One day, a boy found the cocoon(繭) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small   41  in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make   42  body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped.

So the boy   43  to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be   44 .He took a pair of scissors(剪刀) and cut the hole   45 .The butterfly came out of the cocoon but it  46 

a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin   47 .The butterfly didn’t start to fly. In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling(爬行) around with a weak body and thin wings. It was never able to fly.

The boy acted with   48  but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawls out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of  49  out of the cocoon makes the fluid(液體) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be  50  to fly. If the butterfly never has to squeeze(擠壓) itself out of the cocoon, its wings will never get the fluid and it can never fly.

  51  struggles are what we need in our lives. If we lived our lives without any problems, we would never learn or grow. We would not be  52  we could have been and we would never fly.

In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even   53  growth, without it , there’s no way of life. We can’t avoid   54   or problems. So, next time you are   55 a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little—then fly!

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Last Sunday,  21  the charity show, Ricky helped the organizers because he wanted to  22 money for Project Hope. He is  23 busy that he had no time to write to Kitty. He felt happy when he  24  to be host. At the same time, he felt nervous because of the TV cameras.
They started to work on the show two months  25  . Ricky’s job was   26 each famous star. He 27 sleep at all that night before the show. He kept asking  28   , “Will it be      29 ?”In fact, the show was a success. They raised  30 money.

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At least thirty times Bobby had tried to climb the snowy mountain, but he had never   36   the top. His friend old Peeper, who knew a lot about his failures,  37  Bobby to try again. He gave Bobby a pair of sunglasses and said, “If it starts clouding over, put on the glasses, or if your feet start hurting, put them on too. The glasses are very 38 . They’ll help you.” Bobby received the gift without much thought.

The day came when he was to have another   39 . About two hours after he started, he felt his feet hurting. Then he  40 what Peeper had said, and put on the glasses. The pain was pretty bad, but   41  the sunglasses he could clearly see the snow-covered mountain top, so he went on.

  42 , clouds were gathering. But this time Bobby could still see the  43 through the clouds. He kept climbing , leaving the clouds behind, forgetting his pain, and finally arriving at the top. It was certainly worth it. His feeling of   44  was extremely good, almost as great as that  45 view. The mountain below was surrounded by a sea of clouds. He couldn’t believe that the clouds were as thick as that, so he looked more closely at the sunglasses, and discovered the  46  . Peeper had engraved (鐫刻) the snow-covered mountain top on the sunglasses,  47  Bobby could see it when he was looking upwards!

Bobby __48  that the only difficulty to reaching the top had been losing   49  when he couldn’t see the mountain top. He was thankful that Peeper had used that little trick to help him see that his   50   was never impossible, and that it was still there, where it had always been.

1.                A．left            B．reached        C．jumped   D．ran

2.                A．encouraged     B．ordered        C．a(chǎn)llowed   D．warned

3.                A．real           B．safe            C．special   D．expensive

4.                A．try            B．start           C．test  D．training

5.                A．remembered    B．expressed       C．shouted  D．regretted

6.                A．under          B．with           C．for  D．a(chǎn)bout

7.                A．Happily         B．Hopefully       C．Unfortunately D．Luckily

8.                A．friend          B．top            C．climber   D．village

9.                A．success         B．decision        C．freedom  D．friendship

10.               A．strong         B．popular        C．bad  D．wonderful

11.               A．way           B．words          C．book D．secret

12.               A．a(chǎn)nd           B．or             C．if D．though

13.               A．suggested       B．realized        C．expected  D．hoped

14.               A．love           B．help           C．face  D．heart

15.               A．place          B．lesson          C．a(chǎn)im   D．story

If you had only three years left to live, how would you spend your time? It’s a hard question and few of us would even like to think about it. But 18-year-old Huang Ge has to answer this question and he says, “I want to thank the people who have helped me.”

At the age of one, Huang’s mother left the family. Six years later, he was badly ill. He has been using a wheelchair since 9 years old. Doctors said he would only live to 18.After Huang’s story went on TV, hundreds of people sent money to help him. The boy was so moved that he decided to thank every one of them. But he has to be tied to his wheelchair. And the family can only afford a three-wheeled motorcycle(三輪摩托). Since 2003, the father and son have traveled 14,000 kilometers, to 10 provinces, and thanked more than 30 helpers.          

“I am moved by the story of the boy. We need the courage to face death, and we should also show our gratefulness to those who help us,” says an online post on CCTV. com.

1._________, Huang Ge started to use a wheelchair.

A．When he was 9 years old                 B．When he was 18 years old

C．When he was 10 years old                D．When he was 6 years old

2.Huang and his father took a _________to thank the helpers.

A．train             B．ship              C．motorcycle        D．bus

3.The underlined word “gratefulness” means _______________

A．誠信             B．奉獻(xiàn)             C．寬容             D．感謝

4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Hundreds of people sent money to help him.

B．Huang Ge’s mother left the family.

C．Huang Ge and his father have thanked more than 30 helpers.

D．Huang Ge was badly ill at the age of one.

5.Which is the best title for the passage?

A．A Great Success                        B．An Interesting Trip

C．A Grateful Heart                        D．A TV Show

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Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest. She had no family and no one to love her. So she often   1  sad and lonely.

One day, when she was walking in the forest, she found that a small   2  was trapped unluckily in a bush. The butterfly tried to fly away   3  failed. The kind little girl saved the butterfly with great care. Instead of flying away, the butterfly turned   4  a beautiful fairy (仙女). The little girl was very   5 .

“Thank you for   6  me. You are so kind. I will make any of your dreams come true.” said the fairy.

The little girl thought for a moment and then said, “I want to be  7 !”

The fairy said, “Very well. I will help you.” And she said something in the little girl’s ear. Then the fairy disappeared.

As the kind little girl grew up, she was   8  ready to help people in need and was popular among the villagers. No one in the village was as happy as she was. Everyone asked her the   9  of ther happiness. She always smiled and   10 , “The secret of my happiness is that I listened to a kind   11  when I was a little girl.”

When the kind girl became a very old woman and was dying, the neighbours in the   12  all gathered (聚攏) around her bed because they were   13  that her secret of happiness would die with her. They asked, “Please tell us what the kind fairy said.”

The lovely old woman still   14  and said, “She told me that everyone needed me, no matter how safe they seemed, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how old or   15 . She said that helping others would make me happy all my life.”

1.                A．thought        B．found          C．sounded  D．felt

2.                A．butterfly        B．bird            C．snake    D．squirrel

3.                A．so             B．or             C．but  D．a(chǎn)s

4.                A．on            B．up             C．into D．down

5.                A．surprised       B．tired           C．mad D．a(chǎn)ngry

6.                A．catching        B．beating         C．killing    D．saving

7.                A．a(chǎn)ctive          B．happy          C．energetic D．humorous

8.                A．a(chǎn)lways         B．never          C．seldom   D．hardly

9.                A．success         B．secret          C．power    D．lesson

10.               A．a(chǎn)sked          B．hoped         C．a(chǎn)nswered  D．refused

11.               A．witch          B．fairy           C．ghost D．princess

12.               A．village         B．town           C．city   D．world

13.               A．excited         B．pleased        C．glad  D．a(chǎn)fraid

14.               A．shouted        B．cried          C．smiled D．jumped

15.               A．young          B．great          C．nice  D．quiet