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)  .

An American man, a Russian man, and an African man were all up in a hot-air balloon together. After a few minutes, the Russian man put his hand down through the   (1)  . “Aha!” he said. “We’re right   (2)   my homeland.”

A few hours later the African man put his hand through the clouds. “Aha we’re   (5)   over my homeland.” he said   (6)  .

“How do you   (7)   that?” asked the Russian and the American in surprise.

“Of course I know. I feel hot with my    (8)       inthe clouds. It’s the heat of the desert.”

Several more hours later the American put his hand in the clouds. “Aha, we’re right over New York.”

The Russian and the African were so   (9)   . “How do you know all of that?” they asked in one voice.

The American  (10)   his hand up and said, “Look! My watch is missing.”

When I was a child, my father had to do three jobs for a family of seven. Every time I saw him come back late, looking tired, I promised myself that someday I would show my   (1)   to my father for what he had done.

Over the next twenty years, my father worked hard to   (2)   our big family and suffered a lot from a heart problem. One morning, my fatherˈs old car   (3)   and he asked me to pick him up after his medical examination. He had   (4)   refused when I offered to replace his old car. He said that he did not want something that he was unable to pay himself.

As he stepped out of the doctorˈs office, he looked unusually   (5)  . We drove in silence and he made me promise to keep the medical report as a   (6)  . I did this with a heavy heart.

 At that time, I was  (7)   a new car. I asked my father to go with me to pick one out.   (8)  I started talking with the salesman, I noticed my father admiring a brown car. I   (9)   chose a white car. My father took one final look at the brown car and seemed kind of   (10)  . Before leaving, I heard him muttering* to himself, “Really like that car. Wish I could   (11)   it.”

Several days later, I asked my father if he could go with me to pick up   (12)   new car. As we arrived, the salesman   (13)   him a key to his new car — the brown one — and explained that it was for him   (14)   me. My father looked at me in great   (15)  . I explained it was my childhood promise and smiled at this man, who had given up everything for his family.

Judy is a student. She usually   (1)   up at 6:00 in the morning. Then she has breakfast at 7:00. She goes to school   (2)   about 7:30. She is never late for(从不迟到) school. Judy is a clever girl, but she doesn’t have   (3)   friends.

One morning, on her   (4)   to school, she finds a yellow cat. She thinks, “The cat can’t find   (5)   way home.”So she   (6)   it to the zoo.

Then she hurries(急忙) to   (7)  , but she is late. All the students and her   (8)   look at her. Her face looks red.

After(在……之后)class, her teacher says to the students.“Judy is a   (9)   girl. She finds a cat and takes it to the zoo.”Now all her classmates like   (10)  .

Barack Hussein Obama   (1)   history   (2)   becoming the first African -American president in American history.

   Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961．His parents separated (分开) when he was two years old and   (3)  divorced (离婚). Obama grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia．Later, he moved to New York,   (4)   he graduated from Columbia University in 1983. Obama met his wife, Michelle Robinson, in June 1989 and   (5)   her on October 3, 1992. The   (6)   first daughter, Malian Ann, was born in 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha, in 2001.

   Obama's   (7)  is a true milestone(里程碑)．It speaks to the   (8)  that in America you really do get a chance to do anything, if you have the talent and ability and you work hard enough.

   Obama did not take office until 20 January, 2009．However, when he did become president, he faced many serious challenges,   (9)  two foreign wars, climate change and what he has described as "the worst financial crisis (经济危机) in a century"．But Obanm himself was ready to   (10)   these challenges.

 Mr. and Mrs. Green were very worried about their son, Leo. He seemed to be dumb (哑的),   (1)    he was normal in every other way. Mr. and Mrs. Green tried everything to get him to   (2)   , but they failed.

    When Leo was four years old, the best   (3)    in the town examined him carefully. However, he could not find   (4)    wrong. And he seemed to be smart. It was just that he   (5)   spoke.

  “There might be something wrong with his   (6)  , and he doesn’t know he’s able to speak,” one doctor said.

  “But   (7)    can read and write,” said Mr. Green. “We write him notes,   (8)   him that he can speak.”

  “It’s certainly very strange,”   (9)    doctor said. “Perhaps he’ll be able to speak some day.”

   Years passed. Leo went to school. But he did not speak a word.

   Then one day, Leo was having a   (10)    with his parents. When he looked up from his meal and said, “Pass me the   (11)   , please.”

   Mr. and Mrs. Green were   (12)   . “You spoke! You spoke!” they cried. “Why have you   (13)     so long to speak?”

  “I didn’t have anything to say,” he said. “   (14)   now everything was perfect. But you   (15)    to put salt in these potatoes.” After hearing this, his parents were very angry but they didn’t say anything. They looked each other and smiled.

Little Mixisa British singing group. They   (1)   British Talent Show in 2011 and became famous. They are the first   (2)  to win the show.

The   (3)   ofLittle Mixhas a special meaning. “Little” means they are young girls. The oldest one was born in 1991, and the   (4)  was born in 1993. “Mix” means each of them is different.

The four girlsworkvery hard every day,   (8)   they feel great to sing on the stage, meet their fans and   (9)   with each other. They are more   (10)   sisters.

Now this group finds big success in America. Do you want them to come to China one day? 

God puts dreams in our hearts. So we must dream. Eight years ago, a young couple, my close friends, were attacked by robbers in their home.   (1)  , they lost their unborn baby. Since then, they felt empty. They truly loved each other, and they really wanted their own baby, though they were newly  (2)  . For a while, they wondered  (3)  God had given them up. They were so sad that they kept themselves away from family and friends. They  (4)  far and wide to see different doctors. But nothing worked.

 One day, I called them to say hello. The wife  (5)  like someone had died. When I spoke with her husband, he shared with me that she still had no baby. I asked him if I could speak with her  (6)  . I believe till this day that it was（7 ）that led me to make that phone call. It was time to share my one dream with  (7)  .

"For eight years, I always had the  (8)  dream. You were in it. You were always looking after a child while shaking him/her in a chair. In the dream, there was  (9)  a celebration happening, and you were in it, with your husband by your side." She was silent. I  (10)  share some life lessons with her. I also had to remind her that she must never allow her belief to be shaken,   (11)  , it should be renewed with each sunrise  because God is Hope.

I shared this dream with my mother. And each time, we got excited together and presented this   (12)  to God in songs of praise.

This winter, this man and wife are  (13)  their first child. When I received this great news, I was not  (14)  .

Dreams really do come true when you believe in your dreams, and when you trust God.

I often spend my summer holidays just with my parents. It is quite boring. But last summer holiday was   (1)   Some of my friends came to stay with my parents and me for a week at our summer house. It is in a small beach town called Portsea. They got there by train. It   (2)  them three hours.

One morning my friends and I   (3)   to take my parents’ boat for a ride. We rowed (划船)   (4)   half an hour and found a big cave (山洞). Susan said it could be dangerous to go into it. But Peter said it was okay.   (5)   we started rowing again and got in. Then the tide (潮) started. At first we thought we could fight it but we were  (6)  . We shouted for   (7)   but there was no one around. Susan and I began to cry. Louis told us not to worry because the tide would be out. Because Louis always seemed to know the answer for   (8)   we stopped crying.

Luckily, Louis was right   (9)  . After some hours the tide went out. We rowed back home quickly. We didn’t    (10)   my parents about this special trip. And we were so afraid that we would not have a boat ride again.