In New York, on a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of a train station. He was playing his  16  .His music was so great that many people put money into his   17  .The next day, the young artist came to the   18  place, and played the violin as usual. Different from the day before, he took out a piece of paper and put   19  on the ground. The paper read ,“Last night ,a man named George Sang put an important thing into my hat  20  .Please come to get it soon.”   21  about half an hour, a(an)   22  man there in a hurry, “Oh ,it’s you. You did come here.” The young violinist asked   23  , “Are you Mr. George Sang?”“Yes! Yes!” Then the violinist asked, “Did you lose something?”“Lottery(彩票).It’s the most valuable lottery in my 70 years of life,” said the man.
The violinist   24  a lottery ticket. George Sang’s name was on it, so the violinist   25  it to him. Later someone asked the violinist, “Since you   26  play the violin every day to make your tuition (學費)in the university, why didn’t you keep the lottery ticket for yourself?” The violinist said, “  27   I don’t have much money, I live happily; But if I lose honesty, I won’t be happy forever.” Through our lives, we can get a lot and lose so   28  . But being   29  should always be with us. If we act in a dishonest way, we may   30   in a short period(短期). However, from the long-term view, we will be a loser.

One day, a boy found the cocoon(繭) of a butterfly and brought it home. A few days later, the boy saw a small ___16___in the cocoon. He sat and watched for several hours as a butterfly struggled to make ___17___body through that little hole. Suddenly it stopped.

So the boy ___18___to help the butterfly, thinking the butterfly might be ___19___. He took a pair of scissors(剪刀) and cut the hole ___20___. The butterfly came out of the cocoon, but it ___21___a little different. It had a weak body and small, thin ___22___. 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___23___but he didn’t understand why it could be like this. When a butterfly crawl out of the cocoon, it must struggle. The hard work of ___24___out of the cocoon makes the fluid(液體) from the butterfly’s body into its wings. It helps the butterfly be ___25___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.

___26___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 ___27___ we could have been and we would never fly.

    In our lives, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, and sometimes even ___28___ growth, without it, there’s no way of life. We can’t avoid ___29___ or problems. So, next time you are ___30___ a problem or difficulty, remember the butterfly. Struggle a little–then fly!

1.A. hole      B. worm      C. tail        D. snake

2.A. it        B. it’s        C. itself       D. its

3.A. decided   B. asked      C. showed     D. ordered

4.A. afraid    B. interested   C. surprised    D. grateful

5.A. slimmer  B. bigger      C. shorter      D. smaller

6.A. touched   B. sounded    C. looked     D. smelt

7.A. wings    B. feet        C. eyes       D. head

8.A. success   B. excitement  C. kindness    D. humour

9.A. get      B. getting      C. to get      D. got

10.A. ready    B. quiet        C. glad       D. used

11.A. Somewhere  B. Something  C. Some time  D. Sometimes

12.A. as helpful as  B. as weak as  C. as strong as  D. as creative as

13.A. repeats    B. recommends   C. requires   D. represents

14.A. happiness  B. difficulties    C. pleasure   D. hope

15.A. served with  B. growing into  C. bringing in  D. faced with

句型轉(zhuǎn)換

Long long ago, there was a swan（天鵝）with golden feathers（金羽毛）.She lived in a lake. A woman lived in a small house  21 the lake with her two daughters. They were very poor. They worked hard all year round,   22 still,they lived a hard life and sometimes they even didn’t have enough  23 to buy food.

The swan was 24 to see that. She said to herself, “I’ll give one of my  25 to them each day, then they can live a happy life with the money selling my feathers.” That evening, she  26 to the poor woman’s house and left a golden feather on the table without saying  27 .From then on, the swam came every day and gave them a feather. The woman was very happy because their life was much  28 

than before.

But day after day, the woman became greedy（貪婪）.She said to her  29 .“The swan may fly away one day. If so, we will be poor again. We should take all  30 feathers when she comes next time.”

“Oh, no, Mom!” cried the daughters, “This will  31 the swan. She helps us a lot !” But the mother wouldn’t listen. When the  32 came as usual, the mother caught her and took all her feathers. But suddenly, the golden feathers  33 chicken feathers. Then, the Golden Swan said, “Poor Woman, I came to  34 you,but you wanted to kill me. Now, I am leaving and will  35 come back. Never be greedy!” With these words, the swan flew away.

7.A. something   B. everything       C nothing         D anything

The task(任務)of students is to study．But studying __21__a right way, or we will waste(浪費)time or __22__．The following are some ways of studying .The best time for reading is in the morning ,___23__ in the morning the air is fresh and the mind is clear．
__24__studying,we must have patience(耐心).If we have not __25__ a text well，we must read it again.We should not read the next one until we have learnt the first one．
When we are __26__，we must put our hearts into the book，or we can get __27__    from the book that we are reading
We must always __28__“why” If we can’t understand something well，write it down and ask our teachers，parents or friends
Though there are many __29__of studying，the above will be quite enough if we can __30__them in heart and do so.

The task(任務)of students is to study．But studying __21__a right way, or we will waste(浪費)time or __22__．The following are some ways of studying .The best time for reading is in the morning ,___23__ in the morning the air is fresh and the mind is clear．

__24__studying,we must have patience(耐心).If we have not __25__ a text well，we must read it again.We should not read the next one until we have learnt the first one．

When we are __26__，we must put our hearts into the book，or we can get __27__    from the book that we are reading

We must always __28__“why” If we can’t understand something well，write it down and ask our teachers，parents or friends

Though there are many __29__of studying，the above will be quite enough if we can __30__them in heart and do so.

9.A. ways       B skills         C. articles       D .chances