1.Be quiet!I've got _____ to tell you.

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The room was so quiet that she could hear the _____ of her heart.

A．hitting

B．beating

C．tapping

D．knocking

As a young child, I was quiet and shy. I was also sick for a long time. My parents worked, and I spent a lot of time at my grandparent’s home. While my grandmother cleaned the house and cooked, my grandfather played with me.
I was six when my grandfather died. A few months before he died, he gave me a beautiful blue and white blanket (毯子). I loved the blanket very much because it made me think of my grandfather. But after a few years, the blanket didn’t look very good. It had holes and was dirty. I didn’t want to throw the blanket away, so my mother made the blanket into a book bag. I was proud of the book bag, and I used it to carry my books to school every day for a few years. Then the book bag was broken. I begged my mother to make something out of it. She made it into a pencil-box. After a few months, the pencil-box was broken, too. By then I could sew (缝), and I made the pencil-box into a small wallet.
I used it for three years, but one day I lost it. I felt sad. My friends and family said, “Forget about it, Paul. You can’t make something out of nothing.”
I thought about it for a while. I decided my friends and family were wrong. There was a way to make something out of nothing. I wrote down the story of my grandfather’s blanket.
小题1:From the story, we know that .

A．Paul’s grandfather gave him a blanket

B．the blanket made Paul think of his mother

C．a few years later the blanket was still new

D．Paul’s grandfather died when Paul was ten

小题2:Paul used the pencil-box for ________.

A．a few months

B．two weeks

C．three years

D．five years

小题3:Paul felt sad when he lost ________ one day.

A．the blanket

B．the book bag

C．the wallet

D．the pencil-box

小题4:Paul wrote down the story to ____________.

A．pass the time	B．find the blanket
C．tell his grandfather	D．remember his grandfather

---They are quiet, aren’t they?
---yes. They are accustomed ____at meals.

A．to talking

B．to not talking

C．to not talk

D．to talk

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