My 8-year-old son, Kevin, has made friends with some boys in the neighborhood. He has been with them after school. My wife，Qugen, and I are he has other kids to be with and we have and encouraged him to play with his friends. We also want Kevin to learn _，so we have asked him to tell us he's going and to come home at a specified time.
The started when Kevin didn't come home on time. On one occasion，I asked Kevin to be back at 6 pm. By 6：30，I needed to go him. I found him at a friend's house，and he looked that he couldn't continue playing. After we came home，I sat Kevin down for a talk about the of keeping his word. I told him I was not worried about him arriving a few late，but after half an hour，I’m going to be . He told me he understood.
The next day，I came home from work at about 6:30 p.m. and Qugen asked me to go and get Kevin she said he should be back home at 6. I walked to his friend's house and a look of appeared on Kevin's face when he came to the door.
At ，Qugen and I spoke to Kevin about why he didn't come home on time again. He said he just wanted to playing. This was ，so Qugen and I decided to ground(罚不准出门)him for a week. This no playing with his friends.
For the next week，whenever his friends came to ask for Kevin，we let him to them that he was grounded. We felt this would help him be responsible for his .
As a ，I believe one of the most important things we can teach our kids is self-responsibility and that actions have consequences.
A．studying B．playing C．chatting D．quarreling
A．glad B．lucky C．worried D．sure
A．made B．allowed C．trained D．forced
A．amusements B．communication C． honesty D．responsibility
A．when B．why C．where D．whenever
A．changes B．conflicts C．worries D．problems
A．looking for B．picking up C．waiting for D．calling up
A．angry B．nervous C．disappointed D．ashamed
A．quality B．importance C．stories D．ways
A．hours B．minutes C．days D．times
A．satisfied B．shocked C．surprised D．concerned
A．if B．unless C．because D．so
A．guilt B．disappointment C．excitement D．hatred
A．home B．school C．work D．office
A．finish B．keep C．learn D．stop
A．impossible B．impolite C．unacceptable D．unbelievable
A．meant B．suggested C．showed D．implied
A．reply B．apologize C．tell D．explain
A．decisions B．words C．actions D．friends
A．teacher B．parent C．writer D．professor
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Nowadays a lot of people will like to have some adventurous experience. Some will try to go to the ________ sea to have a close look at the bottom of it ________ some others will like to arise into the sky ________ up till now to greet the so-called heavens. But you see, ________ all of them will have good memory after the adventures. Don’t you believe that? So enjoy the following story and then have a ________ thought the next time some one invites you to do some ________ .
George liked to have all kinds of ________. He had once bought a racing car and sometimes ________ to 200 kilometers an hour. He had also had a hand on ________ into the sea and boasted a lot in front of his friends. ________ to his description, he usually returned________ and alive after many of the death-risking adventures.
When George was thirty-five, he bought a ________ plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good and made his plane do all kinds of________. George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George ________ to take Mark up in his plane. Mark thought," I've travelled in big planes several times, but I've ________ been in a small one, so I'll go." Up they went, and George flew ________ for half an hour and did all kinds of tricks in the air. When they came down again, Mark was very glad to be back ________ , and he said to his friend in a ________ voice, "Well, George, thank you very much for those two trips in your plane." George was very ________ and said, "Two trips?" "Yes, my first and my ________ ," answered Mark.
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I was unbelievably proud of my nine-year-old daughter, Emily. ________ to buy a mountain bike, she’d been saving her pocket money all year, as well as doing small jobs to earn extra money. By Thanksgiving, she had collected only $49. I said, “You________ have your pick from my bicycle ________.” “Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old.” She was right. All my girls’ bikes were 1950s models, not the kind a kid today would ________ choose.
As Christmas ________ near, Emily and I went bike shopping. As we left one store, she ________ a Salvation Army（基督教慈善组织）volunteer standing next to a big pot. “Can we give something, Daddy?” she asked. “Sorry, em, I’m out of change.” I said.
Throughout December, Emily continued to ________hard. Then one day, she made a ________announcement. “You know all the money I’ve been saving?” she said hesitantly. “I’m going to give it to the poor people.” So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $58 to a volunteer who was really very ________ .
________ by Emily’s selflessness, I decided to contribute ________of my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children. ________ I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a second bike took on a glow（发光）.Should I contribute two? No, one would be enough. But I couldn’t ________the feeling that I should give a second bike. When I later ________ the bikes, the car dealer said, “You’re making two kids very ________ , sir. Here are your tickets. For each bicycle contributed, we’re ________ away one chance to win a girls’ mountain bike.”
Why wasn’t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the ________ ? I like to think it was God’s way of ________ a little girl for a sacrifice ________ her years---- while giving her dad a lesson in the ________ .
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The moment happened 30 years ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had ________ up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first ________ of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a ________ . A few minutes’ nap（小睡）time before class couldn’t ________ , I thought.
BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my ________ beating wildly trying to find the cause of the ________ . My young professor was looking at me with a boyish(孩子气的) smile on his face. He had ________ dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!”, he said still ________. “I am glad to see everyone is ________ . Now let’s get started. ”
For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the ________ of my professor’s textbook alarm clock either. It was instead from the ________ discussion he led. With knowledge and good ________ he made the material come ________ . His insight （洞察力）was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he ________ with were contagious(有感染力的). I ________ the classroom not only wide awake, but a little ________ and a little better as well.
I learned something far more important than not ________ in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life，do it well，do it with ________ . What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk(梦游)your way through ________ then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too ________ not to live it well.
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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One day, Nancy came home from school crying. Taking her in her arms, Mummy tried to ________ her. After a while, she stopped crying and asked, “Mummy, am I________?” “No, you are not,” said Mummy, “but let us discuss this after you ________ , OK?”
Several minutes later, Nancy began to have supper with Mummy.
“Who ________ that you are bad?” asked Mummy.
“Phillips, my friend. He asked me for help with his maths but I ________ because I wanted to read the new book Daddy gave me. He got________ and said I was a bad girl,” said Nancy.
“You are ________ ,” said Mummy. “Phillips has often helped you with your English. You should have helped him. Why don’t you phone him and say ________ to him?”
“But he called me bad and ________ with me. I don’t want to go,” Nancy cried.
“Though you have done ________ bad, it does not make you a bad person. You are ________ a good person.”
Nancy showed a ________ look on her face. “How can that be, Mummy?” she asked.
“Our ________ is always good. So never believe that you are bad,” Mummy replied with a smile.
________ flooded on Nancy’s face. “Am I________ good, Mummy?” she asked.
“Yes, you are good, and always will be so. But that does not mean that you should not ________ the wrong that you do. You will have to call and ________ to Phillips. Do you understand me?”
“Yes, Mummy,” said Nancy slowly. “Thank you for telling me this. I feel much better now,” said Nancy ________ . “I am going to ________ Phillips right away, and I am never going to ________ that I am always good.”
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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Learning experiences happen to us throughout our lives. Not long ago, I had one that I would like to .
I was going to Marblehead with my sailboat team. The team was racing down the highway at 85 mph________we realized we were .Luckily, we saw a rest area ahead. I had a brand new $20 bill. I was so because I had never had that kind of cash before. But spending it on ________ seemed like throwing it away. We all rushed into the pizza line. ________ I got a pizza and a drink, and walked to my table. About half way through the meal, I ________ I had not actually handed any money to the cashier. I had just ________ out, and nobody had noticed, I felt terrible.
My conscience( 良心) opened its mouth and swallowed me in one big bite. I couldn’t________ over it. I just couldn’t go back to the cashier and ________ for my stolen pizza. I was so upset that I ________to give myself the pleasure of an ice cream for ________ that someone would say, “ Hey, Jeff, why don’t you use the change ________ the pizza instead of that nice, new $20 bill?” I was not so ________ of my cash now.
For the next two years, whenever I was ________ of the “pizza incident”, I would say to myself, “ Don’t think about it...”
I have learned two things from this ________ . Maybe I was a fool for ________ in to my conscience, and being too stupid to appreciate a ________ pizza. But the real lesson is that even if you get away from what you have done, your conscience ________ up with you.
This reflect the saying, “ A coward(懦夫) dies a thousand deaths; a hero dies one.” I was a coward and have felt terrible about that incident at least a thousand times. If I had been a “________ ” and gone back to pay for the pizza, I would have felt a little uncomfortable about it only once, or maybe twice.
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