2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Last week, I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Rush Hospital. In one of the rooms a patient, who was an old man, got up from his bed and moved slowly towards me. I could see that he hadn’t a long time to live, but he came up to me, and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor. He compared his to mine and watched     1    (intent). “Frank!” I cried in surprise, but he tried to smile, all the time keeping his foot close to mine.

My thoughts raced back to more than thirty years ago. My memory was     2    (associate) with the dark days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The scene was an air-raid shelter(防空洞), in which about a hundred people slept every night.    3     we had to stay there was to make sure of our safety. That was the reason. Among them were Mrs. West and her son Frank. Why Frank interested me was     4     he was not normal. He had never been normal, ever since he was born. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had less of a mind than a baby had. Mrs. West, then 75, was a strong, able woman, as she had to be of course, because Frank relied     5     her completely.     6    (raise) her disabled son was no easy job. She was a representative of a kind and she devoted     7     (she) to looking after him.

One night a policeman came into our shelter and told Mrs. West that her house     8    (destroy) already. That wasn’t quite true. Though     9    (damage) badly, their house could still be used because the Wests went on living there for quite some time. But they certainly lost nearly everything they owned. The     10    (restore) of the buildings needed a lot of time.

I stood beside Frank and measured my right foot against his. They were about the same size. That night then, I took a spare pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. As soon as he saw me, he came running—and placed his right foot against mine. After that, he always greeted me in the same way.

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

The story goes     1     two friends are walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they have     2     argument, and one friend beats the other one in the face.

The one is hurt, but     3     saying anything, he writes in the sand: “Today my best friend beats me in the face.”

They keep on walking     4     they find an oasis (绿洲) and they decide to take a bath. The one who    5     (beat) gets stuck in the mire (泥潭) and starts to sink, but     6     (fortune) the friend saves him.

After he recovers from the near     7     (drown), he writes on a stone: “Today my best friend saves my life.”

His friend asks him, “When I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, but now you write on a stone. Why?”

He     8     (reply): “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, the winds of     9     (forgive) can rub it away. But when someone does something good to us, we must carve     10     on a stone, therefore, no wind can ever erase it.”

Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to engrave your benefits on the stone.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。请把答案写在答卷的相应位置。

A teacher gave his     1     (pupil) some sunflower seeds to let them learn to look after a plant. One boy in the class,     2     loved sunflower seeds, was very excited. He planted the seed and looked after it     3     great care for many days.

When the first shoot (嫩芽) finally appeared, the boy,     4    (fill) with impatience, went to see his teacher. The teacher said that he would still have to take care of the plant for quite some time     5     he was able to collect many seeds from just one sunflower. The boy was    6    (disappoint), but he kept     7     (look) after his sunflower.

However, he grew increasingly impatient, and did little else but pester (纠缠) his teacher for wanting to take out the plant. As soon as the boy saw the sunflower’s first seeds, he cut the plant. But the plant was still green, and of course the seeds couldn’t    8    (eat).

The boy was annoyed. He had put so much effort into     9     sunflower, but in the end he wasted it all for his impatience. And he was even    10     (angry) when he saw how big his classmates’ sunflowers grew. Finally, he decided not to be so impatient any more.

5 . 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～25的相应位置上。
Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him. This soon wakened the Lion, who     1    (catch) the little Mouse and was going to kill him. “Pardon, O King,” cried the little Mouse, “Forgive     2    this time. I shall never forget it and someday I will help you on return!” The Lion started to laugh, “Ha! Ha! Ha! A little Mouse can help a big Lion     3    me?” The Lion thought it was funny and let the Mouse go. Some time     4    (late) the Lion fell into a trap. The     5    (hunt), who desired to carry the Lion alive to the King, tied him to a tree. Meanwhile, he went in search of a wagon to carry the Lion on. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by.     6    (see) the sad situation    7    the Lion was, the little Mouse went up to him and soon chewed the net that bound the King of the Beasts. Soon the Mouse chewed a big hole     8    the net, and the Lion was free! “Was I not right?” said the Little Mouse, “You laughed at me but even     9    little Mouse can help a big Lion.” The Lion was so grateful     10    he no longer looked down on the little Mouse.
Little friends may prove great friends.