（1）.My mother told me a good friend is like a mirror.（2）我比大多数的孩子更安静、更认真。That's why I like reading books and I study harder in class. My best friend Yuan Li is quiet, too, so we enjoy study together.（3）.I am shy so it's not easy for me to make friends. But I think friends are like books—you don't need a lot of them as long as they are good.

   It's not necessary to be the same.（4）.我最好的朋友拉里与我不相同。He is taller and more outgoing than me. We both like sports, but he plays tennis better, so he always wins.（5）.However, Larry helps to bring out the best in me. So I'm getting better at tennis. Larry is much less hard-working, though. I always get better grades than he does, so maybe I should help him more.

Passage Five

Mary Donaldson is worried about her 16-year-old daughter. Sophia. Six months ago, Sophia came back from a party, upset and unhappy. From then on，(1)she thinks of nothing but how to lose weight and become beautiful. She refuses to eat and keeps on doing exercise. (A)Sophia had always been a little heavy, so when he decided to go on a diet, Mary encouraged her. (2)She felt that her daughter would look more attractive if she loses 10 kilograms. However, Sophia has lost over 20 kilograms until now. Her eating and exercising habits are having a harmful effect on her health. She is too thin and is often sick.

Her mother is trying to prevent her from going on a diet and losing weight, but Sophia thinks that she is still too heavy and refuses to start eating as usual. Sophia's mind is full of the idea of looking like a model. (B)Every day she goes to a club to do exercise. When she is not there, she spends her time reading magazines like Fashion & Beauty (《时尚与美》). The models in these magazines are very thin and beautiful. Sophia says. "If I look like these models, I will be happy."

(C)Mary doesn't know how to help (3)her daughter. She feels sorry for having encouraged her at first, because Sophia no longer feels good or pleased with her body. She's afraid that Sophia will never be happy if she keeps comparing herself with the models in the magazines. (D) Common people are not supposed to look like models. The most ordinary face becomes (4)beautiful when the person behind it is filled with confidence, wisdom and the joy of life.

阅读下面短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

At the age of 17, pianist Lang Lang had already shown himself to be an artist of maturity（成熟）well beyond his age.

In October, 1998, he made his USA debut（首场演出）with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy. The response（反响）was immediate: The Chicago press（新闻界）called him “a phenomenal talent”. (83) This young pianist was born in Shenyang, China.

Lang Lang began his musical studies at the age of three at the Music College of Shenyang under Professor Zhu Yafen. In 1993, he entered the Central Conservatory of Music. Four years later, he was accepted by the well-known Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and he studies with Gary Graffman, one of the outstanding pianists of this century.

He has won many international prizes. He will have a bright future. We Chinese are proud of him. (84)He shows the world how great Chinese are.

A.根据短文内容简要回答问题。

When we got to my Dad’s home，we found Dad still coughed a lot，but his smile was as sure as ever. He was sick. My husband and I stayed with him for the weekend，we had to return to our jobs on Monday. But I wanted to let him know that we also cared about him，even when we weren’t with him.

Then I remembered when our children were small. Before leaving their grandparents’ home after a visit，each child would write a love note to their grandparents. For days，their grandparents would smile as they read these notes of love.

So when I cleaned Dad’s kitchen and made the bed for him, I wrote some notes. Some were like this，“Dad，I put the food in the fridge.”  Some were like this，“Dad，I hope you will sleep well in your new bed.” Most notes were put downstairs he would stay for several weeks when he was. But I put one note upstairs under his pillow(枕头), “If you have found this note, you must be feeling better. We are so glad!”

These notes helped improve his health. A few weeks later, I asked Dad how he was doing on the phone. He said, “Much better. I just found your note under my pillow upstairs!”

任务型阅读：根据短文内容，填写下列空格，每格只填一词。

♦ The writer's father was   (1)   at that time.

♦ The writer   (2)   to her job after she stayed with her father for the   (3)  .

♦ When their children were small, each child wrote a love   (4)   to their grandparents.

♦ The writer wanted to let her father know that they also  (5)   about him.

♦ A few weeks later, when the writer called her father, she knew he felt much   (6)   .

  Last year you may listen to EXO or One Direction, now you see TFboys everywhere. They came out lat year, but the number of their fans on Sina Weibo has reached over 12 million.

  TFboys has three members. Wang Junkai, 16, and Wang Yuan, 15, are from Chongqing, and Yi Yangqianxi, 15, is from Hunan. 71. 这三个男孩都擅长唱歌跳舞。

  They had several years of training before their first show. 72. During weekdays, the three boys went to school and studied for exams like other kids. But during weekends, they had to practice singing, dancing and acting. 73. It was not easy, but the three boys did a good job. What’s more, they are all top students at school.

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  Yi is also a top student. He has a busy life. Besides training, he also acts in movies and TV shows. But he is still able to win award in calligraphy competitions. How can he be good at so many things ?

  “ I’d practice dancing while others were playing, ” he said.

  Many people say that TFboys has become popular only because of their cute looks. 75. But it is their talent and hard work that make their dreams come true.

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  I was fifteen months old and a happy kid until the day I fell. It was a terrible fall and my eyes were____41____(严重地) hurt. Trying to____42____(挽救) my eyes, mum found a good doctor . He said that my sight was lost but he would try to____43____(把……留下) my eyeballs with me. So when I walked with my face looking at the floor, people would not see my blind eyes. However, when the kids played games, I was always____44____(单独的). Sometimes I ____45____(隐藏) myself in my room. At that time mum encouraged me, "If you hold your head up high, it will be okay."

     In high school I was ____46____(成功的) and I was even elected____47____(班长) of our class. But Sometimes I still felt lonely. When things got really terrible, I would____48____(哭) to mum and she would look at me lovingly and said, "Hold your head up high and____49____(面对) the world. Let them see the beauty that is inside."

     Now in my home we often say "Hold your head up high". The____50____.(礼物) from my mum has passed down to my children. I think we will live with it forever.

He comes from a small village far from any big town. He is the son of a farmer. He is Wu Yulu, a common     61     (invent) from a village.

    Even when he was a child, he took a great interest     62     robots. He made his first mini-electrical machine at the age of 8. He worked on robots all day. Local villagers thought Wu Yulu was crazy.       63      , he never gave up his dream. He  spent most of his time on robots with different     64      (skill) and didn't care about farming.

So far, he      65     (create) more than thirty robots. Some clean, some wash the dishes, and      66     pour water, light cigarettes or serve food.

      “I will never stop     67     (make) robots and I'm glad that I have kept on.”said Wu Yulu. “In 2009, I    68     (invite) to an exhibition(展览) in Shijiazhuang with my robots. I am     69     (pride) that my robots were on show along with Shenzhou VII. ”

Influenced by Wu Yulu, his son Wu Wangyang loves robots, too. He is so crazy about robots    70    he always loses himself in his inventions. In the future, he and his father Wu Yulu will surely invent more useful robots.

One day a girl found two starving(快要饿死的)songbirds while she was walking in the woods. She took them home and put them in a small cage.(A)She cared them with love and the birds grew stronger. Every morning they greeted her with a wonderful song. The girl felt great love for the birds. One morning the girl left the door to the cage open. The larger of the two birds flew from the age. The girl was so frightened that he would flyaway. As the flew close, she caught him tightly in her hands. Her heart felt glad at her success in catching him. When she(B)________her hands she stared at the dead bird. Her deep love had killed(C)him.

    She could feel the bird's great need for freedom. He needed to fly in the clear, blue________(D).she let the other bird fly out of the cage. He circled once, twice. three times.

    Her heart was no longer concerned with her loss. She wanted the bird to be happy. Suddenly the bird flew closer and landed softly on her shoulder. It(E)唱动听的歌that she had never heard.

The fast way to lose love is to hold it tightly. the best way to keep love is to give it wings.