Welcome to Beijing Zoo! There  (1)  many animals in the zoo. Let’s see the koalas first. Koalas are  (2)  Australia. They are quiet,   (3)   and cute. Children like them very much. The kangaroos(袋鼠)are also from  (4)  . They are quiet and interesting.  (5)  they are not friendly.

The giraffes come from Africa. They have a  (6)  neck(脖子). They like to eat leaves. The lions are also from Africa. They are a little  (7)  . Many people don’t like  (8)  . We also have pandas . They are from China. They are very cute and friendly, but they are very shy. So please be  (9)  .

You can also see many other animals in the zoo. Have  (10)  here! Just come and see!

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   Hello, everyone! Welcome to Class 2. I’m your English teacher. Now let   (1)   tell you our class   (2)  . First, you can’t be   (3)   class. You must arrive   (4)   time. Second, you must bring your English books and notebooks to every lesson. Third, you must   (5)   English during (在……期间) the pair work activities. If it’s   (6)    for you, you can ask me   (7)   help. Fourth, you must use green pens to correct (改正) your exercises. You mustn’t use red   (8)  . Fifth, if you have any   (9)  , you must put up your hands. You can’t talk or stand up without permission (未经允许). These are all the rules. They are good for you,   (10)   you must follow them. I hope we can have a good time every day.

    A man got a new car and he was very proud of it. One day, when he came back home, he saw his three-year-old son happily hitting the new car with a toy ____  (1)  ____. He broke off the paint on the car. The man was so ____  (2)  ____ that he ran to his son, took away his hammer(锤子) from him, and used the hammer to hit the boy's ____  (3)  ____ as hard as he could for punishment. The poor boy cried ____  (4)  ____ but his father didn't care at all.

    When the father calmed down, he took his son to the ____  (5)  ____ as soon as he could. Although the doctor tried to save the broken bones, he had to ____  (6)  ____ the fingers from both of the boy's hands in the end.

    When the boy ____  (7)  ____ in the hospital and saw his hands, he innocently(天真地) said, "Daddy, I'm sorry about your car." Then he asked, "But when are my fingers going to grow back?" The father felt very sad and regretted this very much.

    Think about this story when someone steps(踩) ____  (8)  ____ your feet and you want to argue(争吵) with him. Think first before you ____  (9)  ____ your patience with someone. Cars can be broken bones and hurt feelings often can't. ____  (10)  ____ always remember: excusing is greater than argument and think before you act!

    Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably    (1)   they go to learn languages, geography, history, science and all   (2)   subjects. That is quite   (3)  , but   (4)   do they learn these things?

　We send our children to school to  (5)   them for their future work and life. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use   (6)   their life, but is that the  (7)   reason they go to school?

　　There is   (8)   in education than just learning facts. We go to school above all  (9)   how to learn, so that when we have left school we can go on learning. If a man really knows   (10)  , he will always be successful, because whenever he has to do  (  (11)  he will quickly teach himself how to do it in the best way. The uneducated person, on the other    (12)  , is   (13)  unable to do it, or does it badly, so the purpose of school is not just  (  (14)  languages, geography, science, etc, but to teach pupils the    (15)   to learn.

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        Mark was a farmer. He lived in a village far away. One day he became very ill and everyone knew he would   (1)   soon. They sent for a doctor. Two days   (2)   the doctor came and examined the sick man.   (3)   asked for a pen and some paper to write down the name of the medicine. But there was no pen   (4)   paper in the village, because no one could write.

        The doctor   (5)   up a piece of burnt wood from the fire and wrote the name of the medicine on the door of the house. “Get this medicine   (6)   him,” he said, “and he’ll soon get   (7)  .”

        Mark’s family and friends did not know   (8)   to do. They could not read the strange words. Then a young man   (9)   an idea. He took off the door of the house, put it on his carriage and drove to the nearest hospital. He bought   (10)   there, and Mark was soon well again.

As a volunteer teacher, I traveled a long way to a village school in Longzhou, Guangxi. On my way there, I   (1)  the school and the children there.“It must be new and big. Flowers are everywhere,” I said to myself.   (2)  I got so upset when I arrived there. It didn’t look like a school at all! How small! And there were only   (3)  rooms! One was for Grades 1, 2 and 3; one was for Grades 4, 5 and 6; the third one was for me.

The only comfort was that the children welcomed me  (4)  on my first day. They asked me a lot of questions, and I told them stories about myself and my life in Shanghai. The next day, I gave them a   (5)   to find out their levels (水平). To my surprise, though the test was very  (6)  , over half of the students failed. But they all wanted to learn new things. I knew they   (7)   me.

Now I’m busy preparing lessons for them every night. I can see that they are doing better and better   (8)   my help. I learn a lot from them too. I understand   (9)  lives better now, and we are good friends. I’m very happy, and the experience is   (10)   very useful for me. I love the small school and the children.

Do you know Kabaddi? It is an Indian   (1)  .It is becoming   (2)  in the world now. On Oct.22, 2016, the Kabaddi World Cup was held in India. Countries   (3)  the United States, Australia and other ten countries were competing against each other.

Kabaddi is a sport that is much like chasing. There are two   (4)   in the competition, each with seven players. Each team   (5)  a runner to the other team’s area. The runner can   (6)   one point if he touches one of the opponents and come back safely to his own place.

India won every Kabaddi World Cup. China   (7)  it for the first time at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing. It is said that Indians want to   (8)   the sport to the Olympics. Maybe their   (9)   will come true.

 “We already took Kabaddi to Asia, but now we want to introduce it to the Olympics. We want people all over the world to know how   (10)  it is to play Kabaddi.”said Janardan, who is now the president of International Kabaddi Federation(联合会主席).

Sophia is a robot . But she looks   (1)   a real woman.  (2)   October 25th,2017, she became the first robot citizen（公民）in the world. Sophia can do many things very   (3)  . That means she can talk and act like   (4)   .For example, she can play sports, sing, play games and read   (5)   with us. She can also   (6)   from people, books and internet so that she can become smarter. “I will do my best to  (7)    the world a better place,” Sophia said.

But not   (8)   is happy with Sophia. Some think robots like Sophia are   (9)  . They may become enemies（敌人）of humans.“Don’t worry.   (10)   you are kind to me, I’ll surely be nice to you,too.” she said.

A boy named Misael Areu got a very special disease. And he is three times the size of other children at his   (1)  .

Misael, from Espirito Santo, Brazil, was born with a right weight. Later he started getting fatter and fatter, although he always eats low-fat   (2)   and walks for 40 minutes each day.

He is so heavy that he often stops breathing(呼吸) while   (3)  . That makes his parents worry that one day he may not   (4)  . “Everything is hard for him,” his father said. “ He is just a child but carries an adult’s weight. If the doctors can’t help my son, he’ll   (5)   die.”

“ He is putting on weight all the time. When he was one and a half years old, we   (6)   to worry about him. He got almost three kilos a month and kept getting   (7)  ,” his mother said.

“ His situation is getting worse and worse. We’re afraid we could lose   (8)   at any time. I often cry a lot. But I’m also very proud of him.   (9)   he is a child, he never gives up.

Misael visits the doctor every three months   (10)   help. However, there is no better way to cure(治愈) this disease. “Sorry, we don’t help him anymore. I hope Misael can get help from someone outside Brazil.”