As we know, rainforests are the lung of the earth. They   (1)   about 6% of the earth’s surface. Half of the animals on Earth live in rainforests. The sloth(树懒) is one of them.

The sloth is the most interesting animal I know. It looks like a panda or a monkey. It always moves very slowly,   (2)   when it is in danger. But you can’t imagine(想像) it is good at swimming. When it is in the   (3)  , it can swim like a big fish.

Many people think it is a kind of   (4)   animal. Why? The sloth needs to   (5)   15 to 20 hours sleeping in the tree in the daytime. Yes, it does nothing   (6)   sleeping during the daytime. Maybe that’s the   (7)   why people think it’s lazy. When does it eat meals? Of course at night. It  (8)   leaves of the trees. It eats nothing else. So it can’t live without forests.

The sloth is a kind of rare(珍稀) animal. If we can’t protect it well, it will die out one day.

As we know, rainforests are the lung of the earth. They _(1)_ about 6% of the earth's surface. Half of the animals on Earth live in rainforests. The sloth (树懒) is one of them.

   The sloth lives in the tree _  (1)  _ 30 meters of the ground. It is the most interesting animal I know. It looks like a panda or a monkey. It always moves very slowly, _  (2)  _ when it is in danger. But you can't imagine (想象) it is good at swimming. When it is in the _  (3)  _, it can swim like a big fish.

   Many people think it is a kind of   (4)  _ animal. Why? The sloth needs to _  (5)   15 to 20 hours sleeping in the tree in the daytime. Yes, it does nothing _  (6)   sleeping during the daytime. Maybe that's the _  (7)   why people think it's lazy. When does it eat meals? Of course at night. It   (8)  _ leaves of the trees. It eats nothing else. So it _  (9)  _ live without forests.

   The sloth is a kind of rare (珍惜) animal. If we can't protect it well, it will die out one day.

 If you like to break things when you are unhappy, then Nanjing Zhonghua Middle School is the school for you.This term, Nanjing Zhonghua Middle place will build a“stress wall（发泄墙）”to help students who feel unhappy because of schoolwork or other reasons.

“Students can  (1)    (2)    (3)  hit the wall or write on thewall   (4)    (5)    (6)   makes them sad,”said Tao Dehua, a leader of the school.She said the wall will be built somewhere in a corner, far from the main building.Tao also said the   (  3  )   of a“stress wall”started when footprints were found on some newly painted walls and some school windows were broken.“These things  (7)    (8)    (9)   because some students feel lots of pressure from their studies or because they don’t get along very well with other students,”Tao said.

 According to a report ,15 % of juniors in China are stressed out .Shen Cuihua, the school’s doctor, thinks visiting the wall can help stressed students to feel  (10)    (11)    (12)  .

     When under stress, the body gets ready to either run or fight and becomes very nervous. Hitting the wall can help  (13)    (14)    (15)   the body and take away stress.The stress wall won’t be ready until September, many students are already hoping it can make their lives easier.

“Tests and homework make me sad,”said Liu Yuan, a Junior 3 girl.“I can’t  (16)    (17)    (18)   to hit the wall. It will help me a lot with my   (19)    (20)    (21)   .

Another girl student who wouldn’t give her name said the wall won’t  (22)    (23)    (24)   for her.“Mainly because it can’t talk,”she said.“I need to talk to someone when I’m sad.”

Wu Yinming, a Nanjing University professor（教授），said building the wall could be  (25)    (26)    (27)  .“Kids who hit the wall could start fighting more with each other.”He said.

A few years ago，when people had problems，what did they usually do？Well，they usually asked their parents or friends for   (1)  ．Today it is  (2)   for people to get advice from telephone hotlines(热线)．A telephone hotline gives people a good   (3)   of talking with advisers(提供建议者)．Most hotlines donˈt need your name or other information.That is to say，callers do not   (4)   to tell their names or other information.Some hotlines are  (5)  ，so callers donˈt have to pay for the advice or the phone calls.Some hotlines   (6)   volunteers(志愿者) as advisers.  (7)   hotlines pay the advisers for their work.The advisers are usually the people with years of education and  (8)  ．They have to take classes before starting to   (9)  ．Their work is to listen to callers and help them   (10)   their problems.

   In many western countries, people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea    (1)   dinner. People have breakfast at any time  (2)   seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread. English people    (3)   tea or coffee at breakfast.

   Lunch   (4)    at twelve o'clock. Tea time is from four to five in the afternoon, and dinner is about half past seven. For dinner,   (5)    , they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that, they often eat some   (6)    like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people   (7)   that. Some of them have their dinner in   (8)    middle (中间) of the day. They have only three meals a day.        (9)    meals are breakfast, dinner and tea, and all these meals   (10)  very simple (简单的).

Chicken soup is a kind of traditional Chinese food. It is very ____(1)____ and it's good for our health. And I think it's easy to ____(2)____ it. Do you like chicken soup? ____(3)____ you follow my steps (步骤), you can enjoy the delicious chicken soup. First, you ____(4)____ a tall saucepan(炖锅). Clean the saucepan and pour eight big bowls of ____(5)____ into the saucepan. Heat (加热) it as you can do ____(6)____ things for cooking. You'll need some chicken, ____(7)____, salt and pepper. Cut up the chicken and carrots. When the water boils, put the chicken into the saucepan. Wait ____(8)____ 20 minutes and add the carrots. Simmer(炖) for one hour, and then add salt and pepper. ____(9)____, pour our chicken soup into bowls. Don't eat at once. It's too ____(10)____! You can enjoy it five minutes later.

We usually have much fun playing with friends outside. But   (1)   you can’t go out because the weather is rainy or too cold.   (2)   the weather is terrible, you still have something interesting to do when you are at home.

Play your favorite music and dance to   (3)   .Ask your dog or cat   (4)   in the fun. Or get a hula hoop(呼啦圈) and make up some hula--- hoop dances. If there is   (5)   room, you can jump rope.

  If you have a basketball hoop and a basketball made of foam(泡沫), you   (6)   play basketball indoors. You can have a  (7)  with everyone in the house!

You can also read a(n)   (8)   storybook or watch your favorite   (9)   when you are at home.

And here’s one thing not to do: Try not to say, “There’s   (10)  to do.” As you just look for, there’s always something to do !

 In the United States, parents usually encourage their children to develop their own hobbies. They pay attention to what their kids can do, not what they can’t. So they’re usually very confident. As a ____  (1)  ____, US boys and girls hope to be actors, players and doctors; many children ___（2）____ want to become presidents when they grow up.

   US parents often encourage their children to take part in all kinds of activities together with their classmates at_（3）___. They believe that ____  (2)  ____ in these activities can make their children mature. Schoolwork is ____  (3)  ____, but they think that social skills are also very important.

   But things in China are ____  (4)  ____, Chinese parents often tell their children to study hard and pass ____  (5)  ____. They think that, for a student, staying away from schoolbooks means wasting ____  (6)  ____. This puts a lot of ____  (7)  ___ on Chinese students, so leaders in China’s education department have called for ____  (8)  ___ homework at the lower grades. Only healthy kids can become healthy adults.

Different people have different hobbies. We students also have our own hobbies, such as reading, painting, growing vegetables in our gardens and looking after animals. ____  (1)  ____ can make us grow, develop (发展) our interests and help us learn new ____  (2)  ____.

   Lib Tao is a student. His hobby is ____  (3)  ____. When he was in middle school, he wrote a book and published (出版) it in 2012. Many teenagers ____  (4)  ____ his book. As a result, he becomes a successful young ____  (5)  ___ now. Liu Tao is very lucky ____  (6)  ____ his hobby brings him happiness and success. But he regards writing ____  (7)  ____ only one of his many hobbies and interests. He is ____  (8)  ____ in many other things. He likes playing football, too. Now he is a member of his school team.

   Remember that we ____  (9)  ____ spend all our time on our favorite hobby. There are many other interesting things. ____  (10)  ____ in life, and we should try to do something new or different.