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! Those 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. Chinese 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 use cool pencil cases. They show off their expensive things to 45 kids. Then everyone else wants them too. For example, some "rich" kids use a pencil box that 46 1,000 yuan! It not only holds pencils, but also has a thermometer (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 these "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 yourself first. So, study hard, you will get a great job in the future.

Parents should also learn 50 to refuse 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

42. A. hate B. refuse C. want

43. 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）

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 because we often need help ourselves. The small even can help the great. About this, he told the following 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 herself 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 herself that had saved her life.