It was a sunny day yesterday. After a whole day’s work in my office, I walked home. On the busy street, I say a young man _________ some small toys around the corner. Usually, I would hurry _________ such sellers and never buy anything. But when I noticed he was _________, I decided to stand there for some time. I wanted to see _________ he sold his toys.

Soon, a little girl came with her mother and wanted a toy that could _________ a noise. Kids liked such toys because the noise sounded really funny. The toy was 18 yuan. The mother _________ a 20-yuan note（鈔票）. She told the young man how much she was giving him and wanted the change（找零）_________. I was wondering what he was going to do next. He told the mother to put the money in his bag and get the change _________. Then she did so.

What the young man did shocked me. He chose to _________ people even if he couldn’t see. He let me know believing in people is a __________ thing. It brings us warmth and love. I was so touched that I made a __________ to buy a toy although I didn’t need it at all. He said it cost 18 yuan and I told him that I had only one 20-yuan note. Again he told me to do the same thing as the mother. I put my 20 yuan in his bag, __________ I didn’t take any change.

As I walked down the street, I say another little girl with her father and gave her the __________ I bought. She looked at me in surprise and then thanked me __________. I was happy to see the smile on her face.

The young man was a good __________ to us all. On my way home, I kept thinking the world would be a better place if we all could learn to trust people more, just like the young blind street seller.

1.A. using B. buying C. selling D. washing

2.A. with B. past C. across D. towards

3.A. fat B. deaf C. short D. blind

4.A. how B. why C. when D. where

5.A. hear B. make C. avoid D. mind

6.A. cut out B. kept out C. took out D. worked out

7.A. up B. out C. off D. back

8.A. itself B. herself C. myself D. yourself

9.A. hate B. doubt C. trust D. praise

10.A. beautiful B. bad C. silly D. direct

11.A. promise B. mistake C. speech D. decision

12.A. or B. so C. but D. for

13.A. bag B. toy C. note D. change

14.A. politely B. coldly C. proudly D. crazily

15.A. role B. expert C. guard D. example

Jazz is a type of music. Some people say that jazz is America's only true art form. That's because it began here. Hundreds of years ago, black people worked as slaves (奴隸) and made up songs to pass the time. It wasn't called jazz then, but the way the slaves were playing and singing music was special.

The music of America's black people began to be called jazz in the early 1900s.

What makes jazz special is improvisation (即興創(chuàng)作). That means making the music up on the spot (當(dāng)場). No music in front of you. No long discussion with other people in your band.

"It's free. It's beautiful," says Geoffrey, a sixth-grader at Stratford Landing Elementary School. Geoffrey is such a good musician that he has performed at the Kennedy Center.

Geoffrey says, "It's easy to express your feelings through jazz. You are more focused on being creative and using your imagination in jazz."

Washington DC is a very important place in the history of jazz. It has a famous jazz piano player: Duke Ellington.

Born in Washington in 1899, Ellington as a child wanted to play baseball instead of the piano. But his parents played the piano, so he started playing the piano when he was seven years old.

In 1920, he played small shows at the Howard Theatre. When he was 24, he moved to New York, but he didn't forget his hometown. He called his band the Washingtonians and later he returned to perform at the Lincoln Theatre.

1.Did the music of America's black people begin to be called jazz in the early 1900s?

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2.What does jazz improvisation mean?

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3.What should you focus on when you play jazz according to Geoffrey?

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4.Who is Duke Ellington?

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5.What is the main idea of the passage?

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Tang Ling often smoked cigarettes(香煙) in his school’s washroom. He started smoking 1.the age of 14. One day he learnt that the NBA star Yao Ming, an ambassador (大使) to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (中國控?zé)焻f(xié)會), asked people not to smoke. Yao Ming was Tang’s favorite star, and his words meant a lot to him. He decided to give up 2.(smoke).

According to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, about 350 million Chinese smoke. Among 3., 50 million are teenagers. Sun Jiangping of Beijing University said, “Teenagers can get cigarettes 4.(easy), especially when their parents smoke or shops sell cigarettes to them. It’s very important for parents to help their children5.(stop) smoking.”

A 15-year-old boy 6.(name) Li Kun from Beijing said his parents didn’t smoke. Because they thought smoking could make people feel 7.(bad) ill, they only allowed him to play with friends without smoking. 8.(live) in such a good family helped Li say 9.to cigarettes. Some of his smoking classmates once told Li that smoking made boys look cool, but Li disagreed. He said, “Smoking is 10.(health) and it’s not cool at all. Please stop smoking now!”

寫作

假定你是李華，你的英國筆友Peter的學(xué)校網(wǎng)站“中國文化”欄目擬刊登中國節(jié)日風(fēng)俗及中學(xué)生生活的短文。近期Peter給你寫了e-mail約稿。請你根據(jù)以下要點(diǎn)回一封郵件。

1.對該欄目的評價(jià)；

2.介紹中國的中秋節(jié)；

3.你的建議和希望。

注意：

1.詞數(shù)100左右，開頭與結(jié)尾已給出，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)；

2.可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫。

Dear Peter,

I’m very happy to receive you e-mail.______________________________________________________

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Yours,

Li Hua.

My cousin Mary was born ________ a singing voice.

A. from B. in C. with D. at

—Lily，________ do you learn English?

—By memorizing sentence patterns.

A. why B. how C. when D. where

Alan，you can't go out to play ________ you clean your room.

A. if B. because C. since D. unless

—Cindy，you learn physics so well.What's your ________？

—Doing a lot of exercises.

A. secret B. Knowledge C. idea D. ability

If we don’t use money ______, we’ll have a difficult time.

A. happily B. easily C. loudly D. wisely

Peter, please give my best wishes ______ your family.

A. for B. at C. to D. from