We usually have much fun playing with friends outside. But   (1)   you can’t go out because the weather is rainy or too cold.   (2)   the weather is terrible, you still have something interesting to do when you are at home.

Play your favorite music and dance to   (3)   .Ask your dog or cat   (4)   in the fun. Or get a hula hoop(呼啦圈) and make up some hula--- hoop dances. If there is   (5)   room, you can jump rope.

  If you have a basketball hoop and a basketball made of foam(泡沫), you   (6)   play basketball indoors. You can have a  (7)  with everyone in the house!

You can also read a(n)   (8)   storybook or watch your favorite   (9)   when you are at home.

And here’s one thing not to do: Try not to say, “There’s   (10)  to do.” As you just look for, there’s always something to do !

 In the United States, parents usually encourage their children to develop their own hobbies. They pay attention to what their kids can do, not what they can’t. So they’re usually very confident. As a ____  (1)  ____, US boys and girls hope to be actors, players and doctors; many children ___（2）____ want to become presidents when they grow up.

   US parents often encourage their children to take part in all kinds of activities together with their classmates at_（3）___. They believe that ____  (2)  ____ in these activities can make their children mature. Schoolwork is ____  (3)  ____, but they think that social skills are also very important.

   But things in China are ____  (4)  ____, Chinese parents often tell their children to study hard and pass ____  (5)  ____. They think that, for a student, staying away from schoolbooks means wasting ____  (6)  ____. This puts a lot of ____  (7)  ___ on Chinese students, so leaders in China’s education department have called for ____  (8)  ___ homework at the lower grades. Only healthy kids can become healthy adults.

Different people have different hobbies. We students also have our own hobbies, such as reading, painting, growing vegetables in our gardens and looking after animals. ____  (1)  ____ can make us grow, develop (发展) our interests and help us learn new ____  (2)  ____.

   Lib Tao is a student. His hobby is ____  (3)  ____. When he was in middle school, he wrote a book and published (出版) it in 2012. Many teenagers ____  (4)  ____ his book. As a result, he becomes a successful young ____  (5)  ___ now. Liu Tao is very lucky ____  (6)  ____ his hobby brings him happiness and success. But he regards writing ____  (7)  ____ only one of his many hobbies and interests. He is ____  (8)  ____ in many other things. He likes playing football, too. Now he is a member of his school team.

   Remember that we ____  (9)  ____ spend all our time on our favorite hobby. There are many other interesting things. ____  (10)  ____ in life, and we should try to do something new or different.

It is often said that eyes can speak. Do you have such kind of   (1)  ? In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too long. If he notices that he is  (2)  , he may feel uncomfortable. It is the same in daily life. When you are looked at for several 

  (3)   times, you will look  (4)  up and down in order to   (5)  if there is anything wrong with you. If   (6)   goes wrong, you will feel angry with the person who is looking at you.   (7)   can speak, right?

     Looking too long at someone may seem to be impolite. But sometimes things are   (8)  . If you wish to draw someoneˈs   (9)   , you may look at him or her for more than ten seconds. For lovers, they enjoy looking at each other longer to show the love that words cannot   (10)  . Clearly, eye communication should be done according to the relationship between the two people and the certain situation.

More than 3,000 languages are spoken in the world. Of all these languages, English is  (1)   used. When it is used, the English language has also   (2)   many new words from other languages. For example, Americans borrowed “cookbook” from   (3)  . They also borrowed “tofu” and “kowtow” from Chinese.

  (7)  hand, Chinese people love cats very much. But   (8)  western culture, “cat” is sometimes used to describe a woman who is cruel. The rose is   (9)   a symbol of love in both China and some western countries. People think the rose   (10)   love, peace, courage and friendship.

   Like Christmas Day, Boxing Day is a national holiday in England. This means it's a non－working day for all English. When it falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the follow－hag ___(1)__ is a holiday.

   The start of the holiday is not clear, but one thing is for sure: it __(2)__ love and sharing. Here is a story" about how this festival began. It is about the "Alms Box" in __(3)___ church on Christmas Day. People who went to the church put gifts for the poor into it. The day after Christmas, they always ___(4)___ these boxes and got the gifts in them. That is why that day became known as Boxing Day.

   Today, many organizations and families try to keep the tradition of Boxing Day alive by giving their time, services and money to help Food Banks, giving gifts to the poor, or helping families in need. What's ___(5)___ spending time with family and shopping are popular now. Are you looking forward to enjoying it?

 As we know, rainforests are the lung of the earth. They   (1)   about 6% of the earth’s surface. Half of the animals on Earth live in rainforests. The sloth(树懒) is one of them.

   The sloth lives in the tree   (2)   30 meters of the ground. It is the most interesting animal I know. It looks like a panda or a monkey. It always moves very slowly,   (3)   when it is in danger. But you can’t imagine (想像) it is good at swimming. When it is in the   (4)  , it can swim like a big fish.

   Many people think it is a kind of   (5)  animal. Why? The sloth needs to  (6)   15 to 20 hours sleeping in the tree in the daytime. Yes, it does nothing   (7)   sleeping during the daytime. Maybe that’s the   (8)   why people think it’s lazy. When does it eat meals? Of course at night. It   (9)  _ leaves of the trees. It eats nothing else. So it   (10)   live without forests.

   The sloth is a kind of rare(珍稀) animal. If we can’t protect it well, it will die out one day.

 If we take a close look at successful language learners, we may discover a few techniques(技巧) which make language learning easier for them.   (1)   , successful language learners do not depend on books or teachers; they  (2)   their own way to learn the language. They try to find the patterns and the rules for themselves  (3)   waiting for the teacher to explain everything. They are good guessers who look for information and form(形成) their   (4)  conclusions(结论) which are very different from others.

   Successful language learning is  (5)  in learning. Therefore, successful learners do not wait for a chance to use the language; they    (6)   such a chance. They find people who speak the language and ask these people to correct them  (7)  they make mistakes. They will try anything to talk. When talking is difficult, they can  (8)   information that is incomplete(不完整的). It is more important for them to learn to   (9)  in the language than to know the meaning of every word.

   Finally, successful language learners are learners with a  (10)   in order to talk with these people and learn from them. They want to learn a language because they are interested in the language and the people who speak. It is necessary for them to learn the language.

In China, very few children make pocket money (零花钱).   (1)  , in western countries, most kids make pocket money by themselves. They make money in many different   (2)  . When kids are very young, their parents help them sell the fruits of their own trees to neighbours (邻居). Kids may also help   (3)   do housework to make money at home.When they   (4)   sixteen, they can make money by sending newspapers or by working in fast food restaurants,   (5)   during the summer holidays.

There are   (6)   advantages (优点) of making pocket money by kids themselves. First of all, they learn the value (价值) of money by working hard   (7)   they will not waste any. Secondly, they learn to   (8)   money to buy things they need or want, such as books, pencils, movies and even clothes they like. Thirdly, they   (9)   deal with (处理) daily life problems by helping their parents or others. Making pocket money is   (10)   for children when they grow up. That is why parents encourage their kids to make pocket money.

e you one of the Chinese parents? Now   (1)  parents in China will buy everything that their children want to have. If they go on with the  (2)  , their children will  (3)   know the money comes from the  (4)   work.

Some parents are   (5)   to have birthday parties for their children. If they keep on doing this,their children will think it’s  (6)   for them to enjoy birthday parties every year. Year after year,  (7)   they’ll forget their parents’ birthdays and only remember and  (8)   about theirs. It’s against(反对) the traditional value(价值).

Many parents don’t let their children do   (9)  .They think children only have one thing to do.

They  (10)   study hard every day and be good   (11)  all their lessons. If parents go on doing this, their children will only need to open their mouths to be fed and stretch(伸出) their arms to be dressed every day. When the children   (12)  , they won’t be able to do anything, and they won’t even find a   (13)  . In fact, parents should teach their children how to do housework   (14)   it can help them start good habits of working by   (15)  . It can also help them have an independent(独立的) life in the future.