My class and I visited Chris Care Center in Phoenix, Arizona to comfort（安慰） the old people and they needed a little cheering up（高兴） during the holiday season.

The first two  (1)   were for persons needing help in taking care of themselves. We sang beautifully for them. They loved our sweet songs and the flowers that we left with them.

As we were singing on the third floor for old people with Alzheimer (老年痴呆症)，most of them looked off at the walls or floor. However, one lady   (2)   my eyes. She was sitting by the door, in a wheelchair, singing songs to herself. They weren’t the songs that we were singing, at least they didn’t   (3)   like that. As we got   (4)  with each song, she did as well. The louder we got, the louder she got.  (5)   she was singing, she was also reaching out to us with her hands and body. I knew that I should have gone over to her, but I thought that my responsibilities (责任) were to my students. People who worked at the care center could take care of her, I thought. Just when I stopped feeling   (6)   about not giving her the care she needed, my students, Justin, showed me what the holiday season is really about.

Justin also   (7)   the same lady. The difference between us is that he acted on her needs, but I didn’t. During the last song, Silent Night, Justin walked over to her and held her hand. He looked at this aged lady in her eyes and with his action said, “You are important, and I will take my  (8)  to let you know that.”

This tired, elderly lady stopped singing and held his hand. Then she touched his cheek with the other hand. Tears（眼泪） began to fall down her face. No words can completely describe that touching moment……

It took a boy to teach me, a man, about kindness and love. Justin’s example of a complete, selfless（无私的） attitude (态度) towards another was a   (9)  that I will never forget. He was the teacher that day, and I think myself   (10)   to have a witnessed (见证) his lesson.

Mr. and Mrs. Green lived in a big city, and one summer they went to the country（乡下）for their holiday. They enjoyed it very much, because it was a quiet, clean place.

    One day they went for a walk early in the morning and met an old man. He lived on a farm, and he was sitting in the warm sunshine in front of his house. Mr. Green asked him, “Do you like to live in this quiet place?”

    The old man said, “Yes, I do.” Mr. Green said, “What are the good things about it?”

    The old man answered, “Well, the people here know each other. They often come and visit me, and I often go and visit them. And there are also lots of children here.”

    Mr. Green said, “That’s interesting. And what are the bad things?”

    The old man thought（想）and thought and then said, “Well, the same things, really?”

My class was trying to come up with a way to raise money for homeless children, but we couldn’t agree on anything.

“Let’s  (1)   after lunch,” our teacher, Mr. Moony said. We all  (2)  but Anthony said he couldn’t have lunch with us because he had to go to the dentist. When he put things into his bag, I  (3)  a picture of a dragon and the words “art show” he wrote on the back of his notebook.

So when Mr. Moony asked what ideas we had after lunch, I shouted, “Art show!”

To my surprise,   (4)  was against it. I felt so good. I didn’t say who really had the  (5)  at first.

Several days later, our big art show came. My classmates  (6)  many cool paintings. But everyone agreed that the most wonderful one was Anthony’s — a beautiful   (7)  . That painting reminded me of Anthony’s notebook. I’d never told anyone where the idea of the art show came from. I was feeling so bad about it that I could   (8)   enjoy the event.

Finally I told my classmates the art show wasn’t my idea! Anthony was the one who   (9)  it!

I ran to Anthony and said sorry to him.

“It’s OK,” Anthony smiled. “I was a little  (10)  at first. But then I thought as long as the idea was helpful, it didn’t matter whose idea it was.”

Many men are happier when they do some housework according to a new study.

The result surprised the workers who started the study .“We wanted to find out that men got more problems and that their life became worse when they did more housework after work，” a worker at the University of Cambridge said.The study was made in seven European countries with thousands of people. They were analyzed how much time they spent on chores such as cooking，washing，cleaning，shopping. The workers put the surprising result down and find that more and more men like doing the housework and women are more confident than they were in the past.

“In the past, men might feel sad, because doing some housework might influence their work. Women also had the problem for a long time，” the studyˈs report said. “Now some men live a better life after doing some chores.”

My name is Sam. I have a good Chinese ____  (1)  ____. Her English name is Mary. She is in Class1 and I'm in Class2.

    We like___  (2)  ____ sports. After school we often play happily. Mary plays ___  (3)  ____very well. She says she___  (4)  ____to be a volleyball player.

    Today is Mary's birthday. There's a big party ___  (5)  ____ her house. I go to a store and ___  (6)  ____ her a volleyball as a gift (礼物). She is very___  (7)  ____ to have it. All her other friends come to___  (8)  ____ house, too. We eat a lot of food. We eat some fruit like bananas, apples and oranges. As for___  (9)  ____, we eat carrots and potatoes. Mary likes rice very much, but she doesn't eat ___  (10)  ____too much, because she doesn't want to be a fat girl.

When Jean Harper was in the third grade, her teacher Mrs.Dean asked her pupils to write a report on what they wanted to be when they grew up. She expressed her dream of becoming an airline pilot. Her paper came back with an “F”on it. The teacher told her it was a “fairy tale”.”Girls can’t become airline pilots!”The teacher added.

In her senior year of high school, her English teacher was Mrs. Dorothy Slaton, a strict teacher. One day Mrs. Slaton asked this question.”What will you do in the future?”With excitement she wrote down the very old dream right away.

The next thing that Mrs. Slaton said changed the course of Jean’s life.”I have a little secret for you. You do have abilities and talents. When you leave school, if you don’t go for your dream, no one will do it for you.___(3)____”

Jean Harper told her teacher about her dream of becoming a pilot. Mrs. Slaton slapped(敲击)the desk top,”Then just do it!"she said.

So Jean did. It didn’t happen overnight.In her 10 years of hard work, even facing all kinds of difficulties, she never gave up her dream.

As you can guess, Jean Harper became a Boeing 737 captain of the United Airline Company.

When did Jean Harper want to be a pilot for the first time?

How did Jean Harper feel after hearing Mrs. Dean’s words?

What should the missing sentence be in the passage?

According to the passage, which statement is right?

What do we mainly learn from the passage?

At 9:00 am on October 15,2003,our country launched (发射) its first spaceship, Shenzhou Ⅴ,into space at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. It took Yang Liwei and his spaceship about 21 hours   (1)   the earth 14 times. Yang Liwei is China’s first astronaut. He  (2)   Liaoning Province and   (3)  an air force pilot (飞行员) since 1983.He was chosen  (4)   14 pilots after many difficult tests.

The life of an astronaut is hard to imagine for many people.   (5)  on a spacesuit takes him 15 minutes with the help of others.Sleeping in space is not easy,   (6)   .He  (7)  sleep in a special sleeping bag on the wall because there is no gravity (重力).Yang can eat chicken and rice.It’s specially made   (8)  in space but tastes just like the real thing.

“I‘m feeling very good in space, and it looks wonderful here,”said Yang.“I have looked at our beautiful earth and recorded  (9)   I have seen there.”

China has became the third country in the world to send a person into space.We are all   (10)  our mother-land.

Justin was excited because his class would visit the fire station. His uncle Frank was one of the firemen and would show the class around during the visit.

    The next day, Justin’s class left for the fire station and waited for Uncle Frank to come and start their visit. They began by looking at the big fire trucks. “Being a fireman is a hard job,” said Uncle Frank. “You need to be in good health and get enough rest.” The kids got to try on some fire hats and climbed on the trucks. After looking at all the trucks, the class went inside, and Uncle Frank showed them where they stay when they are not fighting a fire. Uncle Frank told them that when there is a fire, the alarm rings. Just as he finished showing them the alarm, it rang! All the men ran to get ready to leave for the fire. “I am sorry,” said Uncle Frank to the class. “We need to leave now, but Mr. Martin will stay with you.” The firemen ran quickly to the fire trucks and left the station. Mr. Martin showed the class around inside the station.

    That night Justin told his parents about the great trip to the fire station. “We learned some ways to prevent fires and what to do if our house ever had a fire,” said Justin. “It sounds like you learned a lot of good information,” said Dad. “We sure did,” said Justin. “I think I’m going to be a fireman when I grow up.”