David Beckham opened his London football academy (学院) on Monday. The academy welcomes boys and girls aged 8 to 15. It will accept 15,000 ____  (1)  ____ a year, 10,000 of them free. In America, football is a ____  (2)  ____ sport. ____  (3)  ____, American football is different. Players sometimes kick the ball but they often throw the ball and ____  (4)  ____ with it. They try to take it to the other end of the field. They have four chances to ____  (5)  ____ the ball ten yards (码). They can ____  (6)  ____ and throw it. If they move the ball ten yards, they can try to move it ____  (7)  ____ ten yards. ____  (8)  ____ they move it to the end of the field, they can get six points.

   It is difficult to move the ____  (9)  ____. Eleven men on the other team try to stop the man with the ball. If he doesn't move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball to the other team.

   _  (10)  _ university wants its own team to win. Thousands of people come to watch. They all shout for their ____  (11)  ____ teams.

   Young men and women come on the field to help the people shout more.

   Each team plays 10 or 11 games each ____  (12)  ____. The season begins in September and ends in November. If a team is very good, it can play another game ____  (13)  ____ the season ends. The ____  (14)  ____ teams play again on January 1st, the first day of the New Year. Many people go to see these games and many others watch them ____  (15)  ____ TV.

It's very important that we all recycle. In nature, everything   (1)   again. For example, when an animal dies, it becomes   (2)   animal's food. Nothing is wasted. But humans have created things like plastic bags which can't be   (3)   down by nature. Our   (4)   kills animals and pollutes water and soil.  (5)   we continue making too much rubbish, the problem will only get worse. If nature can't reuse the rubbish, we must recycle   (6)  .We should clean up the rubbish we've made because nature can't.

Recycling is also the right thing to do for another reason. The earth is rich in natural materials like water and trees，  (7)   these materials are not endless(无尽的)．We use up our natural materials   (8)   faster than the earth is able to reproduce(再生)them. For example, each year we cut   (9)   more than 6，000 square miles of forest. But it takes an average of 25 years for a new tree   (10)  .

Recycling can help us save the earth, so let's take action right now.     

How can we get great photos of our kids? Famous Russian photographer Elena Shumilova says the most ____(  (1)  ____ thing is to photograph them often—every day. By photographing them ____(  (2)  ____, the kids become comfortable around the camera, and you'll get better photos of your kids. She also tells a story of almost ____(  (3)  ____ her most famous photo: ____(  (4)  ____ I took this photo, my confidence was at a pretty low point. I had tried for a photo of my ____(  (5)  ____ and dog 14 other times, but failed every time.

   I was just feeling upset (沮丧的) that day and didn't even want to bring my ____(  (6)  ____. But something told me to bring it. And on that ____(  (7)  ____ day, it all just came together.

   This dog of ours is now famous, but he's actually a pretty difficult dog to ____(  (8)  ____ with. From the unsuccessful photo shoots, I'd learned what angles (角度) and body compositions (构图) work for ____(  (9)  ____ and my son.

   It's easy to get upset. It's easy to ____(  (10)  ____, “Oh, why brother. It won't work anyway.” Thanks to those 14 photos! They're what made the fifteenth one possible.

Last Wednesday, Mr. Chen took his class to the Space Museum. There   (1)   many things about space there. First, the children saw a film about space travel. They saw   (2)   the space shuttle(航天飞机) took off in space and later landed on earth   (3)  . It was very exciting and the children felt they were traveling in space   (4)  !

  After the film, Mr. Chen took   (5)   to see some models of rockets(火箭)   (6)   the space shuttle. The models looked very real, but they were much   (7)  . Then the children saw some moon rocks(岩石). Two   (8)   landed on the moon in 1969. They put an American flag(旗) there. Then they took some rocks back to the   (9)  .

    (10)   the children left, they also watched a video show about people living and working in a space lab. The people could stay in the space lab for months.

   It was Sunday afternoon. My younger brother and I were alone at home. My parents went out. I was doing my homework while my younger brother was watching TV. Suddenly the doorbell rang. Ding-dong! My younger brother thought that it was our parents, so he opened the ____（1）____ quickly.

   A tall man wearing a black raincoat stood outside. He said that he came to sell books and asked politely if our parents were at home.

   Without thinking, my younger brother said, “No.” Then the man asked if we would like to ____  (1)  ____ some storybooks. I refused him. When I wanted to close the door, he suddenly pushed the door very hard and came into our house. He took out a ____  (2)  ____ and ordered me to tie up my younger brother's hands with a rope (绳子). I tied up his hands in a special way so that my younger brother could untie (解开) ____  (3)  ____ easily. The man then tied my hands up and locked ____  (4)  ____ of us in the kitchen. Soon, he went upstairs to ____  (5)  ____ money. I taught my younger brother to untie the rope on his hands. He then untied me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police, ____  (6)  ____ the line was dead. The doors were all locked from the outside. It was lucky that the man forgot to lock the kitchen window. We got out of the house through the kitchen window and went to the ____  (7)  ____ payphone to call the police.

   Soon ____  (8)  ____ came to our house and the man was caught. By that time, my parents had come home. We told them the whole story. My parents were ____  (9)  ____ that we were not hurt. They told me that I should stop my younger brother from opening the door to strangers. I learnt a lesson on safety.

 People usually check whether their keys, purses and phones are with them before going out, but many people in China now have one more important thing to take, a mask (口罩). They hope it can protect them ____（1）__ terrible air.

   Many cities in China saw a lot of foggy days in April. In Beijing, there were eight days in April full of smog. It is dirty air ____  (1)  ____ looks like a mixture of fog and smoke. The smoke is mainly from cars and factories in cities. Poor air is bad for people's health, ____  (2)  ____ for children and old people. They fell ill easily and the ____  (3)  ___ were full of people. They had problems with their noses and lungs.

   So it's necessary ____  (4)  ____ people from doing so many bad things to the environment. For example, people should use cars less and ____  (5)  ____ burn lots of coal and gas. Government needs to take measures to make factories stop pouring ____（  (6)  ___ waste air into the sky.

   Three students from No. 4 High School in Beijing ____  (7)  ____ a report to advise how to protect the environment. They suggested ____  (8)  ____ people should plant more trees and set off fewer fireworks for celebration.

   We hope more people will join us in ____  (9)  ___ a difference. In this way, the blue sky will certainly return for good.

Denny Crook was a famous photographer. He travelled all over the world, taking pictures for magazines and newspapers, and won many prizes.

   “I'll do anything to get a good photo,” he often said. “I'll go anywhere at any time, ____  (1)  ____ it is dangerous.” And he told the truth. He had photos of earthquakes, forest fires, floods and even wars. If something interesting happened, Denny went to photo it.

   He was a married man and his wife often asked him to take her with him, but he always ____  (2)  ____. “I travel for my work, not for pleasure,” he told her. “You won't enjoy yourself, and I won't have ____  (3)  ____ to look after you. Sometimes there's not even anywhere to stay, and I have to sleep outside. I often don't have a good ____  (4)  ____ or a bath for days. You won't like it.”

   “Denny, I'm not a child,” his wife didn't ____  (5)  ____. “I can look after myself. Please take me with you the next time you go overseas.”

   David did not say anything, but he thought about it, and when he was asked to go to Africa, he said to his wife, “You can come to Africa with me if you want to. I've got to take photos of wild ____  (6)  ____ there. It should be interesting and not too uncomfortable.”

   His wife was very ____  (7)  ____, and at first she had a very enjoyable time. Then Denny went off to find some lions for photos. His wife went with him, but before long they became separated. She walked down one path while he walked down the other.

   Suddenly, Denny heard her ____  (8)  ____. He ran back and saw her running toward him. A huge lion was chasing her.

   Quickly Denny ____  (9)  ____ his camera out of its case and pointed it at his wife and the lion. Then he shouted, “____  (10)  ____, woman! I can't get you both in the picture!”

Bill was 18, but he didn't want to live ____  (1)  ____ himself because he wanted to enjoy the comfortable life in his parents' home. In fact, he had ____  (2)  ____ to find a job but there never seemed to be one good enough for him.

   Bill's father, Mr James, worked far from home, ____  (3)  ____ he had to leave home early and got back home late. When he got home in the evenings, Bill was usually out, so they could ____  (4)  ____ meet on weekdays.

   When they sometimes ____  (5)  ____ at weekends, Mr James often asked Bill to change his ____  (6)  ____ of living. But Bill didn't agree with his father. He wanted to be popular with his ____  (7)  ____.

   One Saturday morning, they had an ____  (8)  ____. Mr James later told Bill that his father was very ____  (9)  ____ with him and he was brought up in a quite different way. Bill said that his grandfather must have been a ____  (10)  ____ old man.

   “Not at all!” Mr James was so angry that he said, “I had a much nicer father than you'll ever have!”