The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old mal stove（火炉）．A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates got there One morning they to find the schoolhouse burning. They dragged（拖）the little boy out of the building more dead than alive. Then he was taken to a nearby county hospital.
The doctor told the boy's mother that the lower part of his body was seriously burnt, he couldn't use his legs anymore. However, the boy made up his mind that he would walk. Unluckily his thin legs hung there, all but lifeless.
Finally he returned home from the ．Every day his mother would press his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, ．Yet his determination that he would walk was as as ever.
When he wasn't in bed, he would sit in a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he himself from the chair and pulled himself across the grass，dragging his behind him.
He worked his way to the white fence（栅栏）around the yard. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, he began dragging himself along the fence, that he would walk. He started to do this every day. There was nothing he more than to develop life in those legs.
In the end，through his determination he did ．He began to walk to school，then to run to school，to run the joy of running. Later in college he made the running team.
Still later in Madison Square Garden this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world's fastest mile!
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This morning I got an e-mail from Roy. It seems that my boy really enjoys his new life at Harvard University.
The made me think of the first day when we moved into this house.
Little Roy ran around the new house with great excitement and tried to move his own things into the house such as his toys, books and clothes, , his little hand knocked over（打翻）a bottle of paint on the shelf. The paint made the tidy floor and white wall a terrible mess（一团糟）. “Oh, my God!” My wife rushed in angrily. I looked at my son, and his small face was filled with .
I and held his hand, “Take it easy, Roy. Now let’s do something to make it look .” I took out a . “You see, Dad is a magician（魔术师）, I can change it into a big tree.”
His mother soon helped paint some butterflies and flowers on the wall.
We spent the whole afternoon and laughing. The wall became a beautiful forest with plants, birds and small animals. Blue sky and white clouds were also painted by Roy. On that day, everybody in the house knew something happened.
The night before Roy left for Harvard, he asked me if I still remembered the day when he had knocked over the paint. “Since then I’ve worried about making mistakes,” he continued, “I believe I can always ways to solve the problems.”
A. call B. e-mail C. card
A. Suddenly B. Luckily C. Gladly
A. happiness B. hope C. fear
A. cried B. smiled C. shouted
A. nice B. bad C. wrong
A. drum B. brush C. clock
A. washing B. cooking C. painting
A. dangerous B. boring C. special
A. never B. always C. sometimes
A.put out B. hand out C. find out
Mrs. Chen lives with her son and her daughter in Loudi. She is very busy. After school Mrs. Chen takes her ____ from football to basketball. Then she has to take her daughter to piano lessons. The tired children don’t get until 7 p.m. They have a quick , and it’s time for homework.
Most of the parents do the things not only in Loudi but also in Changsha. They take their children from activity to activity. They want them to do things as many as possible. This makes children too much pressure(压力). Teachers say their students are very tired in the and can’t study well.
Only a few of parents about such pressure. They say “Parents send their kids to all kinds of classes when they are very , it’s crazy. People shouldn’t push their kids so hard.”
Dr Li also says “Parents should give their kids a bit more to themselves. Children need organized(组织的) activities. They also need time to relax, and they need time to do things .
A. son B. daughter C. friend
A. school B. home C. station
A. breakfast B. lunch C. supper
A. same B. different C. happy
A. across B. under C. over
A. classroom B. bedroom C. library
A. decide B. hurt C.know
A. easy B. old C. young
A. books B. time C. fruits
A. by themselves B. of course C. by the way、
When I was about six years old, my brother David and I visited our aunt, Mary. We stayed in her house for a night. David was only 4 years old, and was still of the dark., so Mary left the hall light on when we slept.
However, David the grey moths(蛾) flying around the hall light. He asked Mary to make the moths go away. When she asked , she simply said, “Because they are ugly and scary, I don’t like them.” Mary laughed and said, “Being ugly outside doesn’t not being beautiful inside. In fact, moths are one of the most beautiful animals in the animal world.
“Once, the angels (天使) were . They were sad because it was raining heavily. The little moths hated to see others so sad. They decided to make a rainbow(彩虹) to cheer up the angels. They thought if the butterflies(蝴蝶) , they could make a beautiful rainbow together.
“Then one of the moths went to ask the butterflies for help. But the butterflies didn’t want to any of their colors, so the moths decided to make a rainbow themselves. They beat their wings very hard and the colors on them made a rainbow. They kept giving a little more and a little more the rainbow went across the sky. They had given away all their colors except grey, which didn’t match the beautiful rainbow.
“Then the once-colorful moths became . The angles saw the rainbow and smiled…” My brother went to sleep with that story and hasn’t feared months since then.
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“It’s raining cats and dogs!”Grandpa shouted.
Little Richie came running to the window. He wanted to see the ____falling from the sky. He looked out of the window, but is was ____that there were no cats or dogs. He only saw small pools of water on the ground.
“Man, it’s really coming down out there!” Uncle Bob agreed____he looked out of the window, too. Richie scratched his head(挠头). What was coming down? First they talked about cats and dogs that ____ be seen. Now someone said it “it”. What was going on with these ___?
“Wow!” Aunt Susie shouted as she looked out of the window. “It’s raining really hard.”
Richie____his aunt. “It is raining hard,” he agreed, “but ____are the cats and dogs?”
Grandpa laughed. “Richie, that just____it’s raining really hard.”
“So why didn’t you just say that?” Richie ____. It was irritating (恼人的) when people like they were not speaking English at all.
“We did. You just didn’t understand these____.” Richie’s cousin said with a big smile.
“Well, now I do.” Richie said.
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Hearing is very important to all of us. We can beautiful music, nice songs of birds, the laughter of people or other different kinds of in the world with our ears. we must try to protect our ears. The following will tell you
protect ears.
Listening to music a lot can be bad for ears, when headphones（耳机）are used. So try not to wear headphones or the volume（音量）when you’re wearing headphones. You should give your ears a rest if you like wearing headphones.
swimming, remember earplugs（耳塞）into your ears or wear a swim hat to stop water getting into your ears. If you go to a concert, wear earplugs to protect your ears from the terrible music! , special earplugs can be made for you if you go to concerts a lot or if you are a musician yourself. See a if your ears hurt. You’d better as what the doctor says. the suggestions above now and you won’t say “What, what…?” when you are getting .
A. listen B. hear C. listening
A. sounds B. noise C. voices
A. Because B. Although C. So
A. what to B. how C. how to
A. loud B. aloud C. loudly
A. specially B. especially C. special
A. turn off B. turn down C. turn up
A. Before B. After C. When
A. put B. to put C. putting
A. to B. with C. from
A. In fact B. For example C. Even though
A. teacher B. doctor C. friend
A. to do B. doing C. do
A. Listen B. Hear C. Follow
A. young B. old C. sick
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