“I’m going shopping in the village, ”George’s mother said to George on Saturday morning.“So be a good boy and don’t get into trouble. And don’t forget   (1)   good care of Grandma.”Then out she went.

 Grandma  (2)   in the chair by the window when she opened one lit tle eye and said , “Now

you heard  (3)  your mother said, George.”

“Yes, Grandma,” George said.

     George was bored to tears. He didn’t have a brother or a sister. His father was a farmer, and   (4)  farm they lived on was miles away from anywhere,   (5)  there were never any children

to play with. He was tired of staring at   (6)  pigs , hens, cows and sheep. He was especially tired of having to live in the house with his grandma. Looking after her all by himself was hardly   (7)  way to spend a Saturday morning.

“Go and make me a cup of tea for a start,   (8)  sugar and milk.” Grandma said.Most grandmothers are lovely , kind, helpful old ladies, but not this one. George’s grandma was a woman   (9)  was always complaining about something or other. She spent all day  (10)  on her chair by the window. George  (11)  that Grandma used to be a gentle lady, but as she grew older, she was not able to look after herself and even worse, she was easy to get angry.

“We  (12)  _be nice to the old, George,” His mother always told him.

Thinking of this, George  (13)  into the kitchen and made Grandma a cup of tea with a teabag. He put one spoon of sugar and  (14)  _ milk in it. He stirred the tea well and carried it into the living room_  (15)  .

This year is the Year of the Dog. So dogs are the most popular animals of this year. They are our ______  (1)  __________ friends. There  ________  (2)  ________ many different dogs in the world. Dogs can live for about 15 years. How  _______  (3)  _________ is your dog? Two years? That is about 14 years old in human years. Dogs have very great ears and noses. ________  (4)  ________ they can't  ________  (5)  ________ as well as men. They're colorblind (色盲的). They're also great and can do  _______  (6)  _________ of jobs. They can be police dogs, sniffer dogs, rescue dogs, shepherd dogs and guide dogs.

    Norman is a superstar dog  _______  (7)  _________ America. This year he is 10 years old. He can ride a bike (骑自行车) very  ____  (8)  ____________. Norman's owner, Karen Coob, is a dog trainer (训练师). She ________  (9)  ________ Norman how to ride a bike. She really loves the good dog. Norman is her ________  (10)  ________, just like her son.

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.     

 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.

Bill was 18, but he didn't want to live ____  (1)  ____ himself because he wanted to enjoy the comfortable life in his parents' home. In fact, he had ____  (2)  ____ to find a job but there never seemed to be one good enough for him.

   Bill's father, Mr James, worked far from home, ____  (3)  ____ he had to leave home early and got back home late. When he got home in the evenings, Bill was usually out, so they could ____  (4)  ____ meet on weekdays.

   When they sometimes ____  (5)  ____ at weekends, Mr James often asked Bill to change his ____  (6)  ____ of living. But Bill didn't agree with his father. He wanted to be popular with his ____  (7)  ____.

   One Saturday morning, they had an ____  (8)  ____. Mr James later told Bill that his father was very ____  (9)  ____ with him and he was brought up in a quite different way. Bill said that his grandfather must have been a ____  (10)  ____ old man.

   “Not at all!” Mr James was so angry that he said, “I had a much nicer father than you'll ever have!”

Creativity is the key to a bright future. Here is ____  (1)  ____ schools and parents can help their children to develop their creativity.

   Drew worked for a company in 1925. At work he invented a kind of material ____  (2)  ____ enough to hold things together. But his boss told him not to think more about the idea. Drew didn't stop and finally, using his own time, made a kind of tape, which now is used everywhere by many people. And his company learned from its ____  (3)  ____.

   Now the company asks its workers to ____  (4)  ____ 15 percent of their work time just thinking about and developing new ideas.

   Creativity is not something one is just born with. A person with high intelligence does not mean that he uses it creatively. Creativity is the matter of ____  (5)  ____ your intelligence to think of new ideas that are good for something.

   We know that many schools have tried to develop students' creativity, but some teachers only want to develop students' reading, writing and maths skills, and have to ____  (6)  ____ creativity for correct answers. Children from such schools can give correct answers, but they are unable to use ____  (7)  ____ to work out problems.

   It is important to give children choices. From the earliest age, children should learn to make decisions and understand their _  (8)  . Even though it's choosing between two kinds of food ____  (9)  ____ lunch, decision-making helps thinking skills. As children grow older, parents should let their children decide how to use their time or spend their money, but not help too much if they make the wrong decision. The child may have a ____  (10)  ____ time, but that is all right.

   Probably you have seen photos of the Grand Canyon. But you must go there ____（1）____ to feel its size and beauty. The Grand Canyon is one of the greatest ___  (1)  ___ wonders of the world.

   The Colorado River made the Grand Canyon over millions of years. Slowly, the river cut down ____  (2)  ____ hard rocks. At the same time, the land was ___  (3)  ___. Today the canyon is very ____  (4)  ____. It's also very wide, about 20 kilometres. And ____  (5)  ____ its height, there are different kinds of plants and animals on both ____  (6)  ____ of the canyon.

   The canyon looks different at different times of the day, and ____  (7)  ____ different seasons and weather. At sunrise, the red, gold, brown and orange colours of the rocks are ____  (8)  ____ clear and bright. Whether you see the Grand Canyon from the top or the bottom, it will be a(n) ____  (9)  ____ that you will never forget.

Charles Dickens, one of the greatest English writers, ____  (1)  ____ in 1812, in one of the small towns of England. When he was nine years old, the family moved ____  (2)  ____ London, ____  (3)  ____. There were several younger children in the family. Their life was hard, ____  (4)  ____ he couldn't go to school. ____  (5)  ____ until his father was out of prison could Charles go to school. ____  (6)  ____ that time he was already twelve. But he did not finish school. Two years later he began to work. He often went to the library to read books. He read ____  (7)  ____. Dickens ____  (8)  ____ lots of novels and stories all his life. Dickens died ____  (9)  ____ than a hundred years ago, but people are still reading his books ____  (10)  ____ great interest.