
(A)
My friend Bruce isn’t tall enough but likes doing sports. He’s good at r_______. And playing basketball, s____ he is stronger than us all. Last summer Bruce went to see his grandpa. The old man lives on a farm. He likes a________ and his three dogs, two cats and a horse. Bruce wanted to l______ to ride a horse. He asked his grandpa to t_______ him. The old man agreed. At first he rode carefully and soon he enjoyed h_________ there.One afternoon Bruce rode the horse a_______. When it walked by a house, a large dog ran out. The horse was very a_________ and began to run away quickly. Bruce fell down and hurt his leg. The horse p______ him to a tree and then ran to call a doctor. “What a c_______ horse!” I said after my friend told me about it half a month later. “ I don’t think so,” said Bruce. “ It came back with a vet(兽医)!”
(B)
Young people are often unhappy when they are with their parents. They say that their parents don’t (66)u them. They often think their parents are too strict (67)w them.
Parents often find it difficult to win their (68)c trust, and they seem to forget how they themselves felt when they were young.
For example, young people like to do things without much (69)t . It’s one of their ways to show that they grow up and they can solve any difficult (70)p . But older people always think (71)m than young people. Most of them plan things ahead and don’t like their plans to be (72)c , so when you want your parents to let you do something, you will succeed easily if you ask before you really start doing it.
Young people often make their parents angry by the (73)c they wear, the music they enjoy and something else. But they don’t mean to cause any trouble. They just want to be cut off(摆脱) from the old people’s world and they are (74)t to make a new culture of their own. And if their parents don’t like their music or clothes or their ways of speech, the young people feel very sad. Sometimes instead of going out with their parents, they just want to stay at home (75)a and do what they like.
If you plan to do something, you’d (76)b win your parents over and get them to understand you, if so, your parents will certainly let you do (77)w you want to do.
(C)
I have a few good 1.f___. Xiao Zhang is one of the them. 2. B ____ last week in school we had a big fight, and she didn't talk to me. It all started 3.t____ she asked me if she could copy my homework. I ask her why she would like to 4.d___that,and she said that she had forgot to do 5.h____. I said it was not a good idea for her to copy my homework. She wanted to know why I didn't think it was a good idea. I said it would start a 6.b___ habit, and that she should do her own work. She was really angry 7.a___me,and said she didn't want to be my good friend 8.a___. I said that was OK and I was sure she would get over it. And she did. Yesterday she 9.t___me she was sorry. She said it was much 10.b___ if she did her own work.
(D)
Mark Twain was famous as a public speaker. In his speeches he always liked to tell 1.f _______stories.
He also liked to 2.l______ to funny stories and play 3. j______ on his friends. One day, one of his friends 4.l______ his wallet and asked him to 5b______ a railway ticket for him.
Mark Twain told his friend that he didn’t have 6.e_________money to pay 7.b______tickets. He asked his friend to hide under his seat.
Later, when the conductor came to 8.c________the tickets, Mark Twain gave him two – one for 9. h______ and one for his friend. Then he said in a loud 10.v______ , “My friend is a strange man, when he travels on a train, he doesn’t like to sit on the seat, but he likes to lie on the floor under the seat.”
