I can’t remember when I started collecting litter. But it was when I got tired of seeing litter nearby and ___1___ that no one else was going to pick it up.
I live near a forest in Ohio, America. I can walk there ___2___ three minutes. I used to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was ___3___ much litter there that I became very unhappy. I decided I had to clean up the forest. I wanted to feel happy ___4___ there again.
I __5___ my first trip to clean the forest that afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes after starting to pick up litter, my bag was ___6__! It had cans, bottles, broken glasses and newspapers in it. From then on, I went to the forest four times a year to pick up litter. I’m often there for three hours. It makes me feel ___7___ to do something for the environment.
After each trip, I look at all the litter that I’ve found. If ___8___ of it is recyclable(可回收的) , I keep it. I can’t understand ___9___ people drop litter. But I will keep picking it up until they stop dropping it. I know I am only doing a small bit to ___10___ the earth, but I still think it is important.

閱讀短文，然后根據(jù)內(nèi)容從Ａ、Ｂ、Ｃ、Ｄ中選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
With a determined(堅定的) look on his face, Chicago’s Michael McCarthy held on to the banister(扶手) and climbed to the top of the Willis Tower not long ago. The Tower stands 1,451 feet(442 meters) tall, the＿1＿ building in the US.
As he got to the last step, McCarthy ＿2＿ fell down, but that didn’t stop him. The 14-year-old boy finally finished climbing the 2,109 steps and arrived at the top, where he ＿3＿ cheers from many people.
“I just want to show people that ＿4＿ a kid with no legs can do it, anyone can do it,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy, who was born without legs, has to wear prosthetic legs(假肢) and use a stick to walk. But McCarthy has a strong 5 . He believes having a disability(殘疾) shouldn’t stop anyone 6  achieving his or her success.
He has been in a special school 7  he was four. When he decided to climb the Willis Tower, his teacher, Jeff Kohn, was   8  by his determination(決心) and offered to help train him. They   9  more than ten hours practicing climbing stairs and keeping balance with the prosthetics and sticks on the steps every day. “ 10  seems that he never knows how difficult it is. 11  I was so tired that I asked him to rest for a day,”said Kohn. “But he said he was still full of energy and wanted more 12 .”
Kohn always walked with McCarthy for the climb. “I   13  the last 10 floors, he went faster,” said Kohn. “He’s the most cravensportsmanI’ve ever trained.”
McCarthy said he was   14  of himself and that the tower now holds special meaning. “When I’m older, I’ll   15  to the building and say ‘Look at this building I climbed’,” he said.

Never try to work when you are very hungry. If you want to do your homework right after school, you may want to eat something before getting to work. ①Always do your homework before you get too tired. Don't wait until very late in the evening, or your homework will seem much harder than it really is.
If you have more than an hour's work，you should give yourself a break after an hour. On the other hand，② you should work at least half an hour a time without stopping.
Don't put it off（推遲）until the last minute. If you put off doing your homework，you will have it on your mind，and you won't enjoy your free time so much. If you put it off until the end of the week or until night before a test，you will have too much catching up to do. A little each night, enough to keep up with（跟上）what is happening each day in school，will take the fear out of tests and keep you on top of it.
Do your homework at the same time every day. This will help you make it a habit. It will make part of your daily work easier to do，and it will make your free time more enjoyable as well.
【小題1】改寫①句使句意不變。
_________ you get too tired, you should _______  doing your homework.
【小題2】What will happen if you put off your homework until the last minute?
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【小題3】請將短文中的②句翻譯成中文。
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In America, when people say “man’s best friend”, they don’t mean   1  person. Instead they are talking about a lovely animal: a dog! These words show the friendship between people and   2 . Dogs and other pets can give   3  to people’s lives. Some people think of their pets as their children. And some even leave all their money to their   4  when they die!
Animals can help people, too. Dogs can become the “  5  ” for a blind （瞎的）person or ears for a deaf（聾的）person. Pets can help people live   6 ! They make people  7 , too.
Americans hold “Be   8  to Animals Week”, the first week of May. There are pet shows during the week. Even if you don’t live in America, you, too, can do this. How? If you have a pet, spend   9  time this week playing with it. Remember to give it good   10 .
If you don’t have a pet, be kind to animals around you. If others around you do bad things to an animal, try to   11  them. As people, we must learn to treat animals as our   12  !

As young students ,you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big ,such as winning the Nobel Prize;they can also be small, such as becoming one of the best students in your class.
Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?
Andrew Matews, an Australian writer ,tells us that making your dreams real is life’s biggest challenge. You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that it’s impossible for you to become a writer. Those kinds of ideas stop you from realizing your dream.
In fact, everyone can realize his dream. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want  every day and then your dream will come true faster. You should know that a big dream is, in fact, made up of many small dreams.
You must also never give up your dream. There will be difficulties on the road to your dreams.But the biggest difficulty comes from you. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of watching TV will help you to get better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book.
As you get closer to your dream, it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn something more useful and find new hobbies.
【小題1】The biggest difficulty on the road to your dreams comes from_____________.

Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四腳朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out to do .”
【小題1】What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?

Dear Alice，
You really have two different questions here，so we’ll discuss them one at a time．
Your problems at school may be a result of a number of things．You don’t say much about how these classmates get along with each other．It’s possible that all the students are feeling a little cautious(謹(jǐn)慎的) in the first term．
It’s also possible that the others are unkind．If this is so，you have to find out why you are the class “outsider．”
In your letter you say you often offer to help others with their work．Is it possible that your classmates don’t understand your offers? Could it seem that you were trying to“buy”friends with these offers?
Is it possible that you took no notice of your classmates when you had your good friend near you? They may have felt hurt at that time．It may take a time for them to believe in you if so．Try to ask one classmate directly what the problem is．If you hear a negative(負(fù)面的)answer，at least you’ll know what to do．
Yours truly，
Shelia
【小題1】From the letter we know that Alice was very______.

Chinese TV shows that describe young people's lives in modern society are crossing the cultural divide and attracting a lot of foreign audiences.
One of the examples is the Chinese TV series "A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era", a light comedy about a modern Chinese couple.
The TV series was first aired in Shanghai in November 2009. It was dubbed in Swahili and broadcast in east African countries in 2011. Two Kenyan（肯尼亞人） actresses were chosen to do voice dubbing for the two leading roles in the African version of the series. It was a great success in Africa.
Tanzanians（坦桑尼亞人） say that they are able to understand how young Chinese people live happily in modern times and they may be able to find ways to solve their personal problems by watching the series.
Although China is one of the world's most prolific（多產(chǎn)的） producers of TV series, its series are not particularly popular overseas. The popularity of "A Beautiful Daughter-In-Law Era" may serve as an example for Chinese TV producers who want to bring their work to other countries.
In recent years, some TV series that show the lives of people in Chinese cities have achieved some success in the foreign market.
"Go Lala Go!," a TV series that details the adventures of a female office worker named Du Lala, has also started to reach global audiences. The series has been exported to Singapore, Malaysia, the United States and Canada.
"The Chinese dream will be more easily accepted by foreign audiences when it is manifested in small and touching stories," said Meng Jian, a professor at Fudan University.
【小題1】What can Tanzanians do by watching the Chinese TV series "A Beautiful Daughter-in-law Era"?

Life is like the four seasons. Now I am very old, but when I was young, it was the spring of my life. I was born, I played a lot, and then I started school. I learned many new things. Like a flower, I grew bigger every day. There were happy days and sorrowful days: some days the sun shone(閃耀), and some days it didn't.
In my twenties, I had a good job. I was strong and happy. Then I married and had a child. In those days, I didn't have much time to think. Every day I was busy and worked very hard. And so, I started to get some white hairs. The summer of my life passed quickly.
Then the days got shorter. Leaves fell from the trees. My child was a university student, and then an engineer. My home was much quieter. I started walking slowly. One day I stopped working. I had more time. I understood this was my autumn, a beautiful time when the trees change color and give us delicious fruits.
But the days kept getting shorter and colder. Winter has come, I am older and weaker. I know I do not have many days left. I will enjoy them to the end.
【小題1】The writer was very busy in the ______ of his life.
A. spring              B. summer                  C. autumn     
【小題2】According to the passage, which of the following ages is during the autumn of his life?
A. 87                  B. 33                       C. 62 
【小題3】What does the word “sorrowful” mean in this passage?
A. sad                 B. exciting                C. wonderful
【小題4】Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The writer had a garden with flowers.
B. The writer was always happy as a child.
C. The writer now is old and weak, but still he enjoys his life.
【小題5】The best title for the passage would be _____
A. Four seasons    B. My life      C. Four seasons in my life

The day is like any other day in his life. Tom walks past the shop on the street corner. He stops to look at the front row of shoes, and he feels happy to see that the pair of shoes he wants very much is still there. Looking down at his old shoes, he feels sorry for himself. He really wants to have them for his birthday.
He sadly walks away and thinks how to tell his mother about it. He knows very well she has little money. He decides not to go home at once , as he looks sad and his mother will notice(注意) it. So he goes to the park and sits on the grass. There he sees a boy moving a wheelchair（輪椅）with his hands . Tom looks at him and is surprised to see that the boy has no feet. He looks at his own feet. “It’s much better to be without shoes than without feet”, he thinks. There is no reason or him to feel so sorry and sad. He goes away and smiles, thinking he is happier.
【小題1】Tom passes the shop ______.