阅读完形挑战（5）
Ⅵ.完形填空:从A、B、C中, 选择一个最佳答案, 使短文意思完整。
Everybody wants a new start for a new school year. So, students often go back-to-school shopping. They buy school things and shoes. But, the story is not so easy.
"Mum, I want this pair of shoes!"
"Dear! Tho are 900 yuan! That is too 41 !"
"But all the boys in my class wear this brand (牌子)!"
So the real story is: Kids 42 to catch up with school fashion. Chine students 43 uniforms at school. Parents think all the kids look the same, but kids know the differences. The "rich" kids wear amazing watches, ride good 44 and u cool pencil cas. They show off their expensive things to 45 kids. Then everyone el wants them too. For example, some "rich" kids u a pencil box that 46 1,000 yuan! It not only holds pencils, but also has a thermome
ter (温度计), a compass (指南针), a music box and even games in it! But think about it. Do you really need 47 a special pencil box? What can you do with a compass or a thermometer in class? They only distract (分散注意) you.
As for the "rich" kids, they are not rich at all. 48 parents buy them all their school things. They may have an advantage now, but it won't last forever. If you want to show off 49 money you have, you have to make it yourlf first. So, study hard, you will get a great job in the future.
Parents should also learn 50 to refu their kids' demand s (要求). They should tell their kids: As students, what is really important is not school fashion but good school grades.
41. A. expensive B. cheap C. ugly跳伞
42. A. hate B. refu C. want
1010575743. A. do B. make C. wear
44. A. cars B. bicycles C. MP3
45. A. another B. the others C. other
46. A. pays B. costs C. spends
47. A. so B. such C. as
48. A. His B. Her C. Their
49. A. how many B. how much C. how long
50. A. how B. what C. why
(三)阅读理解（共50分）
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Ⅶ.阅读下面五篇短文,根据文章的内容选择最佳答案作答51-75题, 每小题2分。
A
A great French writer has said that we should help everyone as much as we can becau we often need help ourlves. The small even can help the great. About this, he told the f
ollowing story.
An ant（蚂蚁）was drinking at a small river and fell in. She tried her best to reach the side, but she couldn’t move at all. The poor ant got too tired but was still doing her best when a big bird saw her. With a pity, the bird threw a piece of wood. With it the ant reached the bank again. While she was resting and drying herlf in grass she heard a man coming up. He was walking without shoes on his feet and carrying a gun in his hand. As soon as he saw the bird, he wished to kill her, and he would certainly do so, but the ant bit him in one of his feet and at that moment the bird flew away at once. It was an animal much weaker and smaller than the bird herlf that had saved her life.
51. According to the French writer, we often need help from others, so we should______.
A. help others as much as we can
B. help the people who are may be uful to us
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C. get as much help as we can
52. An ant fell in the river and could not reach the side ______.
A. becau she didn’t try to
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B. becau she tried too hard
促促C. becau she wasn’t able to move in the water
53. Though the poor ant was too tired, she______.
A. stopped trying
B. stopped to rest
as引导定语从句C. went on trying
54. The writer tells this story to show_____.
A. even the small can help the great
B. how an ant saved a bird
C. how clever the ant is
檐的读音55. The title of this story can be_______.
A. Pity
B. Help
C. The Ant
B
Tears filled my eyes as I stood in our room. I was washing new jeans and a shirt of my 16-year-old stepson, Brett. He drank a lot last night. The clothing was already covered with throw-ups.
I was very tired. The clothes were just one thing. He had already kicked a large hole in his bedroom wall. Many windows were broken becau of his breaking in to steal money. Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During tho four years I had dealt
with Brett as patiently as possible, but inside I was feeling sad.
Later, I gathered strength again and continued parenting Brett. Still, Brett did not change his behavior.
When Brett was nearly 18, my husband and I decided to nd Brett to a boarding school that has very good result with troubled teenagers.
At the graduation ceremony the graduates stood one by one to thank tho who had helped them. Each graduate held a ro to give to the person who had meant the most to him or her.
Brett spoke lovingly to me, “You did so much. You were always there, no matter what happened. You always showed me such love. And I want you to know that I love you for it.”
