The school party was only two weeks away, and our children were all as ___1___as bees（蜜蜂）getting ready for it.

  That afternoon, as I __2___from my desk, Patty was standing there. She had waited to talk to me.

“Every year the other kids are always in a p-p-p-p-play or something, singing or t-t-t-t-taking, but I g-g-g-g-get to do some ___3___work for them. This year, I w-w-want to read a p-p-p-poem, myself! Please, Miss Teresa!”

    She was so ___4___that I couldn’t（拒絕）refuse her. I had to say, “Yes, you will. ”

    I tried to find some poems for her, but ___5___of my books was of good use. At last, I worked out a poem carefully myself. The poem wasn’t beautiful, but it would ___6___best for Patty.

    After a moment’s reading, Patty had remembered all the __7___and was prepared to do the poem. However, I had to stop her from doing too fast. Day after day, we worked together after school. She made wonderful progress.

  The night of the party saw children in __8_.

  The headmaster walked up to me with a piece of paper-the program list. “There is a _9___! Look, Patty here. But she can’t even say her own name well!” I had no __10___to explain（解釋?zhuān)?because many of my students were going up there. So I said to him, “We know what we are doing. ”

    Patty’s turn ___11___. She walked up there, neither fast nor slowly. She stood there. She began.

  I could ___12___breathe. I felt time stopped.

  She said every word clearly. She did every line nicely.

  Applause! Applause everywhere!

1A. happy                     B. busy                      C. small                     D. lovely

2 A. looked after            B. looked at                C. looked for              D. looked up

3 A. difficult                  B. important                C. boring                   D. quiet

4 A. hopeful                  B. wonderful               C. thankful                 D. careful

5 A. one                        B. some                      C. none                     D. both

6 A. speak                     B. work                      C. write                     D. look

7 A. words                    B. lines                       C. paragraphs             D. poems

8 A. trouble                   B. surprise                  C. excitement             D. danger

9A. question                  B. mistake                  C. thing                     D. reason

10 A. interest                 B. way                       C. wish                     D. time

11 A. came                   B. went                      C. ran                        D. flew

12 A. easily                   B. possibly                  C. hardly                   D. happily

That day was like any other day in his life. After school Michael walked past the shop in the street corner. He stopped to  21  the front row of shoes, and he felt sorry for himself. He  22  wanted to have a pair of shoes for his birthday.

He walked away sadly and thought of what to tell his mother. He knew she would give him   23   if she could. But he also knew very well she had   24  money. He decided not to go home ___25  , as he looked worried and his mother would notice（注意到） it. So he went to the park and sat down on the grass. Then he saw a boy in a wheel chair. He noticed the boy moved the wheels（輪子） with his hands. Michael looked at him carefully and was  26  to see that the boy had no feet. He looked  27  at his own feet. “It is  28  better to be without shoes than  29  feet.” he thought. There was no reason for him to  30  so sorry and sad. He went away and smiled, thinking he was more lucky in his life.

21A. see           B. look at         C. hear       D. notice

22.A. gladly        B. nearly         C. really       D. quickly

23.A. something    B. what           C. nothing      D. anything

24. A. little         B. a little          C. much        D. lots of

25. A. at once       B. then           C. just now      D. at all

26. A. pleased      B. excited         C. surprised    D. interested

27. A. up          B. through        C. out        D. down

28. A. much       B. still            C. even       D. less

29. A. out of      B. with            C. without     D. having no

30. A look        B. feel            C. appear       D. seem

One day, a boy was in Mr. Lazares's office. The boy was not behaving well in class. Mr. Lazares telephoned the boy's parents.“If you come to school with your son,I won't stop him having classes,”he said． The boy's father came to school and went with his son to every class. Other students looked at the boy and his father. The boy was embarrassed (難為情). After that he behaved better. And of course other students behaved better, too.

Now headmasters all over the USA are trying Mr. Lazares's idea． They, too, think that student behave better when parents come to school.

1．What does a headmaster usually do to the student if he behaves very badly? (　)

A．Writes to the students' parents.

B．Lets the student stay at school for an hour.

C．Calls the student's parents.

D．Stops the student having classes for several days.

2．When a student wasn't having classes for several days, he was ________. (　)

A．happy

B．angry

C．worried

D．afraid

3．What did Mr, Lazares do when his students were not behaving well in class? (　)

A．Tried to talk to them.

B．Sent them home.

C．Telephoned their parents to come to school and go to classes with them.

D．Had them stay in his office.

4．Why did the other students behave better,too? (　)

A．They didn't like to have classes with the boy's father.

B．They didn't want their parents to come to school.

C．They were afraid of teachers.

D．They were afraid of Mr. Lazares.