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One afternoon, my son Adam asked me, “Are all people the same even though they are different in color?”
It was a serious question. I for a while, and then said, “I’ll explain it sooner. Let’s go to a fruit shop. I have something interesting to show you.”
At the fruit shop, we bought some apples in different —red, green and yellow ones. After we got home, I told Adam, “It’s time to your question now.” I put one apple of each kind colour on the table. Adam carefully. He had a look on his face.
“People are like apples. They come in all different colors, shapes and sizes. On the , some of the apples may not even look as delicious as .” While I was talking, Adam was each one carefully. Then, I took each of the apples and peeled(削皮) them, placing them back on the , but in a different place.
“Okay, Adam, tell me which is which.”
He said, “I tell. They all look the same now.”
“Take a of each one. See if that helps you decide one is which.”
He took big bites, and then a huge smile came across his face. “People are like apples! They are all different, but once you take off the outside, they’re pretty much the on the inside.”
He totally it. I didn’t need to say or do anything else.
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A beautiful ,well-dressed lady came to see her doctor . She said she was bored by her lifestyle , and her whole life was empty and ________.
So the doctor called the old lady who cleaned the office floors , and said to the rich lady，“I’m going to ask Mary to tell you how she found ________ . All I want you to do is to________”
So the old lady put down her broom(扫帚) ，sitting on a chair to tell her story,“Well ,my husband _____ malaria （疟疾 ） and months later my only son was killed by a car . I had nobody … I had nothing ___ . I couldn’t sleep; I couldn’t eat ; I never smiled at anyone; I ____ thought of the death . Then one evening a little cat _____ me home from work . I felt sorry for the cat . It was cold outside , so I decided to let the cat in . I got it some milk , and it licked(舔 ) the plate ______ . Then it rubbed against my leg , and for the first time in months, I smiled . Then I stopped to think : if _____ a cat could make me smile , maybe doing something for _____could make me happy ,too . So the next day I baked（烘烤 ）some biscuits and took them to a neighbor who was _______ in bed. Every day I tried to do something ______ for someone . It made me so happy to see them happy . Today I don’t______ of anybody who sleeps and eats better than I do . I’ve found ______ by giving it to others . ”
When she heard that , the rich lady cried . She had _____ that money could buy ,but she had lost the things which money couldn’t buy
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The Americans were getting ready to send their first man to the moon, an old Irishman (爱尔兰人) was _ _ them on TV in a hotel room. There was an Englishman in the room__ . And he said to the Irishman, “The Americans are very _ _, aren’t they? They are going to send some men to the moon. It’s a very _ way from our world.” “Oh, that’s _ ,”the Irishman answered quickly.” “The Irishman are going to send some men to the sun in months’ _ _. That’s much _ away than the moon, you know. “The Englishman was very _ when he heard this. “Oh, yes it is,” he said, “But the sun is too _ for people to visit.”
The Irishman laughed and answered, “Well, the Irish are clever, too, you know. We _ go to the sun during the day, of course. We’ll go there during the night.”
A．reading B．watching C．making D．mending
A．too B．also C．of course D．only
A．kind B．bad C．clever D．good
A．short B．long C．far D．near
A．nothing B．all C．wrong D．great
A．later B．ago C．long ago D．time
A．far B．never C．farther D．longer
A．angry B．surprised C．glad D．sorry
A．warm B．big C．cold D．hot
A．don’t B．won’t C．want to D．must
When Mr Smith retired(退休), he bought a small in a village near the sea. He it and hoped to live a quiet life in this house.
But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most building in the village. From morning to night there were outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and of them even went into Mr Smith’s garden. This was too much for Mr Smith. He decided to ask the visitors to . So he put a notice on the window. The notice said, “If you want your curiosity(好奇心)，come in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr Smith was sure that the visitors would coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr Smith had to every day showing them around his house.“I came here to not to work as a guide（导游）,”he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.
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It was Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop some flowers. He wanted the shopper to send the flowers to his mother, who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car, he found a young girl on the road crying. He asked her what was and she replied, “I want to buy a red rose my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.” The man smiled and said, “Come into with me, and I’ll buy you a rose.”
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they , he offered to drive the girl . She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She brought to a cemetery(墓地), where she placed the rose on the grave. The man was . He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house. Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.
A．Mother’s B．Teachers’ C．Children’s D．April
A．ordered B．order C．to order D．ordering
A．to sit B．sitting C．sat D．sits
A．happen B．wrong C．true D．matter
A．with B．to C．for D．in
A．the shop B．the school C．the street D．the grave
A．leave B．are leaving C．were leaving D．leaves
A．to home B．home C． to a cemetery D．to shop
A．he B．his C．him D．her
A．moved B．happy C．sad D．angry
Mrs. Smith was looking at the show window of a shop selling shirts. She wanted to buy a
1 for Mr. Smith, her husband. There were so many beautiful shirts that she couldn’t decide
2 At last, she chose one and bought it home.
While Mr. Smith was reading a newspaper, she showed him the shirt. She wanted to know whether it would fit her husband or not. Her husband 3 the shirt. But it didn’t fit him 4 It was both too long and too big. Then Mrs. Smith washed it in order to make it become smaller. But the shir 5 didn’t fit him. Now it was too small for him. She asked Tom, his son, to 6 and he did so. The shirt didn’t fit him, Then the woman began to wash the shirt once more to make it 7 . But this time the shirt became too short after she washed it again.
Now the little girl, her daughter was 8 when her mother dressed her in the shirt. Why? Because it was too large, she didn’t like it at all. None of them knew 9 Mrs. Smith felt so upset.
A．shirt B．shoes C．clothes D．short
A．she chose which one B．to choose which one C．that which one she chose D．which one to choose
A．tried on B．tried out C．wore D．put on
A．not at all B．at all C．any longer D．any more
A．usually B．still C．ever D．always
A．put on it B．put it on C．have on it D．have it on
A．also B．too C．as well as D．either
A．smaller B．bigger C．the smallest D．the biggest
A．happy B．nervous C．worried D．unhappy
A．how to do with B．what to do C．when to do D．how to do
Last August ,our class________ something very special on our school trip .We ________ to Mount Tai .We ________ our trip at 12:00 at night .Everyone in our class _______ a bag with some food and water .After three _______ ,someone _____ at the map and found out we were’t anywhere near the top. My legs _________ so tired that I wanted ______.My classmates told me _______ going ,so I went on.Twenty ________ later ,the sun started to come up .It was so beautiful that we forgot about the last five hours !
A．do B．did C．does D．has
A．go B．went C．goes D．play
A．started B．to start C．starting D．enough
A．took B．cold C．wrong D．taking
A．times B．hour’s C．hours D．apples
A．find B．looks C．looking D．looked
A．be B．was C．were D．are
A．to stop B．stop C．come D．came
A．keep B．to keep C．kept D．make
A．minute B．minutes C．time D．times
It was 3:43. Thunder was crashing and the rain was pouring. Suddenly my father rushed into my room. “Adam! Adam! Get up! We’re flooding!” he shouted and shook me by the shoulders. That woke up! I ran downstairs to the basement. It was like a swimming pool. My mother and I immediately started to pick up things and take them upstairs. I had no on, so my feet were quite freezing.
Things got worse every minute. Within the next hour, we had moved everything that we could to the first floor. The computer, big-screen television and heavy boxes with our most valuable things were taken to safety. , our piano, sofa, washing machine and water heater were all still down there—being . There was nothing we could do.
That was the hardest part. Knowing that your home is being destroyed is bad enough, but that you can’t do anything to stop it feels even worse.
Water had come in our front door. Rescue were floating in our streets. Mother told me to pack an overnight bag of clothes and valuables and get ready to leave.
When it was safe to walk outside, all the people in the neighborhood at the street corner. People became friends, and friends became like family. People each other. We learned later that the National Weather Service had declared the storm a flash flood.
I really have something from this flood. I’ve learned what destruction is. I have learned what means. I know in the future, when I watch people’ s lives affected by natural disasters, I can understand them. I will show great pity on them and I will do what I can to help them.
A．him B．them C．her D．me
A．hat B．shoes C．jacket D．glasses
A．covered B．crowded C．filled D．fixed
A．So B．And C．Because D．However
A．discovered B．arranged C．measured D．destroyed
A．realizing B．knowing C．telling D．writing
A．ships B．boats C．cars D．buses
A．finally B．usually C．exactly D．certainly
A．stood B．walked C．gathered D．met
A．comforted B．influenced C．believed D．worried
A．learned B．discovered C．thought D．concluded
A．truth B．safety C．value D．regret
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My name is Liu Yuqing. I will never my first English teacher, Miss Yang, because I learned a lot from her. Miss Yang is a young woman. She has a round face big eyes. There is always a on her face.
She taught me English when I entered the school. When I first met her, I was and couldn’t speak a word of English. She said to me, “Come on! Don’t be shy. You can do it well.” She always me with my English when she was free.
Every day, she prepared (准备) her lessons before class. When she came into the classroom, she said hello______everone. She tried to make every class . She had all kinds of activities in class and tried to make every student speak English. After class, if we had problems with studies or life, she would give us some .
With her help, my English a lot and she was very happy for me. Miss Yang is really a good teacher.
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Once a man and his wife worked for a businessman. There was a big box in the businessman’s living room. The businessman pointed at the box and said, “There’s only one thing you mustn’t do. Don’t open the box.” After saying this, he the living room.
The woman said to her husband, “There must be something expensive in the box. Let’s it, shall we?” Her husband said no to her.
The woman didn’t give up her . One day, she decided to find out what was in it. Her husband didn’t stop her. She opened the box and looked .She found nothing in the box and tried hard to close it, she failed.
That evening the businessman came home and found the box was .He was very angry and asked the woman and her husband to leave his home．
“But there was nothing in the box,” the woman said. “We haven’t taken anything .” The businessman shouted at them, “The box is not important. I cannot believe you. That’s important!”A．left B．entered C．went to
A．open B．close C．clean
A．work B．advice C．idea
A．inside B．outside C．down
A．so B．and C．but
A．lost B．open C．empty
A．at once B．at last C．at all
On a trip to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked towards the entrance to the restaurant, a man, with a messy beard and _____ hair, jumped up from a bench outside the restaurant and opened the door for us. Paying no attention to his ______, he greeted us in a friendly way.
Once inside, my daughters said in a low voice, “Mom, he _______.” After we ordered our lunch, I explained, telling the the kids to look beyond the dirt. We then watched other _____ come into the restaurant but many took no notice of him. Seeing this rudeness truly ______me. The day I became a mother, I had determined to set a good example to my children. Yet sometimes being a good example was _______, especially when things didn’t go right. After our meal arrived, I realized I had left my car-sick pills in the car, so I went back to the car to get them.
Just then, the “doorman”was opening the door for a couple. They ______ him without even noticing his presence. Letting them in first, I said a loud “thank you” to ______ as I went out.
When I returned, we talked a bit. He said he was not allowed inside _____ he bought food. I went back and asked our waitress to ______ one soup and sandwich. The kids looked puzzed as they had already eaten. But when I told them his story and said the _____ was for the “doorman”, they smiled. When it was time to continue our ______, I found the “doorman” enjoying his meal. Upon seeing me, he stood up and thanked me heartily with tears in his eyes.
Back in the car, I fell into deep thought. While we can’t choose many things in life, we can choose _____ to show gratitude. I said thanks to a man who had _____held open a door for me, and also said thanks for that opportunity to teach my children by _______.
A．dirty B．clean C．pretty D．shiny
A．appearance B．happiness C．illness D．carelessness
A．smokes B．shouts C．smells D．smiles
A．travelers B．visitors C．passengers D．customers
A．taught B．upset C．troubled D．surprised
A．tiring B．amazing C．difficult D．successful
A．waited for B．rushed past C．stopped by D．returned to
A．him B．them C．myself D．themselves
A．before B．since C．though D．unless
A．buy B．add C．show D．borrow
A．order B．money C．note D．service
A．meal B．talk C．trip D．story
A．where B．when C．how D．why
A．actually B．truly C．really D．simply
A．journey B．example C．lesson D．experience
An old woman lived in a house with a large garden. She took care of her flowers all the . One day a young man went by the garden. He saw the beautiful flowers and thought he could be very happy he lived in a beautiful place. his surprise, the old gardener was blind. He asked, “You can’t these flowers. Why are you busy _them every day?” The old woman said, “Let me tell you four . First, I was a gardener when I was young, and I really like this job. Second, though I am blind, I can touch them as well. , I can smell the sweetness of them. As for the last one, that’s for .” “Me? But you don’t know me,” said the young man. “Yeah, it’s true that I don’t know you. But I know that everybody loves flowers. We all enjoy the these flowers have brought us.”
A．day B．night C．weekend D．time
A．since B．as C．while D．if
A．so B．such C．very D．really
A．In B．To C．With D．As
A．hear B．see C．touch D．feel
A．take after B．look after C．taking after D．looking after
A．ideas B．problems C．reasons D．matter
A．Finally B．Fine C．Fourth D．Third
A．you B．me C．my mother D．my son
A．fairness B．sadness C．happiness D．kindness
Most elephants are grey. Only a few are . It’s difficult to see a white elephant. When people find a white , they feel excited.
Long ago, a white elephant was to the king. Only the king could have a white elephant. And the white elephant must be a very good one. People wanted to take a look at the animal. On its way to the king, the white elephant attracted （吸引） many people. They ran into the street and shouted, “A white elephant is coming!”
All the people liked the cute elephant. Some gave it to drink. Others sang songs to the elephant. A boy put a red hat on the elephant’s head.
Then the elephant came before the king. At last the king saw the white elephant. The king it a name himself. The elephant ate from gold dishes and it began a new life.A．grey B．white C．red
A．elephant B．king C．street
A．swept B．painted C．taken
A．dishes B．water C．food
A．asked B．gave C．built
There are different kinds of friends. Many friends will step in your life, but only friends leave footprints .
I shall always recall (回忆) the autumn and the girl with the . I know she will always be my best friend. It was a golden season. I liked walking alone in the leaves, the sound of them.
Autumn is a harvest season but life is uninteresting. The free days always get me . But one day, the sound of a violin flowed into my ears. A young girl, standing in the wind, was in playing her violin.
I had never seen her before. The music was so nice that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn't know that I had been there for so long .But it did not seem to disturb her.
Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building I went downstairs to watch her performance. I was the only listener.
Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening carefully, the sound suddenly To my surprise, the girl came over to me.
“You must like violin.” she said.
“Yes. And you play very well. Why didn’t you continue?” I asked.
Suddenly, a look appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.
“I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was your listening every day that me.” she said.
“In fact, it was your playing that gave me a meaningful autumn.” I answered, “Let's be friends.”
A．good B．true C．new D．old
A．sound B．song C．play D．violin
A．looking for B．listeningto C．finding D．hearing
A．up B．off C．down D．over
A．lost B．active C．busy D．interested
A．waiting B．stopping C．standing D．hearing
A．because B．so C．when D．but
A．stopped B．began C．gone D．changed
A．happy B．sad C．strange D．surprised
A．surprised B．excited C．encouraged D．interested
A Fun Way to Start the Day
Mrs．Bames turned off the bright camera light on the news desk．Charlie，a fifth-grade news announeer（播音员），sat at the desk．“Our show seems to be missing something，”he saiD． “It seems like we should end our________on a cheerful note．We should give the students________to enjoy．Since the show is school wide，we could help everyone begin the day in a positive way．”
“What do you mean，Charlie？Don't you think the students like watching our news show and ________about the important events of the day？”Mrs．Barnes said jokingly．“Sure，”Charlie answereD． “I'm just looking for a little something more to add to our program，”he said.
Charlie was what his mother called an“experimenter”．He was，________trying to find a new way of doing something，and today Charlie wanted to think of how to really________up the school with the morning news.
As Charlie walked, he hummed（哼唱）the school song．His friend Jenny met him in the hallway and，without a word，she too began humming．By the time they reached the classroom door，another girl，Lily，had________them and started singing their happy song.
At first，Mrs．Barnes watched the class with a confused expression，and then with a shine in her eyes，she smileD． Her class loved to sing，and she liked sharing this________with them.
Just at that moment，Charlie realized that music was the________ he had been looking for.
That's it！Charlie thought．We can end the morning news by singing our school song.
“So what do you think？”Charlie asked heartedly．Mrs．Barnes was happy to see Charlie _______about his volunteer work as the school news announcer.“Let's give it a try！”Mrs．Barnes replieD． “I have a feeling that it will be a________way to end our morning news show and a fun way to start the day！”
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