I think the boy runs _____ than any other boy in his class.

Resolutions are promises to 31  .They can help you to make you a better person and make your your life  32  . Kate’s brother Danny 33  some New Year’s resolutions yesterday. This year, he is going to learn 34  the guitar. She is going to take the guitar lessons and  practice every day. Next, he wants to get good  35. He is going to study  36 and he is going to do all his homework  37 .The third resolution is about 38  his relationship with his family and friends.He is going to be friendlier 39  them.Finally,he will also learn 40  to do better at school.   

Man has a big brain (大脑). He can think, learn and speak. Scientists once thought that men are different from animals ____  (1)  ____ they can think and learn. They know now that dogs, monkeys, and birds can learn, too. They are beginning to understand that men are different from animals because they can speak. Animals can't speak. They make noises when they are afraid, angry or unhappy. Apes (类人猿)can understand something ____  (2)  ____ than humans, one or two of them have learned a few ____  (3)  ____. But they can't join words to make sentences. They can't think ____  (4)  ____us because they have ____  (5)  ____ language. Language is a wonderful thing. Man ____  (6)  ____ build a modern world because he has language. ____  (7)  ____ child can speak his own language very well when he is four or five, ____  (8)  ____ no animal learns to speak. ____  (9)  ____ do children learn it? Scientists do not really know. ____  (10)  ____ happens inside our body when we speak? They do not know. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain.

Everyone is good at   46  , but some people are truly talented.   47   always interesting   48   other people show their talents. Talent shows are getting   49   popular. First, there were shows like American Idol and America’s Got Talent. Now, there are similar shows   50  the world, such as China’s Got Talent.

 All these shows have one thing   51  common. They try   52 the best singers, the most talented dancers. The most exciting magicians, the   53  actors and so on. All kinds of people join these shows. But who can play the piano the best or sing   54   beautifully? That’s up to you   55  . When people watch the show, they usually play a role in deciding the winner. And the winner always gets a very good prize.

Do you often watch TV?Many middle school students like   41   TV very much.But   42   Monday to Friday，they must go to school.So on Saturday and Sunday they   43   at home and watch TV day and night.They don’t know it’s   44   for their eyes.Usually，children like to eat fish，meat and chicken，but they don’t like vegetables   45   fruit.They don’t know   46   more vegetables and fruit is  47   than eating meat.At school the children only do a few   48   of sports or never do any sport.They don’t know it isn’t good for their health.We always   49  of ways to keep healthy.We should eat   50   vegetables and fruits and do enough sports every day.And we should watch TV and read books in right ways.

People can find bears in many places in the world . They have large bodies and thick legs but    21     tails. Bears are not real meat-eaters because they almost eat    22      Bears are not so dangerous

23        people think them to be . Bears are very brave. Many   24      were killed by bears when they ____25_____ to kill bears .

Bears have very good smell but very poor    26     So they usually find something ___27___ their noses, not with their eyes . They live __28___ on  root , fish and small insects. Sometimes they kill deer and    29   animals . __30___ fact ,they like   31     animals better like rabbits . Adult bears are   32   than most other animals because they can think of something . Have you seen how   33    they beg for (讨要) sweets and food in the zoo ? They are our friends   34   we should try our best __35___ them.

    It’s very important that we all recycle (再利用). In nature, everything    36    again. For example, when an animal dies, it becomes ___37____ animal’s food. Nothing is wasted. But humans have created things like plastic bags ___38___ can’t be broken down by nature. Our rubbish kills animals and __39___ water and soil. ___40___ we continue making too much rubbish, the problem will only get worse. If nature can’t reuse the rubbish, we must recycle __41__. 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, __42 __ these materials are not endless. We use up our natural materials much _ _43 __ than the earth is able to reproduce them. For example, each year we cut __44 __ more than 6,000 square miles of forest. But it takes an average of 25 years for a new tree __45__.

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

Zhejiang is one of China’s major tea-producing areas and Longjing tea is 51 as China’s best green tea.

Longjing tea became important over three centuries  52 , during the Qing Dynasty .It is said that when the famous emperor Qianlong(乾隆)went to visit Hangzhou, he always  53  Longjing tea there. He enjoyed it so  54  that he named eighteen Longjing tea plants as producers of “imperial (皇家的）tea”.

  55   , one kilogram of Longjing tea is made up of about seven thousand tea leaves. Nowadays,  56  most of the tea leaves are picked by machine,some farmers still keep the tradition of picking the leaves by  57   . They say they can find leaves of the proper (合适的)color and size. Machines can pick leaves  58  than man, but they may not be able to classify (分类) them as well as man.

People  59  drinking in the tea house. This has been a  60    part of the life in Hangzhou since the Song Dynasty. At that time, Huangzhou was the capital of the Song Dynasty. Today, the tea house is one of the places where Huangzhou people most like to go.