Mrs. Ball has a son. His name is Mick. She __1__ him very much and as he is not a __2 __ child, she is always __3__ that he may be ill, __4__ she takes him to see the best __5__ in the town four times a year and the doctor always looks him over__6__.
During one of these __7__, the doctor gives Mick all kinds of tests and then says to him, “Do you have any __8__ with your nose or ears these days?” Mick __9__ for a second and then answers, “Yes, I __10__.”
Mrs. Ball is very __11__. “But I’m sure you don’t tell me about__12__, Mick!” She says worriedly. “Oh, really?” Says the doctor seriously(嚴肅地). “And what trouble do you have __13__ your nose and ears, my boy?”“Well,” answers Mick, “I always have trouble with them when I’m _14_ my sweater off, because the _15_ is very tight（緊）.”

Life is not easy, so I’d like to say “When anything happens, believe in yourself.”
When I was a young boy, I was 1_shy to talk to anyone. My classmates often _2_me.I was sad but could do nothing, Later, _3_happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to _4_it .What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak before all the teachers and students of my school.
“Come on, boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to 5_the contest.”Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I chose the topic “Believe in yourself.”I tried my best to remember all the speech and practiced it over 100 _6_.With my mother’s great love, I did _7_in the contest. I could hardly believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first place, I heard the cheers _8_the teachers and the students. Those classmates_9_once looked down on（看不起）me ,now all said “Congratulations!”to me. My mother hugged me and cried excitedly.
Since then, everything has changed for me. When I do anything, I try to tell _10_to be sure and I will find myself. This is not only for a person but also for a country.

Happiness is for everyone. In fact, happiness is always around you if you care about it. When you are in   1   at school, your classmates will help you; when you study hard at your   2  , your parents are always taking good   3   of you; when you get success(成功), your friends will say congratulations   4   you; when you do something   5  , people around you will help you correct it; and when you do something good to   6  , you will feel happy, too. All these things are   7  . If you pay attention to them, you can see happiness is always   8   you. Happiness is not the same as money. When you are poor, you can say you are very happy, because people can’t buy happiness   9   money. When you meet problems, you can also say loudly you are very happy, because you have many friends to help you. So you can’t always say you are poor and you have bad luck. If you agree with me, you can be a happy and   10   person.

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Mr. and Mrs. Bell are very  56 . For example, Mr. Bell sometimes goes to his office for work on Sunday morning, for he thinks it is Monday. And Mrs. Bell sometimes forgets to cook supper for the family.
One summer they planned to  57  to New York for their holidays. They got to the airport only ten minutes before the plane took   58 . So time was short. But suddenly Mrs. Bell said  59  must tell their daughter not to forget  to lock the front door  60  she went to school. As Alice was then at school, they couldn’t   61  her about it by telephone. So they hurried to the __62 . Mrs. Bell wrote a short   63  to Alice while Mr. Bell bought a stamp and an envelope. Soon the note was ready. They put the stamp on the envelope in a hurry and dropped it in the letter box,   64  suddenly Mrs. Bell began to cry. The short note was   65  in her hand. She had put the plane tickets in the envelope.

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We went to play against a team from a country school. They didn’t come    1   the match began. They looked    2   than we thought. They wore dirty T-shirts and blue jeans and looked like farm boys. We thought they    3   saw a basketball before. We felt that we didn’t   4  any practice to play with such a team. It was very late so they couldn’t have any time to practice. The match began. One of our boys    5   the ball and he tried to give it to another one. But from out of nowhere a boy in a T-shirt    6   the ball and he quickly and beautifully got the ball into our basket and had two points. They    7   us because they had another two points in a minute. Soon it was all over. The country team    8   the match. Of course we knew that there was still another team    9   than any good team. But the important lesson we learned this time was: One can’t tell a man or a team by the    10  .
(    ) 1. A. when          B. so          C. until       D. at
(    ) 2. A. stronger              B. younger     C. worse       D. better
(    ) 3. A. never             B. often       C. sometimes   D. always
(    ) 4. A. have              B. make        C. use         D. need
(    ) 5. A. got               B. played          C. took        D. carried
(   ) 6. A. caught           B. changed     C. held        D. kicked
(    ) 7. A. laughed          B. frightened      C. admired         D. smiled
(    ) 8. A. lost              B. won          C. got             D. had
(    ) 9. A. worse             B. less            C. better          D. more
(    )10.A. T-shirt            B. appearance      C. name        D. points

It was very cold outside my car. I did not want to get out of it  36  we passed by a cafe. Suddenly I noticed a short old man, covered with some bits of clothes, shaking with the cold. He was waiting for anyone who would  37  him a coin or a cup of hot tea.
I asked my  38  to go over and hand this old man something. He  39  into my husband’s face, smiled and said, “ 40 .” I felt so happy and I wished the old man could live  41 the cold night.
I was sure to meet him again and find out how he was the next   42  , as I have to pass this way every day. I did so the next evening, and he remembered the  43  and came up to my window and 44  at me. This time I offered him a  45  of food. He reached out for the bag and I gave him my hand. He  46  food, smiled and said, “May God bless you.” I looked at the old man and he   47  me think of my father.”
I do hope all of us will remember that maybe one day, it could _48___to one of us,  49  please do not pass by a   5 0  person without offering at least a word of love and a kind smile or an act of kindness of any kind.

When I was in my first year of middle school, my father died. And my mother was ill just after I got into the high school. I had to   1  going to school because my mother had no money to pay my school bills.
We began to work in people’s gardens to save up money for me to go back to school. Finally I returned to school. 2 my mother __3  the next year. And my world went dark. I asked my headmaster if I could work for the   4 this summer vacation, so I could pay my bills. He was a nice man and let me work in the school garden during the  5 . I can’t study well because of my mother’s death. At the end of my second year, I didn’t  6 most of my exams and the teacher told me I had to repeat the year. After _7  summer working in the school garden, I went   8  to lessons again. But suddenly I fell ill.
Because of my disease (疾病) I was  9  and couldn’t work at school. I was hopeless(無望的). My headmaster told me not to give up. And my teachers and classmates     10  me a lot. Now, I’m feeling better and will finish my third year.
My life is still not   11 . A few students laugh at my poor clothes. They also call me “farmer” because I work in the school garden. But I   12  hard days will always be followed by sunshine.

A young man was about to finish school. For a long time he had    36  to get a beautiful sports car. He knew his father could well    37  it, so he  told him that a sports car was all he wanted.
　　Then on the morning of his graduation（畢業(yè)）,he was called to his father’s room. His father told him how    38  he was to have such a fine son, and told him how   39  he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful gift box.  40 , the young man opened the box and found a lovely Bible（圣經(jīng)）with his name on it. Angrily, he raised his   41  to his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible? " He then   42  out of the house, leaving the Bible.
　　Many years passed and the young man was very    43  in business, and had a beautiful home and a wonderful family.    44  that his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him    45  that graduation day. Before he could go, he received a    46  telling him that his father had died. He had to go home immediately and take   47  of the things that his father left him.
　　When he began to search through his father’s important　papers, he saw the still new Bible,     48  as he had left　it years ago. He opened the Bible and began to   49   the pages. As he was reading, a car key with a tag（標牌）dropped from the back of the Bible. On the tag was the   50  of his graduation, and the words "PAID IN FULL". Sadness and regret（悔恨）filled his heart.

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely(模糊地) 　1　 the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see things again, 　2　 a disaster can do strange things to people. It happened to me the other day that I might not have come to love 　3　 as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not sure that I would believe in it so 　4　. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I 　5　 mean that the loss of 　6　 made me enjoy more of 　7　 I have now.
Life asks us to keep making 　8　 to reality. If a person is able to get ready for anything changeable his world will 　9　 more meaningful. I became blind, but I was 　10　. My parents and my teachers saw 　11　 in me－a potential(潛力) to live, you might call it－which I didn’t see, and they make me fight it out with blindness.
The hardest 　12　 I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was what I had to do at least. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would become a chair rocker for the 　13　 of my life. When I say I believe in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase 　14　. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: A belief that I could deal with anything alone; that somewhere in the 　15　 there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
1. A. imagine       B. find             C. remember     D. guess
2. A. but           B. though               C. so           D. because
3. A. myself       B. life             C. eyes         D. blindness
4. A. that         B. therefore            C. happily      D. deeply
5. A. seldom        B. just             C. hardly           D. always
6. A. them      B. it                   C. blindness        D. light
7. A. that         B. what             C. which            D. where
8. A. moments      B. encouragements       C. improvements D. changes
9. A. become        B. change               C. look         D. end
10. A. brave        B. lucky                C. sad          D. wise
11. A. something    B. everything           C. nothing      D. anything
12. A. problem      B. experience           C. difficulty       D. lesson
13. A. rest     B. whole                C. need         D. last
14. A. lonely       B. alone                C. self         D. person
15. A. company  B. group                C. society  (社會)   D. family

There was once a lonely girl who wanted love very much．One day while she was walking in the forest，she found two birds．She took them home and put them in a small  1 ．She was happy to have two“friends”．She  2 them with love and the birds grew strong．One day the girl forgot to close the door of the cage．The   3 of the two flew out of the cage．The girl was afraid that it would fly away．She caught it quickly．She felt glad that she caught the bird before it could fly away．Suddenly she couldn’t  4 a sound from the bird．When she opened her hand，the bird was already（已經(jīng)）dead．Her  5 killed(殺死)the bird! Then she saw  6 bird jumping up and down  7 the cage．She could feel its great need for freedom．It wanted to fly into the blue sky．So she let it fly away  8 ．The bird circled(轉(zhuǎn)圈)once，twice，and three times．The girl  9 as the bird flew．She didn’t care about losing the bird any more．She wanted it to be happy．Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder．It sang the  10 song she had ever heard(她所聽過的)．
The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly，and the best way to keep love is to give it wings．