16．　　Once, a king showed two men a large basket in the garden. He told them to fill it (1)      water from a well (水井). After they began their work, he left them, saying, "When (2)      sun is down, I will come and see your work."
　　At last one of them said, "What's the (3)      of doing this foolish work?We can never (4)      the basket." The other man answered, "That is none of your business." The first man said. "You may do as you like, but I am not going to work at nothing so foolish." He (5)      down his bucket(桶子) and went away. The other man said no word, and kept on (6)      water. At last the well was almost empty.
　　As he poured the last bucket of water into the basket, he saw a bright thing in it. He (7)      . It was a beautiful gold ring. Just then the king came. (8)       he saw the ring, he knew that he had found the kind of man he wanted. He told him to keep the ring (9)      himself. "You have done so well in this little thing", now I know I can (10)       you with many things." he said

17．阅读下面的材料, 判断下列句子是否符合短文内容．符合的写T, 不符合的写F．(T ＝ True, F ＝ False)
　　E-book is short for electronic (电子) book. It is usually read on personal computers. Some mobile phones can also be used to read e-books.
　　Earlier e-books were written for a certain group of readers and were about only a few subjects. With the development of the Internet, knowledge and answers to a lot of questions mainly come from e-books. This is why the e-book business is increasing quickly.
　　E-books have many advantages. First, they save time. We don't need to go a bookstore to buy books. Second, we can find the topic we want to know about on the Internet, and then we can quickly get many e-books on similar topics. Third, e-books save money. Some e-books cost us little money, and there are millions of e-books on the Internet that we can get for free. Fourth, more trees are saved because e-books don't need to be printed on paper. Besides, e-books make reading more convenient. You can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with you in a small computer or any e-book reader (阅读器), without worrying about their weight.
But e-books have certain disadvantages. They need a personal computer or an e–book reader, and the information can be lost if its file format (文件格式) is not supported (支持) or changed in the reader's computer.
However, e-books provide us with a new way of reading. That is good.

20．阅读短文, 然后根据短文内容, 简要回答下列问题.
　　A long time ago, there was an emperor. He had a beautiful garden. In the garden, there was a little nightingale (夜莺) singing very beautifully.
　　One day the emperor heard about this little bird's beautiful voice. He asked his guards to bring her to him. As soon as the emperor heard the nightingale's voice, he said, "Put her in a golden cage, so she can stay and sing for me whenever I want to hear her."
　　The tittle bird was so unhappy about being kept in the cage that she stopped singing one day. The emperor was very angry. He ordered the scientists in his palace (宫殿) to make a robot bird for him. The bird could sing very beautifully, too. The emperor was pleased.
　　Soon the robot bird became old. It no longer sang beautiful songs. Just at that time, the emperor became very weak. One morning, while lying in bed, the emperor wanted it to sing once again. But the robot bird couldn't sing any more. Suddenly the nightingale landed on the window. She began to sing her the most beautiful song. The emperor was very happy!He became better and better each day.
　　After the emperor was well, he changed a lot and became kind to his people. From then on, all his people cherished (爱戴) him for his love and kindness.

21．　　There are many beautiful stories in Chinese culture. Have you (1)       heard of the story of Chang'e?It is one of the most touching folk stories. It is said that Chang'e was Hou Yi's wife. In order to thank Hou Yi (2)       shooting down the nine suns, a goddess gave him magic medicine which could make him live forever. Hou Yi planned to drink it with his wife together. However, a bad man came to steal it one day when Chang'e was alone at home, but Chang'e (3)      to give it and drank it all. (4)       a result, she became very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he called (5)      his wife's name every night. On the bright night of August 15 in Chinese lunar year, he laid (6)      her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden in the bright and round moon. How he wished that his wife could come back! After that, people started the tradition of admiring the moon and sharing mooncakes.
　　Another story is about Erquan Yingyue. It is one of the pieces of the most moving Chinese folk music which is often played or praised by all the great erhu masters. The music was written (7)      a folk musician Abing who was born in the city of Wuxi. During Abing's lifetime, he showed great talents (8)       playing erhu. He could play over 600 pieces of music in total. Erquan Yingyue has become one of China's national treasures. The music is strongly beautiful, but under the beauty you can (9)      a strong sadness and pain. The erhu sounds (10)      sad that you can almost cry along with it while listening to it.

22．　　Only mother love is true love. Mother gives everybody everything all her life. (1)When you are still a baby, mother takes care of you as possible as she can.
　　In your walking hours she always holds you in her arms. When you are ill, she looks after you day and night and forgets about herself. When you are growing up day by day, she feels very happy. (2)当你够上学年龄的时候, she still looks after you all the time. (3)On cold winter days, she always tells you to put on more clothes. She always stands in the wind waiting for you back from school. When you hurry to leave home for school without breakfast, she always feels worried about you at home. She usually knows about your study and (4)在你的学习用品上花很多钱．When you do well at school, you will see the brightest smiles on her face.
　　Mother is always ready to give everything she has to her children, not to receive. (5)What true love that is in the world!We'll remember the special love for ever.

23．假如你是九年级八班的班长李雪, 班主任李老师想了解班级同学目前的思想, 学习等方面的状况, 以便有针对性地对学生进行考前心理疏导．请你根据下面的内容要求, 代表全班同学给班主任李老师写一封100字左右的e﹣mail说明情况, 并请她给大家提一些建议．内容要求:
1. 学习任务重, 考试多, 压力大;睡眠不足;缺少体育活动;同学间缺乏沟通和交流．
2. 家规很多．如不允许看电视、上网、听音乐等．
From:Li Xue@163. com
To:Ms Li @sina. com
Subject:problems
Date:January 19th, 2016
Dear Ms Li,
　　I'm very glad to write to you. As a head student in our class, I feel very sorry that we have a lot of trouble these days. (附开头) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Best wishes,
From Li Xue