Nadya Vessey, of Auckland, New Zealand, was born with an illness. So at the age of 16, of her legs below the knees were cut off. One day when a little boy was watching _ take off her prosthetic假体的legs, he asked her she didn't have any legs. Thinking quickly she asked him whether he had read The Little Mermaid美人鱼.He said“_ .”So Nadya told him that she was a mermaid. The Little boy was and said,"Wow! That's so cool!” And then he ran off to tell his Dad.
The of becoming a mermaid became clearer and clearer in Nadya's mind. After it over, she wrote to Weta Workshop in Wellington to ask if they could her. She never believed they actually would, so she was excited when she knew they_ _. Weta workshop's manager, Richard Taylor, was very pleased to make it true, and wanted Nadya to be _ .
It took Weta Workshop two years to make a special for Nadya. "A prosthetic is a prosthetic, and your body has to be comfortable it and you have to make it part of ". After practicing in the , Nadya went to the open sea to try on her mermaid suit. It was amazing and great to watch Nadya swim, and to see her dream come true.
Nadya Vessey herself has written the story of a real mermaid.
A．either B．both C．neither D．none
A．me B．you C．him D．her
A．why B．how C．when D．where
A．No B．Yes C．Sorry D．Goodbye
A．sad B．afraid C．surprised D．fortunate
A．news B．idea C．story D．history
A．going B．taking C．turning D．thinking
A．save B．pick C．treat D．help
A．agreed B．checked C．refused D．received
A．ugly B．beautiful C．friendly D．relaxed
A．hat B．jacket C．sweater D．suit
A．with B．about C．from D．of
A．myself B．ourselves C．yourself D．yourselves
A．dining hall B．waiting room C．living room D．swimming pool
A．too B．really C．well D．enough
I'm Li Hua from China. My spoken English used to be very . I went to an English school every night. I read different textbooks and learned the grammar roles. But I didn't make any at all! Then one day, I the Internet for "Learn English". I found a great website with interesting articles, videos and games.
After that I started learning English from the website. I was glad to find was much easier and more interesting to learn English in this way. After several months, something happened. One day I met an American in a coffee shop. I started to have a(n) with him. English words came out from my mouth one by one. It was hard for me to that I could speak English so easily. We talked for about one hour. Then we decided to in touch and talk to each other on the Internet.
My English has greatly now. There are many good ways to learn English. We should using a way that doesn't work and find out what is helpful to us.
A. good B. poor C. useless
A. mistakes B. decisions C. progress
A. searched B. created C. discovered
A. that B. this C. it
A. amazing B. terrible C. difficult
A. competition B. conversation C. argument
A. promise B. consider C. believe
A. keep B. get C. lose
A. spread B. improved C. increased
A. enjoy B. continue C. Stop
My little brother sat in the corner of the living room, with a pen in one hand and my father's book in .
As my father walked into the room, my brother knew that he did something . And I just watched my brother scribble (乱写乱画) in the book. Now, he and I both waited for our father's .
My father his book and looked it carefully. He didn't punish us, but took the pen and wrote in the book: John's work, 1959, age 2. Thank you for scribbling in my book. You have made the book .
The years came and went. From time to time we would the book, look at the scribbles and read my father's of love. My father taught us about what is really in life: people, not things.
Now I'm a father, too. Unlike my father, I don't my daughters to take books from my book-shelf and scribble in them. I take one down and give it to them to scribble. As I look at their artwork, I think about my father and the he taught me.
A. other B. another C. the other
A. funny B. wrong C. proper
A. advice B. promise C. punishment
A. picked up B. cleaned up C. fixed up
A. dirty B. special C. thick
A. open B. throw C. return
A. invention B. discussion C. expression
A. difficult B. important C. interesting
A. wait for B. depend on C. turn down
A. skill B. present C. Lesson
完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
Today ,I want to tell you a story about something I did when I was 14 years old . I made some friends in school they turned out to be bad . They were some boys who stole（偷盗） and sold them . Whenever we were stealing a bike , a boy named John would break the lock two other boys were watching out . Then one of us would the bike to a cave （洞穴）. The next day ,we would meet there and repaint the bike . When we stole four or five bikes ,we would sell them a few hundred dollars.
One afternoon ,we went to an apartment in Bukit Batok. We found a bike on the fifth floor and started to work on the . It was hard to break . We spent 10 minutes it . We were about to escape with the bike when the owner of the bike came out of the elevator. “ My bike !” he .
We dropped the bike and ran down but two policemen nearby us . We were taken to the police station . Our parents were called and our teachers were told what had happened. The police took down what we had done . The next day ,a bright Sunday, I to the Boys’ Home .
Life in the Boys’ Home was very hard but it me a very important lesson . I learnt that stealing was not right . At the Boys’ Home ,the officers helped me and encouraged me my ways . I decided to stealing.
To this day , I feel so for what I have done . I hope you will learn something from my story .
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完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，计15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Time flies so quickly! We become mature (成熟的 ) girls or boys, or at least we we are. At the same time, our parents are no longer young.
They _ _all they have to us but never look forward to getting back. When we are ill in bed, it is our parents who look us day and night; when we are trying to make , it is our parents who are much happier than we are; when we're hungry or cold or sad, it is our parents who ` give us help.
But what have we done for our parents? we grow up, we have our own ideas and we think we are enough to think and act by ourselves, so we usually dislike their care. , sometimes we don't listen to them; even with them !
To change the _ , we must act at once, letting them know that we love them, too. In doing so, don't hesitate(犹豫) and don't be .Try our best to understand our parents, _ something for our parents and not to make them feel hopeless. In a word, make it a duty to bring to our parents, for that's the very sign that we are really mature.
Children are parents’_ and we are carrying both our dreams and theirs.
The pleasure of our parents is what we should try to do!
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完型填空。
The better education people receive, world people will have. Through education, we can make the world a better place .
A country’s education level is related with its wealth. For example, rich countries have enough money schools, pay teachers and buy books. In turn(反过来), education can the national wealth as it provides well-educated people to work in factories and offices.
Children in rich countries generally receive better education than in poor countries. In Japan, all the children go to primary school(初等学校)，and one third of children stay on for higher education. Japanese children do well in not only science math. These are important for industries(工业), so Japan is becoming .
On the contrary(正相反), a lot of children get a good education in poor countries, especially those living in the . Many of them stay at home to help their family the farm work.So they have no chance to much time on education.
However, educating the children in poor countries can bring great advantages. Please remember that it is one of the ways to make our world better.
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