Hello! I’m Sandra. I’m looking at family photos. Here is a photo ____  (1)  ____ my aunt’s family. This is Cindy. ____  (2)  ____ is my aunt, my mother’s sister. Cindy is a teacher. She is very ____  (3)  ____ every day, but she likes her work. ____  (4)  ____ is this man? His name is Paul. He is my ____  (5)  ____ husband(丈夫). He works in a hospital. He thinks his work is fun. They have ____  (6)  ____ children(孩子). Oh, look! They are here. Jason is their son and Joanna is their daughter. Jason and Joanna ____  (7)  ____ my cousins. They are students and we are in the same ____  (8)  ____. They always come to my house and we ____  (9)  ____ games and volleyball.

 It’s a ____  (10)  ____ family. I love it.

There was once a lonely girl who wanted love very much.

One day she found two dying birds in the forest. She took them home and put them in a small   (1)    . She was happy to have two “friends”. She    (2)   them with love and the birds grew strong. One day the door of the cage was open. The larger and the   (3)   of the two flew out of the cage. The girl was afraid that it would fly away. She caught it quickly before it could fly away. But soon she couldn’t   (4)      a sound from the bird. When she opened her hand, the bird was already dead. Her    (5)  

killed the bird! Then she    (6)  the other bird jump up and down inside the cage. She could feel it wanted to fly into the blue sky. So she lifted it from the cage and let it   (7)    away highly. The bird circled(盘旋) once, twice, and three times. The girl     (8)     as the bird flew. She didn’t care about(关心，在意)  (9)    the bird any more. She wanted it to be happy. To her surprise, the bird flew closer and landed(降落) on her shoulder. It sang the   (10)  song she had ever heard.

The fastest way to lose love is to hold on it too tightly（紧紧地）, and the best way to keep love is to give it wings（翅膀）

During the break(课间), Jake was playing games on his mobile phone(手机).Some  (1)   werestanding around him and talking.“It  (2)    that people now can’t live without mobile phones. What will themobile phone be like in the future?”One of them suddenly(突然)  (3)    .

Robert said first,“I think it will be as  (4)   as paper. And we can charge(充电)it by putting it in the sun,”Susan   (5)    withRobert. She said,“Yes，it is really possible. In the future,people may leave theEarth and live on other  (6)    . It’ll be very far, butwe can still  (7)    on the mobile phone.  (8)    doyou think，Eliza?”“Well,I don’t know. Maybe it will be able to do  (9)    everything,”Elizaanswered.“No matter what it will be like,it will become  (10)    .”

     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(严格的) 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（相处） 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.

Li Ming was a good school boy before. He   (1)  to do well in all his lessons. All his classmates took   (2)   in him. But these days he turned out to be another Li Ming. He   (3)  asleep in class. He has been late for school three times since last Friday. Yesterday they took an. English test. He failed. But he always got over 130 before. His headteacher, Rose, didn't know   (4)  . So she decided to go to his home and found out the reason. On her   (5)  to his home, she passed by a net bar. To her  (6)  , she saw Li Ming playing computer games excitedly inside. Then she   (7)   what had happened. She went into the net bar and pulled him out. Li Ming was very frightened because she was very   (8)  with him. He didn't know how she would deal with him. She   (9)  beat him nor punished (惩罚) him.   (10)  , she told him playing computer games was bad for his health and study. She also asked him not to lose himself in it. Li Ming promised (答应) to give up computer games and study hard to achieve his dreams.

An American man, a Russian man, and an African man were all up in a hot-air balloon together. After a few minutes, the Russian man put his hand down through the   (1)  . “Aha!” he said. “We’re right   (2)   my homeland.”

A few hours later the African man put his hand through the clouds. “Aha we’re   (5)   over my homeland.” he said   (6)  .

“How do you   (7)   that?” asked the Russian and the American in surprise.

“Of course I know. I feel hot with my    (8)       inthe clouds. It’s the heat of the desert.”

Several more hours later the American put his hand in the clouds. “Aha, we’re right over New York.”

The Russian and the African were so   (9)   . “How do you know all of that?” they asked in one voice.

The American  (10)   his hand up and said, “Look! My watch is missing.”

Twelve year ago, my sister, a very beautiful girl, was born. _  (1)  _, we were later told that this little girl, who was three and a half months premature（早产的）, would only have 14 days on the earth. It’s hard to understand what kind of _  (2)  _ you have when you find out that you’re  (3)  _ something that you don’t even know.

As time went on, the number of days kept growing, which gave us hope. When the doctors said that we could take her home, that was when reality（现实）hit. We had no _  (4)  _.

 I am from a small town with _  (5)  _ hospitals, but when you don’t have money, you just don’t have it. My mother tried for days to get the money, but nothing _(6)_ each time. A caseworker was doing her best. It’s _  (6)  that it almost felt as if we had to _(8)_ a baby from the hospital.

 One day the caseworker walked into her boss’s office to _(9)_ again. As she walked out. Feeling _(10) again, out of nowhere a man walked up to her. He _(11)_ her a bag of money and said,”Please give this to the lady in need, so she can take her daughter home.” She looked down at her hand with tears in her eyes. As she looked up to thank him, he was _  (7)  _. They searched all over that hospital and he was nowhere to be _  (8)  _.

 Thanks to the guy that I will _(14)_ know, we could take that beautiful baby girl home, and celebrate her 12^th birthday yesterday. I am thankful to this man and feel that his act of _  (9)  _ should be shared with everyone.

We were going to play against a team from a country school .They didn’t come   (1)  the match nearly began .They looked    (2)  than we thought .The wore dirty T-shirts and blue jeans and looked like farm boys .We thought they    (3)   saw a basketball before .We felt that we didn’t    (4)  any practice to play with such a team .It was very late so they couldn’t have any time to practice .The match began ,one of our boys    (5)   the ball and he tried to give it to another one . But from out of nowhere a boy in a T-shirt    (6)   the ball and he quickly and beautifully got the ball into our basket and had two points .They    (7)  us .They had another two points in a minute .Soon it was all over .The country team   (8)  the match .Of course we knew that there was still another team    (9)   than any good team .But the important lesson we learn this time was : One can’t tell a man or a team by the    (10)   . 

A teacher was asking a student some questions , but the student   (1)   answer any of them . The teacher decided to give him some   (2)   questions so that he could get  (3)   of them right .“Who was Beethoven (贝多芬) ?” the teacher asked . The student   (4)   for some time and said , “ A king . ” “   (5)  . He was a musician , ” the teacher said . She was getting a little  (6)    now ,   (7)   she was trying not to show it . “Who was the first president of the USA ?” asked she . The student thought for a long time , but he didn’t say   (8)   . The teacher was very angry and   (9)    , “ George Washington（乔治·华盛顿）! ” The student got up and walked to the door .“ Come Back !” the teacher said , “ I   (10)    you to go .” “ Oh , I’m sorry ,” the student said , “ I thought you called the next student .”

 My family ____(1)____ a restaurant in L.A. where I have to work as a waitress. One Friday night, I was working late and everyone was ____(2)___. I was just about to leave when my mom ___(3)____ me over to the kitchen.

   “There's still someone at one of the ____(4)____ tables”, my mom said.

   “Well, kick him out.”

   “We are not kicking him out. He's a young boy about your ___(5)____, and he seems sad.” She put a piece of cake on the plate and ___(6)____ it to me. “Here, go give this to him and try to cheer him up. I'll see you at home.”

   “Ugh, fine.” I said.

   I walked ____(7)____ to the table and couldn't believe my eyes. It was Justin Bieber, and he did seem sad.

   “Um, hi,” I said, smiling.

   “Hi,” he said.

   “Here's a piece of cake.”

   “Thanks.”

   “Is something wrong?” I asked.

   “Not ____(8)___,” he sighed. “It's just that it's Friday night and instead of hanging out with friends or going out like a normal teenager, I'm eating ____(9)____.”

   “Well, I guess I'm not normal teen either because this is ___(10)____ I spend my Fridays.”

   Justin smiled.

   “Working? Well, maybe you can take a break and we abnormal (not normal) teens can ___(11)____ the piece of cake.”

   “Like a date?” I smiled.

   “So would you say this is your dream date?” he asked.

   “No,” I said. “Look, I don't ____(12)____ if you are Justin Bieber. My dream date would be slow dancing with my date.”

   “Then let's slow dance,” Justin said.

   Justin ____(13)____ his song “First Dance” on his phone and walked toward me. I ____(14)____ his hand and we started dancing.

   “Is this your dream date?”

   “Yeah,” I said. “But why do you want this to be my dream date?”

   “Because you are my dream date.”

   We smiled at ____(15)____.