Do you like having a picnic with your family? I like it very much.   (1)   Sundays, I often go to the countryside（乡下）   (2)   a picnic with my family. We   (3)   some food and drinks there. My mother   (4)   cook. And my father helps her to   (5)   water. They are    (6)   to play with us. My sister and I sing   (7)  . My brother   (8)   a kite with his dog. After meal（饭）, we go   (9)  . We are all  (9)  . I love my family.

    It was Sunday yesterday. Steve   (1)   a relaxing weekend.   (2)   Sunday morning, he played computer games with his friends at home. It   (3)   pretty good. In the afternoon, he   (4)   with his mother. They bought many kinds of food and vegetables. It was really relaxing and exciting. In the evening, he   (5)   a talk show with his parents and listened to some songs by a   (6)   singer.   (7)   Ann had a busy weekend. She   (8)   stopped working. On Sunday morning, she cleaned her bedroom and did her homework. In the afternoon, she went to visit her uncle and   (9)   him do some farm work. In the evening, she cooked dinner for her parents. After dinner, she washed the dishes. Then she went out   (10)   a walk with her dog.

    What about your weekend?

  I talked to my children about my life 40 years ago. I ____  (1)  ____ lots of things when I was young. I was ____  (2)  ____ in the countryside in America .We lived with my grandparents on their farm. Then we moved to Des Moines, Iowa, a small farming town (城镇), because my dad ____  (3)  ____ his job. That year, I was eight years old, ____  (4)  ____ my first school was in Des Moines, Iowa.

    I had to ____  (5)  ____ the bus to school. I had to stand on the ____  (6)  ____ by our farm at 7:00 am and wait. lf the bus was late, I waited for the bus. lf I was late, the ____  (7)  ____ waited for me! If I was sick (生病), someone went down to the road to tell the driver I wasn't coming. There were only about thirty students in the school, ____  (8)  ____ of the students came from farms, so we soon made friends and had good time ____  (9)  ____.It was good to be with my friends.

    Not long after I left the school, they closed it because it ____  (10)  ____ too much to run for only about thirty students. Sometimes I come back to my school in my dream (梦)!

We all love our parents and turn to them for help when we’re in need, but would you like to add (添加) your parents to be your friends in social networks(社交网络),   (1)  QQ and We-chat? Would you like to let them   (2)   your online activities?

    Parents   (3)   little about social networks. But now, more and more parents are beginning to find how important social networks are in their lives. A lot of parents are learning how to use social networks from their children. And some parents are teaching   (4)   about it.

But are we going to add our parents to be our friends? It’s   (5)   to decide. On one hand, we don’t say no to our parents because it may hurt their feelings or make them feel we have    (6)   to hide (隐藏). On the other hand, if we let them be our friends, we will feel that we are not free to talk on social networks.  

Some people think that parents don’t need to be   (7)   if their children don’t want to add them into their friends list. “When your children say no to you, it doesn’t mean that they are hiding something, but it means that they want to be independent (独立的)   (8)   they can do something on their own.”

 Perhaps we should spend more time   (9)   with our parents face to face if we want a friends list   (10)   our parents in.

More and more Chinese people go traveling abroad during these years. But not all tourists behave politely in the places of   (1)  . Recently, a story about a 15-year-old Chinese tourist   (2)   a heated discussion online. The 15-year-old teenager carved “Ding Jinhao was here”   (3)   Chinese in the 3,500-year-old Luxor Temple(卢克索神庙). A Chinese traveler took a   (4)   and shared it on Sina Weibo on May 24.

Many people were   (5)   about what Ding had done and decided to search the Internet for the boy. It   (6)   them just one day to find information about him in Nanjing.   (7)  _, Ding’s parents quickly said sorry to the media. “We want to say sorry to the Egyptian people and to people   (8)   have paid attention to this matter across China,” Ding’s mother said. Ding’s parents said they should   (9)   their son’s behavior and he had learned his lesson. According to Xinhua, local Egyptians had worked to try and   (10)   the sculpture(雕像). Although there was some improvement, the words could not be totally wiped off.

     Listening and speaking is the groundwork of reading and writing. You’d better   (1)    your   Best to speak while you do much listening. Don’t be    (2)  of making mistakes. But be careful not to let them stop you from improving your   (3)   While you are doing this, a good   (4)   is to write. Then if you can, ask some others to go through    (5)   you have written and tell you where it is wrong. Many mistakes in your speaking will be   (6)   found when you write. Through correcting the mistakes，you can do better in learning English.

        If you are slow in speaking, don’t    (7)  about it. One of the helpful ways is reading, either aloud or to yourself. The important thing is to choose something interesting to read. When you are reading    (8)   this way, don’t stop to look up the new words if you can guess their meanings. You can do that some other time.

    Karen has two brothers, Dan and Andy, and one   (1)  , Tina. Karen’s mother gets up   (2)   five thirty. She   (3)   a shower and then she eats   (4)   at six o’clock.

    Karen and Tina get up at six thirty,   (5)   Dan and Andy get up at eight thirty. Karen and Tina   (6)   sports in the morning, but Dan and Andy   (7)  . Karen,   (8)   mother, Dan and Andy watch TV in the evening. Tina   (9)   her homework and then   (10)   to bed.

What would you do if you found a wallet on the street? Maybe you say quickly that you want to  (1)  it back to the owner．But what if there’s lots of money in it，for example,$50，000？You may spend time deciding  (2)  to do．But Pakistani hotel cleaner Mr Khan showed us how to be  (3)  .

Mr Khan is a cleaner in a  (4)  in Pakistan．He only makes less than$240 a month．But he handed the$50，000 over to the hotel as  (5)  as he found it．He said he never considered keeping the money  (6)  ．“Although times are hard for everyone，that doesnˈt mean we should start stealing and  (7)  things which don’t belong to us，”Mr Khan said．

Mr Khan is a father of five and he hopes his act of kindness will  (8)  his country．“I want people around the world to know that there are many good people in Pakistan—not  (9)   is a terrorist(恐怖分子)here，”he said．

Mr Khan has been  (10)  as a national hero．The government was proud of him and said that this is the face of Pakistan that people donˈt see normally．He was also given a $220 award by the hotel．

London is a beautiful city. It is very large. The Thames River runs ___(1)___ the city from west to east. So the city has __(2)___ parts: the South and the North. In the North, there are important buildings, shops, big parks and interesting places. The weather in London is good. In winter it is not very cold and in summer it is not very hot __(3)____ the city is near the sea. People say that London is a foggy(多雾的) city and it often __(4)___. It is true.

    Last year, when I ____(5)___ in London, I met one of the ___(6)___ fogs in years. You could hardly see your hand in front of your face. Cars and buses moved along with their lights on. When evening came, the weather got ___(7)____ worse. The fog was as thick as milk. ___(8)__ the buses and cars stopped. I had __(9)__ an important meeting on the other side of the town, but it was impossible to find a car. I had to get there ___(10)____.