21．
　　The Eiffel Tower is an important landmark of Paris and it is one of the world's most famous monuments (纪念建筑). Every year over 7 million visitors are (1)      by it.
　　The Eiffel Tower was (2)       for taking part in the World's Fair — a celebration held in Paris between May and October, 1889. Before it was built, however, several French artists didn't think it was proper to build such a strange (3)      tower in Paris, the capital of France. They believed that it wouldn't match the (4)       beauty of Paris's other famous monuments, such as the Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Arc de Triomphe.

37． "It's only two weeks till we go!" Laura said excitedly.
"Oh, yeah. Hm!"
"I just can't wait to show you the White Water Park — it's the most amazing fun in that area!"
"I bet. Yeah!It must be."
"It's just great that Mum and Dad said you could come. It'll be so much better than being on my own with Toby and Matt. They are so boring and they just want to play computer all day."
"Er …" Rupa hesitated. "It is unbelievable that your mum and dad invited me. It was so kind of them. It's even more amazing that my parents said I could go …but …"
"Yeah! I didn't think they would either. I mean, they didn't even want you to come skating when we went for Annie's party, did they?"
"No — well, they are a bit crazy about homework, you know."
"I hope we're in the Lakeside House. You can watch birds with huge wings flapping over the lake while you have breakfast."
"Hm!Sounds good. Er …"
"Er what? You're not sounding all that excited any more. You haven't changed your mind?"
"Er …"
"Roops! What is it?What's happened?"
"Well, nothing exactly happened …"
"Well, then, what? You're my bestest friend!"
"I know!And you're mine! It's just …"
"WHAT?"
Rupa paused. She drew a deep breath.
"Leon's coming from America. He gets in the day we're supposed to be going away. He leaves the day we get back. If I come away with you, I will miss him. Completely!"
Laura went very pale.
"Oh no. And I will miss him too!"
The girls stood in silence, both of them heartbroken, thinking of Rupa's film-star cousin and how they had dreamed of meeting him.

38．　　Is there anyone around you who is a short sleeper? A short sleeper is a person who (1)       sleeps less than the average member of his age group. His nightly length of sleep is five hours or less. The short sleeper feels good after waking up.
　　The limited time asleep is (2)       to a short sleeper. It is not a behaviour of reducing the amount of sleep or (3)      to sleep. This low amount of sleep is very stable (稳定) from night to night. It is also the same on weekends and holidays.
　　A pattern (模式) of short sleep often begins as a child or young adult. Once it begins, the pattern continues through the years. This pattern of short sleep may cause others to be (4)      . Family members or friends may think that something is wrong.
　　Someone may tell a short sleeper to use medicine to help him sleep more. This will make him get sleep that he really does not need. It will bring him more problems. A short sleeper will also have trouble with his family and friends if he expects others to (5)       his pattern of sleep. Most people will not be able to do well with only five hours of sleep each night.
　　Short sleeping can be confused with insomnia (失眠症). Both (6)       can cause a person to get a small amount of sleep at night. A person with insomnia has a hard time falling asleep or staying asleep. The overall quality of his sleep may be very poor. This can cause him to be sleepy during the day. The short sleeper does not have any of these problems.

39．　　One evening after dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher called a family meeting. "We've got something important to tell you." Mr. Thatcher said. "You see, your mother has been offered a job as co-director of a television station in a big city. After thinking long and hard about it, we've concluded that the right d(1)      is to move to that city."
　　Kenny looked shocked, while his sister Edith breathlessly started asking when they would be moving.
　　"It's s(2)      , but exciting!" Edith said.
　　"We can't go — I can't leave all my friends. I'd rather stay here and live with Tony Strong!" Kenny said.
　　The Thatchers hoped that by the time they moved in August, Kenny would get more used to the i(3)      of leaving. However, he showed no signs of a(4)      the news and didn't want to pack his belongings.
　　When the morning of the move arrived, Kenny was nowhere to be found. His parents called Tony Strong's house, but Mrs. Strong said she hadn't seen Kenny.
　　Actually Kenny had started walking over to Tony Strong's house. There was an empty room in the Strongs' house. Kenny thought maybe he could h(5)      there for a few days. If his family couldn't find him, they would have to move without him. Then he could still stay with his friends.
　　But something happened on the way as Kenny walked past all the f(6)      places of the neighbourhood:the fence that he and his mother painted, the tree that he and his sister used to climb, the park where he and his father took evening walks together. How much would these mean without his family?Kenny didn't take the time to answer that question but hurried back to his house i(7)      . He wondered if there were any moving boxes of the right size to hold his record collection.

40．　　It was at least two months before Christmas when nine-year-old Almie Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle. As Christmas drew nearer, her desire for a bicycle didn't seem that strong, so we bought the most popular present for little girls, Baby Sitter's Club dolls and a doll house.
　　Then, out of our expectation, on December 23, Almie said that she "really wanted a bike more than anything else". It was just too late. With all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last minute gifts, how could we have time to select the "right bike" for our little girl?
　　So, here we were Christmas Eve around 9:00 p. m., with Almie and her six-year-old brother, Dylan, ready for sleep in their beds. Now we could only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child.
　　"If I make a little bicycle out of clay (黏土) and write a note that she could trade (用…抵换) the clay model in for a real bike, what do you think?" her dad asked.
　　"Well, for now, I think this is the best thing we can do. And she is 'such a big girl', so I think she will like it."
　　So Almie's dad spent the next four hours working with clay to make a tiny bike. On Christmas morning, we were excited for Almie to open the little heart-shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Finally, she opened it and read the note aloud.
　　"Does this mean that I trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?"
　　Smiling, I said, "Yes."
　　Almie had tears in her eyes when she replied, "I could never trade in this beautiful bicycle that Daddy made me. I'd rather keep this than get a real bike."
　　At that moment, we wanted to buy her every bicycle on the planet.

41．Write at least 60 words on the topic "At that moment, I realized the importance of (something/being…)" 【以"那一刻我意识到…有多重要"为题, 写一篇不少于60词的短文, 标点符号不占格】
提示:无论是生活还是学习, 一定有一些事情让你感到特别有意义, 它们往往会让你意识到一些东西的重要性. 请就其中一次经历, 谈谈发生了什么以及你从中获得的感悟.
(注意:短文中不得出现任何人名、校名及其他相关信息, 否则不予评分. )