One day after school, I went to the teacher's office to see my teacher, but nobody was there. As I was about to leave, I noticed a piece of paper on the floor. I picked it up and saw the words "FINAL-TERM EXAMINATION" at the top. I put the paper into my school bag secretly and ran out of the room.

After I came back home, I took out the paper quickly. It was the exam paper of my worst subject, History. I felt excited. My heart beat fast. I took out my History book and started working on the answer. I had never answered any questions so seriously.

On the day of the History exam, I went into the exam hall confidently. When the paper was sent to me, I dreamt of getting the highest mark in the whole grade and could not help smiling. "My History teacher always encouraged me to work hard and get better grades, but I let him down time and time again. This time I will give him a big surprise," I thought.

When the teacher said we could start, I turned the paper over. To my surprise, all the questions were different. Later I felt nervous. In the end, I almost left the paper undone. After the exam. I ran to the toilet, took out the paper and carefully read it from the top. Oh! It was last year's exam paper. I read all the questions but I hadn't read the date.

This is a lesson in which I know I have to put my feet on the ground. I regretted doing such a silly thing. After that, I told my teacher the truth and I promised to be honest. From then on, I worked harder than ever before.

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 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.

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!

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!”

Creativity is the key to a bright future. Here is ____  (1)  ____ schools and parents can help their children to develop their creativity.

   Drew worked for a company in 1925. At work he invented a kind of material ____  (2)  ____ enough to hold things together. But his boss told him not to think more about the idea. Drew didn't stop and finally, using his own time, made a kind of tape, which now is used everywhere by many people. And his company learned from its ____  (3)  ____.

   Now the company asks its workers to ____  (4)  ____ 15 percent of their work time just thinking about and developing new ideas.

   Creativity is not something one is just born with. A person with high intelligence does not mean that he uses it creatively. Creativity is the matter of ____  (5)  ____ your intelligence to think of new ideas that are good for something.

   We know that many schools have tried to develop students' creativity, but some teachers only want to develop students' reading, writing and maths skills, and have to ____  (6)  ____ creativity for correct answers. Children from such schools can give correct answers, but they are unable to use ____  (7)  ____ to work out problems.

   It is important to give children choices. From the earliest age, children should learn to make decisions and understand their _  (8)  . Even though it's choosing between two kinds of food ____  (9)  ____ lunch, decision-making helps thinking skills. As children grow older, parents should let their children decide how to use their time or spend their money, but not help too much if they make the wrong decision. The child may have a ____  (10)  ____ time, but that is all right.

 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.