My mother began to ask us to be on time when my twin brother and I were about five years old.  She _1_ told us not to be late for the bus, not to be late for school, and so on. “ Don’t be late” became our family rule.
Mother_2 as a teacher when my twin brother and I started the first grade. Every school day morning, she called us to get up, and cooked _3_ breakfast.  School started at 8:00 am, _4_ we arrived at the school before 7:30 am each school day morning.
When we were in high school, our_5_ once told my mother that we had been late for three times in one month.  That made my mother so _6_ that she beat us.  After that I was not late for anything.
I kept the _7_ of being on time for a long time. When I _8_ a teacher, we were asked to get to school at 8；00 am, but I always got there at 7；15 am.  That gave me more time to do my job _9_ .
When you learned good habits from your _10_ , they will give you more than you can imagine.

Ben Lambert, the famous French singer,    1  a long vacation this summer! He thought about  2 _  to Greece or Spain, but decided  3_  Canada. “I always take  4_  in Europe,” he said. “This time I want to do  5_  . I heard that Canada is beautiful, and I know there are many people there who speak French.”
Ben is going to Canada’s Great Lakes. He is leaving the first week _6_  June and staying  7 September. He plans to have  a very   8 _  vacation. “I’m taking walks, going fishing, and going bike riding. I’m 9   to spend time  in  the beautiful countryside. I love nature. I hope I can forget 10_  problems! At night, I’m renting videos and sleeping a lot… A great vacation! I can’t wait!”

The teacher stood before his class and was going to hand out the final exam papers. “I know how   1   you have all worked to prepare for this test,” he said. “And because I know you can do it well, I am willing to offer a B to anyone who would   2   not to take the test. ”
Many students jumped up to   3   the teacher and left the classroom.  The teacher looked at the   4   students and said, “Does anyone else want to get a B? This is your last   5   . ” Two more students decided to go.     Seven students remained.  The teacher then handed out the   6   .  There were only three sentences typed on the paper: Congratulations! You have just   7   an A in this class.  Keep believing in yourself.     I never had a teacher like that, but I think it is a test   8   any teacher could and should give.  Students who are not   9   in what they have learned are B students at best(充其量). The same is   10   in real life.  The A students are those who believe in what they are doing because they have   11   both successes and failures.  They have learned life’s lessons, either from normal education   12   from events in their lives, and have become   13   people.      Scientists say that by the age of eight, 80% of what we believe about ourselves has already been formed.  You are a big kid now, and you   14   that  you have some limits (限制).  However, there is   15   you can’t do or learn or be.  Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest said, “It’s not the mountain we conquer(克服) but ourselves. ”
【小題1】A.  luckily        B.  terribly        C.  hard
【小題2】A.  dislike        B.  help            C.  prefer
【小題3】A.  thank         B.  praise          C.  fight
【小題4】A.  following     B.  relaxing      C.  remaining
【小題5】A.  chance        B.  trouble         C.  test
【小題6】A.  results        B.  presents        C.  papers
【小題7】A.  given         B.  sent            C.  received
【小題8】A.  where         B.  that            C.  what
【小題9】A.  confident     B.  necessary       C.  mysterious
【小題10】A.  unusual        B.  impossible      C.  true
【小題11】A.  broken off     B.  dreamed of      C.  learned from
【小題12】A.  and           B.  or            C.  but
【小題13】A.  ruder         B.  cuter           C.  better
【小題14】A.  decide        B.  forget          C.  realize
【小題15】A.  something     B. anything        C.  nothing

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  1  do．Don’t open the box．”After   2   this，he left the living room．
The woman said to her husband，“There must be   3   in the box．Let’s open it，shall we?” Her husband said ___4___ to her．
But the woman didn’t give up her idea．One day，she decided to ___5___ what was     __6   it．Her husband didn’t stop her this time．She opened the box and looked inside．She found nothing in the box and then tried hard to close it,    7   she failed．
That evening the businessman came home and found the box was    8  ．He was very __9___ and asked the woman and her husband to leave his home．
“But there is nothing in the box，”the woman said．“We    10    anything at all．”The businessman shouted at them，“The box is not important．I cannot believe you．That’s important!”
【小題1】A．needn’t     B．wouldn’t    C．mustn’t       D don’t have to
【小題2】A．saying     B．said        C．says         D to say
【小題3】A．expensive something   B．something expensive
C．nothing expensive    D expensive anything
【小題4】A．yes        B．nothing     C．no           D hello
【小題5】A．look for    B．clean up    C．find out     D get over
【小題6】A．near        B．under       C．in           D on
【小題7】A．though     B．or         C．unless       D but
【小題8】A．closed     B．empty       C．open         D full
【小題9】A．happy      B．angry       C．stressed out  D worried
【小題10】A．didn’t take  B．won’t take  C．haven’t taken  D aren’t taking

I first had physics lessons when I was in Grade Eight some years ago. In class, I   1   that there wasn’t a Nobel (諾貝爾) Prize winner from China. That made me sad, and I decided to change (改變) it.   2   after that, I got up early in the morning. I turned on the light and took out a physics book. Then I started   3   quietly. I worked so hard because I had a great   4   — one day, I would be the first   5   person to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Later on, I found physics at school too easy for me. I wanted to learn   6  , so I made a reading plan and started to find answers to more difficult problems.
Now I am a top student in physics. I won the first prize in the national physics competition  last month. And I am happy to be closer to my dream after a few   7   hard work. Of course,   8   I have some problems. My classmates always   9   me when they are talking about fashion (時尚) or pop stars, because I know   10   about them. “Well, that doesn’t matter too much,” I tell myself. “They don’t know much about physics , but I won’t laugh at them.”
【小題1】A. joined           B. heard                 C. studied
【小題2】A. So              B. But                    C. And
【小題3】A. writing         B. reading                C. thinking
【小題4】A. dream          B. idea                 C. plan
【小題5】A. Chinese        B. Canada                C. American
【小題6】A. much           B. more                  C. most
【小題7】A. weeks’         B. months’              C. years’
【小題8】A. usually         B. always                C. sometimes
【小題9】A. depend on      B. look at                C. laugh at
【小題10】A. anything        B. nothing              C. everything

One day, my English teacher asked me to help her save back-up（備份） copies of her work in the computer. I then realized I was able to know the grades of all of her students. I   1  her how to copy files（文件） from one disk to another and she thanked me.
A few days later, she asked me to help her again, because she   2  how to do it. When I showed it to her, some students in my class   3  and began to talk among themselves   4  .Later that day, at lunch time, several of them came up to me.
“Hey, could you help us change our grades? We’ll   5  for it.”
I could not believe what I heard. I could get paid for something very   6 . “All right. I’ll do it.” The next day, my English teacher   7  me to help him out again. When he was not paying   8  , I changed their grades from Fs to As.
I soon became very   9  among my friends. They began to treat me like God who could do   10 . Word spread quickly and I became very rich.
Everything was going fine   11  I was called into the headmaster’s office. When I got there, both of my teacher and the headmaster were very angry. “ I don’t want to   12  what your teacher said, but I have to. She has too much evidence(證據),’’ the headmaster said. “Do you have anything to say for yourself?”
“No,” I said finally. I didn’t realize how   13  my behavior had been. I had disappointed my teacher and the headmaster. And there was no way   14 . I had to leave my school. That was a good   15  for me.

A boy was sent by his parents to a boarding school(寄宿學校). Before being sent away, this boy was the   36  student in his class. He was at the top in every competition. But the boy changed after  37  home and attending the boarding school. His grades started dropping. He   38  being in a group. He was lonely all the time because he felt no one loved him.
His   39  started worrying about the boy. But they did not know   40  was wrong with him. So his dad   41  to travel to the boarding school and   42  with him. They sat on the bank of the lake near the school. The father started   43  him casual(隨便的) questions about his classes, teachers and sports.   44 some time his dad said, “Do you know, son, why I am here today?”
The boy answered back, “To check my   45 ?”
“No, no,” his dad replied, “I am here to tell you that you are the most important person for  46 . I want to see you   47 . I don’t care about grades. I care about you. I care about your happiness. YOU ARE MY LIFE.”
These words caused the boy’s eyes to fill with tears. He hugged(擁抱) his dad. They didn’t say  48   to each other for a long time.
Now the boy had everything he wanted. He knew there was someone on this earth who cared for him   49 . And today this young man is in college at the   50  of his class and no one has ever seen him sad!

Mr. Smith is my new friend. He  1 from Paris, France. He is a French   2 of a middle school. His students all like   3 very much. He can speak some Chinese, 4  not much. He wants to learn more, so he goes to  5 classes every week. He likes living and working   6 China very much. He   7 the Chinese people are very friendly(友好的). He has two   8  , Maria and Tom. They are students, but they go to different(不同的)  9 . They have some pen pals and they often write   10  the pen pals. They also have many Chinese friends at school and they play games after class.
【小題1】A. comes       B. goes           C. has
【小題2】A. friend      B. student        C. teacher
【小題3】A. me         B. her            C. him
【小題4】A. or          B. but            C. and
【小題5】A. Chinese     B. French         C. English
【小題6】A. at          B. from           C. in
【小題7】A. thinks      B. speaks         C. likes
【小題8】A. sons        B. kids           C. daughters
【小題9】A. families    B. schools        C. cities
【小題10】A. for         B. with           C. to

Ann is one of my  1  .She lives in a big city. She has many pets,  2 cats, goldfish and birds. Her favorite pet is a cat.  3 name is Mimi. It likes eating birds. One day,   4  father buys her a parrot(鸚鵡). Mimi sees the parrot and wants__5_  if (是否)it is a bird or not. So Mimi comes over   6  the parrot, it wants to eat   7  parrot. The poor parrot is very afraid. When Mimi    8  it, and wants to jump on it, the parrot  9  , “Hello, nice to meet you .” Mimi is afraid, and it runs away quickly. It thinks: “That thing can speak. It must   10   a man.”

Mrs. Green was very fat. She weighed 100kg, and she    1   heavier every month.
   2   she went to see a doctor. The doctor said, “You    3   to go on a diet（節(jié)食）, Mrs. Green. I’ve got a food list here.” He gave her a small book and said, “   4   it carefully and eat the things on page 11 every day. Then come back and see me    5   two weeks.”
Mrs. Green cam back two weeks    6  , but she wasn’t thinner and was even
   7  . The doctor was surprised and asked, “Are you eating the things on page 11 of the small book?”
“Yes, doctor,” she answered.
The next day,    8   visited Mrs. Green in the afternoon. He was very  9 
to see her.
“Mrs. Green,” he asked, “why are you eating potatoes and bread? You aren’t on the diet!”
“But doctor,” Mrs. Green answered, “I eat my diet    10   lunch time. This is my tea（下午茶）.”
【小題1】A. gets            B. is getting             C. was getting
【小題2】A. So             B. But                  C. Because
【小題3】A. want           B. like                  C. have
【小題4】A. Watch          B. Read                 C. Find
【小題5】A. behind         B. in                    C. for
【小題6】A. ago            B. late                  C. later
【小題7】A. fatter          B. thinner                C. taller
【小題8】A. her parents      B. her friend             C. the doctor
【小題9】A. happy          B. afraid                C. surprised
【小題10】A. at            B. on                   C. in