This year is the Year of the Dog. So dogs are the most popular animals of this year. They are our ______  (1)  __________ friends. There  ________  (2)  ________ many different dogs in the world. Dogs can live for about 15 years. How  _______  (3)  _________ is your dog? Two years? That is about 14 years old in human years. Dogs have very great ears and noses. ________  (4)  ________ they can't  ________  (5)  ________ as well as men. They're colorblind (色盲的). They're also great and can do  _______  (6)  _________ of jobs. They can be police dogs, sniffer dogs, rescue dogs, shepherd dogs and guide dogs.

    Norman is a superstar dog  _______  (7)  _________ America. This year he is 10 years old. He can ride a bike (骑自行车) very  ____  (8)  ____________. Norman's owner, Karen Coob, is a dog trainer (训练师). She ________  (9)  ________ Norman how to ride a bike. She really loves the good dog. Norman is her ________  (10)  ________, just like her son.

Nowadays, advertisements can be seen everywhere. Some hate them, but some consider them very helpful. And I agree, with the latter.

    Advertising can form a connection between companies and customers. It wonˈt be wrong to call advertising a way of communication between companies and their customers. Good advertising increases the needs of the public. In a successful business, advertising plays an important role. Advertising can be used to help people know about a product and to draw possible buyers. Advertising helps companies make more money by increasing sales.

    There are different kinds of advertising. Here are some common types.

    Non-electronic advertising advertises products through newspapers, magazines, books, posters and so on. By the means of advertising, companies can let people, who are connected directly and indirectly with non-electronic media, know about their products. Advertising on printed things is cheaper than advertising on television.

    Electronic advertising is the most popular means of advertising. One can cover different kinds of people by using this kind of advertising. Television viewers are in every home. If one is advertising on TV, his products would be introduced in almost every, house.

    Advertising on the Internet is getting more and more popular over time. You can get your advertising to reach every corner of the world.

    Many companies have their own department of advertising. The departmentˈs aim is to advertise the companyˈs products and services. On the other hand, many companies depend on advertising agencies(广告公司) for promoting(推销) their products and services. Companies should pay money to these agencies. Advertising agencies are always there to give advice, helping promote your products and services.

Welcome to the world of Kikoriki (开心球). It is a  (1)   land. It has snow-covered mountains and a blue  (2)  .

Jumpy the rabbit and his friends live   (3)  . They are honest, brave and hardworking. They are happy to help   (4)  . Jumpy is a happy and cute rabbit. He is  (5)   of energy.

Jumpy and his friends live together   (6)  . They help each other. They love each other.   (7)  they get in trouble with each other often. They always  (8)  a way to solve the problem.

How do they live in Kikoriki land? What  (9)   there? Let’s see the cartoon Kikoriki on CCTV-kids.

    Kikoriki is  (10)  among the children in Russia. Russian President Medvedev gives it high praise (赞美).

There are many classic (经典的) cultures in China. All of them have a very long history. Here we introduce some of them.

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.

 Australia has a lot of lovely animals. You cannot find them anywhere else in the world. The most famous are kangaroos and koalas (树袋熊).

   The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia. They have large eyes and ears. They don't walk. They jump. They use their strong back legs. They can jump at 74 kilometres per hour.

   They can go over nine metres in one jump. Kangaroo mothers have pouches to carry their babies. The babies stay inside to get milk and keep warm.

   Kangaroos are everywhere in Australia. They are on TV, in books and in the shops. But do you know that millions of kangaroos are killed every year? There are too many of them. There are about 20 to 25 million kangaroos in Australia. That's more than the number of people in the country. Some kangaroos go hungry because there is not enough food to eat. They break into farms for food. Farmers are very angry with them.

   The koala is another famous Australian animal. They look like bears, and have small eyes and big noses. They eat leaves from gum trees (桉树). Koalas have a special smell. They use it to mark their home—“This is my place. You can't come in!” Like kangaroos, a koala baby lives in its mother's pouch, too.

We all waste food, you and me, every day, millions of tons of it. In China, enough food is wasted in restaurants every year to feed 200 million people. And the amount of food wasted by Chinese consumers is increasing fast. So our nation is being encouraged to stop wasting food.

   So what should Chinese consumers do to prevent food waste?

   ◆Keep a kitchen diary

   All of us should keep a kitchen diary, and we can know that how much food we waste at home. The first thing for us to do is to stop throwing away food that we can still eat. We should eat everything we buy and if we cannot, we should buy less.

   ◆Buy only what we need

   We should ask for smaller portions in stores. We should also check how much food we have before buying more. We shouldn't bring much food we don't need home even if large posters ask us to do so.

   ◆Develop the habit of packing food

   Chinese consumers are generous and friendly. In restaurants, often too much food is ordered and served. So when ordering out, we are supposed to exclude the food in the order if we don't plan to eat it. And order smaller servings in restaurants and take home what we cannot finish.

   Don't put it off! Let's stop food waste today!

 There have been many great inventions ____  (1)  ____ change the way we live. The first great ____  (2)  ____ was the one that is still very important today—the wheel. This made it easy for man ____  (3)  ____ heavy things and to travel long distances. For ____  (4)  ____ years after that, there were ____  (5)  ____ inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800s the world started to change ____  (6)  ____. There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much any more. They began to work instead to make life better. In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. ____  (7)  ____ them were the camera, the electric light bulb and the radio. These have all become a big part of our life today.

   The first part of ____  (8)  ____ century saw more great inventions—the helicopter in 1909, movies ____  (9)  ____ sound in 1926, the computer in 1928, and jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new ____  (10)  ____ was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear. Of course new inventions continued to be made. Man began looking ____  (11)  ____ ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took ____  (12)  ____. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, ____  (13)  ____ their steps into space. In 1969 man took his biggest step away from the earth. ____  (14)  ____ first walked on the moon. This was certainly just a beginning. New inventions will someday allow us ____  (15)  ____ things we have never yet dreamed of.

Who designed (设计) the first helicopter (直升飞机)? Who painted one of the most famous pictures in the world? （1）________ There is an answer to all these questions—Leonardo de Vinci.

   Leonardo may have been the greatest genius (天才) people have ever known. He lived in Italy around the year 1500, but many of his inventions seem modern to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. （2）________ But scientists say his idea would have worked.

   Leonardo wasn't just an inventor. （3）________ By the time he was twenty years old, he was called a master painter, and as he got older he became even more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand in ten different ways before he was ready to paint.