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1、首字母填空Youre standing with your classmates. E 1 is talking except you.Perhaps youre afraid they will laugh at what you say. Or maybe you just arent brave e 2 to speak. Shyness is like a snake that crawls(爬进) into our mouths and stops us s 3 . But we shouldnt let it stay there.I am 29 years old. Even t
2、oday, that snake still sometimes v 4 me. But when I was in high school, I was so shy that I wouldnt talk to anyone except my parents and best 5 . If a stranger asked me the way to a local shop, it was as if Id forgotten how to talk.One summer, I got a j 6 in a restaurant and that helped a lot. It me
3、ant I had to talk to customers. I had to tell them how much their meal c 7 . I had to ask them if they wanted to drink Coke or Sprite. I had to tell the people in the kitchen if someone wanted pickle（泡菜）on their sandwich.This job t 8 me how to speak with people.You may not be old enough to find a pa
4、rt-time job. B 9 you can look for otherchances to speak with people. You can offer to help an old woman carry her heavy bag. Or you can go to get a newspaper for your family.If you do these things for a while, the “shyness” snake will soon begin to leave you a 10 . Itll look for another mouth to cra
5、wl into.Then he crawled(爬) under the bed and 11 there in the dark. He thought and thought about the lie. At last he decided 12 his mother all about it. He told her 13 and she forgave(原谅) him. He promised 14 _ to tell a lie again. He went back to bed and was soon full asleep. He 15 that the moon smil
6、ed down upon him. ( )1. A. told B. asked C. speak D. read ( )2. A. relaxed B.interested C. unhappy D. unexcited ( )3. A. happily B. alone C. hardly D. proudly ( )4. A. up B. down C. after D. over ( )5.A.story B.night C.lie D.idea ( )6. A. get B. to get C. getting D. got ( )7. A. follow B. followed C
7、, to follow D. following ( )8. A. watched TV B. sang a song C. went to bed D. did his homework ( )9. A. across B. through C. over D. cross ( )10. A. and B. so C. but D. or ( )ll.A.lie B.lied C.laid D.lay ( )12. A. to tell B. tells C. telling D. told ( )13. A. a story B. the truth C. the news D. a se
8、cret ( )14.A.always B.soinetimes C.often D.never ( )15. A. dreamed B. saw C. heard D. wrote 阅读理解 O. Henry,a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862.O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy,hedid not go to school for
9、 long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old,0. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He firstworked on a newspaper,and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Somemoney
10、went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it,so he was sent to prison(监狱). During the three years in prison,he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison,he went to New York and went on writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. Peo
11、ple liked his s.tories,because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised. ( )1. was the real name of the famous American writer. A. O. Henry B. William Sydney Porter C. Carolina D. Texas ( )2. 0. Henry was sent to prison because . A. people thought he had stol
12、en money from the newspaper B. people thought he had stolen money from the bank C. he wanted to write stories about prisonersD. he broke the law(法律) by not using his own name ( )3. Which of the following is TRUE? A. O. Henry was from a rich family. B. O. Henry was in school for a long time. C. O. He
13、nry learned everything he needed by himself. D. O. Henry liked writing stories when he was a little boy.( )4. 0. Henry got most materials for his stories from A. his happy life as a boy B. New York and the poor of the city C. the newspaper D. his life in prison( )5. People enjoyed reading O. Henrys
14、stories because A. they had surprising endings B. they were easy to understand . C. they showed love for the poor D. they were about New York任务型阅读Height is just one of the thousands of things your genes (基因) decide. In fact, because you have two parents, your genes provide you a height that usually lands somewhere between the height of each parent. If both your parents are tall, then most probably you will be tall, too. If you have questions ab
