My grandfather is eighty years old. He always says life is  (1)  from the past, and he often says that life in the past was   (2)   and easier.

Family life is different. Mother   (3)   at home in the past and took care of their children, but now everyone is busy working. No one has time to   (4)   children at home.

And the   (5)  ！No one walks anymore. More and more people drive. In the past we walked five miles to school on schooldays, even in   (6)  . But now children don’t. And the life in school is also different. In   (7)  class, for example, we used our heads to work out problems in the past, but now we use calculators(计算器).

Most families have computers now. In the past we didn’t have   (8)  . We didn’t even have lights. My mother had to spend all day   (9)   in the kitchen. But now we don’t often eat at home.

And people talk less to each other   (10)   before. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, and too busy to think.

Life was easy in the past, but now it is quite different.

Do you know Laszlo? Maybe you do not, but you probably use   (1)   invention every day, and you may   (2)   have it in your hand right now!

Biro (1899-1985) was the inventor of the ballpoint pen. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. In the 1930s, when he worked as a newspaper editor, he used a fountain pen   (3)   every day. However, he had to   (4)   it all the time. The ink also did not dry   (5)   and it sometimes   (6)   a mess on the paper. Biro wanted a   (7)   pen. His brother, George, helped him   (8)   a special ink. The ink dried easily. Then they developed a new type of pen.

There was a tiny ball   (9)   the tip of the pen. The ball rolled ink   (10)   paper as it moved. They called it the "ballpoint" pen.

The ballpoint pen was a great   (11)  . Everyone loved his ballpoint pen. Now millions of people use   (12)   all over the world every day.

People will always remember Biro  (13)   his invention. Today in many English-speaking countries, people   (14)   use the word "biro" to refer to   (15)   kind of ballpoint pen.

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Friends are very important in people’s lives. Some have   (1)  views（观点） and interests, but   (2)  like the same things. Should friends be different   (3)   the same? In my opinion, I don’t care. I have two best friends, Wang Lei and Lin Ying. Wang Lei   (4)  like me. I am   (5)  than most of the students in my class, and Wang Lei is also quiet. And we both enjoy   (6)  . On weekends, we often go to the library to do some reading. But the other friend of mine, Lin Ying, is   (7)   different from me. She is much more outgoing and she likes   (8)  and often makes me laugh. She also likes   (9)  ,so she is more athletic（体格健壮的）. I don’t think differences are important in a  (10)  . What’s your opinion?

Dear Jenny,

Thank you   (1)   your family photo. This is a nice photo of my family, and there are   (2)   people in my family.

Can you   (3)   me in the photo? I am on a chair,   (4)   the table. What’s   (5)   under the table? Oh, she’s   (6)   dog Cici. She’s playing with my baseball. These are my mother and father. They are on the sofa, my mother is making a call.   (7)   is the boy behind the sofa? He is my   (8)   Paul. He is 5. Peter is my brother,   (9)  . He is 7. Where is he? Oh, there, behind me, he is playing with a model plane, but the plane is   (10)  

Yours,

Chris

This is a photo   (1)  a classroom. It’s a big room. In the photo, you can see a table, some  (2)   . You can see a teacher and two students,  (3)   .

Three   (4)  are on the table. A pencil box is on the desk. Two pens and two rulers are in   (5)  pencil box. A bag  (6)  behind a chair.

The lady(女士) is the Chinese teacher. Her name is  (7)  . This student is Jack. He is 11. The next student is Mike.   (8)   is ten. They are in Class Eight. They’re good   (9)  .   (10)  

English teacher is Mr. Brown. He is not here.

One day, a grandmother stays at home with her 14-month-old ____  (1)  ___. He is ___  (2)  ____ with her yellow car key. At that time, the phone rings ____  (3)  ____ the grandmother goes to ___  (4)  ___ the phone. After the grandmother comes ____  (5)  ___, she can’t  __  (6)  ___ the key. She thinks that the little boy puts ____  (7)  ____ somewhere(某处).

She looks ____  (8)  ____ it in the room, __  (9)  ___ she can’t find it anywhere. Then she has a ____  (10)  ____ idea. The grandmother ____  (11)  ____ the child a blue key and pretends(假装) not to look. After a few ____  (12)  ____, the boy goes into his ____  (13)  ____ bedroom and he carefully puts ____  (14)  ____ blue key under her bed, next to the yellow ____  (15)  ____.

Are you nervous (紧张) when you stand in front of the public(公众)? Are you afraid to make a speech(演讲)?

 Li Jun, a middle school boy, felt shy when he was making a speech the other day. Li Jun thought it would be quite easy to speak in front of   (1)  classmates.

 “I was wrong. It was very different and much   (2)  than talking to my classmates during playtime,” Li said, but it was really difficult to speak. I felt like a mute(哑巴) and wanted to leave the classroom  (3)  

 Li is not alone. Many middle school students now have the same  (4)  : they can talk about their ideas freely  (5)  their best friends after class, but can’t speak in public. According to Zhou Hong, a teacher from a university, the main reason is that schools in China pay more attention to(关注) writing instead of  (6)  

I’m Tina. I am an  (1)  girl. I   (2)   England. I  (3)  13 years old. I am a   (4)  . I have a round face, a small nose, a wide mouth, long  (5)  and   (6)   eyes. I have a brother(哥哥). His name is James. He is a student, too. He   (7)   a big nose, a long face and short hair. His ears   (8)  big. We are   (9)  the same grade, but in different  (10)   . I’m in Class 3, and he is in Class 7.