Recently I have read another great book by Mark Twain. ____  (1)  ____ name is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

   Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are best friends. They have had so many adventures. ____  (2)  ____ this book tells about Huck and another friend of his, Jim. Huck lives with a rich ____  (3)  ____ after he finds a box of gold with Tom Sawyer in a cave. ____  (4)  ___ Huck's real dad comes and takes him away from the family. Huck's life in his dad's small cabin (小木屋) is ____  (5)  ____ so he cuts a hole in the cabin. Then he manages to make people ____  (6)  ____ that someone has killed him. Huck runs away to a small ____  (7)  ____. His friend Jim is on that island. He is very sad because he thinks that Huck has ____  (8)  ___. But he finds Huck is alive. Then they go on adventures together. They ____  (9)  ____ die in the wheels of a huge paddle boat and they live on a raft (木筏) with two frauds (骗子).

   Well, that's ____  (10)  ____ I want to tell you here. It's really a good book. It has lots of adventures and Tom Sawyer will show up.

David Beckham opened his London football academy (学院) on Monday. The academy welcomes boys and girls aged 8 to 15. It will accept 15,000 ____  (1)  ____ a year, 10,000 of them free. In America, football is a ____  (2)  ____ sport. ____  (3)  ____, American football is different. Players sometimes kick the ball but they often throw the ball and ____  (4)  ____ with it. They try to take it to the other end of the field. They have four chances to ____  (5)  ____ the ball ten yards (码). They can ____  (6)  ____ and throw it. If they move the ball ten yards, they can try to move it ____  (7)  ____ ten yards. ____  (8)  ____ they move it to the end of the field, they can get six points.

   It is difficult to move the ____  (9)  ____. Eleven men on the other team try to stop the man with the ball. If he doesn't move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball to the other team.

   _  (10)  _ university wants its own team to win. Thousands of people come to watch. They all shout for their ____  (11)  ____ teams.

   Young men and women come on the field to help the people shout more.

   Each team plays 10 or 11 games each ____  (12)  ____. The season begins in September and ends in November. If a team is very good, it can play another game ____  (13)  ____ the season ends. The ____  (14)  ____ teams play again on January 1st, the first day of the New Year. Many people go to see these games and many others watch them ____  (15)  ____ TV.

It's very important that we all recycle. In nature, everything   (1)   again. For example, when an animal dies, it becomes   (2)   animal's food. Nothing is wasted. But humans have created things like plastic bags which can't be   (3)   down by nature. Our   (4)   kills animals and pollutes water and soil.  (5)   we continue making too much rubbish, the problem will only get worse. If nature can't reuse the rubbish, we must recycle   (6)  .We should clean up the rubbish we've made because nature can't.

Recycling is also the right thing to do for another reason. The earth is rich in natural materials like water and trees，  (7)   these materials are not endless(无尽的)．We use up our natural materials   (8)   faster than the earth is able to reproduce(再生)them. For example, each year we cut   (9)   more than 6，000 square miles of forest. But it takes an average of 25 years for a new tree   (10)  .

Recycling can help us save the earth, so let's take action right now.     

How can we get great photos of our kids? Famous Russian photographer Elena Shumilova says the most ____(  (1)  ____ thing is to photograph them often—every day. By photographing them ____(  (2)  ____, the kids become comfortable around the camera, and you'll get better photos of your kids. She also tells a story of almost ____(  (3)  ____ her most famous photo: ____(  (4)  ____ I took this photo, my confidence was at a pretty low point. I had tried for a photo of my ____(  (5)  ____ and dog 14 other times, but failed every time.

   I was just feeling upset (沮丧的) that day and didn't even want to bring my ____(  (6)  ____. But something told me to bring it. And on that ____(  (7)  ____ day, it all just came together.

   This dog of ours is now famous, but he's actually a pretty difficult dog to ____(  (8)  ____ with. From the unsuccessful photo shoots, I'd learned what angles (角度) and body compositions (构图) work for ____(  (9)  ____ and my son.

   It's easy to get upset. It's easy to ____(  (10)  ____, “Oh, why brother. It won't work anyway.” Thanks to those 14 photos! They're what made the fifteenth one possible.

   It was Sunday afternoon. My younger brother and I were alone at home. My parents went out. I was doing my homework while my younger brother was watching TV. Suddenly the doorbell rang. Ding-dong! My younger brother thought that it was our parents, so he opened the ____（1）____ quickly.

   A tall man wearing a black raincoat stood outside. He said that he came to sell books and asked politely if our parents were at home.

   Without thinking, my younger brother said, “No.” Then the man asked if we would like to ____  (1)  ____ some storybooks. I refused him. When I wanted to close the door, he suddenly pushed the door very hard and came into our house. He took out a ____  (2)  ____ and ordered me to tie up my younger brother's hands with a rope (绳子). I tied up his hands in a special way so that my younger brother could untie (解开) ____  (3)  ____ easily. The man then tied my hands up and locked ____  (4)  ____ of us in the kitchen. Soon, he went upstairs to ____  (5)  ____ money. I taught my younger brother to untie the rope on his hands. He then untied me. I rushed to the telephone to call the police, ____  (6)  ____ the line was dead. The doors were all locked from the outside. It was lucky that the man forgot to lock the kitchen window. We got out of the house through the kitchen window and went to the ____  (7)  ____ payphone to call the police.

   Soon ____  (8)  ____ came to our house and the man was caught. By that time, my parents had come home. We told them the whole story. My parents were ____  (9)  ____ that we were not hurt. They told me that I should stop my younger brother from opening the door to strangers. I learnt a lesson on safety.

 People usually check whether their keys, purses and phones are with them before going out, but many people in China now have one more important thing to take, a mask (口罩). They hope it can protect them ____（1）__ terrible air.

   Many cities in China saw a lot of foggy days in April. In Beijing, there were eight days in April full of smog. It is dirty air ____  (1)  ____ looks like a mixture of fog and smoke. The smoke is mainly from cars and factories in cities. Poor air is bad for people's health, ____  (2)  ____ for children and old people. They fell ill easily and the ____  (3)  ___ were full of people. They had problems with their noses and lungs.

   So it's necessary ____  (4)  ____ people from doing so many bad things to the environment. For example, people should use cars less and ____  (5)  ____ burn lots of coal and gas. Government needs to take measures to make factories stop pouring ____（  (6)  ___ waste air into the sky.

   Three students from No. 4 High School in Beijing ____  (7)  ____ a report to advise how to protect the environment. They suggested ____  (8)  ____ people should plant more trees and set off fewer fireworks for celebration.

   We hope more people will join us in ____  (9)  ___ a difference. In this way, the blue sky will certainly return for good.

Denny Crook was a famous photographer. He travelled all over the world, taking pictures for magazines and newspapers, and won many prizes.

   “I'll do anything to get a good photo,” he often said. “I'll go anywhere at any time, ____  (1)  ____ it is dangerous.” And he told the truth. He had photos of earthquakes, forest fires, floods and even wars. If something interesting happened, Denny went to photo it.

   He was a married man and his wife often asked him to take her with him, but he always ____  (2)  ____. “I travel for my work, not for pleasure,” he told her. “You won't enjoy yourself, and I won't have ____  (3)  ____ to look after you. Sometimes there's not even anywhere to stay, and I have to sleep outside. I often don't have a good ____  (4)  ____ or a bath for days. You won't like it.”

   “Denny, I'm not a child,” his wife didn't ____  (5)  ____. “I can look after myself. Please take me with you the next time you go overseas.”

   David did not say anything, but he thought about it, and when he was asked to go to Africa, he said to his wife, “You can come to Africa with me if you want to. I've got to take photos of wild ____  (6)  ____ there. It should be interesting and not too uncomfortable.”

   His wife was very ____  (7)  ____, and at first she had a very enjoyable time. Then Denny went off to find some lions for photos. His wife went with him, but before long they became separated. She walked down one path while he walked down the other.

   Suddenly, Denny heard her ____  (8)  ____. He ran back and saw her running toward him. A huge lion was chasing her.

   Quickly Denny ____  (9)  ____ his camera out of its case and pointed it at his wife and the lion. Then he shouted, “____  (10)  ____, woman! I can't get you both in the picture!”

We were very pleased with the photo competition. Compared with other years, we received many more photos. Even though all of the photos are excellent, we can't give prizes to everyone. There are four prizes, so read on to find out who the winners are.

   The person who won the prize of the “Most Beautiful Nature” photography is fifteen-year-old Li Wei. Li took photos of the mountains in Xiangshan Park. The park isn't far from his home, about 500 metres, and he knows it well.

   The photo we liked best in the “Historic China” group was taken by Zhao Min. Zhao is only 12 years old. Her photo is of Tian'anmen Square, the largest public square in the world. It's 880 metres from north to south and 500 metres wide at the northern end. Her photo shows the size and beauty of the square perfectly.

   The best photo in “Music” category was taken by He Zhong who is fourteen years old. His photo of this year's best band Crazy Feet shows the singer, Becky Wang, and the band playing at a concert in Shenzhen. He Zhong manages to show the movement and the sounds of this great new band, and the fun which their fans are having.

   A collection of photos called the “Many Faces of Our City” which features Beijing won the prize for the “Most Unusual” category. Three pupils at the same school worked on this entry. It includes photos of different parts of the city, old and new. It successfully shows the rich culture which makes Beijing so famous.

   Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who entered the competition. We are very lucky that the famous photographer John William is in China to talk about his new book. He has agreed to present the prizes at the prize giving ceremony at the end of this month.