11．　　I was 15 months old, a happy carefree (无忧无虑的) kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I (1)       on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. My mom found a doctor who knew that if the eye were removed, my face would look ugly, so my scarred (有疤痕的), sightless, cloudy gray eye lived on with me. Sometimes people asked me embarrassing questions. When kids played (2)       I was always the monster. I grew up imagining that everyone looked down on me.
　　Yet Mom would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world. " I began to rely on (依靠) that (3)      . As a child, I thought Mom meant, "Be careful or you will fall down or bump into something (4)       because you are not looking."
　　As a teenager, I usually looked down to hide (掩藏) my shame (羞愧). But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me. In high school I even became the class president (学生会主席), but on the inside I still felt like a freak (怪物). All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really (5)       I would (6)       to my mom and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, "Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is (7)       instead of your appearance (外貌)"
　　When I met the man who became my husband, we looked at each other straight in the eye, and he told me I was beautiful inside and out. My mom's love was the (8)       that gave me confidence. I had faced hardships, and learned not only to be (9)       but to have deep compassion (怜悯) for others.
　　"Hold your head up high" has been heard many times in my home. I (10)       it to my children. The gift my mum gave me live on in another generation.

12．　　What problems do the teenagers probably have? Here is a survey showing their main problems.

13．　　Tony loved basketball. One afternoon on his way to a basketball game, he was walking and dreaming about playing college basketball the next year. Suddenly a car hit him and he was thrown three meters into the air.
　　Tony woke up in a hospital room. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken, he knew his college basketball dreams were over. Tony did what the doctors told him, but it didn't work. After he left the hospital, Tony was sent to a health center.
　　A week after he arrived there, he met Sunny Chen. Sunny used to be a coach. His legs were hurt badly in a skating accident. Though he couldn't move his legs, Sunny became a coach of a basketball team called the Suns. It was an on-wheelchair basketball team, because everybody on the team played from a wheelchair. Sunny invited Tony to join the game. Tony played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself.
　　After becoming a part of the Suns, Tony improved quickly. Basketball was like medicine for him. Tony was much better than before. When Tony became sad or angry, Sunny was there to be with him. The day before Tony left the center, he had dinner with Sunny. He asked Sunny how he could be so happy, even with his broken legs.
　　Sunny smiled and said, "It's really quite easy. When you keep your face to the sun, the shadows fall behind."

14．
　　English is an excellent language to learn. It is important for study, business and travel. Read the information below and learn more about listening and reading skills.
　　Listen to English radio.
　　One of the best ways to improve your English listening is to listen to English radio on your mobile phone.
　　You should listen to the radio shows for more than 30 minutes every day.
　　Try to understand what is said. Don't just let the English wash over you. If you find the listening too fast, try to pick out the key words to get a general idea of it.
　　You can also make a note of any words or phrases (短语) that you don't understand. Look them up in the dictionary later. Then listen to the show again.

　 Watch English movies and TV shows.
　　Another fun way to improve your listening is to watch English movies and TV shows.
　　Try to choose movies or TV shows that you will enjoy. This will make the listening more interesting. When you like the movie or TV show, you may forget your task is to practice listening. You just enjoy it.
　　However, you should not watch movies or TV shows with Chinese translations (翻译) on the screen. It will be difficult for you to focus on English.
　　Read an English book, newspaper or magazine (杂志).
　　Reading is an important part of learning a language, so don't forget to practice!
　　Choose a book that you are really interested in. It can be an English novel or a magazine. Then start working your way through it. If you find it boring, it's difficult for you to finish reading it.
　　Again, try to understand what you're reading. Pick out any words or phrases that you don't understand. Then look them up in the dictionary.
　　Learning any language requires hard work and skills, so find good methods and work hard.

15．　　In 1938, a fishing boat off the coast of Africa pulled up its nets. One net held a very strange fish, five feet long and bright blue. Strangest of all, it had fins (鳍) that looked like legs!
　　In the nets, only this fish stayed alive for several hours. Before the fish began to rot (腐烂), a young woman made a drawing of it. She sent her drawing to a scientist on sea life, Professor J. B. Smith.
　　Upon seeing her drawing of the fish, Smith couldn't believe his eyes. Could it be true? It just didn't seem possible, but there it was. It could be only one thing, a coelacanth, a fish people believe having extincted fifty million years ago. How could the fish be swimming about only a few days before?
　　If we found one, there must be others. The professor put up posters offering a reward for catching such a fish. Other scientists laughed at Smith. They thought the search was a waste of time. Years passed. It seemed the other scientists were right. But Smith never gave up hope. One day, fourteen years later, the professor received a telegram. A fish had been caught that looked like the one in the poster. Would the scientist fly to the region and check the fish? Smith did.
　　With shaking fingers the professor raised the cloth around the fish. It was exactly like the one in the young woman's drawing. It was a coelacanth, a missing link (关联) with the past!
　　After the discovery of the coelacanth, scientists began to wonder. Is it possible that an even stranger creature (生物) will someday be discovered?

17．　　Wild animals are our friends, but many of them are getting fewer and fewer. We should try to protect them. The four animals below are now in danger.
　　Tibetan Antelope
　　Tibetan antelopes (藏羚羊) are medium-sized animals. They mainly feed on grass. They are usually found in groups of about 20. They are killed for their wool, which is warm, soft and fine and can be made into expensive clothes. Although people can get the wool without killing the animals, people simply kill them before taking the wool. The number of them is dropping year by year. There are less than 75, 000 Tibetan antelopes left in the world, down from a million 50 years ago.
Golden Monkeys
　　Golden monkeys are mainly found in Sichuan, Gansu, Shanxi provinces and Shengnongjia mountainous area of Hubei Province. Golden monkeys have golden-orange fur. They move around in the daytime, usually in groups of as many as 100 to 200 heads, or 20 to 30 heads. They feed on fruits and young leaves of bamboos. But people are destroying the environment where they live. Trees and bamboos are disappearing, so golden monkeys have less and less to eat.
Elephants
　　Elephants are very big and strong. They are bigger than any other animals on land. They are grey and have long trunks and tusks. They have poor eyesight, but very good hearing and smell. They can lift heavy things and break down branches with their trunks. Elephants are very friendly towards each other and towards their neighbors. Normally, they live in a group for many years. Young male elephants do not leave the group until they are about 12 years old. Now, there are very few elephants in the world. The number of them is becoming smaller and smaller because their living areas are used for farming. Also, people hunt them for their tusks.
Wolves
　　Wolves are not very big. They have grey fur. Wolves have very good eyesight, hearing and smell. Wolves' food is various. They eat animals, insects and snails. They are friendly to each other and never attack people. They do not kill for fun. Wolves are in danger, too. They are losing their living areas because people cut down forests. Soon they will have no home or food.

18．根据中文大意，写出意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于60词的短文。所给英文提示词语供选用。
每个人都有自己的家乡，你的家乡在哪里？它是一个美丽的小村庄吗？那里因什么而著名？如果我们想去你的家乡旅游，你有什么好建议？文章开头已经给出，其词数不计入文章之内。所给英文词语仅供选用。
提示词语：hometown, city/village, in the east, be famous for, you'd better, hope
提示问题：
Where is your hometown?
What is it famous for?
What advice can you give us if we want to go to your hometown?
　　Everyone has his own hometown. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

19．你们学校正在开展 “书香满园” 的读书活动，请你推荐一本你喜爱的书或者戏剧，说明你喜爱它的原因，并介绍一些提高阅读能力的建议给同学们。
提示词语：favorite, show, describe, interesting, learn... from, a good idea, take notes. . .
提示问题：
What's your favorite book/play?
Why do you like it?
What's your advice to improve reading skills?
　　Reading is very important. For this reading activity, I'd like to introduce my favorite book/play to you all. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________