一、完形填空(10分)
When my aunt’s children were small, she decided to get them a puppy. Her neighbour’s dog had given 1 to a couple of puppies a few weeks earlier, so my aunt decided to buy one.
The day to bring home the little puppy came and the children were 2 . They waited at the front door to see the new family member. They named it Shorty happily and 3 welcomed it, preparing its food and a comfortable bed in a basket. The next day the children gave it some milk before kissing it goodbye and left for school. When they returned, they discovered that Shorty was missing. They 4 the whole house inch by inch, 5 it was nowhere to be found. The kids cried and sat at the front door for hours. Later in the evening, the 6 who sold them the puppy came over with Shorty, apologizing(道歉). To our 7 , it was the mother dog that had slid(溜) into my aunt’s house and carried the puppy back to his home. When he returned home from work, he found the puppy and went to my aunt’s home at once.
For a number of days, my aunt and her neighbour tried to keep the puppy in her home, because each day the mother dog would take it back. Finally, my aunt’s neighbour 8 and returned the money. The puppy went back to live with its mother dog from then on.
I came to realize that mother’s love is 9 all over the places you can imagine, even in the kingdom of animals. By the way, if you would like to keep a puppy as a companion(陪伴), you might as well keep the mother dog far away or keep 10 of them at the same time.
( ) 1. A. rise B. birth C. way D. attention
( ) 2. A. careful B. cheerful C. calm D. worried
( ) 3. A. simply B. suddenly C. warmly D. hardly
( ) 4. A. discovered B. cleaned C. searched D. looked
( ) 5. A. so B. though C. or D. but
( ) 6. A. parent B. friend C. relative D. neighbour
( ) 7. A. anger B. sadness C. surprise D. joy
( ) 8. A. kept on B. gave up C. broke out D. lost way
( ) 9. A. appearing B. flowing C. hurrying D. sitting
( )10. A. all B. each C. either D. both

二、阅读理解(16分)
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() 1. The underlined word “them” refers to “ ”.
A. pictures of the tea shop B. the postcards
C. pictures cut from the tea bottles D. the stamps
() 2. What does Tea-Rock celebrate?
A. Their sales in 20 countries. B. The 20th kind of tea they developed.
C. Their 20th year of business. D. The opening of their 20th store in the US.
() 3. Here is the postcard Jason is going to send to Tea-Rock 20. What else does he need to put on the postcard before he sends it?

A. His age. B. His address.
C. His birthday. D. Another picture of the tea cup.
() 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. People might win the tickets from New York to Suzhou.
B. Everyone can have a chance to win a prize by visiting the website.
C. There are only three prizes prepared for the people who send the postcards.
D. You can contact the shop either online or through the phone.