(    )15.Thank you for helping me a lot. ___________ . That's what friends are for.

(1) You're welcome.   (2) Not at all.   (3) It's my pleasure.  (4) Don't mention it.

How many expressions can be used here?

A. Only one.     B. Two.      C. Three.     D. Four.

 Children often wish they were grown-ups, and old people wish they were      16     again. There are good things and bad things about all ages, and the happiest people are the ones who enjoy what each age      17 them without wasting their time with      18     regrets (遺憾).Childhood is a time when people have few tasks to make life      19     . If a child has good parents, he is very      20     because he can be looked after well. However, it is natural that he will never again in his life be      21      so much without having to do anything in return. Life is about giving new things to children. While for older people, those things may have lost their     22 because they know them very well. But children have their weaknesses too. They are not free to do everything they want to do; they are again and again being told what not to do or being punished for what they have done wrong.

When a young man   23   to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes and his house. He has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing the way he used to as a child, he will go      24     some day.      25   , if he works hard, he will be able to enjoy the great happiness of building up his own position in society.

(   )16. A. energetic    B. young    C. active     D. strong

(   )17. A. leaves    B. hopes   C. makes   D. gives

(   )18. A. useful  B. useless  C. happy     D. smart

(    )19. A. beautiful  B. easy   C. difficult   D. perfect

(   )20. A. lucky    B. unlucky   C. luckily    D. unluckily

(   )21. A. taught  B. asked for   C. paid    D. given

(   )22. A. stress  B. sense  C. value   D. interest

(   )23. A. plans  B. starts  C. continues   D. manages

(   )24. A. mad   B. blind   C. hungry   D. angry

(   )25. A. When  B. So    C. However   D. Therefore

(       )3. That really improves my________ .

A. spoke skills            B. speaker skills

C. speaking skills        D. speaking skill

(       )2. Jack tried to guess the answer by ___________ hard.

                A. thinking              B. to think

C. thought               D. thinks

(       )1.______ you work, ________ result you'll get.

A.  The more hard; the more better

B.  The harder; the better

C.  More hard; more better

D.  The harder; a better

(    )14. Let's write a letter to Mr. Sigmund Friend,____________ ？

A. will you   B. shall we    C. don't you      D. won't you

(    )13.________ wonderful advice you have just given me! It is so nice of you.

A. What  B. What an   C. What a      D. How

(   )12.1 feel       about the coming exam and it   me day and night.

A. worried; worried      B. worried; worries     

C. worrying; worried        D. worrying; worries

Alexis Rocha is a 13-year-old boy from California, the USA. He weighs 147 pounds (67 kg). But six months ago, he weighed more than 202 pounds (91 kg). How did he lose all that weight in only half a year?

"One day, I was surprised to find that I weighed about 200 pounds," Rocha says, "I thought I had to do something."

Rocha is from a boxing (拳擊)family―his father and two elder brothers are professional boxers. So he decided to start boxing. He began with simple exercise, like sit-ups and push-ups (俯臣卜撐).Then Rocha started jogging. "No kid likes running," he says. "I don't want to do it either, but I have no choice but to keep on."

Months later, Rocha joined a boxing club in his city. He is always the first kid at the club to begin exercising, and the last to leave with sweat (汗水)on his face. Every day he boxes for about three hours.

"Rocha works very hard," says his coach, Hector Lopez. "It's surprising to see him lose the pounds so quickly. I've never seen anything like this in my 20 years of coaching."

Rocha is very happy with his weight now. There is a family photo in his room from 18 months ago. "Each time I look at the photo, I laugh at myself. I was so big back then" Rocha says. "I look 100 times thinner and 1,000 times stronger now."

(   )26. How much weight did Rocha lose in six months?

A. At least 24 pounds.  B. At least 30 pounds.

C. At least 55 pounds.  D. At least 52 pounds.

(   )27. Rocha said he had no choice but to keep on running because .

A. he liked running very much  B. he wanted to be thin and strong

C. he wanted to be a professional boxer   D. he liked boxing very much

(   )28. What makes coach Hector Lopez surprised?

A. Rocha lost weight so quickly.   B. Rocha was so fat 18 months ago.

C. Rocha comes from a boxing family.   D. Rocha became a professional boxer.

(   )29. What's the correct order of the following sentences?

a.  He did some sit-ups and push-ups.

b.  He lost the pounds quickly.

c.   He joined a boxing club.

d.  He began running.

e.   He boxed for about three hours every day.

A. a-b-e-c-d    B. d-a-e-c-b                                  C. a-d-e-c-b    D. a-d-c-e-b

(   )30. The writer mainly wants to tell us____________ .

A. Rocha is a hard-working boy   B. it is important to get exercise

C. everything is possible if you work hard     D. it is important to keep fit

5.He is in c________ with his friend on the phone.