A friend of mine （1）         (call) Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul （2）        (come) out of his office, a street naughty boy （3）         (call) himself Jim, was walking around the shining car. "Is this your car, Paul?" he asked. Paul answered, "Yes, my brother （4）         (give) it to me for Christmas. " "You mean your brother gave it to you and it  （5）      (not cost) you anything? I wish... " said the （6）          (surprise) boy. He hesitated (犹豫).

Of course Paul  （7）         (know) what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he （8）         (have) a brother like that. But what the boy （9）           (say) surprised Paul greatly. "I wish, " the boy（10）          (go) on, "that I could be a brother like that. "

Though Chinese is   (1)   (old) than English, English is spoken   (2)   many people around the world every day. English speakers are always   (3)   (make) new words and we should be able to know where most words come from.

Sometimes, however, no one may   (4)  (real) know where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham? About a hundred years ago, some   (5)  (man) went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany  (6)   (call) Hamburg.

They did not speak good English,   (7)   they ate good food. When some American saw them   (8)   (eat) round pieces of beef, they asked the Germans what it was. The Germans did not understand the question and answered, “We came from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned   (9)    restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round pieces of the beef like the man from Hamburg ate and   (10)  (sell) in many countries around the world.

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Germany. He showed70.            (music) talent 71 .          an early age. He learned how 72.       (play) the violin from his father, 73.           was a singer.  Mozart met Beethoven and 74.             (impress) by him.

Beethoven met Haydn in 1971.After they had known each other for many years,  Haydn encouraged 75.         (he) to  move to  Vienna.  Beethoven became very popular in the Austrian capital and stayed there for 76.          rest of his life. As he grew77.      (old)，he began to go deaf . He became 78.         (complete) deaf during the last years of his life，79.            he continued composing.

“If you’re talking to me in a   (1)  (noise)restaurant and my nerve system is good at locking onto the sound of your voice, I can understand what you say better.”

The research at Northwestern University shows that   (2)  (play) a musical instrument is good for your brain. And the brain remembers how to “lock onto” the important sounds,   (3)  , our ears may not work as well as we age, and that helps us to hear better.

A scientist, living in France twenty years ago,   (4)  ．(write) about what he called the “Mozart Effect”. He said that   (5)   could be helpful to the brain when listening to the classical music of Mozart. Some researchers said that Mozart’s music would make you much   (6)  (smart), or even have some health disorders   (7)   (cure). Others said that there was nothing special about Mozart’s music. Any kind of high energy music would work. So if the cost of a musical instrument or music lessons is too costly, can we get   (8)  same brain experience just by listening?

Usually people have teachers, or they can teach themselves music.   (9)   , the point is that they’re actively playing a musical instrument and engaging in making music instead  (10)   listening to music passively.

American police    (1)   (step) up their search for Justin Foster, who went missing last Friday night. He didn’t show    (2)   for lunch the next day. When the event    (3)  (occur), Mrs. Forster was worried and told her husband to call the police.

Witnesses said they saw Justin walking towards his home. Justin’s sister, Kelly heard him put on his favorite CD and she also saw a large spaceship    (4)   (fly) outside. She heard Justin shout.

Mavis Wood said that the aliens once taken her    (5)   the UFO and they did some research on her. The whole research was frightening just like a terrible dream.

Police found that Justin    (6)   return home. But they have not found the evidence    (7)   Justin was taken away by aliens. Detectives Sam Peterson,    (8)   took charge of the case, said that they were looking into other    (9)   (possible) too and they would not give up   (10)  ​       they found out what happened.

Tony was born on a small farm near Yuma Arizona on March 31, 1931. Tony was ten years old  __  (1)  ____ he began working in the fields. He was forced to leave school after  ___  (2)  ___ (graduate) from the___  (3)  ___ (eight) grade in order to support his family___  (4)  ___ had very little money and often not enough food to eat. But Tony and his family never thought of __  (5)  ___ (them) as being poor. His mother would often tell him and his brother Richard to find homeless and hungry men so she could cook them a meal.

A few years _  (6)  _____(late), Tony met a man named Fred Ross. And his life__  (7)  ____(total) changed. Fred Ross believed that if people worked together, they could make their community(社区) better. Tony now worked to bring people together and find ways to address their problems. Tony, Fred Ross and the Community Service Organization helped people in the community learn how to vote. They also__  (8)  ____ (teach) people that community leaders should respect (尊重) voters. Tony worked in many communities __  (9)  ___ (help) people get respect_  (10)  ​_____ others.

American police   (1)   (step) up their search for Justin Foster, who went missing last Friday night. He didn’t show   (2)   for lunch the next day. When the event   (3)  (occur), Mrs. Forster was worried and told her husband to call the police.

Witnesses said they saw Justin walking towards his home. Justin’s sister, Kelly heard him put on his favorite CD and she also saw a large spaceship   (4)   (fly) outside. She heard Justin shout.

Mavis Wood said that the aliens once taken her   (5)   the UFO and they did some research on her. The whole research was frightening just like a terrible dream.

Police found that Justin   (6)   return home. But they have not found the evidence   (7)   Justin was taken away by aliens. Detectives Sam Peterson,   (8)   took charge of the case, said that they were looking into other   (9)   (possible) too and they would not give up  (10)  ​      they found out what happened.