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Four girls were at the same school. They were good friends, so they often studied and played together.     1.    

One day one of the girls said, “There is a test this morning. Let’s go to school late. Then we won’t have to take the test.” “What can we tell the teacher?” One of the girls said. “He’ll be angry.

    2.  ”

The girls thought for several moments, then one of them said, “Let’s tell him that our taxi had a flat tire(爆胎).” “   3.   ” the other girls said. “We’ll tell him that.”

   4.  The test was finished.

“Why are you late?” the teacher asked. “You miss the test.” “Our taxi had a flat tire,” one of the girls said.

The teacher thought for a moment, then he said, “Sit down, one of you in each corner of the room.” The four girls did this. Then the teacher said, “Write the answer to this question on a piece of paper:  5.  ”

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s disappointment,she said she would go. This   16   be the first time that his classmates and teacher   17   his mother and he felt ashamed of her   18  . Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a scar(疤痕)that   19  nearly the right side of her face. The boy never wanted to   20  why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were impressed by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of the scar, but the little boy was still  21 and hid himself from everyone,  22   a conversation between his mother and the teacher.
The teacher asked   23 ,“How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother answered,“When my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was   24  afraid to go in because the fire was   25   ，so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless but   26  , a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She touched（摸着） the   27  side of her face. “This scar will be  28 ,but to this day, I have never regretted what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her mother in his arms and   29   a great sense of the sacrifice(牺牲)that his mother had made for him. He held her hand tightly for the   30  of the day.

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题卷上按题号写出各单词的完全形式（每空限填一词）。
【小题1】Could you give me a h________? I can’t stand up.
【小题2】James, there is only one minute l________, so we need to hurry up.
【小题3】Are you good at spoken English or w_______ English?
【小题4】One c___________ is equal to one hundred years.
【小题5】I w___________ go to his party unless I am invited.
【小题6】John came to China last year. He has b______ to learn speaking Chinese.
【小题7】Aunt Lucy used to be a f__________. She went fishing almost every day.
【小题8】Tomorrow is D__________ forty-fifth birthday. He looks older than Mum.
【小题9】Remember that it is not a _________ to use mobile phone in class.
【小题10】The teacher asked the boy many questions, but he only a_________ some of them.