When I was in the seventh grade, I was a volunteer in a hospital. I spent most of the time there with Mr. Green. He never had any ______and nobody seemed to care about his living____.
I spent many days holding his hand, talking to him and ______anything that needed to be done. He became my close friend,_____ he only responded with an occasional (偶尔的) squeeze (捏) of my _________.
I left for a week to visit my parents. And when I came back, Mr. Green was _____. I didn’t have the _______ to ask the nurses where he was. I was afraid that they might _______ me that he had died.
Several _______ later, I became a college student. One day, I noticed a familiar face at a gas station. When I _______ who it was, my eyes were filled with tears. He was _______. He was Mr. Green. With an uncertain look _______ his face, he replied “yes”. I _______how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital, his eyes were full of tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever _______.
He began to tell me that _______ he lay there unconsciously (无意识地), he could hear me talking to him and could _______ me holding his hand all the time. He thought it was an angel (天使), not a person, who was there with him.
Mr. Green _______ believed that it was my voice and _______ that had kept him alive.
Although I haven’t ______ him after that, it fills my heart with ______ every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and death and more importantly, he made me an angel.
1.A. visitors B. relatives C. patients D. doctors
2.A. interests B. requests C. conditions D. opinions
3.A. talking about B. looking after C. pointing out D. helping with
4.A. so that B. even though C. soon after D. as if
5.A. hand B. head C. nose D. arm
6.A. killed B. lost C. gone D. changed
7.A. energy B. chance C. courage D. time
8.A. cheat B. tell C. remind D. warn
9.A. days B. weeks C. months D. years
10.A. recognized B. wondered C. heard D. asked
11.A. well B. alive C. silent D. alone
12.A. at B. on C. behind D. in
13.A. apologized B. remembered C. explained D. required
14.A. dreamed B. saw C. wanted D. received
15.A. because B. if C. unless D. although
16.A. notice B. feel C. imagine D. watch
17.A. hardly B. quickly C. firmly D. nearly
18.A. humor B. duty C. touch D. success
19.A. forgotten B. called C. missed D. seen
20.A. joy B. regret C. respect D. sorrow
Tips for cooking on a Tight Schedule
From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time.1.. Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule:
1.Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think ahead of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the 
right materials（材料） ready?2.
2.Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread?3.It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.
3.4.This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation(实验). It gives you the chance to come up with new ideas and recipes（食谱） that can work well with your appetite（食欲） and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.
Hopefully that gives you a good start. 5.And don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!
A. Try new things.
B. Make three or four instead.
C. Ability is easily improved.
D. Understand your food better.
E. Cooking is a burden for many people.
F. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.
G. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.
Recently I read the Human Development Report．I couldn't help thinking about another problem why the world is facing hunger．According to the report，2400 people are dying from hunger every day；nearly 13 million in southern Africa will be worried about their food supply because of earthquakes，floods or wars．
In a word，hunger remains the biggest problem of the world today．It's strange to see that man can travel to the moon，but still doesn't know how to feed himself．You may ask，“Who steals our bread？”The first thieves should be population growth，poverty and loss of rich farmland．
In less developed areas like South Africa，the population grows faster than the crops．It is almost impossible for its government to feed so many people and provide education for them．So it is very important to control the population growth and protect their farmland in countries whose people are suffering from hunger．
According to the report，the world's food production is enough to feed everyone if it is given away well．But the problem is that the developed countries are eating food that should be given to the poor．Although they are just using their own earning，the fact is that they are coldly watching others starving away．
Luckily，some developed countries such as Netherlands，Norway and Sweden have done a lot to help those hungry people in African countries．We hope other developed countries will follow them．
1.According to the passage，which of the following cannot help make fewer people hungry？
A. Poor countries control their population growth.
B. Poor countries protect their rich farmland.
C. Rich countries produce more food to feed themselves.
D. Rich countries give some food to the poor ones.
2.The fourth 
paragraph mainly tells us________．
A. poor countries are cold and going to die out
B. rich countries notice the problems of the poor countries
C. rich countries are trying their best to help poor countries
D. rich countries aren't willing to help poor countries
3.According to the last sentence，the writer hopes________．
A. poor countries should learn from rich ones
B. more rich countries will help the hungry people
C. more countries will give help to Norway
D. more countries will be as rich as Sweden
February 14th is Valentine’s Day! In China, it is only a day for young boyfriends and girlfriends. But my teacher and friends in America told me that Valentine’s Day is a public day.
This was my first Valentine’s Day in America. I didn’t understand the customs(风
俗) clearly. Maybe I didn’t need to send any gifts. I watched others to see what they did, so next time I can understand.
On that day, when we began the reading class, Mr. Peters gave every student some chocolates and said, “Happy Valentine’s Day!” I was very happy the teacher gave his students gifts and blessings. I never saw that in China. Maybe American teachers are very different. I didn’t buy a gift 
for the teacher, so I owed(欠) a gift to the teacher. Anyway, I want to say, ”Thank you, Mr. Peters, and I’m sorry.”
When we had a break, one of my classmates gave me a Pokemon card. It was very funny and I felt thankful, but I thought I owed a gift again.
When we were coming to our grammar class, suddenly I heard someone calling me. ”Shelly!” I stopped. Another classmate who had only been in our class one day gave me some chocolates. She said, “These are for you and your friends. Have a good day!” I was looking at her leaving and thinking that we were in the same class only one day, but now we are friends. That’s very great, but I owed a gift again.
When I came home, my Chinese friend sent some roses and chocolates. I was surprised and happy because I had never received roses in my past life, but I hoped it was the last gift. I didn’t want to owe more gifts.
1.Before the writer left China, she thought Valentine’s Day _______.
A. was a day for the young
B. was different in America
C. was a festival for all the people
D. was a holiday for the students
2.By saying “I never saw that in China,” the writer would like to tell us that in China _________.
A. the students gave gifts to the teachers
B. the teachers didn’t like the students at all
C. the students never received any gifts and blessings
D. the teachers wouldn’t give their students any gifts
3.The writer felt sorry probably because she ________.
A. made a mistake in class
B. didn’t like chocolate
C. had no gift for Mr. Peters in return
D. had no money to buy gifts
4.What was the first gift the writerreceived from his classmates?
A. A toy. B. A card. C. Some chocolates. D. Some roses.
I’ve always known that dogs are clever, but even I was surprised when I heard about a dog called Red, at the Battersea Dog’s Home in London.
The home has been caring for lost and unwanted animals for over 140 years. Recently, the workers there got amazed when they came to work in the morning. They found that some of the dogs had got out of their kennels(狗窝) during the night, opened cupboards and taken out of food and toys. And it happened again, and again. The manager described how as many as nine dogs were escaping every night. “When we came in, dogs were running around having fun and games and causing a lot of mess. We couldn’t understand it.”
Someone or something was unlocking the kennels during the night. The manager decided that the only way to know the truth was to put in cameras to record how the dogs were getting out.
When she and her workers played back the recording, they saw Red, a three-year-old dog, put his nose through the bars of his kennel and use his teeth to press the button that opened the door. That was clever enough, but Red did more: he unlocked the kennels next to his and let the dogs out too. The group broke into cupboards and stole dog biscuits and toys to play with.
The manager said, “It’s surprising that Red worked out how to open his own kennel, but also that he then let all his friends out.” I suppose, Red didn’t like to party alone.
The story has a happy ending: after Red was shown on TV, several people came and offered to give him a new home as a family pet.
1.What is the writer’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To ask people to look after unwanted dogs.
B. To describe dogs escaping from the Dog’s Home.
C. To give an example of how clever a dog can be.
D. To introduce the work done by the Battersea Dog’s Home.
2.What did Red do after he go out of his kennel at night?
A. He slept in a cupboard.
B. He let the other dogs out.
C. He took biscuits and toys back to the other dogs.
D. He showed the other dogs how to unlock their doors.
3.What can we learn from the text?
A. Red didn’t like being at the Dog’s Home.
B. Red and his friends had a good time when they escaped.
C. Red and his friends enjoyed being recorded by the cameras.
D. Red and the other dogs escaped because they were hungry.
有没有想过给自己写信，尤其是给将来的自己写信。请用英语给五年后的自己写封信，信的内容包括以下三个方面：
1.写信的目的；
2.给五年后的你一些忠告；
3.如何看待五年后的你。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear myself,
Yours,
Me
