根据短文内容，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

“Never give up!” It is my law(法则) of life. It has brought me ____. I learned the law from my father's ____ story.

My father was ____ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu，in China. When he was a young boy，he went to school in the morning，then ___ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework ____ midnight. Life was hard，because they had no ___！

At the age of 14，my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold，the land where ____ people can become rich.

“____ don't I go to America？” he thought to himself，full of hope.

So，my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to ____ money in America，” he told me. “But when I arrived there，I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire(雇佣) me because I spoke ____ English. Later，I worked in a small restaurant，cleaning up tables，____dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was ____ for the first few years. I worked from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. I wanted to go to school to learn English，but it was impossible. I couldn't ____ the schooling(学费). ”

My father ____ working hard，and reached his goal.

“Alan，” he often says to me. “If you want something，you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come ____ in life. ” That is what I learned from my father.

1.A. disaster??? ?? B. loss??? ???? C. success??? ?? D. pity

2.A. life??? ???? B. fashion?? ??? C. danger??? ?? D. history

3.A. famous??? ?? B. lucky?? ???? C. rich???? ??? D. born

4.A. taught??? ?? B. worked?? ??? C. studied??? ?? D. slept

5.A. until??? ???? B. towards? ??? C. for???? ???? D. during

6.A. experience?? B. energy?? ??? C. time???? ??? D. money

7.A. kind??? ???? B. poor?? ????? C. strong??? ?? D. lazy

8.A. What??? ??? B. How?? ????? C. Why??? ??? D. When

9.A. discover??? ? B. make?? ???? C. collect??? ?? D. spend

10.A. little??? ??? B. good?? ???? C. much??? ???? D. excellent

11.A. giving??? ?? B. running?? ? C. washing??? ?? D. receiving

12.A. comfortable? B. cheerful?? ? C. nice???? ????? D. hard

13.A. borrow??? ? B. need?? ???? C. afford??? ???? D. pay

14.A. kept?? ???? B. finished?? ?? C. minded?? ?? D. stopped

15.A. really?? ??? B. easily?? ???? C. quietly??? ??? D. slowly

My name is Becky Smith. I'm eleven years old. I have one brother. His name's Jason and he's fourteen. I don’t have any sister. We live with grandma in a small house in Chesterfield, in the north of England. My friends and I often go to the cinema on Saturday. Do you like games? I like football. My favourite team is Manchester Unite(曼联队). I sometimes play football with my brother. I have seven pets: two birds and five goldfish. I want a dog and a cat, but my parents don't like them.

Do you want to be my penfriend? Please write to me soon.

1.The girl wants to find         .

2.The girl lives in         .

3.There are          people in Becky's family.

4.The girl's parents don't like          .

5.What does“pet”mean in Chinese?

Hello!
My name is Molly Sharp. I'm eleven years old. I've got one brother—his name's Joson and he's fourteen. I haven't got any sisters.I live with my mum and dad and grandma in a small house in Chesterfield，in the north of England. There are lots of things to do here. My friends and I go to the cinema on Saturdays.
　  Do you like games? I like football. My favorite team is Manchester United. I sometimes play football with my brother. I can play well but he isn't very good.
　  I've got seven pets--a tortoise and six goldfish. I want a dog or a cat，but my mother doesn't like them.
Please write to me.
Becky
【小题1】 The girl wants to find a ________.
　  

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The seasons in Australia are not like ours. When it is winter in China, it is summer there. Australia is a southern country. It is in the south of the world. June, July and August are the winter months; September, October and November are spring; the summer is in December, January and February; and March, April and May are the autumn months. The north of the country is hotter than the south.

A very large part of this country has no rain at all. The east coast has rain all year, and there are no dry months. The southeast winds blow the whole year. They bring rain from the sea. There is not much rain on the west side. The southeastern part of Australia has summer rain from the southeast winds. They only blow here in summer.

The southwestern part of Australia has winter rain. The west winds blow over the southwest in winter only. In summer, the southwest of the country has no rain. In the north of Australia, there is no rain in winter. The rain comes in summer. The northwest winds bring it.

1.It is ____ in Australia in November.

2. In Australia, it is ____ in the south than in the north.

3.The ____ of Australia has the most rain.

4. The southwest of the country has no rain in summer because ____.

5. There is no rain in winter ____ of Australia.

More than 50,000,000 people live in the rainforests of the world and most of them do not hurt the forest they live in. They eat the fruits that grow on the forest trees, but they do not cut them down. They kill some animals to eat, but they do not destroy them.

When we cut down the rainforests, we destroy these forest people, too. In 1900, there were 1,000,000 forest people in the Amazon forest. In 1980, there were only 200,000.

The Yanomami live along the rivers of the rainforest in the north of Brazil. They have lived in the rainforest for about 10,000 years and they use more than 2,000 different plants for food and for medicine. But in 1988, someone found gold in their forest, and suddenly 45,000 people came to the forest and began looking for gold. They cut down the forest to make roads. They made more than a hundred airports. The Yanomami people lost land and food. Many died because new diseases came to the forest with the strangers.

The Yanomami people tried to save their forest, because it was their home. But the people who wanted gold were stronger.

Many forest people try to save their forests. Chico Mendes was famous in Brazil because he wanted to keep the forest for his people. “I want the Amazon forest to help all of us-forest people Brazil, and all the Earth,” he said. A few months later, in December 1988, people who wanted to cut down the forest killed Chico Mendes.

In Borneo, people were cutting down the forest of the Penan people to sell the wood. The Penan people tried to save their rainforest. They made blockades across the roads into the forest. In 1987, they closed fifteen roads for eight months. No one cut down any trees during that time.

In Panama, the Kuna people saved their forest. They made a forest park which tourists pay to visit.

The Gavioes people of Brazil use the forest, but they protect it as well. They find and sell the Brazil nuts(坚果) which grow on the forest trees.

1.The number of the people living in the Amazon forest in 1980 was _______ of that in1900.

2.The people who _______ have destroyed the rainforest of the Yanomami.

3.Those people built roads and airports in order to ________.

4.We can infer the underlined word blockades probably means:

5. From the passage, we learn that _________.