1 . When my daughter Sara was in the fifth grade, she came to me with a problem. “Marcy hates me!” she cried. “Because Kathy is my friend, too. She wants me to be her friend and nobody else’s. You talk to Marcy. You tell her that I want to be her friend, but I can have other friends, too!”

Oh! I looked at her for a few moments, wondering how I got into this mess (困境), when suddenly an idea came to me.

Picking up two baskets from the living room, I explained, “When everyone is born, he or she has a little basket. This little one here is yours. The big one is mine. As you grow, so does the basket. You can see your little basket is inside mine because when you were born, there were too many things you couldn’t do for yourself. I did everything you couldn’t do on your own.”

She nodded.

“Well, as you grew older and began to do some things on your own, I began placing a few more things in your basket. When you learned to tie your shoes, that went in your basket.”

She said softly, “I can tie my own shoes.”

“Right. As you grow older, there will be more and more things you must do on your own.” As I spoke, I gradually took her basket out of mine and handed it to her. “You will finally carry your own basket with things only you can do.”

She looked up at me and said, “I understand. There are some things that I have to do for myself because they are in my basket.”

1. What was Sara’s problem?

A．She didn’t have a basket.	B．She didn’t want her own basket.
C．She couldn’t deal with her friendship.	D．Her mother was too hard on her.

2. What did the author feel when she heard her daughter’s problem?

A．Angry.	B．Crazy.
C．Proud.	D．Helpless.

3. We can infer that Sara ________.

A．would talk to Marcy herself	B．wouldn’t make friends with Kathy
C．was too young to deal with anything	D．managed to persuade her mother to help her

4. The baskets mentioned in the passage refer to ________.

A．gifts given by God when everyone is born

B．something that people use to keep vegetables

C．growing abilities as you grow up

D．friendship that needs repairing

2 . A little boy almost thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world because a disease made his leg lame(跛的). He_____played with his classmates. When the teacher asked him to answer questions, he always ____his head without a word.
One ___ the boy’s father asked for some saplings(树苗)from the neighbor. He wanted the ____to plant a sapling(树苗) each person in front of the house. The father said, “Whose sapling grows best, I will buy him or her a favorite ______” Seeing his brothers and sisters watering the trees , however, the boy had an idea .He hoped that the tree he planted would _______ soon. So ,after watering it once or twice, he never ______it.
A few days later, when the little boy went to see his tree again, he was ___ to find that it didn’t fade but grew some fresh leaves. ______the trees of his brothers and sisters , his tree was even greener. His father kept his _____,   bought the little boy his favorite gift and said that from the tree he planted, he would become an outstanding _____when he grew up.
Since then, the little boy slowly became_______. One night, he lay on the bed but could not sleep. Then he got up and came to the_______ To his surprise, his _____was splashing(喷洒)something onto his tree. _____, he understood---his father had been ______fertilizing(施肥)his small tree!
He returned to his room, ____ running down. _____passed. The little boy didn’t become a botanist(植物学家)，but he was elected President of the United States. His name was Franklin Roosevelt. Love is the______nourishment(营养)of life________it is just a drop of clear water, it can still help the tree of life thrive(茁壮成长).1.

A．bravely

B．seldom

C．freely

D．always

2.

A．raised

B．nodded

C．lowered

D．knocked

3.

A．spring

B．moment

C．winter

D．week

4.

A．neighbors

B．friends

C．children

D．boys

5.

A．sapling

B．tree

C．gift

D．toy

6.

A．die

B．grow

C．break

D．survive

7.

A．led to

B．attended t

C．belonged to

D．objected to

8.

A．pleased

B．upset

C．worried

D．surprised

9.

A．Compared with

B．Similar to

C．Connected to

D．Popular with

10.

A．request

B．schedule

C．promise

D．secret

11.

A．president

B．botanist

C．artist

D．researcher

12.

A．smart

B．desperate

C．optimistic

D．practical

13.

A．field

B．courtyard

C．park

D．farm

14.

A．brother

B．sister

C．father

D．neighbor

15.

A．All of a sudden

B．For a moment

C．In time

D．From then on

16.

A．busily

B．quietly

C．cautiously

D．secretly

17.

A．water

B．tears

C．sweat

D．rain

18.

A．Hours

B．Months

C．Decades

D．Centuries

19.

A．last

B．only

C．least

D．best

20.

A．Even if

B．Now that

C．If only

D．What if