(七)

Do you remember your first day at a new school or in a new area? How about the life when your family _ 1 _ to a new state? Ugh! What about the 2 of being a stranger?

Then, with time, you find someone who likes 3 you like. Friends are great gifts in life. I have some good friends, too, but not because they are clever. Sometimes they talk 4 ; sometimes they need me a lot. I know I ask too much of them. I hope my friends, like my father,

5 about me a lot.

I once told my friends to give me all their love and be generous and gentle. I told my friends, in other words, to love me 6 I loved them.

They didn't 7 me at first, but then they became kinder. My love for them slowly made them learn to 8 friends. They learned to love others and 9 the idea that LOVE is part of life.

If we listen to and try to understand each other, love 10 . We should work on it, even if it's hard at first. A true friend loves us at all times.

1. A. came B. moved C. lived D. liked

2. A. ideas B. thoughts C. points D. feelings

3. A. what B. how C. when D. who

4. A. too much B. too many C. much too D. many too

5. A. worry B. care C. talk D. complain

6. A. because B. so C. when D. if

7. A. believe B. tell C. understand D. listen

8. A. hate B. love C. meet D. think

9. A. took B. brought C. finished D. got

10. A. flies B. comes C. stops D. goes

(八)

John loved basketball.One day, as he was walking to a basketball game，he dreamed about

playing basketball for the college team the next year.Suddenly a car hit him and he was thrown three meters 1 .

John woke up in a hospital room.When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken, he knew his college basketball 2 was over.John did what the doctors told him，but it ___3__ .When he left the hospital，John was sent to a rehab center (康复中心).

A week 4 he arrived there，he met Sunny Chen.Sunny used to be a coach (教练).His legs were badly hurt in a skating accident.

Though he couldn't move his legs，Sunny became the coach of a basketball team called the Suns.It was an on-wheelchair basketball team，because 5 on the team played from a wheelchair.Sunny invited John to 6 the game.John played badly, but for the 7 time since the accident，he stopped feeling sorry for himself,

After becoming a part of the Suns，John improved quickly.Basketball was like medicine for him.John was much 8 than before.When John became unhappy, Sunny was there to comfort him.The day before John 9 the center, he had dinner with Sunny.He asked Sunny how he could be so happy even with his broken legs.

Sunny 10 and said，“It’s really quite easy.When you keep your face to the sun，the shadows willfall behind.”

1.A.away 　　B.from C.out D.in

2.A.game B.dream C.team D.coach

3.A.worked B.affected C.didn't work D.didn’t affect

4.A.until B.when C.before D.1ater

5.A.somebody B.anybody C.everybody D.nobody

6.A.join B.show C.study D.watch

7.A.next B.last C.first D.early

8.A.worse B.better C.busier D.smarter

9.A.arrived B.got to C.went to D.1eft

10.A.smiled B.shouted C.cried D.turned