Sunday   (1)   the favorite day for our family. My parents   (2)   not   (3)   work. My sister and I   (4)   go to school. We   (5)   at home and   (6)   in the morning. In the afternoon, my sister and I   (7)   out to buy some different things. My sister likes songs. She   (8)   some new DVDs. I buy some story books, a doll, a bike and things   (9)   that. We also buy some small gifts（礼物） for our parents. We   (10)   them. They love us very much. We live in a happy family.

Malls are popular for Americans to go to. Some people spend  (1)  much time at malls that they are called“mall rats”. Mall rats shop until they visit hundreds of stores.

People like malls for many （2） .They feel safe because malls have police stations. Parking is usually   (2)  , and the temperature inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest areas with waterfalls and large green trees.

The   (3)  mall in the United States is the mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 million square feet. It has 350 stores, eight night clubs, and a large park! There are parking spaces for 12,750   (4)  . About 750,000 people shop there every week.

The first mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina, Minnesota. People love doing all their shopping in   (5)  place(s). More malls are built around the country. Now malls are like town centers where people come to   (6)  many things, they shop, of course, they also eat in food courts that have food from all over the world. They see movies at theaters. Some people even get their daily   (7)  by doing the new sport of“ mall walking.”   (8)  go to malls to meet friends.

In some malls, people can see a doctor or a dentist and even go to the church. In other words, people can do just about   (9)  in malls. Now people can actually live in their favorite shopping center.

China has changed so fast that it is hard to know when to start. I came to China in 1994 and _（1）_ here ever since, so I have seen the changes in China. Take one city, Shenzhen for example. When I first saw this city, it   (1)  _ beggars (乞丐) and lots of low rise buildings. Many of the _  (2)  _ had shack (窝棚) buildings on top of them.

   There were no birds and other little wild life. It was like entering a   (3)  _ planet. But in the past 20 years Shenzhen has been a rather modern city   (4)  _ huge high rise buildings and a stock (股票) exchange, also a very large shipping industry.

   Now the city is very green, _  (5)  _ the wildlife has returned. Finally I can hear the birds _  (6)  _ and this brings hope of a better China in the future.

   As China moves from being the "workshop" of the world to a more acceptable service industry and people live _  (7)  than before. The present leader is taking the country in the best possible direction and   (8)  _ is admirable (令人钦佩的).

   China has changed for the better and I've enjoyed every minute   (9)  _ I've spent there. I think the country will become more beautiful in the future.

Dogs are people's friends. They will do anything their masters（主人）ask them to do and they do their duty very well.

Curly is my black dog. He is big and strong. He is strong enough to carry me on his   (1)  . He likes running and playing with me. He likes to   （2） . my father around in the fields, too.

One day my father took off his coat. put it on the ground   (2)   a big tree and said to Curly.“  (3)   my coat.”

Curly sat down on the coat. Then my father remembered he had to   (4)  dinner for the Family.   (5)   he went home and forgot all about his coat and dog

Late in the evening I   (6)   my dog and looked for him everywhere in the yard. I called, "Curly, Curly!" But Curly did not answer.

Soon my father wanted something in his coat pocket（口袋）. Suddenly he remembered   (7)   he had done. Quickly he went back to the big tree. What do you think he saw? Curly was   (8)   sitting on the coat! He was afraid someone would take it   (9)  .

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.

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)    .”

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.”

 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)____.

Mr. White was a doctor. One day a young man came to see him. The young man told him that he had a bad   (1)  . Mr. White examined him   (2)   but found nothing. So Mr. White said to the young man, “You are very   (3)  . There is nothing wrong with your head, young man.”_  (4)  _ the young man still felt painful. Mr. White asked   (5)   there was something that troubled him. The young man said that he borrowed 5,000   (6)   his cousin, but he had no money to return. Mr. White gave him some advice. A few days   (7)  , the young man came to Mr. White again. He said that he felt well. In the afternoon of the same day,   (8)   young man came to see Mr. White. He was well with his body, too. The young man said to Mr. White, “I am the cousin of the young man you  (9)   this morning. Could you give me some advice   (10)   away from my troubles?”

One day a famous teacher was walking with his students. On the way, they saw a lake. They stopped and the teacher told the student, "I'm thirsty. Get me some water from that lake."

  Just when the student reached the lake, a cow was walking in the lake. So the water became very dirty. He thought" I can't give the dirty water to my teacher!"

  He came back and told the teacher," The water is very dirty. We can't drink it." After about half an hour, the teacher asked the students to get some water again. So he went back to the lake.

  But the lake was still dirty. So he told the teacher the same thing. After some time, the teacher asked him to go back again. But this time, he found the water was clean. The mud in the water came to the bottom. So he got some water.

The teacher looked at the water and said to him," You did nothing to make the water clean. You just let it be... Your mind is also like that! When it is bothered, just let it be. Give it some time."