Walt Disney，the great film-maker was born in Chicago in 1901.  His greatest wish was to be a famous ___1___.  When he was young, he went to a __2___ office in a city named Kansas.  There he had some friends __3__.  He took some pictures with himself and wanted to get a job.  But he had no __4_.  They looked at the pictures and said, “Sorry, young man, we don’t think there is __5__interesting in your pictures. ”
But he didn’t lose    6_  .  He went on to draw pictures.  His family was __7__.  One day a mouse came into his room and played on the floor.  He stopped __8 _ and watched it.  The mouse came to him and sat on his desk, so he gave the mouse a piece of bread.  Then the mouse came nearer and was given more bread.   9  this way after some days the mouse became his good friend.
Disney went to the west of the USA after a few years.  He tried to get work as an artist, but he wasn’t still   10  .  One day he remembered the cute mouse.  He picked up his pencil and began to draw.  He drew some different pictures of the mouse.  He called it Mickey Mouse.  Now most people knew and loved him all over the world.

IMAGINE a life without arms or legs! You can’t hold anyone in your  1  . You can’t walk anywhere with your feet. How would you last a day like that? Would you   2  at yourself in the mirror like Nick Vujicic, the 29-year-old Australian?
Nick was born without limbs（四肢）, so life was not  3 for him. At school many students played jokes on him  4  he looked different from everyone else. He was refused to be   5  friends, so he always felt   6 . However, he faced that bravely. He   7  to type and write with two toes（腳趾）at the age of six, and he could   8  surf and play golf. In college, he achieved（取得） great success and was among the  9  students in the studies. And he decided on  10  to do later in his life—to encourage others to work hard for their dreams.
Now Nick is one of the most popular   11   in the world. He travels to many countries and gives speeches about his story  12  difficulties. “Living life fully is about looking at what you  13  , not what you don’t have.” he said. His   14   encourages millions of people.
“I tell people to keep on getting up when they  15  and to always love themselves,” he said. “If I can encourage just one person, then my job in this life is done.”

    Tolstoy, the greatest Russian writer, liked to walk about in a railway station near his home. One day when he was walking up and down as ___1___, looking at people getting on and off the trains, he heard a lady __2___ after him, “Hey, you old man, go and bring back my handbag I left in the __3___ room.”
Tolstoy went there. He picked the bag up and walked quickly along the platform (站臺(tái)). At the same time the lady was waiting beside the carriage (車廂), looking __4___. When at last the old man gave the bag back to her, she opened it to make sure nothing was __5___. “ Good, old man,” said the woman. “ You are just as quick as I can __6___. Here you are. ” She gave a coin to him. Tolstoy __7__ the coin and put it into his pocket with a smile.
The woman was very _8__ when she heard he was Tolstoy, the writer of the great novel War and Peace. She returned to Tolstoy and said, “ Oh, excuse me ….. Oh, how silly I was to __9__ you as a porter (搬運(yùn)工). Please throw back that coin if you forgive me.”
“Oh, madam, why? You have nothing wrong,” Tolstoy laughed and said, “ The coin is given for my work, so I’ll __10___ it. Thank you, madam! ”

Napoga Gurigo，a 12-year-old girl，lives in a village in Ghana. It is   1  for her family to get clean drinking water. The nearest place to get water is a muddy （混濁的） water hole half a kilometer away from her   2 . Animals and villagers use it alike. Each morning, Napoga leaves home at half past five to collect water for her family. Sometimes it   3  a few hours to get enough water. Napoga has no time to go to school for learning. In the neighboring areas, many boys and girls   4  Napoga. They can't keep strong and   5  just because they have not enough drinking water.
In fact, 70% of Earth's surface is water. But most of   6  is sea water. We can't use salty water in our daily life. Fresh water is what we __7__ drink, take showers and cook food. And fresh water covers only 1 percent of Earth's surface. In some areas people try to make deep wells （水井） to get water from   8 . But there still   9  enough for farming. Scientists say that 10  30 years, more people in the world will face all kinds of water problems than now. So we must do something to take care of our water resources (資源).

This happened to me at the age of twelve. It seems like a long time to remember the name of the old lady. Yet it keeps in my  35 that she taught me a lesson in tolerance(寬容) which I shall never forget.
On a winter afternoon, a friend and I were  36 stones onto the roof of the old lady’s house. I found myself a perfectly smooth stone and threw it out. The stone was too smooth, however, so it slipped(滑) from my hands and  37  straight not for the roof but for a small window on the old lady’s back porch(門(mén)廊). At the sound of broken   38 , we knew we were in trouble and ran away.
I was too scared(膽怯) about getting caught by the old lady that first night. However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn’t been   39 , I started to feel guilty(有罪的) for what I had done. She  40 greeted me with a smile each day when I gave her the newspaper, but I was no longer able to act comfortably.
I made up my mind to  41 for her window with my paper delivery(發(fā)送) money I collected. I put the money in an envelope with a note explaining I was  42  for breaking her window and hoped that the seven dollars would cover the cost for repairing it.
I waited  43 it was dark, snuck(悄悄地走) up to the old lady’s house and put the letter I didn’t sign in her door. Once again, I could have the freedom of lookingstraight  44 the old lady’s kind eyes.
The next day, I handed the old lady her paper and was able to return the warm smile that I was  45 from her. She thanked me and gave me a bag of cookies.
Reaching for the cookies, I  46 an envelope and pulled it out of the bag. When I opened the envelope, I was surprised to see the seven dollars and a short note that said, “I’m proud of you!”

Bill Gates __36___   on October 28, 1955. He grew up in Seattle, Washington. He was a very   ___37___  boy. His favorite subjects at school were science and maths.  ___38___  he was 13 years old, Bill started to play with computers. At that time, computers ___39___  very large machines. Once(一度) he was very interested  __40___ a very old computer. He and some of his friends __41____ lots of time doing unusual things with it. In the end, they worked .out a software program (軟件程) with the old machine. Bill ___42__  it for $ 4200 when he was only 17.
In 1973, Bill ___43___    Harvard University(哈弗大學(xué)). In his third year, he left Harvard to work for a company(公司) called Microsoft. Bill began his company in 1975  __44____  his friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. So they began developing( 開(kāi)發(fā))the software for personal（個(gè)人的） computers: They improved (改進(jìn))the software to __45____  it easier for people to use computers.

Many Americans like to have their holidays(假期) in   26  countries. One day an American    27   comes to China. This is her first time  to China and she wants to    28   some friends there. She meets a Chinese. This Chinese wants to talk   29   with the American. When he sees her, he comes up, says “    30   ” to her, then he begins his first talk with someone  31    an English-speaking country.“How old are you?” the Chinese   32  . “I’m    33   . Please don’t  ask a lady (女士) about her   34   .” answers the woman.
The Chinese is surprised . He doesn’t know   35   .  Can you help him?
【小題1】A. another    B. else            C. other
【小題2】A. man      B. boy            C. woman
【小題3】A. make     B. making         C. do
【小題4】A. with English    B. in English   C. in Chinese
【小題5】A. OK       B. hello           C. sorry
【小題6】A. from      B. at             C. of
【小題7】A. asks       B. tells           C. talks
【小題8】A. sure       B. worried        C. sorry
【小題9】A. family      B. age             C. job
【小題10】A. how       B. why           C. what

A boy who was cleaning shoes in the street said to a young man     1        by, “Let me clean your shoes,    2    ?”The young man said, “No, thank you .”“You may   3   me only a pound for that, sir.” said the boy.    4        the young man refused again.
Then the boy told him that he would clean his shoes for     5   . The young man agreed to this, and soon one of his shoes was shining brightly.  The man put    6      shoe on the boy, but the boy refused to clean it unless he     7       two pounds for his work.  The young man refused to pay anything and went away.  But one looked   8  dirty that he couldn’t walk away.  He had to   9      and gave the boy    10    .  In a very short time his shoes shone brightly.

Li Dong is a farmer. He has a very big   36 . On the farm, he grows oranges, grapes and bananas. Many people come to   37  his farm. He is a successful young man and becomes very famous.
In 2003, he went back to his hometown   38  he finished middle school. “What work can I do?” he said to himself. Then he had an idea. “I’m interested   39  farming. I can grow fruit!” He began to watch many   40  on TV about growing fruit. He also read a lot of books about it. Then he went to   41  on Mr Wang’s farm for two years. He learned a lot there.
In 2005, he started his own fruit farm.   42 , Li Dong’s farm was small. But now, his farm is much   43 . His fruits are very good. He sends them to many big   44  in China, such as Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. He also grows vegetables and raises chickens on his farm. His family eats very   45  food. He has a very happy family.

A young man and an old man were waiting for a bus at a station. They sat _1__ each other. “What’s that in your bag?” asked the young man, pointing to a big bag beside the ___2__.
“Money, nothing but money,” answered the old man. The young man could ___3___ believe his own ears. “What?” he said to himself in surprise. “So much money? My God! How I __4__ to be able to get so much money!” Then he began to think about how to get the money.
The old man ___5__ tired and it seemed that he could hardly keep his eyes open. “Are you tired, sir?” asked the young man.  “Then you’d better lie down on the ___6____ and have a good rest.  Don’t worry about ___7___. I’ll wake you up in time. ”
“All right . It’s very kind of you, young man. ” The old man lay down and ___8___ he fell asleep.
The young man took the big bag gently. ___9___ when he was just going to run away , he found a corner of his fur coat (皮衣) was ___10___ the old man’s body . Several times he tried to pull it out, but he couldn’t. At last he took off his ____11____ and went away with the bag.
The young man ran out of the station as quickly as his ___12___ could carry him, he reached a place, and there he thought the old man couldn’t ___13___ him, he stopped and quickly opened the bag.
To his surprise, there was ___14___ but old newspapers in it. He hurried to the station at once. But when he got there, he found the old man was ___15____