When you are little, the whole world feels like a big playground. I was living in Conyers, Georgia, the summer it all happened. I was a second grader, but my best friend Stephanie was only in the first grade. Both of our parents were at work and most of the time they let us go our own way. It was a hot afternoon and we decided to have an adventure in Stephanie’s basement. As I opened the basement door, before us lay the biggest room, full of amazing things like guns, dolls, and old clothes. I ran downstairs, and spotted a red steel can. It was paint. I looked beyond it and there lay even more paint in bright colors like purple, orange, blue and green. “Stephanie, I just found us a project for the day. Get some paint brushes. We are fixing to paint. “ She screamed with excitement as I told her of my secret plans and immediately we got to work. We gathered all the brushes we could find and moved all of our materials to my yard. There on the road in front of my house, we painted bit stripes(条纹)of colors across the pavement(人行道). Stripe by stripe, our colors turned into a beautiful rainbow. It was fantastic! The sun was starting to sink. I saw a car in the distance and jumped up as I recognized the car. It was my mother. I couldn’t wait to show her my masterpiece. The car pulled slowly into the driveway and from the look on my mother’s face, I could tell that I was in deep trouble. My mother shut the car door and walked towards me. Her eyes glaring, she shouted, “What in the world were you thinking? I understood when you made castles out of leaves, and climbed the neighbors’ trees, but this! Come inside right now!“ I stood there glaring back at her for a minute, angry because she had insulted(侮辱)my art. “ Now go clean it up!“ Mother and I began cleaning the road. Tears ran down my cheeks as I saw my beautiful rainbow turn into black cement. Though years have now passed, I still wonder where my rainbow has gone. I wonder if, maybe when I get older, I can find my rainbow and never have to brush it away. I guess we all need sort of rainbow to brighten our lives from time to time and to keep our hopes and dreams colorful.

It can be learned from the passage that parents should______.

A．encourage children to paint

B．value friendship among children

C．discover the hidden talent in children

D．protect rather than destroy children’s dreams

The underlined word “rainbow“ in the last paragraph refers to______.

A．the rainbow in the sky

B．the stripes on the pavement

C．something imaginative and fun

D．important lessons learned in childhood

What did the writer want to do when his mother came home?

A．To introduce Stephanie to her.

B．To prevent her from seeing his painting.

C．To put the materials back in the yard.

D．To show his artwork to her.

—Do you regret paying ten dollars for that book? —No, I would gladly have paid______. as twice many twice as many twice as much as twice much

______that’s important is that you are doing your best and moving in the right direction. One All Everything Anything

After that, he knew he could______any emergency by doing what he could to the best of his ability. get away with get on with get through get across

The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. That didn’t stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess. Parbati Barua’s father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up—how to catch wild elephants. Parbati hasn’t always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old fife. “Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase, “ she says. But Parbati doesn’t catch elephants just for fun. “ My work, “ she says, “ is to rescue man from elephants, and to keep elephants safe from man. “ And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill. The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. “ Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans. “ She said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!

It’s said that they have swum to the island from the continent, but they ______(不可能做到)because the ocean in between is too wide.(do)

My mother was so proud of all______(我所做的)that she rewarded me with a trip to Beijing.(do)

Mr. Johnson insisted that the problem worthy of attention______(讨论)at the meeting.(discuss)

The news______(房价将要下跌)has caused many people to sell their houses at lower prices.(fall)

______(不会用)a computer makes it more difficult for him to do his academic research.(use)

Only if people of all the countries are united ______(我们才能解决)the existing problems in the world.(solve)

We sat chatting for a few______(分钟)after finishing our meal.

When things aren’t going well, my parents always______(鼓励)me, telling me not to give up.

Mr. Whiter has been______(缺席的)from work for days, so he knows nothing about our new plan.

Jeff has the______(习惯)of listening to music while reading.

The teacher is glad that everyone in her class is______(渴望的)to learn.

请设计一节课的教案，达到以下目的： 1．学生能够通过组织乐队进行演唱来完成对某些词汇的听说读写； 2．培养学生运用英语的能力。

—May I have a doggie bag? —______, Madam. I’ll wrap it up for you. Go ahead Come on My pleasure No problem

I’m tired out. I______all afternoon and I don’t seem to have finished anything. shopped have shopped had shopped have been shopping

What he did has______shown his attitude. as well as as good as so well as so good as

The young lady______nothing but fashions on which she spends a lot. cares for applies for sends for runs for

It can be learned from the passage that parents should______.

The underlined word “rainbow“ in the last paragraph refers to______.

In his mother’s eyes, the writer______.

What did the writer want to do when his mother came home?