It was the golden season. I could see the yellow leaves    (1)   inthe cool   (2)   . In such a season, I liked walking alone in the leaves, listening to the sound of them. Autumn is a   (3)    season and life is uninteresting. The free days always make me   (4)   . But one day, the sound of a violin   (5)    into my ears like a stream flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I jumped to see what it was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was    (6)    in playing her violin. I had    (7)   seen her before. The music was so attractive that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn’t realize that I had been   (8)    there for so long but my   (9)    did not seem to disturb(打扰) her. Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin in the corner of the building.   (10)    I went downstairs to watch her performance, I was the only audience. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became    (11)   .  (12)    we didn’t know each other, I thought we were already good friends. I believed she also liked me. Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening devotedly, the sound suddenly stopped. To my    (13)   , the girl came over to me.

“You must like violin, ” she said.

“Yes. And you play very well. Why did you stop?” I asked.

Suddenly, a    (14)    expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.

“I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played very badly. It was your listening every day that   (15)   me. ” she said.

Lisa is thirteen years old.   (1)  lives（居住）in Beijing. Beijing is very big and you need a   (2)  to find your way（路）. The stores there are big and good. You can  (3)   everything there.

Tomorrow is Lisa’s birthday and she will have a   (4)  . Today she needs to   (5)   something.

Lisa’s good friend, Martha, is   (6)  , too. She wants to buy a birthday gift for Lisa. She   (7)  Lisa likes music, so she’ll give her a   (8)  . Martha doesn’t have much money,   (9)   she’s lucky（幸运的）.The music shop near her school is   (10)   sale. She’ll go there and get it.

As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize, or they can be   (1)  . You may just want to become  (2)   of the ten best students in your class.

Once you find a   (3)  , what do you do with it? Do you ever   (4)  to make your dream real?

"Follow Your Heart" by Australian writer Andrews   (5)   us that making our dreams real is life’s   (6)   challenge（挑战）.

   You may think you’re not very good   (7)   some school subjects, or that it is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop  (8)  from getting to your dream, the book says.

In fact, everyone can   (9)   his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to   (10)   what your dream is.

Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come truefaster.

There will   (11)   difficulties on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from   (12)  . You need to decide what is the most   (13)   . Studying instead of（代替）watching TV will lead to（导致）  (14)    exam results. When you get closer   (15)  your dream, it may change a little. This is good as you have the chance to learn more skills and find new interests.

I’m Andy. This ismy room. It’s nice and   (1)   . Look! A blue T-shirt is on the bed. It’s not mine. It’s my    (2)   . He is my uncle’s son. Five math books are in the bookcase. I like math  (3)    my math teacher, Mr. Miller, is great fun. He always   (4)  me with math. A soccer ball is under the chair. I   (5)    it at Mr. Green’s Store. My mother likes to go there. She can buy things   (6)   very good prices. You can see a photo on my desk. My friend Dale and   (7)    are in it. Soccer is our favorite   (8)   . We always play it for one hour every day. Here

   (9)  a brown sofa.     (10)   is that on my sofa? It is my dog Doubao. Don’t sleep(睡觉) on it, Doubao! It is my sofa, not your bed!

Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois. He started his career as a   (1)   in a newspaper office in Kansas City Star   (2)   eighteen. After the United States entered the World War I, he  (3)   an ambulance driver. One day, he got hurt and had to be in   (4)  . After he returned to the United States, he became a reporter (记者) for   (5)   and went to Europe.

   Later, Hemingway was in Paris.   (6)   he was American, the people in France didn't receive him. He  (7)   this in his work, The Sun Also Rises (1926).

   Hemingway  (8)   his experiences as a reporter during the Spain Civil War (西班牙内战). He wrote his novel, For whom the Bell Tolls (1940), about his experiences. Among his later works, the most   (9)   is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952). The story is about an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle (搏斗)  (10)   a fish and the sea.

   Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.

 Good morning, boys and girls. This is my   (1)  . It is very tidy. On my desk, you can see some  (2)  books. I often read these English books with my mother. I think they are  (3)  . like sports, too. And   (4)  is my favorite. I have four tennis balls under my bed.    (5)  class, often   (6)   it with my classmates.    (7)  is on my sofa? It's my dog. The   (8)   of the dog is Coco. It's my good friend. That is my blue skirt. My mother   (9)   it for my birthday. It's very mice. On the table, you can see some bread, mike and an apple. They're my  (10)  . I must have them now. Do you like my room?

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、O四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

   Do students in other countries also have so much homework? What do they do in their spare time? On April 8, a ____  (1)  ____ wrote out on the lives of high school students in China, Japan, South Korea and the US. You will find the answers ____  (2)  __ many of your questions in this report.

   Who studies hardest?

   Chinese students spend the most time ____  (3)  ___. Nearly half of Chinese students spend more than two hours ____  (4)  ____ their homework every day. That's much ____  (5)  ____ than the students of the US (26.4%), Japan (8.2%) and South Korea (5.2%).

   Who sleeps most often in class?

   ____  (6)  ___ students fall asleep in class more often, about 45% of them say they sometimes doze off (打瞌睡) in class. In South Korea, it's 32%, in the US, 21%, and 5% in China.

   Who is the most distracted (分心的)?

   American students are the most ___（7）___ in class, but also the most distracted: 64% say they chat with their friends in class; 46.9% say they eat snacks in class; and 38.9% say they send e-mails or read some books which have nothing to do with their ___（8）___ in class.

   ____  (7)  ____ do they do in after school?

   In their ___（10）___ time, most Chinese students study or surf the Internet. Most American students spent a lot of time staying with their friends. Most Japanese students do physical exercises. Most South Korean students watch TV.

Animals are our friends. We should try to protect them. I like animals. Do you like  (1)  ? What's your favorite animal? Let me  (2)  you what animals our family members like. My father likes the   (3)   very much. He thinks the tiger is strong(强壮) and the king of the beasts(兽中之王). My favorite animal is the panda. The panda is  (4)  China. She is very cute. She likes  (5)   bamboo, I   (6)   the tiger. I think the tiger is too scary(可怕的). My mother likes animals, too. She keeps some  (7)  , ducks and pigs in our yard(院子). The chickens and ducks can lay eggs. They like to  (8)  around in the yard. But the pigs don't like to walk. They like to   (9)  very much. And they also like to eat. They sleep and eat a lot. My grandparents keep some cows and   (10)  . After breakfast, my grandfather takes them out and goes back home in the afternoon. We all like to make friends with animals.

I once had a teacher whose husband died suddenly of heart attack. About a week after his death, she __  (1)  __ some of her thoughts with a classroom of students. As the late afternoon sunlight shone __  (2)  __ the classroom windows, and when the class was nearly over, she moved a few things aside on the edge of her desk and __  (3)  __.

With a gentle look on her face, she paused and said, “__  (4)  __ class is over, I’d like to share with all of you a deep __  (5)  __ which I feel is very important. Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate and give of ourselves. __  (6)  __ of us knows when this fantastic experience will end. It can be taken away at any moment. __  (7)  __ this is the Godˈs way of telling us that we must make the most of every single day.”

Her eyes were beginning to water, but she __  (8)  __, “So I would like you all to make me a __  (9)  __: From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to enjoy. It doesnˈt have to be __  (10)  __ you see. It could be a smell of freshly baked bread floating out of someone’s house, or it could be the sound of the soft __  (11)  __ rustling (使发出沙沙声) the leaves in the trees... Please look for these things, and appreciate them, for at any time __  (12)  __ can all be taken away...” The class was completely __  (13)  __. We all picked up our books and went out of the room __  (14)  __. That afternoon, I observed many more beautiful things on my way home from school than usual.

Remember: Life is not __  (15)  __ by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

I used to hunt and have killed quite a few deer. There was great  (1)  in waiting and shooting.

One cold morning in winter, I went alone to a hillside. I carried my gun and three thick sandwiches. I found a natural hiding place. It was pretty cold, but I had  (2)   clothing on. I sat there waiting for one hour. Nothing showed. The place was really  (3)  .

Suddenly, a beautiful buck(雄鹿) appeared. Surely I couldn’t  (4)   it. I must wait for him to realize I was there. I waited for him to  (5)  with a start (惊吓).

To my surprise, he came towards me! He was curious, I suppose. He must have known about men and their  (6)  which would kill him. But he walked right up where I was sitting. Then he stopped and looked at me! I was getting a bit  (7)  now. A big buck can do a lot of damage.

What happened next was hard to believe. But it all seemed quite natural. I reached up and scratched(抚摸) his head. And he  (8)  it. That big, wild, beautiful buck bent his head.

I scratched his body and fed him my last sandwich. Then he went his way, down the hill. I just watched him go--a strong buck carrying a proud head.

I picked up my gun and started walking back.   (9)  , I heard the shots—two of them. If you’ve hunted enough you know two shots mean a(n)(10). I had forgotten that there were other hunters around.

I decided to give up hunting from that day on.