Someone called me up in the middle of the night, but they hung up ____ I could answer the phone.

We sometimes call the lion “the king of the jungle”, because it is stronger and more dangerous than other animals. It can  36   faster than many animals and it can hunt other beasts. It is one of the highest animals in the   37  food chain（食物链）.

In the sea, the shark is one of the animals at the top of the food chain. It can swim faster than    38 other sea animals, and it can use its big teeth to eat them.

What is at the top of the world’s food chain? People are! We are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the   39   . We could not run faster than cheetahs(猎狗)，so we   40   cars and now we can move the fastest. We could not fight better than lions, so we invented guns. Now we can hunt the beast

People’s inventions（发明）are clever, but they can be   41  ,too. For example, people built  42  , and now they make the air and rivers dirty. This can make terrible changes. Dirty rivers kill fish.  43    bears cannot eat the fish. If we kill one part of the food chain, other parts also will die. Remember that we are a part of the food chain, 44    we are in danger, too. If we protect animals, we are protecting    45     ! We should and we could do something for the world!

I always pay attention to the first impression I leave upon strangers. However, I have  31   that no stranger cares much about what you have done.

It was Saturday. I was very excited after a week’s hard study. What was more, my former classmate and best friend was coming to visit me.

When dusk  32   near, my friend appeared on time. We decided to have supper together and went to a restaurant. To my astonishment, many people were  33  at us as if we were monsters from other planet. I looked myself up and down, but found nothing was  34  . When I cast my eyes at my friend, suddenly I realized what had happened: I was with a boy  35  .

My friend also noticed it. We looked at each other and smiled.  36  , people kept staring at us throughout our meal  37  the strange atmosphere made us uncomfortable.

During the meal, I  38   that my friend finish as fast as possible, so that we could get out of such an embarrassing situation. Suddenly my friend noticed another classmate passing by the  39   and he rose to his feet to  40  him. But he was in such a hurry that he knocked down the table, leading to the hot soup pouring all over me. What was more, his voice caught people’s  41  again. The  42  on their faces showed me that they were laughing us.

How embarrassed I was! My face turned red and I wished I could find a hole to  43  in. As quickly as possible, I rushed out of the restaurant. My friend  44  and he caught up with me when I was so tired that I had to stop. But he was so  45  that it surprised at me.

“Don’t be too  46  what people think about you,” he said to me. “In fact, to many  47  , you are just a passing figure, like a piece of cloud in the sky, which will disappear in no  48  . Nobody knows who you are. You can just be yourself.”

Yes, he is right. No one in the restaurant actually knew who I was. I should just be myself and  49  others’ prejudices(偏见) aside. Life is a long road and we need not make such fuss(大惊小怪) of tiny things — it is too  50  .

Some people cannot learn in ordinary schools. Physical or __46__ illness prevents a child from learning. Today new __47__ are being used in special schools to help the disabled learn. A school is being __48__ in New Jersey, USA. It is called Bancroft. Here the disabled will be trained to __49__ themselves and to get along in the outside world. Bancroft is not surrounded   by__50__of any kind. Its director insists that it be __51__ so that students may gradually develop __52__ relations with the rest of the world. Bancroft students will__53__ in apartments, cooking their own meals, and learning to perform other tasks. As they become __54__, they will buy their own furniture, paying for it out of their own __55__. They will pay for their food, too. They will learn to expect __56__bills for the calls they make every month. As a step toward the goal of becoming __57__, each disabled person will decide what kind of work he wants to be __58__ to do. While some of the training will be __59__ on within Bancroft itself, most of the students will receive __60__ training in nearby towns. They will be trained by town people. After the training has been __61__ completed, the student will work __62__ an assistant and will begin to earn money. After that he will leave Bancroft, __63__ the school will continue to give him help if he needs it. How long will it take a student to complete his training under this new system? The director says, “For some a year will be enough. For others it might take ten years.” For all, however, this method offers new__64__. Many will learn to be__65__and independent, supporting themselves in the world.

It was about six years ago. We were at senior high school. Those days in school were  4l  to most Chinese students because of the college  42   examination pressure. Not our parents and teachers didn’t love us.   43   they loved us too much. The only happiness for us was a high   44   in the exam.

One afternoon after the final exam, we four girls came to a small   45   and we felt it only belonged to us that afternoon. We talked and laughed. We played all the games that we could     46  . We felt really happy for the first time in our   47  . We totally forgot the unhappiness in our life and we threw the homework and the endless   48   far away out of the wood.

In the middle of the wood ran a small and peaceful    49  . Now and then, we could see some wild ducks on the water seeking food. The water weeds   50   happily while the water passed beside them. The air was so fresh that we breathed it freely.

The sun had set  51  we knew it. We had to leave the place which brought us much happiness. We agreed to come back again every time we felt   52  .

53   later, we went there several times. But every time we went there with the purpose of finding that great feeling, we  54  . Strangely, the feeling was different from   55   of several years ago.

I know that wonderful experience was just for once. We can   56   find that kind of happiness again which only belonged to the special _  57    in our life. That was a release of our uneasy heart. We can never go   58   to that young age or that simple life. It was our   59    ages. No matter how boring and hard the life was, it gave us something worthy to recall in the rest of our life. We’ll   60  it forever.

I am very lucky because I enjoy my work very much. I'm a fitness instructor at a gym near where I live. I   (1)   six aerobics (有氧运动) classes a week and also tell my students about   (2)   and nutrition (营养学). As they say,“You are what you   (3)   .”

To be honest, I worry about the   (4)   that many people have today. So many people are overweight. And why? Because they eat the   (5)   foods and they don't do any exercise. When you work in an office all day, I know it is difficult to find   (6)   to keep fit, but you   (7)   need to do 20 minutes a day!

It's also very important to have a   (8)   diet, starting with breakfast in the morning. It's not a good idea to   (9)   breakfast although many of us just have a cup of tea or coffee. Eat as much   (10)   food as possible — lots of fruit and vegetables — and   (11)  not to eat too much fried food. When you don't have much time, it's   (12)   to get a takeaway (外卖), but it certainly isn't very good for you!

One   (13)   that a lot of people feel less than 100% fit is that they don't drink   (14)   water. You need to drink two liters a day — and water   (15)  water, not tea, coffee or sugary drinks.

Keeping fit is fun. However, a lot of people think it's   (16)  to go jogging or cycling. They just want to   (17)   their food. Well, of course, it's fine to have cakes and ice cream,   (18)   not every day! I would say we like what our bodies   (19)   and if you eat more healthy food, over time, you might find yourself wanting to eat them more than anything else. Try it, I think you'll be   (20)   !

There was a woman in Detroit, who has two sons. She was worried  21  them, especially the younger one, Ben,  22  he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class 23 fun of him because he seemed so  24 . The mother 25 that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She  26   them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a 27a week and do a report about it for her. One day, in Ben’s  28  , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben 29  up his hand and the teacher let him  30 .“Why did Ben raise his hand?” they wondered. He 31 said anything; what could he possibly want to say? Well, Ben not only32 the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew  33  the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were  34 .Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book  35 . Ben later went on to the  36 of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University 37 at last became one of the best doctors in the United States. After Ben had grown up, he 38  something about his mother that he did not know as a  39.She, herself, had never learned how to   40  .

University was a new experience for me. I hadgrown up in a small seaside town in the southof England, and suddenly I was  (1)  together withpeople of my age from all over the country. Peoplewere speaking in   (2)  that I had only ever heard onTV, and sometimes using words that I had   (3)  heard before.

I had only been at university for about a weekwhen I   (4)  David Pitman, from Blackburn in thenorth of England. We   (5)  that we both playedtennis, and arranged to meet up one afternoon fora   (6)  .

I went to the sports hall at the time weˈd   (7)  ,and went into the changing rooms. David wasalready there, and I could see that he wasnˈtvery   (8)  . He was searching anxiously for somethinginside his bag. He looked up at me as I   (9)  .

“Iˈve   (10)   my keks,”he said.“You havenˈt gotany, have you?”  (11)  I had no idea what he wastalking about. Tennis balls? Shorts? Trainers?What? I said:“Sorry?”David repeated:“Have yougot any   (12)   keks with you?”

Of course, I could have asked him what theword meant,   (13)   I was tooembarrassed(尴尬的)and didnˈt want tooffend(冒犯) him. David sawthe   (14)  on my face, and said:“You know—keks.Shorts. Tennis shorts.”

Now I   (15)   , and luckily, I did have some   (16)   inmy bag. I lent them to him, we   (17)  , and he won.Then we went to get a   (18)  . The woman at thecanteen asked me what I wanted.“Iˈd like a BlackBeauty, please,”Isaid. (Where I   (19)   , thatˈs colaand ice cream.)“What on earth is that?”said thewoman. I   (20)   knew how she felt.

During the wars, a soldier looked after his horse with the greatest care. He gave it the best wheat to eat and the  41  water to drink. He dried it carefully with a towel when it got wet and  42  it with a warm blanket on cold winter nights  43  the horse was strong and swirl and carried its master  44  out of the dangers of  45 

When peace came, however, the soldier  46  . He put the  47  out in a field full of wild plants and gave it only a little food to eat. He left the horse  48   in a worn-out place with a  49  roof and a floor made of mud. During the day the  50  made the horse work hard on his farm,  51   a large amount of wood and pulling heavy wagons (四轮货车).

After some time war broke out  52  . The soldier prepared himself for the war and went to the field to  53  his horse. Hurriedly brushing the mud from its coat, he  54   the horse. For a moment the horse stood there without  55  .  Then gradually its   56 legs began to bend  57  it sank slowly to the ground. The horse gave the soldier a look of  58  .

"Master," it said, "you' ll have to  59  on foot this time. You have made me work like a mule (骡子) and  60  me like a goat. I cannot change back into a horse in an instant just because you Want me to."