五、选词填空。(每小题 1 分,共 5 分)
cheer up the height of understand tell funny jokes person
1. They when they saw us coming along.
2. The foreigner couldn't me because my pronunciation was different from hers.
3. Does anyone know the tallest building in Wuxi?
4. Mark Twain was a man full of humour. He often .
5. In China, a number of birthday eat cakes with candles. The number of candles is the person's age.

1. cheered up 2. understand 3. the height of 4. told funny jokes 5. persons

六、首字母填空。(每小题 1 分,共 10 分)
For most people, friends are those who stay with us for a long time in our life. But in fact, there is 1. kind of friend—those who aren't with us for a long time, but bring us happiness and warmth at some moment.
I met my first such friend Lily in the hospital. She was in the bed next to 2. . Lily was about two years 3. than me and much livelier. She would jump out of bed when the nurse left. Without her, I would be 4. and afraid because my parents couldn't stay with me all the time.
Two years later, my parents sent me to a nursery school (幼儿园) 5. they were quite busy. There, I met a 6. girl. Our friendship 7. with competition (竞争) and we tried to 8. each other in all things. Our competition made me feel happy and excited. And maybe she felt the 9. as me. We couldn't speak to each other because of the language differences, but we finally became good friends.
Such friends often support us when something bad happens. And in our hearts, we should 10. them for their love and wish them well.

1. another 2. mine 3. older 4. alone 5. because 6. foreign 7. began 8. beat 9. same 10. thank

七、语法填空。(每小题 1 分,共 10 分)
One day at school, something strange caught Ann's attention. Lily 1. ______ (quick) put a bag in her desk drawer, making Ann feel unusual. Later, she saw Lily secretly giving something 2. ______ Cindy under the desk. It seemed that they decided 3. ______ (do) something without her. Ann thought, “How can my best friend plan a thing without inviting me?” Even though they were still 4. ______ (friend) to her, she was a little upset.
On the bus home, Ann avoided (避免) 5. ______ (sit) next to Lily on purpose. She noticed Lily giving an envelope to someone else, which made her even more upset.
Later that evening, there was 6. ______ knock on Ann's door. There stood Cindy from next door, 7. ______ (invite) her to Lily's party. 8. ______ first, Ann didn't want to go and said no to her, explaining that they were no 9. ______ (long) friends. But Cindy kept asking Ann to come along.
When they arrived at Lily's house, everyone shouted, “Surprise!” Ann hardly 10. ______ (believe) that. Lily smiled and said, “Tomorrow is your birthday!” Ann was so moved that her eyes filled with tears. She said thanks and hugged Lily.

1. quickly 此空修饰动词 put,应填副词 quickly 表示“快速地”。
2. to 短语 give sth. to sb. 意为“给某人某物”。
3. to do 短语 decide to do sth. 意为“决定做某事”,此空应填动词不定式。
4. friendly be friendly to sb. 意为“对某人友好”。
5. sitting 短语 avoid doing sth. 意为“避免做某事”。
6. a knock 是单数名词,前无限定词,且以辅音音素开头,故填 a。
7. inviting 此处为现在分词短语作伴随状语,故用动词-ing 形式。
8. At 固定搭配 at first 意为“起初”。句首单词首字母大写。
9. longer 固定搭配 no longer 意为“不再”。
10. believed 整段用的是一般过去时,此空应填过去式。