It is so cold on that dark winter day in 1942. But it is no different from any other day in this Nazi concentration camp (纳粹集中营). I am    1   dead, living on from day to day, from hour to hour,    2   I was taken from my home and brought here with tens of thousands of other Jews (犹太人). Will I still be    3   tomorrow?

I walk back and forth (来回) next to the barbed wire fence (带刺的铁丝网), trying to keep my body    4   . I am hungry. I have been hungry for long. Each day, as more of us disappear, the happy    5    seems like a dream, and I sink deeper and deeper into hopelessness.

Suddenly, I notice a young girl walking past    6   the other side of the fence. She stops and looks at me with sad eyes that seem to say she cannot understand why I am here. I want to look away, but I cannot move my eyes away from hers. Then she reaches into her pocket, and pulls out a red apple. Oh, how long has it been since I saw    7   ! She looks round carefully and then with a smile quickly throws the apple over the fence. I run to pick it up, holding it in my shaking (颤抖)    8    fingers. In my world of death this apple is a sign of life, of love. I looked up in time to see the girl disappearing.

The next day I cannot help myself－I am    9   at the same time to that place near the fence. And again she comes and brings me an apple. For seven months we meet like this. One day I hear terrible news: We’re being shipped to another camp.

The next day when I greet her, my heart is    10   and I can hardly speak as I say what must be said: “Don’t bring me an apple tomorrow.” I tell her, “I am being sent to another camp.” Turning before I lose all my control (控制), I run away from the fence. I cannot    11   to look back.

And then one day the war has ended. Few of us who are still alive are freed. I have    12    everything, but I still have the memory of this girl.

1. A. almost              B. mostly              C. probably           D. quite

2. A. long before       B. soon after         C. even though      D. ever since

3. A. out                   B. alive                 C. free                  D. hungry

4. A. healthy             B. strong              C. warm              D. comfortable

5. A. past                 B. future               C. moment            D. present

6. A. by                    B. on                    C. to                    D. from

7. A. it                     B. this                  C. one                  D. that

8. A. frozen              B. dirty                 C. little                 D. painful

9. A. pushed             B. taken               C. drawn              D. driven

10. A. beating           B. hurting             C. sinking             D. breaking

11. A. imagine           B. bear                 C. stop                 D. expect

12. A. forgotten               B. left                   C. missed             D. lost

Adults usually do not remember most of the things that are taught by their teachers at school. But this story is one such    16     that I will never forget. Every time I drift off course, I think of this story.

    It was a normal Monday morning, and my teacher was teaching us on  17  things in life and about devoting ourselves to 18   is important to us. This is how the story went:

    An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the sub-way. He would    19    the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and   20  . He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at  21   street corner and begged for almost 20 years.

    His  22    was dirty, and a stench came out and it smelled terrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they called for the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of  23   all over the house  24   he had collected over the years.

    The police counted the money, and they soon   25  that the old man was a millionaire. They waited outside his house expecting to ___26__ the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a   27    man now, a millionaire.

    But the old man said  28   ; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up  29 , went to the subway, sat at the street corner and continued to beg.

    Clearly, this old man had no great plans,  30   or anything significant for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing.

1.A. class             B. teacher        C. lesson        D. study

2.A. interesting         B. special         C. important     D. necessary

3.A. what              B. that           C. how          D. where

4.A. get up             B. get onto        C. get from       D. get to

5.A. sing              B. sleep          C. think         D. beg

6.A. a different         B. another        C. the same      D. a strange

7.A. house             B. coat          C. cap          D. bag

8.A. food              B. money        C. books         D. clothes

9.A. that               B. where         C. whose         D. who

10.A. recognized        B. said           C. realized        D. thought

11.A. tell               B. share          C. cover          D. discuss

12.A. rich              B. poor           C nice            D. bad

13.A. thanks            B. something       C. nothing        D. much

14.A. much later         B. much earlier     C. so quickly      D. as usual

15.A. friends            B. jobs            C. chances        D. dreams

The word that has changed the world

Apple is one of the most popular fruits in our life, and people eat apples every day. But there are  11  apples that are especially important to the history of our human beings and they have changed the whole world.

Long long ago when the world just started, apple was a forbidden  12   in the Garden of Eden, however, a girl named Eve stole and ate it. Unfortunately, she was discovered by God, and was driven away  13   the Garden together with a boy called Adam. After they  14   the garden, Adam and Eve had their own babies and  15   the ancestors of all of us. This is the beginning of our world, history  16   morality.*

In the Autumn of 1665, there  17   a young man sitting under an apple tree in his garden. His name was Newton. While he was thinking of one problem, suddenly, an apple dropped down from the tree and fell on his head.  18   this, Newton discovered gravitation* on that day and his new idea of science made people really  19   and happy, also he changed our opinions about nature and the way  20   we think, then people began to  21  what science was at that time.

And today, Jobs Steve, this crazy old man changed the world by his apple products. For example, iPhones  22  be found  23   in the street, young people feel cool when they use this kind of new high-tech* product. Don’t you think  24   apple products have become a symbol of our time? As Jobs Steve often said he was born to change the world and he made it.  25   he has died, people remember him and miss him, because he made our life more colorful and amazing.

1.A.one B.two C.three D.four

2.A.vegetable B.fruit C.food D.noodle

3.A.from B.in C.with D.under

4.A.went B.walked C.lived D.left

5.A.got B.turned C.made D.became

6.A.but B.or C.and D.though

7.A.had B. wasC.haveD.is

8.A.Because of B.Because C.For D.Since

9.A.bored B.tired C.relaxed D.surprised

10.A./ B.which C.how D.what

11.A.learn B.know C.talk D.share

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

13.A.somewhere B.nowhere C.everywhere D.anywhere

14.A.what B.who C.where D.that

15.A.Although B.But C.However D.Even

根据句意,用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
【小题1】I think this bag is one of the ________ (speak) .
【小题2】How __________ (careful) the boy is! He left his key in the library.
【小题3】Little Kitty likes hiding ________ (her) behind the door to frighten her friends.
【小题4】The two         (rob) got into the car and drove away.
【小题5】We played ____________( happy ) in the park yesterday than we did today.