完形填空 (共15小題；每小題l分，計15分)
Everybody wants a new start for a new school year. So, students often go back-to-school shopping. They buy___1___and shoes. But, the story is not so easy.
"Mum, I want this pair of shoes!"
"Dear! Those are 900 yuan! That is too __2___ !"
"But all the boys in my class wear this brand (牌子)!"
So the real story is: Kids___3____to catch up with school fashion.
Chinese students __4___ uniforms at school. Parents think all the kids look the same, but _5___ know the differences. The "rich" kids wear amazing watches, ride good __6___ and use cool pencil cases. They show off their expensive things to __7__ kids. Then everyone else wants them too. For example, some "rich" kids use a pencil box that __8___1,000 yuan! It not only holds pencils, but also has a thermometer (溫度計), a compass (指南針), a music box and even games in it! But think about it. Do you really need ____9___ a special pencil box? What can you do with a compass ___10____a thermometer in class? They only distract (分散注意) you.
As for these "rich" kids, they are not rich at all. __11___ parents buy them all their cool things. They may have an advantage（優(yōu)勢）now, ____12___ it won't last forever. If you want to show off ___13___ money you have, you have to make it yourself first. So, study hard. You will get a great job in the future.
Parents should also learn __14____to refuse (拒絕) their kids' demands (要求). They should __15__their kids: as students, what is really important is not school fashion but good school grades.

Have you ever planted a few trees on Tree Planting Day? Each year, millions of people, both 41.______, plant a lot of trees. But this may not be the best way to make your home a 42._____ place.
Last week we visited a park in Hebei. We were 43._____ to find most of the trees had been burned. The workers told us that the trees 44._____ soon after they were planted because they weren’t watered well enough. 45._____ workers burned them and cleaned the place for 46._____ trees to be planted this year. 47.______ a card found in one of the dead trees, a student wrote,” I hope this tree will grow up with me to 48.______ the backbone (棟梁) of our country.” The workers said that the survival (存活) of the trees was really more important than 49.______ trees were planted.
Some people in Beijing now have a new idea that they can donate (捐贈) some money and let professional (專業(yè)人士) plant and 50.______ the trees.

John is a famous writer now.But he said he was not a   【小題1】  student when he was young.He was often late for    【小題2】  and didn’t like doing his homework.
Sometimes, he slept in class while the teacher was teaching.He didn’t understand much,   【小題3】 he always thought he understood everything.One day the teacher 【小題4】  the students a question, ‘When Jack was ten years old,  【小題5】 brother Bob was twenty.Jack is fifteen now and   【小題6】  is his brother Bob?’ John said, ‘ That’s easy.Bob is twice as old as Jack.So he is now thirty.’
Another time, the   【小題7】  in a science class asked, ‘ When it thunders（打雷）,   【小題8】  do we always see the light before we   【小題9】  the sound?’ ‘But, Miss,’ said John quickly.‘ Don’t you    【小題10】 our eyes are in front of our ears?’

A nurse took a tired soldier to an old man , “Your son is here ,” she told the old man. The old man could hardly  1 the young soldier clearly. He reached out his 2 .The soldier held the old man’s hand. The nurse brought a chair so that he could sit  3 the bed. All through the night, the young soldier sat there   4  the old man’s hand. Now and then he heard him say a few words. The dying man said 5 . He only held his son’s hand tightly all through the night.
The next morning, the old man died. The soldier freed his hand and went to  6  the nurse .While the nurse did  7 she had to do, he waited. Then he asked her, “Who was that man?”
The nurse was  8“Wasn’t he your father?” she said.
“No, he wasn’t”, the soldier answered.” I 9 saw him before.”
“Then  10 didn’t you say anything when I took you to  11 ?”
“I knew right away there had been a  12 , and I also knew he needed his son ,_13  his son just wasn’t here. When I found that he was too  14 to tell whether or not I was his son, I knew  15 he needed me, I stayed.