Betty is thirteen years old. She   (1)  drawing very much. Her parents buy   (2)  colour pencils . Sometimes her parents give her some   (3)  , too. Betty can draw some animals, such as cats, dogs and   (4)  . One weekend, Betty goes to the   (5)   to see animals. The weather is very hot. So she wears her   (6)   clothes. In the zoo, she sees a lot of boys. They are   (7)   the animals fruit to eat. Betty  (8)  them not to do that, because it may make the animals dirty(脏的) and it is also  (9)  for the animals. The workers in the zoo can give food to them. The boys say“  (10)  ”and they become(成为) good friends.

I often spend my summer holidays just with my parents. It is quite boring. But last summer holiday was   (1)   Some of my friends came to stay with my parents and me for a week at our summer house. It is in a small beach town called Portsea. They got there by train. It   (2)  them three hours.

One morning my friends and I   (3)   to take my parents’ boat for a ride. We rowed (划船)   (4)   half an hour and found a big cave (山洞). Susan said it could be dangerous to go into it. But Peter said it was okay.   (5)   we started rowing again and got in. Then the tide (潮) started. At first we thought we could fight it but we were  (6)  . We shouted for   (7)   but there was no one around. Susan and I began to cry. Louis told us not to worry because the tide would be out. Because Louis always seemed to know the answer for   (8)   we stopped crying.

Luckily, Louis was right   (9)  . After some hours the tide went out. We rowed back home quickly. We didn’t    (10)   my parents about this special trip. And we were so afraid that we would not have a boat ride again.

What language would you like to learn as a second language? English? French? Maybe you can consider   (1)   the language of the world-Esperanto(世界语).It is the most popular invented language in the world.

 Esperanto was invented by Zamenhof in 1887. At that time the world was  (2)  troubles, Young Zamenhof believed the language barrier(障碍) was one of the   (3)   that caused those troubles. He thought that if all people could   (4)   the same language, they would communicate better.   (5)    he decided to make a new language for the world.

   It is not easy to    (6)    a new language. First you need a lot of words to use ,Zamenhof did not invent every word for the new language .He used words    (7)   other languages, such as Latin and English. Then you need a group of grammar rules. Zamenhof thought the world language   (8)    be simple enough, so most of the grammar of Esperanto is very simple. That makes the language very   (9)     to learn.

     Today, there are about   (10)   people in the world speaking Esperanto. They all think that the language makes everyone equal(平等的),because it does not belong to any group of people. It belongs to the world!

My brother likes to collect (收集) sports things. He ____  (1)  ____ many sports things. He likes basketball very much ____  (2)  ____ he doesn't play basketball. He only likes to ____  (3)  ____ basketball games on TV. And he likes basketball ____  (4)  ____ very much. He has many basketball shoes at home. And he always wears ____  (5)  ____. He has ten ping－pong balls arid two ping－pong bats in his box. He sometimes plays ping－pong ____  (6)  ____ his good friend, Jack. He has many ____  (7)  ____ of sports stars on the wall (墙). He____  (8)  ____ their names, too.

   And your brother? ____  (9)  ____ sports does he like? You cart tell ____  (10)  ____ something about your brother. My e－mail: 342154365@qq. com.

 A teacher asked her students to play a game. The teacher told each child to bring a___(1)____ with a few potatoes. Each potato was given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child would put into the bag would___(2)____ the number of people the child hates. 

Some childrenhad two potatoes; some had three and others ___(3)____ had up to five potatoes. The teacher then told them to carry the bag wherever they go for a week.

As the dayswentby, the children started to complain（抱怨） about the unpleasant___(4)____coming from the rotten（腐烂） potatoes. And the students with five potatoes also had to carry ___(5)____ bags. 

After a week, theteacher asked, “___(6)____ did you feel?” The children started complaining about the ___(7)____ they had to go through, when they had to carry the heavy and smelly（难闻的） potatoes everywhere they went.

Then the teacher said, “This is the___(8)____ situation when you carry your hate for somebody inside your heart. The smell of hate will___(9)____your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go.

___(10)____ you cannot stand the smell of rotten potatoes for just one week, can you imagine what it is like to have the smell of hate in your heart for your lifetime?”

One day Eric was traveling on horseback. At noon, he tied(拴，系) his horse to a  (1)  . A few minutes later, Paul came along and tied his horse to the same tree.

  “My horse is wild,” said Eric. “Please tie your horse to another tree,  (2)   my horse will kill yours.”

“No way!” Paul said, “I shall tie my horse as I like!” He tied up his horse and had his  (3)  nearby. After a moment they heard a terrible noise. The two horses were  (4)  . They ran up to them, but itwas too  (5)  . Paul’s horse was killed. “See what your horse has done! You’ll have to  (6)   it,” shouted Paul. And he brought Eric before Mr. Know.

Mr. Know asked Eric some questions. But Eric said  (7)   At last Mr. Know said, “This man cannot speak.”

“He can!” Paul said  (8)  . “ He talked to me when I met him.”

“Are you   (9)  ? ” asked Mr. Know. “What did he say?”

“He told me not to tie my horse to the same tree because his horse was wild and would kill my horse.”

“Oh,” said Mr. Know. “So he  (10)  you. Then can you expect to get money from him?”

Paul had to leave silently.

In the afternoon I was looking for my old  (1)  But I couldn’t find it. At that time my mom told me that my grandpa didn’t feel well. So he  (2)  come to stay with me.

When grandpa came, he looked a little  (3)  . I asked,“Grandpa, aren’t you happy here with us? ” “Yeah, but I think I really  (4)  my house.”

His answer  (5)  me. Our house was larger, cleaner and more comfortable. It was much better than his old house.”  (6)  do you miss your house, grandpa?”“I don’t miss the house itself but the memories in it. Your grandma and I used to clean the house together. Your dad and uncle  (7)  there. I had many great memories in my life there.”

He took out an old picture from his wallet and  (8)  it to me, In the picture, a young couple and their children stand in front of a house  (9)  the house is not great, they look very happy.

“Now I can understand you. Grandpa. I   (10)   my notebook. I used to write my secrets in it. All my memories are in it and I miss my notebook, too.” Grandpa said.“You’ll find your notebook ,I’ll help you.” We smiled together.

A man and a woman had been married for more than sixty years. The old woman had a ____  (1)  ____ on the top of her closet. She told her husband ____  (2)  ____ to open it or ask her about it.

   For all these years, he had never ____  (3)  ____ the box. But one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she wouldnˈt get better.

   Days before the woman passed away, she ____  (4)  ____ her husband the box. Inside, there were two beautifully crocheted doilies (钩针编织的桌垫) and over $ 25,000.

   "When we got married, my grandmother told me the ____  (5)  ____ of a happy marriage was to never argue," said the woman. She told me that ____  (6)  ____ I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet (编织) a doily.

   The old man was so ____  (7)  ____ . Only two doilies were in the box. She had only been angry with him ____  (8)  ____ in all those years of living and loving. He was very happy.

   "Sweetheart, that explains the doilies," he said, "But what about all the ____  (9)  ____? Where did it all come ____  (10)  ____?"

   "Oh, thatˈs the money I made from selling the doilies," she said.

   A few days later, the woman died.

Songkran is a time for cleaning in Thailand. People always  (1)  their house during the festival. It is  (2)  April 13 to 15 every year.

The festival is a  (3)  time for all children to show their love to their parents. Children pour some  (4)  on their parents’ hands. It is  (5)   called "Water Festival",  (6)   people think water can wash bad  (7)   away. It’s hot in April in Thailand. Water can make people  (8)  , so the festival is very popular.

At that time people usually come back home to  (9)  their families. They also do many interesting things,  (10)  travelling with their families. Everyone in Thailand enjoys the festival.

A boy loved eating sweets(糖果). His father didn’t have   (1)  money to buy sweets, but the little boy asked for sweets all the time.

An old wise man   (2)   near the boy’s home. The father took the boy to ask the great man for   (3)  . But the great man just told the father to   (4)   his son back in one month.

One month later, the boy and his father went to the great man’s home   (5)  . The great man said to the  (6)  , “My dear child, will you stop asking for sweets?” the boy agreed.

The boy’s father asked the great man, “  (7)   did you not ask my son to stop asking for sweets a month ago?” The man   (8)  , “How could I ask a boy to give up(放弃) sweets when I loved sweets   (9)  ? Last month I gave up eating sweets.”  (10)  we ask someone to do something, we must also do it.