People like Edison Chen because he is young, good-looking and talented.  But some people don’t  46 because he likes to make faces and walks in a strange way.

No matter  47  people think of him, Edison doesn’t care. He likes his own style and his own music . He shows he has more  48 than luck.

  49 November 26 , Edison got one of the Lycra in Style Awards in Shanghai because he has been trying to   50   in music.

Edison first listened to hip-hop music  51 he was nine . He fell in love with it .

Now he’s working hard on making music with some Japanese friends .He wants to bring real hip-hop music to China.

His music tells young people that there’s   52  they can’t do. He also has the courage to himself, from his clothes to his hair. Some people don’t like his way of dressing. 53  say he walks like a gorilla. But he thinks it’s OK. “My  54 show my style , and my songs tell my feelings ,” he said . “If I only listened to others, I may  55  myself.”

The students in Shanghai No. 3 Girls’ High School have a flower-arrangement lesson every week. The course is the  41   of its kind among middle schools in Shanghai．It’s a new start. It helps the students to enjoy the  42  of flowers better. That’s  43   the course has become very popular among the students.

The teachers of the course are all  44  trained. They are good at this art and work hard at passing on the skill  45   students. So far, many students in the school  46   a lot of prizes in this field. In order to further   47   the students’ skill, the teachers usually play  48   while students are arranging flowers. Students 49   the music, and then they can  50  more good ideas for flower-arrangement.

Besides, the teachers   51    teach the students other skills at the same time, for example, they ask the students  52  compositions about flowers. In this way, students not only get art education but also improve 53    writing skills.

Several months ago, some foreigners visited the school. When they saw common flowers become more   54  meaningful, they got amazed and interested. They made  55  and would play them for their own students after they returned home.

1.A．first          B．second         C．third           D．last

2.A．color         B．beauty         C．smell           D．shape

3.A．how          B．when          C．why            D．what

4.A．clearly        B．special         C．polite           D．specially

5.A．with          B．for            C．on              D．to

6.A．win           B．won           C．have won        D．had won

7.A．drop           B．decide        C．develop          D．open

8.A．computer       B．games         C．jokes           D. music

9.A．a(chǎn)re angry with    B. are exciting with  C．a(chǎn)re afraid of      D．a(chǎn)re pleased with

10.A．come up with   B．run out of       C．hold on to       D．make a list

11.A．a(chǎn)lmost         B．never          C．hardly          D．a(chǎn)lways

12.A．write          B．writing         C．to write         D．wrote

13.A．their           B．your           C．our            D．theirs

14.A．ugly           B．lively          C．lonely          D．friendly

15.A．plans          B．notes           C．videos          D．gifts

Jason and Harry joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked very hard.
After several years, the boss made Harry sales manager but Jason   31  a salesman. One day Jason could not take it anymore. He handed in his resignation letter (辭職信) to the boss and complained that the boss did not   32  hard-working employees, but only raised those   33 tried to please him. He thought that it was really   34  .
In order to help Jason to realize the   35  between him and Harry, the boss asked Jason to do the   36  --- "Go and find out if there is anyone selling watermelons in the market." Charlie went, returned and only said, "Yes." The boss asked, "How much per kg?" Charlie went back to the market to ask and returned to   37  , "$ 12 per kg."
The boss told Jason that he would ask Harry the  38  question. Harry went, returned and said, "Boss, only one person selling watermelons. $12 per kg, $ 100 for 10 kg. He has a total of 340 melons. On the table are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 15 kg,   39 from the South two days ago. They are fresh, red, and of good   40 ."
Jason was   41  and he realized the difference between himself and Harry. He decided not to leave but to learn from Harry.
My dear friends, you know, a more   42  person is more observant(觀察力敏銳的), thinks more and understands in   43  . For the same matter, he sees several years ahead,   44  you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you   45 ?
Think: how far have you seen ahead in your life? How thoughtful are you?

These days computer games have bcome more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along busy ___1___ have changed into computer game houses in order to get more ___2__. These places are always crowded with people
In the computer game houses, people __3__ a lot of money matching on the machine. It’s __4__ for one to beat a computer, but one can do well after trying again and again. People want to __5__ when they play computer games. The more they __6__, the more they want to win, and at last they even can’t __7__ without it.
The result is that some people don’t want to _8_ and they play in computer game houses for hours and hours. For school boys, things are __9__. They don’t want to have __10__. When school is over, they rush to the computer houses near their __11__. Some of them can get enough money from their ___12__. Some of them are not _13__ to get the money. So they have to steal or rob others’ and become __14_ . Computer game addiction(上癮) is a __15_ problem in our life. Something has to be done to stop it.

Dr. Brown liked reading in bed when he was at school. But it was ___1___ for his eyes and now he is near-sighted. He doesn’t want ___2___ to know about it and he never wears ___3___. It often___4___ him some trouble.
One day he was invited to a village school. He took a bus to a small town. Then he had to __5__ to the village school. The road to the village was very bad. He fell over(摔倒) some times and it __6___ his clothes dirty. ___7___ he got to the village. Suddenly it began to blow(刮風(fēng)) heavily and his hat was off. He felt his hat run into a fence(籬笆). So he ran __8__ it into the house, too. An old woman __9___ him angrily and shouted(喊叫),” ___10___ are you running after my little duck?”