从下面方框中选出10个单词，并将其正确形式填写在答题卡相应题号的位置上，使短文意思正确通顺（每词限用一次）。
A calligrapher (书法家) taught handwriting. One of his students often practiced handwriting with old pieces of newspapers. He ________ that he made very little progress _
_______ he had learned for a long time. His teacher said to him, “Why not try _
______ the best paper. Maybe you'll write _
_____.”
The student did as he _________.It really worked. He made progress not long afterwards and felt _
________.He asked his teacher about the _
________.The calligrapher answered, “When you used old newspapers to practice handwriting, you would think you were writing a draft(草稿). It didn't _
_______ if you wrote badly. Maybe you thought there were plenty of old newspapers to use. In that case you wouldn't pay much _
_________to it. Now you use the best paper and you'll treasure it. Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity (稀少)of chances and you'll devote all your heart and soul; you'll do the handwriting much more carefully than practicing. Of course you've _
_______ rapid progress.”
Every day of our life is something new. Let us take every day as a piece of the best paper.
词与短语选择填空（本题共10分，每小题2分）
仔细阅读下面五个句子，然后用下面方框中所给的单词或短语填空，使每个句子在结构、句义和逻辑上正确。（提示：选项中有一个是多余的。）
May I take your ________?
He has brown hair and ________ glasses.
I ________ late to watch the soccer game.
Could you just tell him to ________ me back?
I ________ the chickens with my grandpa. It was so much fun.
用所给词的适当形式填空，使短文内容完整通顺。方框中有两个词是多余的。
| if, until, but, make, at, accident, be, green, left, right, red, go |
This is a street crossing. There are red and green traffic lights each crossing. Drivers must
careful to watch them.
When the traffic light is , the cars may go. When the light turns
, the cars must stop. They must wait（等待）
the red light turns green. Then they can go on. Sometimes the drivers want
a right turn or a left turn. They can make a
turn when the light is green or red.
they shouldn’t drive too fast.
they want to make a left turn, they must wait until the traffic light is green. There may be
if drivers don’t obey the traffic rules. All of the drivers should be very careful when they are driving on the road.
| A. everyone B. how long C. weak D. higher E. instead of F. However G. speed H. left I. until J. lower K. enjoyed L. how far |
Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe , England, on December 25,1642. He was born early and he was very___.No one believed he could continue to live. But he surprised _
___ . He had one of the most powerful minds in history. And he lived__
___he was 84.
Newton’s father died before he was born. His mother married again a few years later. She ___ Newton with his grandmother.
The boy was not a good student .Yet he was curious(好奇的) and liked to make things ,such as kites, clocks and simple machines . Newton also____finding new ways to answer questions or solve problems .As a boy ,for example, he wanted to find a way to measure(测量) the
__ of the wind .On a windy day , he measured how far he could jump with the wind at his back .Then he measured __
__ he could jump with the wind in his face .From the difference between the two jumps, he made his own measure of the power of the wind.
Strangely ,Newton became a much better student after a boy kicked him in the stomach.The boy was one of the best students in the school.Newton decided to get even (报复) by getting _____ marks than the boy who kicked him .In a short time ,Newton became the top student at the school.
Newton left school to help on the family farm.. ___, the boy was not a good farmer.He spent his time solving math problems. Instead of taking care of the farm. He spent hours visiting a bookstore in town, ___
__ selling his vegetables in the market.An uncle believed that Newton would do better as a student than as a farmer.So he sponsored(资助) the young man into Cambridge University to study math.
选词填空，完成句子Kate plays the guitar well．She is ________(join／in) the rock band．
Alan wants to ________(join／in) the basketball club．Now he is ________(in／at) the basketball club．
短文填空
阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。
注意：1．每个单词只能用一次；
2．每空限填一词，有些词需要做相应的变化；
3．其中有两词多余。
| house，smile，keep，happy，listen，money，all，look，ill，friend，travel，be |
How can you get happiness？You may say that happiness requires nice comforts like a_______，a car，a big bank balance，a high paying job．
Here in India where I live，I have_______through villages where people seemed to earn just enough to make ends meet．I have seen happiness there．I have seen__
__faces and smiling eyes that readily gave me directions．They were very__
___and made my journey easier．
I have also worked for 3 years on Wall Street，in a big Investment Bank．I have seen some people with a lot of_______but still unhappy．I am not saying that all rich are unhappy(or the poor，happy)．But the fact that there___
___some rich people who look angry or listless(无精打采的)and there are some poor people who__
____happy，points out that there must be something else to___
____，rather than just money，luxuries(奢侈品)and comforts．
Happiness，it seems，is not a factor of how much you have．You can feel happy______to a good song；you can feel happy watching a beautiful sunrise；you can feel happy in any number of ways that don’t require any possessions at___
___．
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