One day Frank saw a spaceship in the sky. The   (1)   came nearer and nearer and then landed in a field quickly. The   (2)   of the spaceship opened and two strange beings(生物) walked   (3)   .They seemed to be half a man and half a horse. Frank was      (4)   them. He tried to run away but failed. To Frankˈs surprise, they were able to   (5)   to him in English.

     They asked him   (6)   about the Earth. "We are   (7)   another star," they said. "But we donˈt have enough food there. Many of our people are very   (8)   ,and we donˈt have much time left. We are trying to look for a new   (9)   ."

A teacher was giving a talk to his students on stress (压力) management. He raised a glass of water and asked them, "How ____  (1)  ___ do you think this glass of water is?"

   The students began to think and ____(  (2)  ____ Their answers are different, from 20g to 500g.

   "It does not matter on the real ____  (3)  ____. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a ____  (4)  ____ it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call a ____  (5)  ____. It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. What we have to do is to put the glass down, ____  (6)  ____ for a while before holding it up again."

   "If we carry our burdens(负担) ____  (7)  ____ sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on. The burden will become increasingly heavier. We have to  ____  (8)  ____ the burden every now and then, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on."

   So ____  (9)  ____ you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow.

   Whatever burdens you have, let them down for a moment if you can. And learn to ____  (10)  ____ ourselves.

   Life is short but amazing. Enjoy it!

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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!

The plane from Shanghai to Paris will_______in an hour.

When you are free, you can go outside to play on the street .You can also stay at home to surf the Internet.   (1)     do you think is safer? Maybe some people think surfing the Internet at home is   (2)  . In fact, surfing the Internet at home is not safe. So you should be  (3)   when you surf the Internet. Here is some  (4)   for you .

Be careful about strangers on the Internet, just as you  (5)    strangers on the street. Of course, we know the strangers are the persons whom we don’t know

If someone says some dirty words to you, don’  (6)    and just leave .You should  (7)    tell others about your real name, home address or telephone number. They are your personal information. If you tell others about that, that may get you   (8)   danger.

Never  (9)    to meet someone you know on the Internet. He/She might be a bad person! Don’t make too many net friends. If you have free time, you should  (10)  time with your real friends in your real life.

Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to make money for my schooling.

 One day, my mother was sewing a quilt(缝被子). I silently sat beside her. “Mum, is there  (1)  between you and dad?” I asked in a very low voice.

  With surprise in her eyes, she   (2)  her work for a while. Then she said, “Susan, look at this thread?(线). It can hardly be seen,   (3)  it’s really there. It makes the quilt strong. If life is a quilt, love should be a thread. Love is inside.”

  I couldn’t understand her  (4)   the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.

  After they were back, my mother helped my father walk  (5)  on the country road every day. They were so kind to each other and it seemed they were the happiest couple.

  After two months my father   (6)  couldn’t walk by himself.

  “Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

  “Susan, don’t   (7)  me,” he said, “I just like walking with your mum. I like this kind of life. “   (8)  his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

  Now I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our   (9)  . Love is inside, making life   (10)  and warn. 

Several years ago I studied in a university in the biggest city in our country. It’s beautiful but it’s hot in summer. So I usually returned to my hometown when my   (1)   began. It was not big, but it was cool and quiet. I could   (2)   in the daytime and have a good sleep at night.

   One day I had some problems to solve. But I didn’t take the dictionary home. My father told me Charlie, one of my   (3)   had a good library. I went to his house at once. We didn’t see each other after I   (4)   middle school. At first he didn’t recognize(认出) me. He   (5)   me up and down. And then he called out, “Oh, dear! It’s you, Fred!”

   Of course we were   (6)   to meet each other again and talked a lot about our schoolmates and teachers. Later on he showed me around his library. It wasn’t big but there were a lot of nice books in it. And the dictionaries I   (7)   were in them too. At last I said, “Can you lend some dictionaries to me, please?”“I’m sorry I don’t lend any books to  (8)  ,” said the young man. “Are you afraid I’ll  (9)   them?”“No, I’m not. I’m afraid you won’t  (10)   them to me. Look! All the books are not bought, but borrowed!”What a kind of person do you think Charlie is?