At least once a year, there are a lot of graduations. It’s a time 61. _______ a lot of people move on, from where they were, to another school or another class, or out into a real world. To graduate means 62. ________ (take) a step forward. Each of my 63. _________ (graduate) was nice. Sometimes I want to stay and have more fun. But I also want to move on.

When we hear the word graduation, we 64. _________ (nature) think of graduating from school. But I think 65. ______ is possible to graduate from different places, or stages in life. Sometimes we are thrown out into the world or to the next level, whether we are ready or not. At other times we get the truth when we want to move on. So far I have experienced both. I preferred the second 66. _______, where I have a choice, I like the truth when and how,

61.__________   62. __________   63. __________   64. _________   65. __________

66.__________   67. __________   68. __________   69. _________   70. __________

Pliny was a Roman writer wrote about a 65 （volcano）eruption which had 66  (occur) on August 24^th，79AD and it was of Mt. Vesuvius. The disaster had left a deep 67 (impress) on Pliny who had lost his uncle in the accident.  The people, towns and villages 68 (bury) under the ashes of  Mt. Vesuvius.

      By 1748, scientists had started to dig 69 the ancient city Pompeii. It is like a “time capsule” 70 (preserve) a frozen moment in history. Not 71 the buildings and authentic objects of Pompeii attract people, but also the forms of the people 72 (catch) in the disaster have made the city a monument to human history. The bodies of people who had died in Pompeii showed their exact shapes of getting together for 73  (protect) in their last hours of life.

      Today, tourists and scientists visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the city, 74 the world had once forgotten nearly 2,000 years after its loss.

The giant panda loves bamboo. An adult panda requires kilograms of bamboo, which it 61.___________(hungry) pulls out with its powerful paws, to satisfy its daily needs.

Wild pandas live only in the high bamboo forests of Central China. These mountain forests are cool and wet—just as pandas like it. In summer, they may climb as high as 4, 000 meters to help themselves to bamboo 62. ___________　(grow) at higher altitudes.

Frequently, pandas 63. ___________(see) eating in a relaxed sitting position, with their back legs stretched out before them. 64.___________they may appear inactive, they are in fact skilled tree-climbers and efficient swimmers.

Giant pandas are unsociable. They have a highly developed sense of smell that males use 65.___________(avoid) each other and to find females for mating in the spring. After a five-month pregnancy, a female gives birth 66.___________a cub. The blind baby pandas weigh only 142 grams and cannot crawl(爬行)67.___________they reach three months of age. 68.___________are born white, and develop their much loved colouring later.

There are only about 1,000 giant pandas left in 69.___________wild, with perhaps another 100 in zoos. Because they are so rare, much of 70.___________we know about pandas comes from studying these zoo animals.

People living in different countries made kinds of words. Today there 61______ (be) about fifteen hundred languages in the world. Each 62______ ( contain) thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, has four 63 ________ five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. 64________ (read ) short stories , you need to know only about two thousand words. When you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more. The words you know are called 65______ (you) vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary 66______ (big). Read as many books as we can. 67______ (write) in easy English, lots of stories in the books are enjoyable to read. 68_______ you meet a new word, look it 69______ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your most 70 _____ ( use)  book.

Before the middle of the 5^th century, the language spoken in Britain was Celtic. Then Britain was occupied by the Angles and the Saxons, who brought their languages into Old English. 86. _____________, Old English is a mixture of their languages. At the end of the 9^th century, the Vikings moved to Britain, mixing their languages with Old English. By the 10^th century, Old English had become the 87.______________ language of English.

In 1066, England was 88.______________ by the Normans, but French didn’t 89._____________ English as the first language. By the latter half of the 14^th century, English had been widely used among all classes in England. 90.______________ and pronunciation also experienced great changes during the Renaissance. It is certain that English will continue changing in the future.

We have neighbors whose adult son has been living with them since   (1)  (lose) his job over 5 years ago. He is the 5^th child of 6 and he has struggled throughout his life.

His dog died in early July and the loss has affected him   (2)  (deep). He built his daily life around the do walks and made relationships in the neighborhood with other dog   (3)  (walk).

His parents do not want him to get another dog because they want his schedule to be more flexible    (4)  (find) a job and want him not to worry about walking the dog. It is    (5)   hard situation. I can see he is depressed and lonely without his dog.  

First I tried to help by including him with my family for walks with our dogs. Then I   (6)   (think) maybe something else would help.

So I drove him to the local humane society,  (7)   is a direct and fairly short bus ride from his place, and he agreed ___  (8)   (volunteer) to help walk and love the animals there. He refused at first but after only one week he has already told us about   (9)   much they need his help. He seems to have a purpose. I am pleased that he got himself out and I am more pleased that he feels    (10)  (use) and valued. That is so important for all of us.