37.What is the best title for this passage？______

A. Trudy's Spider

B. Mother's Tickets

C. Calvin's Birthday

D. Rodney's Present．

四、补充句子（本大题共8小题，共16.0分）

38.Life is like a______（赛跑）．You either take the lead or fall behind．

39.I think these cameras are those______ （导演）．Please look after them．

40.-You______be too careful while you are driving a car．

-Safety is the first．

41.我一下飞机就爱上了这座城市．

______

42.你与堂弟和睦相处有困难吗？

______

43.实际上，他父母和他都不喜欢炫耀．

______

44.原来是我把她误认为那位名演员了．

______

45.让我们惊讶的是，他们己经参加了校排球队选拔．

______

五、选词填空（本大题共7小题，共140.0分）

46.The old man spent his lifetime fighting______ （反对）war．

47.No one is______ （严格）with us than Mr． Wang in our school．

48.As a result， he succeeded in getting a scholarship in his______ （五十）．

49.On 20'" January 1993， Hepburn passed away______ （宁静地）in her sleep．

50.-Did you see Super Brain last night？

-Yes． I never miss it______ I have something really important to do．

51.-I didn't know Zoe could play the guitar so well．

-She just learned one year ago． I guess she must have a______ for it．

52.-Do Mr． and Mrs． White have a daughter？

-No． The______ have no children．

六、阅读填空（本大题共1小题，共10.0分）

Who is the most famous fairy tale writer？ Many of you may say Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen．There is a big award that takes his name： the Hans

Christian Andersen Award（国际安徒生奖）．It is the

highest award for children's stories． A writer can only get it once in a lifetime．

On April 4， Cao Wenxuan won the 2016Hans Christian Andersen Award． He is the

first Chinese writer to ever win this important award for children's literature（文学）．

Cao Wenxuan was born in 1954in a small village in Yancheng， Jiangsu Province． Some of his stories are set there． He is now a professor（教授）

at Peking University． He started to publish children's fiction in 1979． Many of his novels have been translated into English， French， Japanese and Korean．

If you read Cao's stories， you will find beautiful and poetic（诗意的）

descriptions of scenery． For example， in The Grass House （1997）， Cao writes， "The grass grows toughly． When the sun shines， the grass shines like copper wire（铜线）．When the wind blows from the sea， the grass makes surprisingly metal-like sounds．" Cao also uses love as a theme in his stories， and he describes it with great beauty． You can find this theme in Bronze and Sunflower（《青铜葵花》）

（2005）． The ending of the story is sad， but it helps make the story more realistic． "Sad