J.K. Rowling is the writer of Harry Potter, which is now one of the best-sellers in the world. She   46  born in Britain on July 31st, 1965. She has one sister who is two years  47    than her. Both girls liked   48    to their father’s bedtime stories. They especially loved stories about magic. Rowling wrote her first story  49    the age of six.

On a long train trip in 1990, an idea came to her. She wanted to write about a boy who had magic but he didn’t know it. In 1992, Rowling began   50    the first Harry Potter book for young   51   . It appeared in June, 1997. The book was a great success. And the film came out in November, 2001. Now the Harry Potter series (系列) is   52   with people of all ages and about sixty   53    books were sold in 200 countries. In this series, Harry is an ordinary boy: polite, friendly, brave and clever. So when children read about Harry, they can imagine being like him. That’s   54    the Harry Potter series has been so popular.

J.K. Rowling is very   55   with the success. Now she’s really enjoying life. She said she would go on writing children’s books.

(    )46.A.is               B. was                C. has

(    )47.A.old              B. young              C. younger

(    )48.A.listen            B. speaking            C. listening　　

(    )49.A.in               B. at                  C. to

(    )50.A.write             B. wrote              C. to write

(    )51.A.writers           B. drivers              C. readers

(    )52.A.best             B. popular              C. glad　　

(    )53.A.million           B. million of           C. millions of

(    )54.A.when            B. where               C. why

(    )55.A.sad              B. worried             C. happy

           else do you want?

A. When               B. Where               C. Why                 D. What

 

I sat down to read under an old tree in the park. I felt my life was   21  , for my whole world was dark.

A young boy ran up to me, out of   22  . He stood right before me with his head down and said   23  , “Look what I found!” In his hand was a flower, and what a poor sight! The flower was dry and   24  . I gave him a small smile and then turned my eyes away so that he could take his dry flower and go off to play.

  25  , he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his   26   and said in surprise, “It smells sweet and it’s beautiful, too. That’s   27   I picked it. Here, it’s for you.” The flower before me was dead. But I knew I must   28   it, or he might never leave. So I accepted the flower, and replied, “This is just what I   29  .” Just then, for the first time I noticed that the boy could not   30   —he was blind.

Tears (眼泪) came down my face as I   31   him for picking the best one. “You’re welcome.” he smiled, and then ran off to   32  . I sat there and wondered how he was able to learn about my pain (痛苦).

Through the eyes of a blind child,   33   I could see the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all those years I myself had been   34  . I decided to see the beauty in life, and   35   every second of my life. And then I held that dry flower up to my nose and breathed in the smell of a beautiful rose.

21. A. hopeless         B. colourful            C. simple           D. wonderful

22. A. mind             B. trouble              C. breath           D. work

23. A. sadly                B. strictly             C. angrily          D. excitedly

24. A. dead             B. fresh                C. alive            D. heavy

25. A. So                   B. Or               C. However      D. And

26. A. head             B. nose             C. ear          D. neck

27. A. how              B. when             C. where            D. why

28. A. buy              B. sell             C. accept           D. break

29. A. admire               B. dislike              C. want         D. have

30. A. cry                  B. speak                C. smile            D. see

31. A. forgave              B. thanked          C. paid         D. hated

32. A. sleep                B. study                C. dance            D. play

33. A. at most              B. at times         C. at first         D. at last

34. A. cheerful             B. useful               C. blind            D. deaf

35. A. waste                B. enjoy                C. lose         D. forget

There was a woman in Nanjing , who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially(尤其) the younger one, Ben,       he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed(看似) so      .

    The mother       that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the library to read a     a week and do a report about it for her.

One day, in Ben’s      , the teacher held up a rock（石头） and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him      . Why did Ben raise his hand? They wondered（想知道）. He    said anything, what could he possibly want to say?

    Well, Ben not only       the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew       the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were   . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book      .

Ben later went to the       of his class. When he finished high school, he went to University （大学）and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.

After Ben grew up, he       something about his mother that he did not know as a    .

She, herself, had never learned how to      .

1.A. because       B. so                  C. but            D. though

2.A. clever         B. had                C. slow           D. quick

3.A. asked         B. decided             C. forgot          D. heard

4.A. notice         B. message            C. book           D. question

5.A. class         B. room               C. office          D. lab

6.A. think          B. leave               C. speak          D. answer

7.A. always        B. even               C. quickly        D. never

8.A. found        B. played              C. knew          D. threw

9.A. whether      B. when               C. where          D. why

10.A. afraid        B. surprised            C. worried        D. unhappy

11.A. pictures      B. exercises            C. shops           D. reports

12.A. top          B. end                C. back           D. side

13.A. learned       B. remembered         C. understood      D. guessed

14.A. doctor        B. child                C. student         D. teacher

15.A. read         B. work               C. teach           D. show

 

-- ______do millions of online users visit the home page of the government?

     -- To read the news and search for the information they need.

       A) When        B) Where           C) Why              D) What