Do you remember your first day at a new school or in a new area? How about the life when your family   (1)  to a new place?What about the feelings of being a   (2)  ?

    Friends are great gifts in   (3)  . Sometimes my friends need   (4)   a lot .And I know I ask too much from them. I hope my friends, like my father,   (5)   about me a lot.

    I once told my friends to give me all their love and be friendly. I told my friends, in other words, to love me   (6)   I loved them.

    They didn't   (7)  me at first, but then they became kinder. My love for them  (8)   made them learn to love friends. They learned to love others and   (9)   the idea that   LOVE is a part of life.

f we listen to and try to understand each other,love comes. We should work on it,   (10)  it's hard at first. A true friend loves us at all times.

   Do you usually feel unhappy because of your looks?“Why do I look so fat?”You may complain(抱怨) about you____  (1)  ____．“She’s so beautiful；why can’t I look like her?”You might hate your looks like this．

    If you feel bad about yourself，you need to read Alice’s____  (2)  ____．Alice uses stories from real teenagers to teach girls so learn to____  (3)  ____themselves．“If you learn to look after yourself，you must learn to beat yourself in thinking habits，”she says．“Bad thoughts about yourself come____  (4)  ____habits of thinking，”she adds．

    Alice has three brothers．They often said____  (5)  ____things to her like“Nobody likes you”．Of course，her brothers did not really wants to____  (6)  ____her．But what people say can become a part of your thinking．So Alice tells us to be careful with our thinking．It’s very easy to change these bad thoughts to good____  (7)  ____．

    When you have____  (8)  ____minutes alone，think of some nice things．Slowly you will feel better about yourself and you will feel____  (9)  ____．If you think of something bad，try to bring your mind back to good thoughts．

    It could take a little time to change____  (10)  ____from bad to good．But when you try saying nice things to yourself，you will understand that no one is perfect(完美的) and you will like yourself much more．

It is autumn. A strong wind is blowing. It   (1)   flower seeds（种子）high in the air. One of the seeds is tiny. Will it be able to keep up   (2)   the others? Finally the wind stops and seeds fall quietly down on the ground.

Now it is   (3)  . After a long trip the seeds feel very   (4)  . They look just as if they are going to sleep in the earth. Snow falls and covers them like a soft white blanket.

Spring comes. It gets warm. The sun shines. Rain falls. The seeds grow   (5)   full and round that they start to break open a little. Now they are not   (6)  . They are plants. First they put roots (根) into the earth. Then their little stems（茎）and leaves begin to dance in the sun and air.  

In summer, the tiny plant is all alone. It grows on and doesn’t stop. The sun shines on it   (7)   the rain waters it. It has many leaves. It grows taller and taller. It is   (8)   the people. It is taller than the trees. And now some flowers grow on it.

Autumn comes back. The wind blows past the flowers.  (9)   petals (花瓣) drop over the land and down to the ground. The wind blows harder. The flowers have lost all of their petals. Once more the wind shakes the flowers, and this time the flowers’ seed pods (荚) open. Many new seeds come out. Quickly in the wind they are   (10)   to new plants again. 

Earth Hour first started in _31__, Australia in 2007. Millions of people switched off their lights and electrical appliances for one hour. __32_ then, Earth Hour has got wide support around the world. On March 31^st, 2012, hundreds of millions of people in 152 countries and 6895 towns and cities _33__ Earth Hour.

Earth Hour shows that we_34__our Earth, and that everyone has the power to change the world. __35_it is not about saving an hour’s electricity. It’s about telling people to protect our Earth. It’s not just for an hour a year, but_36__.

A__37_ Earth isn’t just good for animals and plants. It’s also very important to all humans. We have asked too much of the Earth and now it is in danger. We __38_do our best to protect it.

Earth Hour is a _39__for everyone to do a bit for our Earth. Join Earth Hour, and we can make a_40__world to live in.

The earth is our home. We must take care of it. Life today is easier than it was   (1)   years ago, but it has brought some new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. We can see it, smell it, drink it and even   (2)   it.

Man has polluted the   (3)  . The more people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so   (4)  people. When the land was used up (用光) the river was not clean in a place, man went to   (5)   place. Now man is slowly polluting the whole world.

  (6)   pollution is still the most serious, it’s bad for  (7)  things in the world. Many countries don’t let people burn   (8)  for air in houses and factories in the city. Pollution by SO₂ is now the most dangerous kind of  (9)  pollution. It’s caused by heavy traffic. People say it’s   (10)  to ride bikes. When you are   (11)  , there is no pollution. But even in developed countries, most people don’t go to work by bike. It’s not   (12)  bikes are expensive or people are tiered if they ride to work. It’s because the number of cars on the roads becomes larger. So more people   (13)  their bikes and go to work by cars, then things are getting  (14)  . We should have special roads only for bikes and make it  (15)  difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bikes.

Trees in the Amazon rainforest(雨林) are showing scientists the past so the scientists can learn what will happen in the future.

    Have you ____  (1)  ____ tree rings? Some trees create rings every year ____  (2)  ____ they grow. These rings can be ____  (3)  ____ in tree trunks(树干) when the trees are cut down. A tree's _____  (4)  ___ can tell us how old the tree is, but UK scientists have ____  (5)  ____ a way of learning about the climate of the rainforest in the past from the tree rings.

    Growing in the Amazon rainforest, some trees only have short roots. It means that the trees depend on rainwater, ____  (6)  ____ the water that is naturally deeper underground. So the rings of the tree trunks help scientists understand the rainfall(降雨量), ____  (7)  ____ the climate of the Amazon rainforest over the last 100 years. What scientists want to know, however, is how the rainforest will be ____  (8)  ____ by the world's rising temperatures. Will it become wetter or drier? The Amazon rainforest is ____  (9)  ____ the "lungs of the earth" for the trees there take in a lot of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and produce oxygen every day. A warming world could have a very bad influence on the important forest. But ____  (10)  ____ more information about the past, scientists hope to know what one of the most important rainforests in the world will be like in the future.

When I first moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in the fourth grade, I realized that I was stepping into a completely different world. What impressed me deeply was the friendliness of the people there.

“What can I get for you, honey?” a(n)   (1)   asked me on my first day in Louisiana. I was   (2)  . This woman did not even know me, and yet she   (3)   me like family. She smiled down at me as I   (4)  the food on the menu.

“Is the pasta(意大利面) good?” I asked her.

“Baby, it’s not my   (5)  ,” she answered with a wide smile, “  (6)   I’m more of a sushi (寿司)girl, you know!”

I looked at my family in great surprise. What should I   (7)   to that? I had no idea what sushi was, nor could I believe that this woman had just stopped me from ordering something. She had given me her   (8)   opinion, as if we were best friends.

I recently went to the DMV to update my driver’s license. As I was   (9)   in the silent room with at least twenty other people, a woman walked in.

“Good morning!” She announced to the room.

“Good morning,” the whole room said back at once.

The woman took her seat, and waited with everyone else for her number to be   (10)   as I looked around the room, surprised. Suddenly, everyone was comfortable with each other. We were all friends and neighbours.

Even after eight years of living in Louisiana, it   (11)   makes me smile to know that I am not   (12)   here. Someone in this place is always   (13)   to say hello or to lend a hand when it is   (14)  . It is a sense of family and   (15)   that I have never been able to find anywhere else.

  Spain takes up about most of the Iberian peninsula(伊比利亚半岛) ．Portugal(葡萄牙)is its western neighbor and France in the north．Spain is separated from North Africa on the south by the Mediterranean Sea(地中海)，which also  (1)  ，Spain’s east coast  There are two islands belonging to Spain in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa．Spain also  (2)  two cities in the north of Africa．

    Spain’s land is  (3)  covered with mountains，only the coastal places are plains．Spain’s population has a small drop in recent years．There are about nineteen million．Spain’s birthrate is the  (4)  in the world．It has been the worry of the government．Spanish is the official language of the country，but many more other languages are  (5)  by its people on this land．

    Spain is an interesting place  (6)  people to enjoy the different cultures People living there are full of arts and energy The Spanish bullfight(斗牛)is famous all over the world．Many people  (7)  their best to visit it and have a good look  (8)  ．Playing the guitar and dancing to music are also special，The old churches and houses are also one of the reasons for people to  (9)  this country．Surely it is everyone’s  (10)  to  have a chance to visit this beautiful  country as soon  as possible．

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    Last month，I returned to my homeland to attend my elder sister’s wedding(婚礼)．Although it was a very modern wedding，my sister kept one tradition that comes from an old English poem．

    The poem says that a bride(新娘) must wear：“Something old，something new，something borrowed，something blue．”It is said to bring good____  (1)  ____to the marriage(婚姻)．

    Something old is something____  (2)  ____from the bride’s family．It could be an heirloom(传家宝) that has been in the family for years．or a piece of her mother’s dress．This is meant to show a____  (3)  ____with the bride’s family．

    Something new____  (4)  ____hope for the future of the couple．It can be the new wedding dress，or new shoes．

    Something borrowed is____  (5)  ____an item of clothing or jewelry(珠宝)．It is____  (6)  ____one of the bride’s friends who have a happy marriage．It is believed to bring some of the friend’s luck in her marriage to the bride．

    Last is something blue，which comes from another rhyme：“Marry in blue，husband be true．”This____  (7)  ____that a bride who wears blue will have a faithful(忠诚的) husband．It could be____  (8)  ____on her jewelry or on her shoes．

    These days，most brides do not____  (9)  ____that wearing these items will really bring them good luck．However，they wear them anyway in recognition(认可) that traditions are____  (10)  ____．

To most of us.school means classes，teachers，schedules，grades and tests.But for the children at Sudbury Valley School in Massachoselts，school is very____36____.Firstly，there are no____37____.All the children；aged between 4 and 19.do whatever they want.There are no teachers，only“staff members(管理人员)”.The idea behind this is that you do not need to____38____children learn because children want to learn anyway.

“You do not need to say to three-year-old kids，‘Go to____39____the Secrets Of nature.’You can’t stop____40____”says Daniel Greenberg，a founder(创始人)of the sehod.“But if you make children do____41____you want all day，they will lose all____42____for learning.”

    At Sudbury Vailey School，you will find children talking，reading，painting，playing the piano，climbing trees，____43____just running around，Two boys____44____three years just fishing!

    The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can____45____the rules.Every week，there is a school____46____whereboth children and staff have one vote each—even the four-year-olds.They decide the school rules.____47____to spend the school budget(预算).andeven which staff they want and do not want anymore.

    When the school was first opened in 1968.people said it would____48____work.But today,the school has 200 students,and 80% of its students go____49____to college.Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have become successful today.One of them is a musician and ____50____is a computer scientist.