Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality(现实) of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable(不合情理的) thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky(摇晃的) legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out(着手) to do .”
【小题1】What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?

— There’s somebody at the door. Who ______ it be? Is it the postman ?

—No, it ______ be him. It’s just seven o’clock. It’s too early.

A. may, can’t             B. will, won’t          ?? C. may, mustn’t       D. must, may not

--- There is someone at the door. Who ______ it be? Is it the postman?
--- No, it ________ be him. It’s just seven o’clock. It’s too early.

It was Christmas Eve. It was very cold. A  1  girl was selling flowers on the street. Her parents were ill,  2  she had to get money  3  food. She felt cold and hungry. She  4  in front of a beautiful house. The girl knocked at the door and a man came out. She asked him if he  5 some flowers. The man said he didn’t want any. She left the house and felt tired. She sat down at the foot of  6  tall wall. She looked at the flowers. The flowers smelled very nice. She suddenly had a strange feeling. She felt she was becoming light, and slowly she began to fly into the sky. She flew higher and higher and at last she found  7  above the clouds. A group of people were coming to meet her. At the head of them was her granny. Granny welcomed her and asked her  8  she didn’t stay at home. The girl told her that she  9  to sell flowers to get money because her parents were badly ill. Granny told her not to worry and gave her  10  of beautiful clothes and delicious food. The girl laughed happily.

根据句意，用所给词的适当形式填空：

1.The _______ (postman) wives donated a lot of money to the children in need.

2.I found my father still ___________ (wake) when I entered his room at 11 last night.

3.The room is too dirty. It requires __________(clean) every day.

4.From the __________(happy) on his face, we know that he failed the exam.

5.A 5-year-old child is sure to have difficulty __________(explain) such hard problems.

6.Do you think _________(achieve) the balance between study and play is possible?

7.At present not only the students but also their teacher _____(ask) to come to school on time.

8.How __________ (sad) she was telling me that he lost another bike!

9.—Kate, didn’t you hear the loud knock at the door?

— Sorry, I _____________( chat ) with my e-friend.

10.The book isn’t mine .It belongs to ______  (she)