always smiled and   10 , “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a kind   11  when I was a little girl.”
When the kind girl became a very old woman and was dying, the neighbours in the   12  all gathered (聚拢) around her bed because they were   13  that her secret of happiness would die with her. They asked, “Please tell us what the kind fairy said.”
The lovely old woman still   14  and said, “She told me that everyone needed me, no matter how safe they seemed, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how old or   15 . She said that helping others would make me happy all my life.”

An 8-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a very expensive operation could save him.
One morning, the girl heard her father say to her mother: “Only a miracle can save Andrew now.” The girl went to her bedroom, collected all of her money and counted it carefully. She hurried to a drugstore.
“How can I help you?” asked the salesman.
“I want to buy a miracle,” the girl answered. “My brother has something bad growing inside his head. My daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?”
“We don’t sell miracles here, my dear. I’m so sorry,” the salesman said, sadly.
“What kind of a miracle does your brother need?” asked a well-dressed man standing nearby.
“I don’t know,” she answered. “He’s really sick and needs an operation in his head. So I brought all my money.”
“How much do you have?” asked the man.
“$1.11,” she answered, “ but I can try and get some more.” She said again and again.
“Well, what luck,” said the man. “$1.11 is the price of a miracle. Let’s go to see your brother.”
That man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous brain doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn’t long before Andrew was well again. Sometimes miracles do happen.
【小题1】What was the trouble in the little girl’s family?
A. Her brother was seriously ill.
B. They had no money.
C. Nothing could save her brother.
D. Both A and B.
【小题2】In the eye of the little girl, a miracle might be _______.