One night I was sitting in my room half-listening as my 15-year-old brother Tommy fought with my 12-year-old brother Kevin. I didn’t pay attention when Kevin rushed up the stairs with the hurt on his face.
About 20 minutes later, as I was walking upstairs I heard Kevin crying inside the bathroom. I knocked on the door and asked, “Hey Kevin, do you want to talk?”
No answer.
I tried again, “Why don’t you come out of there?”
Again, no answer.
So, joking around, I grabbed a stack of （一摞）cards and a pencil and wrote, “If you don’t want to talk, we can write notes to each other.”
An hour later I was still sitting on the floor outside the bathroom with two stacks of cards in front of me. One was blank and one was cards from Kevin on which he had translated all his yucky feelings into words for me. As I read one of Kevin’s notes, tears came to my eyes. It said, “Nobody in this family cares about me. I’m not the youngest, and I’m not the oldest. Tommy thinks I’m silly and Dad wishes he had the other Kevin as a kid because he’s better at basketball. And you’re never around to even notice me.”
Tears came to my eyes as I wrote back to him. “You know Kevin, I really do love you and I’m sorry I don’t always show it. I am here for you and you are loved in this family.”
There was no answer for a while, but then I heard a tearing sound coming from inside the bathroom. Kevin, who had run out of cards wrote on a torn paper cup. “Thanks.”
I wrote back “For what?” it returned to me with “Loving me” on it.
Since then, I try my best to never only half-notice my family members any more. Kevin and I have a closer relationship now. And sometimes when one of us notices that the other is upset, we’ll smile and say “Write it on a paper cup.”
【小題1】The underlined word “yucky” most probably means ____.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，用方框中所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填空。每詞限用一次。

從方框中選出單詞，用它們的適當(dāng)形式填空，是短文意思正確通順（每詞只能用一次）

help  please  money  sell  right   wrong   one   they   so   teach   but   high

George Wilson was the owner of a watch shop .One day he told his son James, “I will  1   you all I know about watches .” For the  2 few weeks , James looked after the front of the shop . He wored hard and was 3  to the customers( 顧客). George was very 4  with him.

After about six months , James said to his father, “Is there anything else you want to teach me?”

“Yes,” said George , “ It’s time for me to teach you how to make  5 ..”

“I know that ,”said James, “You buy watches at one price and sell them at a  6   price.That’s how we get so much money .”

“That’s ture . 7  we don’t make most of the money from it .” He picked up a watch from the counter (柜臺(tái)). “What do you think of this watch?”

“That’s a cheep watch . We can only get a few dollars from 8  it .”

“You are 9, my son ,” George said , “Those cheap ones get us more money than any other watch in the shop.”

“I don’t understand,” James said .

“Becausa they are really cheap , they are always breaking, and we make our money from fixing 10.”

閱讀下列短文,根據(jù)短文中的信息完成文后表格。在標(biāo)有題號(hào)的橫線上，寫出空缺處所填單詞的正確形式。（每空一詞）
What do we really mean by being open? Being open is a kind of invitation to others to come in, to speak and to share. It is important in letting others get to know how we think and feel. In this way we will be understood and accepted by others. If we aren’t open with others, we won’t fully believe in ourselves or others.
Here are a few ways for you to be more open. First, make your outside behavior the same with your inside feelings and thoughts. Second, share how you really feel about something instead of just opinions. Third, try to change your questions into statements(陳述) and talk in the first person so that people will understand you more easily. For example, you might say, “I feel happy that you’re here,” instead of, “Are you glad that you’re here?” Finally, try not to say, “I don’t know.” This usually means I don’t want to think about it any more.
Remember also that it is not suitable to be open with everyone in every situation. You may want to be more open with close friends, but not with people you don’t know well, because you are not sure how someone else will use what they know about you. Besides, some people may not be used to too much openness. If we say everything we feel or think to them, they will feel very uncomfortable at times.
In all, being open is a good way for us to get on well with other people, but we’d better keep the balance between being open and not being too open.

閱讀短文，根據(jù)要求完成下面各小題。
Each year, many Chinese people go abroad because of all kinds of reasons. They are becoming younger and younger year by year. Even some Chinese parents send their children to foreign countries when they are only in a middle school. They think their children can get a wider view, less academic(學(xué)業(yè)) competition or family honor. But life can be hard for young people there. At first, they have to face the culture differences and language problems. However, these are not always the most difficult things to overcome(克服). To most children, controlling(管理) themselves well is a big challenge when studying alone in a strange country.
Yu Yang, a 15-year-old student from Guangdong Province studies in a high school in Toronto, Canada. 小題3To his surprise, his teachers there seldom push students to study hard. And usually there isn’t too much homework. Students have lots of free time to do some activities. Some of his friends spend their whole year’s money in the first two months of the new term. So they have to ask their parents for some more money.
On the one hand, studying abroad can help students learn foreign languages quickly and open up their eyes, but on the other hand, some children may feel lonely, become bad, lose themselves, etc. Many provlems may happen to them. These are different from their original thoughts.  小題4So parents should think them over before their children go abroad.
（一）根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容簡要回答問題。
【小題1】Why do Chinese parents send their children abroad?
                                                                          
【小題2】What do the students have to face in foreign countries at first?
                                                                          
（二）將短文中劃線的句子譯成漢語。
【小題3】                                                                   
【小題4】                                                                   
（三）請(qǐng)給短文擬一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)臉?biāo)題。
【小題5】