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.

Once there was a little girl living in a small, poor house on a hill. As she grows up, she began to play in her small   (1)  , she was able to see over the garden and across the valley a wonderful house high on the hill -and that house had  (2)  windows.

Although she loved her family, she   (3)   about how wonderful and exciting it must be to live in that golden house all day.

Then she  (4)   the age when she could play outside of her garden fence(篱笆），she asked her mother   (5)   she could go for a bike ride outside the gate. Her mother thought for a while and   (6)  allowed her to go. The little girl rode her bike   (7)  she got to the gate of the golden house.

As she leaned(倚靠）her bike   (8)  the gatepost, she focused on the path that   (9)  to the house and then on the house   (10)   and was so   (11)   . All the windows were plain(普通的)brand rather dirty.

   She was so sad that she didn't go any further. Heartbroken, she rode her bike back. As she  (12)  , she saw a sight that amazed her. There   (13)   the valley on the other side was a little house. Its windows glistened（闪耀）golden as the   (14)  shone on her little house.

   She   (15)  hat she had been living in her golden house all along. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her eyes and in her daily life!

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.”

When I was a child, my father had to do three jobs for a family of seven. Every time I saw him come back late, looking tired, I promised myself that someday I would show my   (1)   to my father for what he had done.

Over the next twenty years, my father worked hard to   (2)   our big family and suffered a lot from a heart problem. One morning, my fatherˈs old car   (3)   and he asked me to pick him up after his medical examination. He had   (4)   refused when I offered to replace his old car. He said that he did not want something that he was unable to pay himself.

As he stepped out of the doctorˈs office, he looked unusually   (5)  . We drove in silence and he made me promise to keep the medical report as a   (6)  . I did this with a heavy heart.

 At that time, I was  (7)   a new car. I asked my father to go with me to pick one out.   (8)  I started talking with the salesman, I noticed my father admiring a brown car. I   (9)   chose a white car. My father took one final look at the brown car and seemed kind of   (10)  . Before leaving, I heard him muttering* to himself, “Really like that car. Wish I could   (11)   it.”

Several days later, I asked my father if he could go with me to pick up   (12)   new car. As we arrived, the salesman   (13)   him a key to his new car — the brown one — and explained that it was for him   (14)   me. My father looked at me in great   (15)  . I explained it was my childhood promise and smiled at this man, who had given up everything for his family.

The Internet is useful. It is becoming an important   (1)   of our lives. We can use the Internet to get information, make friends, send emails, watch movies and so on. Now,   (2)   children are using the Internet, too. But I think parents or teachers should always   (3)   the children when they use the Internet.

There is   (4)   in charge of（负责）the Internet. It’s easy to get wrong information on the Internet. Someone may cheat people on the Internet. Some information and pictures are  (5)   for children. Also, it’s dangerous to let children   (6)   chat rooms by themselves. Parents should know who their children are talking to. What’s more,   (7)   in front of a computer for a long time isn’t good for children’s eyes. So children shouldn’t spend

  (8)   time on the computer.

In a word, the Internet can change our lives   (9)   the better. But I strongly believe that it is   (10)   for parents to watch their children when they use the Internet.

My friend Jack always had accidents. He did not ____(1)____ attention to what he was doing or where he was going. A few months ago, ____(2)____ car hit him while he was on his way home from school. The driver was tired, ____(3)____ he did not see Jack. And Jack was talking on ____(4)____ mobile phone and was riding in the middle of the road. The car hit him. He ____(5)____ his leg and was in hospital for over a month.

   Last week, he was not looking ___(6)____ he was going as usually. As a result, he fell ____(7)____ a hole in the park. Some ____(8)____ people in the park helped him climb out of the hole and then took him to hospital. ____(9)____, he did not break an arm or a leg this time. At the hospital, the ____(10)____ gave him some medicine and then he went home.

After the two accidents, Jack changed a lot. Now he is very careful.

That’s Not My Problem!

A mouse looked through a hole in the wall. He saw that the farmer and his wife had a mouse trap (鼠夹) in the house. Wow! The mouse ran into the yard and   (1)  , “There’s a mouse trap in the house!” The chicken, the   (2)   and the cow were sorry for him. But they didn’t take it   (3)   and thought that it wasn’t their problem. That night, a sound was heard   (4)   the house. “  (5)   was caught in the trap? The farmer’s wife wondered. She   (6)   and ran to have a look. In the darkness, she didn’t see that it was a snake’s tail that was caught. And the snake bit her. The farmer took his wife to the   (7)   right away. Later she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows that chicken soup is   (8)   for a fever. So the farmer killed the chicken and made some chicken soup for his wife. But   (9)   that the wife was becoming worse and worse, so her friends and neighbors came to see her. To serve   (10)  , the farmer killed the pig. The farmer’s wife didn’t   (11)   well at last and died. And so many people came for her funeral (葬礼).   (12)   the farmer killed the cow to get meat for the visitors to eat.

So what are you   (13)   now? The next time when you hear that   (14)   around you is facing a problem and you think that it’s not your problem, remember that when he gets into trouble, it really means that you are also   (15)   the way to trouble! So give a hand if you can! You are just helping yourself!