I think the boy runs _____ than any other boy in his class.

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)  .

Every day, people produce rubbish in the city. Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big _（1）_. Every day trucks come into a city to （2）_ it. Most rubbish is _（3）things we can’t eat or use. If we kept these things we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.

In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of city to a（4）_. Often the city dump(垃圾场) is placed where the ground is low_（5）_ there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system(污水系统). The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs and （6）_places.

To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to（7）_the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you’ll never know that this have once been an old rubbish dump.

In other cities the rubbish is  (1)  in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they（9）_change into something called humus(腐殖质), which looks like black earth. And it’s found to be  (2)   in all kinds of things that can help plants to grow.

Man has a big brain (大脑). He can think, learn and speak. Scientists once thought that men are different from animals ____  (1)  ____ they can think and learn. They know now that dogs, monkeys, and birds can learn, too. They are beginning to understand that men are different from animals because they can speak. Animals can't speak. They make noises when they are afraid, angry or unhappy. Apes (类人猿)can understand something ____  (2)  ____ than humans, one or two of them have learned a few ____  (3)  ____. But they can't join words to make sentences. They can't think ____  (4)  ____us because they have ____  (5)  ____ language. Language is a wonderful thing. Man ____  (6)  ____ build a modern world because he has language. ____  (7)  ____ child can speak his own language very well when he is four or five, ____  (8)  ____ no animal learns to speak. ____  (9)  ____ do children learn it? Scientists do not really know. ____  (10)  ____ happens inside our body when we speak? They do not know. They only know that man can speak because he has a brain.

A few days ago, some students from the US visited our school. When we talked about something, I found  36  differences in school life between the US and China. For example, in  37  , each class lasts (持续) fifty minutes. It is a little  38  than that in China. We usually have a class for forty or forty-five minutes. Another difference is that they have  39  break (休息) time at noon (在中午). Although most schools in both countries finish their  40  classes at 12 o’clock, the students in the US only have a one-hour-long break, so they  41  to eat lunch quickly. Their afternoon classes begin at 1:00 pm and school is over at around 3:00 pm. Then they join in club activities or play sports.

 Many Chinese students don’t  42  during their high school years, but the US students like to find a part-time (兼职的) job in  43  free time. They don’t have a dream job in mind. They think there is no difference between  44  . Working is a useful experience for them and they can make money at the same time. Some of them even take full-time (全天的) jobs for a year  45  they leave high school. Then they go to college.