【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 6~12 in the country, asking questions like When you want to talk to your parents about something important, when is ________ best time to do it?. Results show that American kids seem to know when their parents are most receptive（樂于接受的）. Mealtime is discovered to be their favourite time to talk to their parents. Bedtime es ________ （two）, followed by time spent in the car. ________ （China） teenagers seem to have a similar tendency（傾向） towards the problem. A newspaper in Zhejiang did a survey ________ it. The result shows most teenagers in the city would choose mealtime to talk to their parents. So do you have anything to talk to your parents? Choose a good time.12．閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入一個適當?shù)脑~，或填入括號中所給單詞的正確形式。 About ten years ago when I was at university, I worked at my university39。s museum. One day ________ I was working in the gift shop, I saw two old people e ________ with a little girl in a wheelchair （輪椅）. As I looked closer ________ this girl, I realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and body. She was ________ （wear） a little white dress. When the old people pushed her up to me, I was looking down at the desk. I turned my head and gave ________ （she） a smile. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, ________ （happy） smile I had ever seen. Just at that ________ , her physical handicap （生理缺陷） was gone. All I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just impressed me ________ almost gave me a pletely new idea of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy university student and brought me into her world, a world of smiles and love. That was ten years ago. I39。m a ________ （success） business person now and whenever I feel frustrated and think about the trouble of the world, I will think of that little girl and the unusual lesson about life that she ________ （teach） me.13．閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入一個適當?shù)脑~,或填入括號中所給單詞的正確形式。 How are American families different from Chinese ones? In some ways American families are very different from Chinese ones, and in other ways they are ________ same. For example, American families enjoy family dinners. They support and love each other just ________ Chinese families do. The ________（different） e from culture, however. Many Chinese students are surprised to learn that American teenagers are ________（allow） to make many decisions ________ their own, and the parents want their children to leave home at eighteen. In most American families, children are encouraged to make their own ________（choose） at a young age. They start with small choices and gradually larger ones until they graduate from high school. That is when they face ________（big） decision of their lives: what to do next. Parents and family will help with the choice, but the children themselves make the ________（finally） decision. Americans seldom move back into family homes ________ they get older. ________, they prefer to have their own lives for as long as possible. It is important to remember that these are cultural differences, and that Americans see this as part of the culture. 14．閱讀下面短文,在空白處填入一個適當?shù)脑~,或填入括號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! 15．閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)語境、音標或所給單詞的提示，在每個空格內(nèi)填入一個適當?shù)脑~，要求所填的詞意義準確，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. 16．語法填空 Tonight is the night when children in much of the ________（west） world will be waiting for a fat man ________ red and white to pass by on his sleigh and climb down the chimney to deliver the Christmas ________ （present）. And as we all know, Santa Claus, or Father Christmas lives at the North Pole, you might not realize he39。s________ （actual） from Finland. Everyone dreams of the ing of Santa Claus ________ （bring） him something. Stories ________him spread throughout the centuries including