【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 coughed and struggled to breathe, he jumped up and ________, screaming: Ah! Ah! Ah! And yet he continued to eat the fruit. Some people who were looking at him shook their ________ （head） and said, You are crazy! Those are chili peppers （辣椒）!You can39。t just eat them by the handful! The old man said to ________ （he）,I paid for them, so I must eat them. This old man seemed pretty stupid. But are we so much smarter? All of us have ________ （spend） money and time on somethingmaybe a relationship, or a business, or a joband sometimes, even if we know there39。s no hope that things will change, we still continue with it. What we can learn ________ the old man is this: if you39。ve lost a lot over something that doesn39。t work, let it go and move on. It39。s better than continuing to lose.12．閱讀下面短文,在空白處填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~,或填入括號(hào)中所給單詞的正確形式。 At about thirteen years old, I felt very lonely. I didn39。t like my classmates, my parents or anyone else. My classmates didn39。t want to talk ________ me and my parents were always saying that other kids were ________（good） than me. I thought I was the ________（luck） person in the world. One day I had a big fight with one of my classmates. I was so angry ________ I hit him in the face. Just at that moment, a boy stood up and ________（stop） the fight. He was the monitor of our class. After that, he often helped me and we became good ________（friend）. Whenever I got angry or sad, he would help ________（I） to cool down. My life began to change because of the boy, my best friend. We spent a lot of interesting days together. ________ time goes by, I have bee happier with people and things. And people around me have ________ （change）, too. My parents don39。t shout at me ________ more and my classmates bee friendly to me. But now we go to different cities to study. How I miss the days when we were together! 13．閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)語境、音標(biāo)或所給單詞的提示，在每個(gè)空格內(nèi)填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，要求所填的詞意義準(zhǔn)確，使短文意思完整、行文連貫。 When I was in the middle school, I got into an argument with a boy in my class. The teacher ________（decide） to teach us a very important lesson. She brought us up to the front of the ________[39。kla:sru:m]and placed him on one side of her desk and________on the other. In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could ________（hard）see that it was black. She asked the boy what color the object was. White, he________[39。 a:nsa（r）d] I couldn39。t________[b?39。li?v] he said the object was white, when it was clearly black! Another argument started between my classmate and me, this time about the________of the object. The teacher told me to stand where the boy was standing and told him to e stand where I had been. We changed________（place）, and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I had to answer, White. It was an object with two differently colored sides, and from his viewpoint （視角） it was________. Only from my side it was black. I have always remembered the lesson I learned that day. Sometimes we need to look at the problem from the other ________（person） viewpoint in order to truly understand his/her view. 14．語法填空 Dear Auntie Em, Great news! Mrs Mumford just told me I had been chosen as one of the school________（student）to visit the University of Cape Town in South Africa this summer！She said the programme________（design）for some of the brighter teenagers to experience a different good chance！ The only problem is: Mum and Dad________（simple）won39。t let me go. They said it was dangerous for me, a girl, ________（travel）alone. But my guess is that they think it too expensive. I kept telling________（they）I had been on a plane alone to visit you in Texas before. They needn39。t worry about me________this trip would be almost the same as that （but）they just won39。t listen! Will you help, Auntie Em? It will be________very important experience to my personal growth. Love, （and love you even________（much）if you manage to make Mum amp。 Dad agree with me. ）15．閱讀下面短文，在空白處按要求填入適當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。每空1個(gè)單詞。 Dear Ms. Zhang, Last week, my friend Liu Lei came round with a new puter game and asked to play it on my dad39。s puter. I was worried, ________（連詞）I should ask my dad before I use his puter. He uses it for ________（he） work, and I can only use it for my homework. The reason is that he thinks something will go wrong if I play ________（game） on it. Well, while my dad was out, we decided to ________（try） out Liu Lei39。s game. We copied it to the puter, and after we finished ________（play）, we took it off the puter. However, when I________（start） the puter again to check if everything was OK, some of my dad39。s documents were missing. Then, when my dad used the puter last night, he was ________（real） angry. He could no longer find the important documents anywhere. I did not tell him about________（冠詞）puter game because I did not want him to be angry ________（介詞）me. Now I feel terrible. I am not sure whether a puter repair ________（shop） can get the documents back. Should I tell him about the puter game? Should I pay to repair it? Your student,Feng Guoxing16．閱讀下面的材料，在空白處填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，或填入括號(hào)內(nèi)所給單詞的正確形式（每空最多不超過三個(gè)單詞） A king had two sons and asked famous teachers to teach them. After a few ________（year）, the king fell badly ill. So he wanted to choose one of his sons as the next king, but which one would be the right person? He thought it over ________ a whole night. At last, he decided ________ （test） his sons. One day, he gave a room to each of ________ （they）, You must fill the room pletely （完全地） with anything you wish. But there should ________ （be）no space left and you can39。t ask for advice from anyone! The next day the king ________（visit） his elder son39。s room. The room was pletely filled with grass. The king felt sorry about it. Then he went to ________other room, but it was closed. His ________ （young） son asked him to ge