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I stood in my grandmother’s garden with my son. He had a bottle of bubbles. You know the _______: it’s mainly soapy water with a plastic loop on one end. You dip ( 浸 ) the loop in the bottle, pull it out, and blow it to make bubbles. My son dipped and dipped and blew and blew but _______ to blow bubbles. He handed me the bottle and loop and asked me, “Daddy, can you make bubbles?”
I hadn’t blown bubbles in years. But I am a chemist by education. I have developed several shampoos, so I _______ the science of bubbles.
But all that knowledge was _______ useless when trying to blow bubbles from a loop with soapy water. I had no more success than my son.
I would dip and blow, but there were no bubbles; the soapy film on the loop would just _______ without forming any bubbles.
After several attempts (尝试), I tried a _______ method. Instead of blowing on the loop of soapy water, I gently breathed on it. My son cried with pleasure as a big beautiful bubble formed and _______ away.
I _______ to him, “Son, you shouldn’t blow hard. Instead, you should breathe gently on the loop to make bubbles.”
He gave up trying to make big bubbles by blowing hard and _______ my advice. Big bubbles.
There are some things that you can get with force, but there are other things like love and respect that only come with the gentleness of a soft breath. The _______ something is to higher spirit, the more it is like bubbles; it can’t be forced. Blow beautiful bubbles; breathe easy.
1.A.type B.colour C.size D.standard
2.A.tried B.failed C.learned D.managed
3.A.believe B.realize C.discover D.understand
4.A.hardly B.nearly C.completely D.partly
5.A.fly B.change C.break D.rise
6.A.simple B.traditional C.popular D.different
7.A.floated B.dropped C.jumped D.pushed
8.A.explained B.shouted C.announced D.complained
9.A.offered B.refused C.followed D.needed
10.A.farther B.smaller C.closer D.more
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My grandmother said that the old house with a garden ______ 50 years ago.
A. built B. had built C. was built D. is built
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— My father spends lots of time ________ with my grandmother on weekends.
— Really? He is a good son.
A. saying B. listening C. chatting D. singing
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Mr Green is my uncle. He has a house with a big garden. He has some apple trees in his garden. He looks after them. Now there are many apples on the trees and my uncle is very happy.
One afternoon when he looks out of the window，he sees a boy in a red T-shirt in his apple tree. He opens the window and shouts，“Hey，what are you doing there? Come down and get away. Or I’ll go to see your father.”
The boy is not afraid of my uncle at all.“Dad,” he looks up and shouts，“Mr Green wants to see you.” My uncle smiles，“Ha，it’s my son，Dave.”
1.Mr Green has a .
A. big apple B. big house C. big garden D. big son
2.Mr Green is very happy because .
A. he has a garden B. he has a son
C. there are many apples on the trees now D. his son is smart
3.One afternoon Mr Green .
A. sees some birds in his apple trees B. sees a boy in his apple tree
C. cleans the window D. climbs up the apple tree
4.From this passage we know Mr Green’s son .
A. wears a red T-shirt B. helps him clean the window
C. is a middle school student D. likes apples
5.Which is RIGHT?
A. Mr Green doesn’t like his apple trees.
B. Mr Green’s son is under the apple tree.
C. Mr Green’s son helps him open the window.
D. The boy in the apple tree isn’t afraid of Mr Green.
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Today is Mark’s birthday, and he ________ a big party with his family in the garden now.
A.had B.is having C.has had D.was having
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My crippled（瘸腿的）grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway, looking at her beautiful movements, completely . Do you know she'd had her accident. I had read that in an old newspaper article．
‘‘So．．．Your leg? I mean, did your leg heal(治愈)?"
“To tell you the truth my legs have been well all my life,” she said．
“But I don't understand!” I said, “Your dancing career．．．You all these years?”
‘‘Very much so, and for a very good .”
She thought for a while and then continued. “Your grandfather and I were talking about engagement（订婚） he had to go to war. I was so afraid of losing him that the only way I could stay normal was to dance. I put all my heart practicing and I became very good. The public loved me, but all I could feel worried about not knowing whether the love of my life would return. One day a letter came, There w
ere only three sentences: “I have lost my leg. I am no longer a man and now give you back your freedom. It is best you forget about me.”
“I made my decision there and then. I traveled away from the city. When I returned I had bought a stick. I told everyone I had been in a car crash and that my leg would never completely heal agai
n. No one doubted the story l had learned to limp（一瘸一拐地走）. And I made sure the first person to hear of my accident was a I knew well. Then I went to the hospital. The nurses pushed your grandfather outside in his ．I took a deep breath, leaned on my stick and limped to him.”
I showed him newspaper articles of my accident. “There is a whole life waiting for us out there! But I am not going to you. You are going to walk yourself.”
I limped a few steps toward him and showed him what I'd taken out of my pocket. “Now show me you are a man.” I said．He bent to take his stick from the ground and struggled(挣扎) out of that wheelchair．He managed it on his own and walked to me and never sat in a wheelchair in his life.”
“What did you show him?” I had to know. Grandma looked at me and smiled. “Two engagement rings, of course. I had bought them the day he left for the war and I was not going to waste them on any other man.”
1.A. dropped B. defeated C. shocked D. pleased
2.A. How B. What C. Why D. Who
3.A. predicted B. pretended C. prepaired D. preferred
4.A. reason B. excuse C. effect D. result
5.A. where B. while C. when D. since
6.A. with B. into C. for D. from
7.A. just B. almost C. ever D. even
8.A. sad B. half C. rich D. whole
9.A. myself B. himself C. ourselves D. youself
10.A. doctor B. reporter C. visitor D.leader
11.A. way B. sunglass C. car D.wheelchair
12.A. take B. fetch C. carry D. bring
13.A. hardly B. still C. also D. never
14.A. again B. about C. above D. along
15.A.though B. unless C. until D. after
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My son has been in hospital again,this time with an emergency（急症）. From our local health center he was ______ in an ambulance（救护车）to hospital which is just over an hour away from there.
In this country most ambulances are driven by firemen and this was the ______ . One fireman drove,and the other was in the back ______ me and my son. He started talking with my son as soon as he sat down next to me. He first asked my son whether he'd prefer English or Portuguese.
When my son said ______ of them,the fireman requested speaking English ______my son could practice. Of course,that gave him a chance to draw my son's attention to offering "tuition(学费)"—It was just a joke. And the fireman talked on and off for the full ______ . He'd tried his best to keep my boy awake. And he did so skillfully that my son didn't ______ we were tearing （狂奔）along with lights flashing.
The back of an ambulance is an awful place,and I got ______ and had to open the window a little. It was very ______ ,so the fireman took his jacket off and covered it around my son.
These kind firemen stayed with us during check,and ______ left when I told them that my husband was on his way in the car.
I was so thankful for the firemen's help. They're heroes.
1.A.asked B.called C.sent D.hit
2.A.same B.different C.old D.new
3.A.among B.for C.by D.with
4.A.all B.either C.both D.none
5.A.as well as B.as long as C.so that D.even though
6.A.hour B.day C.week D.month
7.A.imagine B.remind C.forget D.realize
8.A.sadness B.sick C.worry D.joy
9.A.cold B.warm C.sunny D.cloudy
10.A.already B.yet C.ever D.only
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My son lives a little far from his office, so he always goes to work bus.
A. on B. by C. with D. in
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When my grandmother was 89 years old ,she was having problems with her heart. My family went with her to the doctor, who told her that she needed an operation. However, the doctor said that because of my grandmother’s age, the operation could be dangerous. He went on to say that my grandmother would have a 40% chance of having a heart attack（心脏病） and a 30% chance of dying during the operation.
My grandmother, shocked ,quickly stopped the doctor and said,“Doctor, as long as you’re talking about statistics（数据），I have a statistic for you: there is a 100% chance of you not operating one me !”With these words, my grandmother got up and left the doctor’s office.
My grandmother might have been stubborn, but she was not a fool. So the next day she went to another doctor, and he also told her she needed an operation.
My grandmother asked the doctor. “If I were your mother, what would you suggest?” The doctor walked up to her, smiled, put his arm around her and said, “Mom, let’s do this operation!” She had the operation and came out fine.
My grandmother passed away（去世）a few weeks before her 97th birthday. However, because of her positive attitude（积极的态度）,she gave us ,her family and friends almost eight years of life to enjoy sharing with her.
1.The grandmother didn’t choose the first doctor because ________.
A. he was afraid to do the operation.
B. he talked too much about the risks
C. he had never done such an operation
2.The second doctor’s words might have made the grandmother ________.
A. nervous B. unhappy C. relaxed
3.We can tell from the story that the grandmother ________.
A. wanted to be the second doctor’s mother
B. celebrated her 97th birthday with her family
C. lived through the operation by the second doctor.
4.The underlined word“stubborn” probably means ________ in Chinese.
A. 执拗的 B. 严谨的 C. 无知的
5.What can we learn from the story?
A. It is better to depend on statistics.
B. A positive attitude can change a person’s life.
C. A good doctor only cares for his patients’ health.
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Last week Lu visited England. He stayed with my grandmother. He found it was strange.
‘I don’t know why, but I frightened your grandmother a lot. When I arrived, I gave her a purse from Dongtai. She looked in it and asked me to take it back. Then I saw a red spider (蜘蛛) on the table, and I killed it for her. She seemed very unhappy. Do English people like spiders?
‘Later we went shopping. Someone was painting a shop front, so there was a ladder. Grandmother stopped me from walking under it and said I must walk around it. I liked the shops and bought some lovely rose soap for my mother, a smart umbrella for my father and some new shoes for myself. When we got back, I put the shoes on the table and opened the umbrella to check if it was all right. Your grandmother came in and screamed!
‘Then I broke a small mirror in the bathroom. Your grandmother’s face went white. I felt very sorry. When I left, I gave your grandmother some flowers. She counted and there were 13. She didn’t like them.’
I explained to Lu, ‘My grandmother follows the old customs. You must not give someone an empty purse, or they will have no money. You must not kill a “money spider”, or the same will happen. Also it is very unlucky to walk under a ladder or put new shoes on the table. An open umbrella in a house means someone will die. Breaking a mirror brings seven years’ bad luck, and 13 is also a very unlucky number. You were really making my grandmother very afraid.’
1.Why did Lu frighten the writer’s grandmother?
A. Because he could not speak English.
B. Because he did many unlucky things.
C. Because he understood British customs.
D. Because he went shopping in England.
2.What do many British people think of spiders?
A. They are afraid of them.
B. They keep spiders as pets.
C. They hope to see every kind of spiders in their houses.
D. They think some kinds of spiders are lucky.
3. What did the writer’s grandmother feel when she saw the umbrella?
A. Excited. B. Satisfied.
C. Afraid. D. Happy.
4.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Thirteen is an unlucky number in England.
B. It is very unlucky to walk under a ladder or put new shoes on the table in England.
C. For most British people, breaking a mirror means bad luck.
D. People never give purses as presents in England.
5.How many wrong things did Lu do altogether?
A. 5. B. 6. C. 8. D. 10.
ere only three sentences: “I have lost my leg. I am no longer a 
n. No one doubted the story l had learned to limp（一瘸一拐地走）. And I made sure the first person to hear of my accident was a