The bicycle is one of the ___  (1)  ____ yet most useful inventions in the world. The surprising thing is that it was not ____(  (2)  ____ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci(利奥纳多·达·芬奇)had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced ___  (3)  ____ long after he died.

   A person riding a bicycle uses very little energy(能源)to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding ,Even so, in developed ____  (4)  ____, most people don't travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel ____  (5)  _____ if they ride to work. It's because ___  (6)  ____ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___  (7)  ____ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work in their cars and, in this way, the situation(情形) is made worse.  ____  (8)  ____ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to build road only for bicycles, and to make ____  (9)  ____ so difficult and expensive ____  (10)  ____ drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to using their bicycles.

There were no classes last Saturday afternoon. Mary went to a clothing shop near her home. The shop   (1)  many skirts. She looked through them and   (2)  last chose a very nice one. She   (3)   it on and then told the shopkeeper to put it into a bag. At that time her friend Rose came into the shop. They   (4)   so happy to see each other that they   (5)  everything   (6)  . Soon they were busy   (7)    on and on happily.

It was nearly seven, so they decided to go and   (8)   dinner. Mary took the bag, and walked towards the door of the shop. The shopkeeper stopped them and asked Mary to pay for the skirt. Mary looked at him in   (9)  at first, but soon she remembered that she didn’t pay for it. She said sorry, gave him the money and then left the shop   (10)  her friend.

One day, a woman sat next to a man in a park.   (1)   pointed to the boy who was swinging(荡秋千) and said, “What a nice boy!”

“Yes, he’s a   (2)   boy. He’s my son.” The man said. Then, he   (3)   his watch and called to his son, “Shall we go, Todd?”

Todd answered, “Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes.” The man   (4)   and Todd continue to swing.

Five   (5)  passed and the father stood and called again to his son. “Time to go now.” Again Todd said, “Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes, please.”

The man smiled and said, “OK.”

“You are   (6)   a patient father,” the woman said.

The man smiled and then said, “My elder son Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year   (7)    he was riding his bike near here. I never spent   (8)   time with Tommy. I’ve promised that the same mistake can’t happen   (9)   Todd. He wants to have five more minutes to swing. The   (10)   is that I also have five more minutes to watch them.”

Do you write your own blog(博客)? Do you often   (1)    other’s blogs on the Internet?

All over the world, not only famous persons but also many students use blogs as diaries and places to share their experiences and   (2)   advice or help.

“ I write my activities every day,   (3)    funny things and worries in my life.” says Lili, a high school student in Washington. “ I like putting pictures on my blog because it can make my blog more   (4)    and more people will like it. It’s a good way   (5)   my life to the world.” She has had her blog for eight months.

Students like writing blogs   (6)   they can write anything they want to, but don’t need to  (7)   any money.When you start to write your blog, you will find   (8)    necessary to open up your eyes to a new world. But what you write down may trouble you   (9)   . So use the blog carefully  (10)    you can keep yourself away from some trouble. The blog makes everyone’s life colorful.

   Life in the year 3044 is very different   (1)   life in the 21st century(世纪). We still do many of the things you did, but we do them

  (2)  . For example, we now have robots to help us. A robot is a machine that looks just   (3)   a human being. It can walk, talk and can do almost   (4)  we human beings do. My robot is a lot like me and we have great   (5)  together. She helps me   (6)  my homework and we often go swimming. She is programmed to take care of me if anything   (7)   , so I always feel safe（安全的）when we are together. She can send me messages, just like old-fashioned（老式的）e-mails, and she can also help me remember the past. It’s great   (8)   a robot– I am never lonely(孤独的) and I always have someone to talk   (9)   .

   I would like to tell you more about life in the year 3044, but I have to send my robot to clean up my room. Maybe   (10)   I will be able to travel back in time and visit you.

People love chocolate . Each American eats about 12 pounds of chocolate every year.There is milk chocolate, dark chocolate   (1)  white chocolate. Joe likes chocolate very much, but his mother doesn’t give   (2)   so much. She thinks they are bad   (3)   his teeth. Joe has a very nice   (4)  . The old woman loves her grandson very much. Sometimes she buys Joe some   (5)  . Then his mother lets him   (6)   them,   (7)   she wants   (8)  the old woman happy.

  (9)   Sunday morning, it is Joe’s seventh birthday, so he says, “God, please, give me a box   (10)   chocolate for his birthday.” Her mother says,”God can’t hear you. Don’t shout.”

“ I know,” says the boy with a smile. “But grandmother is in the next room, and she can.”

When I was in my first year of middle school, my father died. And my mother was ill just after I started high school, I had to stop __  (1)  ___school because my mother had no __(2)___ to pay for my school bills.

We started working in people’s gardens to save up enough money __(3)__ me to go back to school. After some time, I returned to school. Unluckily, my mother died the next year. Suddenly my world went __(4)___ I asked my headmaster__(5)___I could work for the school so I could pay my bills. He was a nice man and let me__(6)___in the school garden during the__(7)___. I had not been able to study well because of my mother’s__(8)___ . _  (2)  __the end of my second year, I__(10)__ most of my exams and was told I would have to repeat (重复) the year. After _  (3)  __summer working in the school garden, I went back to lessons again. But suddenly(突然) I fell __(12)__ .

Because of my illness, I was weak and couldn’t work at school. I was hopeless. My headmaster told me not to give up (放弃). And my teachers and classmates helped me a _(13)___Now I’m feeling better and will finish my third year.

My life is still not __  (4)  __ . A few students __(15)__ my poor clothes. They also call me ‘farmer’ because I work in the school garden. But I know I have to do with such problems.

My parents always told me that I couldn’t dance, because it was a girl’s sport. But I still want to be a dancing star. I practiced secretly, learning from books, movies, and shows. However, without my parents’ support, it seemed that my  (1)   couldn’t come true.

  One summer, my little sister Maggie was going to dance lessons. I immediately asked   (2)   parents for permission(允许) to take her to the lessons. What a   (3)    chance to learn dancing!

One afternoon, I was practicing a new dance in my room, when Maggie walked   (4)  .

“What’s the matter, Maggie?” I stopped   (5)   .                                                             

“Dennis, you are a great dancer! Can you help me?”                                                        

“What is it?” I asked.

“There’ll be a dancing performance in my school,   (6)   the boys think I’m slow, and nobody wants to be my partner.   (7)   you dance with me for it?” She looked at me anxiously.

“You can be a good dancer!” I encouraged her. “Let’s show those people that they have been   (8)   all along.”

In the following months, we   (9)   every evening, hiding from my parents. I was having a fantastic time and   (10)   Maggie danced better and better.

Finally came the big day. I became nervous when I heard my parents would come to watch the performance. When the   (11)   began, I took a deep breathe and tried to be   (12)   . We moved perfectly, shining with pride. At last, we   (13)    it, our show gave everyone a big surprise.

    My heart was beating wildly when I saw my   (14)    coming towards me. He put his hand on my shoulder. “You did a good job, son. You seemed to love dancing truly   (15)    I don’t want you to do it. Go for it and make us proud.” 

    I’d been waiting for this moment for so long. I knew that the road ahead wasn’t going to be easy, but I wouldn’t give up. I wanted nothing more in life than to dance.

Hello! I’m Mr. Smith. Here   (1)   some lost things .   (2)   in the lost and found box. This is a schoolbag.   (3)  is red and yellow. David found it this morning. Is it  (4)  schoolbag? That is a pencil box. Mike found it in his   (5)   this afternoon. There are(有)  (6)   pens in it. One is blue. The other two are green. By the way(顺便问一下）, Jenny lost her   (7)   . It’s a white jacket. Can you  (8)  Jenny?

Boys and girls, if(如果)you lost your things, you can ask me   (9)  help. Call me  (10)  687-9532.

As we all know, Chinese students are hard-working. But they’re   (1)  at the same time.

At school, they have to follow the strict school  (2)  . For example, they   (3)  have long hair or wear strange (奇怪的) clothes.

And at home, they’re always busy with their homework and they don’t have any free time to do what they like. Once (一旦) they don’t do well in exams, their parents will lose  (4)   for them.

On weekends, their parents tell them to take part in different classes they don’t like. They always feel   (5)   and bored. They   (6)   interest in school things slowly. Some students can’t   (7)   it and leave home. Because their parents only care about children’s study and they never   (8)   what they want.

“Many students can do nothing  (9)   study. Some students even don’t know  (10)   to get on well with others and how to take care of others,”said an expert (专家).

   “This is a serious problem. It’s necessary for us to think it over and solve it well,”said another expert.