When Sandy was a little girl, she liked keeping pets. She had many books about animals and many pictures of animals on the walls of her bedroom. She often said that she would work in a  41  when she grew up.
Most of Sandy’s pets were quiet small—parrots, cats, dogs and so on. But one day she met something quite  42 .
That afternoon, Sandy’s mother was surprised to see a big animal with long hair in the kitchen. He  43  a T-shirt and was sitting on the chair, trying to put on a pair of glasses and making faces at her. In front of him, on the table, were a basket of fruits and a glass of water. “Sandy, where are you?” the mother shouted. Then suddenly she remembered that a few days before a young gorilla (大猩猩) called Jim had run away from the zoo.
“I found him in the city square,” Sandy said. “He seemed so  44 . I talked to him. We became friends at once and he followed me home.”
“Well, you know you  45  keep him,” her mother said. “You must send him back to the zoo. You’d better phone the police.”
Soon a  46  came and also a truck from the zoo.  47  was angry with Sandy when she told her story. The policeman knew Sandy loved animals. And the zookeeper said, “Thank you for your kindness. I can see Jim likes you,  48  we need to take him back.” Sandy agreed. She hugged Jim and said that she would go and see him  49 .
These days Sandy has stopped collecting  50 , but you can still find her with her friend Jim at the zoo on Saturdays and Sundays.

A man was looking for things of the old times. One day he came to a village and found a blue bowl which looked very _1_. The bowl was on the ground and a cat was drinking milk from it. A farmer, the _2_ of the cat, was lying_3_ the bowl. The man did not want the farmer to know that he was interested in the_4_. So he said to him, “What a nice cat you have! Will you _5_ it to me?”
The farmer asked, “_6_ will you give me for the cat?”
“Twenty dollars. Would that be enough?”
The farmer thought for a few minutes, then he _7_. After he paid the farmer, the man said, “My cat will certainly feel _8_. May I take the bowl _9_the cat can drink with it?” But the farmer said, “I’m _10_ I can’t give you the bowl. Thanks to the bowl, I have sold twenty cats already.”

Mary and Donald Smith lived in the same building.Donald 41 a toy company.One day Donald gave Mary. the 4-year-old girl.a new toy.She played with it and said. "This is fun! A few weeks later Donald gave her 42 toy. She played with it and then said."I'm not 43 in this toy. It doesn't work."For years Donald gave Mary new toys.  and she gave him very good   44   about the toys.
When Mary was 13 years old. Donald showed her a new ball.Mary wanted to 45 the ball with small stones to make it 46 .The company made this change.Mary's idea was a great success! The company sold thousands of the balls.
That Christmas. Donald gave Mary an  47 gift.He made her vice-president(副總裁) of the toy company.She made $200,000 a year.Her job was lo see 48 the new toys were fun.She worked 49 three or four hours a day at her job,then she had to do her homework.
Today Mary works at a college. The little vice-president with bright ideas helps students think about their 50.
【小題1】A.owned       B. rioted       c.owns      D.closes

Benjamin Franklin was a great scientist .He was the youngest of the  46   boys in his family . He was a clever boy,   47  cleverer than his nine brothers . He studied in school for only three years . He    48  to learn new things .He  49  worked on new ideas even when he was a child . There are a lot of stories about him and here’s one of them.
One day in winter Benjamin Franklin learned from one of his   50    that something black in colour holds heat    51   than something white in colour “ Is that true ?” he asked himself . He wanted to know the answer.
It happened to be a   52  day and there was snow on the ground. He put two large pieces of cloth over the snow . One piece was black in colour and the other was white . The sun shone (照耀)  53  the two pieces of cloth .Two hours later ,Franklin took off the cloth and found that the snow under the black cloth melted (融化) more  54  than the snow under the white cloth.
He was happy that he had learned  55   from his friend.

One night a young American doctor was sleeping at home when his doorbell began to ring. When he opened  the door he saw a man  36 outside.
“Excuse me, Doctor,”said the man. “Can you come at once to a place out of town. It’s quite far but you have a car and I can 37 you the way”
“Certainly,” said the doctor, “I’m ready. I’ll come soon.” 38  afew minutes, the car came. The man got into the car and they 39 off.
They drove for a 40 time, and then the man said, “Here we are. This is my home. Now I can pay you and  you can go 41 to town.”
“But I must 42the patient,” the doctor said. “Where’s the patient?”“There’s 43 patient,” answered the man. “Nobody is ill. I live here, you see, and I must 44home from the town.  There are no taxis at this time of the night. Here’s the money for you. Thank you, doctor. Good 45 !

John loved basketball. One day, as he was walking to a basketball game, he dreamed about playing basketball for the college team the next year. Suddenly a car hit him and he was thrown three meters  36    .
John woke up in a hospital room. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken, he knew his college basketball   37    was over. John did what the doctors told him. but it  38   . When he left the hospital, John was sent to a rehab center(康復中心).
A week   39   he arrived there, he met Sunny Chen. Sunny used to be a coach(教練). His legs were badly hurt in a skating accident.
Though he couldn’t move his legs, Sunny became the coach of a basketball team called the Suns. It was an on-wheelchair basketball team, because 40 on the team played from a wheelchair(輪椅). Sunny invited John to   41   the game. John played badly, but for the   42 time since the accident. he stopped feeling sorry for himself.
After becoming a part of the Suns. John improved quickly. Basketball was like medicine for him. John was much   43  than before. When John became unhappy, Sunny was there to comfort him. The day before John  44   the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he could be so happy even with his broken legs.
Sunny   45   and said, "It’s really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun. the shadows will fall behind."

A little boy was attracted(吸引)by a board above the door of a shop. It read, "Little Dogs for Sale." A    16   like that has a way of attracting small children into the shop.
The little boy walked into the shop and found a dog behind other dogs and said, "What’s 17  with that little dog?"
The store owner said that the vet(獸醫(yī))   18  the little dog and found it was   19 . It would always be lame(破的).
The little boy became   20  ."That is the dog that I want to buy. "
The store owner said, "No, you don’t need to buy that little dog. If you really want him,
I’ll just give him to you. "
The little boy got quite sad. He said angrily, "I don’t want you to give him to me. I’ll 21    the full price for him. In fact, I’ll give you $ 2.37 now, and 50 cents a month   22 I have paid the full price. "
The store owner continued, "He is   23  going to be able to run and jump and play with you like the other dogs."
To his   24  ,the little boy rolled up(卷起)his trousers to show his badly hurt left leg. He looked at the store owner and    25   answered," Well, I don’t run so well myself and the little dog will need someone who understands him. "

Hello! My 51  is Mammon. I 52  a girl. I wear (穿著) a nice jacket. Its 53 is blue. I like it. I have a new classmate(新同學). He is a 54  . His name 55  Jim Miller. His 56  name is Jim. He wears a 57 , too. It is white. I ask(問) him a 58 , “What’s 59  telephone number?” His 60  is “2953374 ”. Mr. Huang is my English teacher. He is a good teacher.

I have a pen pal. He is from America. __1__ name is Jack Smith.  Jack can speak English and__2__ French. He wants to learn Chinese, __3__ he thinks it is too difficult.
He lives in Boston. He is twelve years __4__ this year. He likes pandas __5__ , because he thinks pandas are very lovely. Jack often goes to the __6__ to see pandas with his friends. The pandas are __7__ China.
He wants __8__ an actor like Li Lianjie, and he __9__ very hard. We often write to each other. He often __10__ me about his school life and his friends. I am happy to have this friend.
【小題1】 A. Her         B. His          C. My        
【小題2】 A.a lot        B. many        C. a little         
【小題3】 A. or        B. but          C. so          
【小題4】 A. old         B. young         C. big          
【小題5】A. much           B. very           C. very much            
【小題6】 A. school     B. zoo      C. supermarket        
【小題7】 A. in          B. to          C. from
【小題8】A. to be           B. to have           C. be            
【小題9】 A. plays        B. studies          C. lives         
【小題10】A. says          B. speaks        C. tells 

Dean Bluey is 14-year-old boy from the USA. He became a hero after he saved(救)the life of a girl in another country.
A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a woman in another country．
One day，he  46  an email to a friend on the Internet．To his surprise, he received a message, saying “Help! Pain! Help!”．"The   47  was from Finland(芬蘭)， thousands of  kilometers away from America．Later Dean said to a reporter,  “I didn't know   48  I should do.  It was really difficult to tell if the message was real．”So Dean did nothing at first． 49  the message kept coming．Now it was easy to see that someone was in trouble. He   50   and found that the sender was a student called Tarja,   51   was ill, alone in a university library. What was   52 , there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by email. Dean telephoned the  53    immediately. And they realized that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance(救護車) rushed to the library   54  , she was still alive and was sent to the hospital quickly.
　“I'm glad she's OK,” Dean said. “It's hard to believe, but   55  saved her life.”