（一）
There are many TV _____ on Chinese dishes, but few are like A Bite of China . The seven-part documentary tells us something _____ about what Chinese eat. The different kinds of foods on TV are _____ sixty different places. You can see so much delicious food which can catch _____ eyes and stomachs. And you can also learn how _____ the food. That's _____ the program becomes so popular. What's more, the program _____ not only about food. There are also many great _____ between food and people. Liu Wen, a worker of CCTV-9, says they also show social changes . "The program _____ as a window. It helps people around the world know more about Chinese dishes and _____ cultures," he says. You can see the documentary on CCTV-1 or CCTV-9 if you like it.
（二）
When people say "culture", we think of art and history. But one very famous symbol in American culture is a cartoon. We all know and love the black mouse with two large round ears—Mickey Mouse. Over 80 years ago, he first _____ in the cartoon Steamboat Willie. When this cartoon came out in New York. _____ November 18, 1928, it was the first cartoon with sound and music. The man behind Mickey was Walt Disney. He became very rich and _____ . In the 1930s, he made 87 cartoons with Mickey.
Some people might ask how this cartoon animal became so popular. One of the main reasons _____ that Mickey was like a common man, but he always tried to face any danger. In his early films, Mickey was unlucky and had many problems such as _____ his house or girlfriend, Minnie. However, he was always ready to try his best. People went to the cinema to see the "little man" _____ . Most of them wanted _____ like Mickey.
On November 18, 1978, Mickey became the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Today's cartoons are usually not _____ simple as little Mickey Mouse, but everyone still _____ and loves him. Who has a pair of ears _____ than Mickey's?
（三）
Maria _____ my best friend. Her favorite _____ is J. K. Rowling because she likes her novel Harry Potter. She is _____ big fan of J. K. Rowling. She even knows J. K. Rowling's birthday and birthplace.
Maria's birthday is _____ May 5th. Yesterday was her _____ birthday. There _____ a lot of people celebrating it. The birthday cake was very delicious. There were also many presents _____ her. Which _____ her favorite? The book Harry Potter.
My birthday is in May, too. And my _____ birthday is coming. It is on next Sunday. My friends want to have a birthday party for me. Would you like _____ ?
（四）
Helen's school trip was great! She had so much fun! She and her classmates _____ the science museum and it was really interesting. They _____ there by train and saw some _____ and villages along the way. At the museum, Helen learned a lot about robots. She _____ know they could play chess with people. The guide also _____ them how to make a model robot. She _____ a lot of great photos, too. After that, she went to the gift shop and bought some lovely _____ for her parents. They weren't expensive. _____ in all, Helen liked the trip very much. _____ was your school trip last week? _____ you like it?
（五）
My family live in a town. We usually have a party before the New Year for our friends and neighbors _____ we're available. We often ask them to bring something for someone in need instead of gifts for us. They never refuse _____ so. For example, they can bring food for a poor family or clothes for charities . It's always fun and everyone has a good time.
Last year, I was ill on the day of my party and went _____ the doctor. As a result, I didn't have the party. Everyone was disappointed , so I decided to have _____ two weeks later.
We asked for children's hats for a charity. We also asked for reading _____ for the city library, so those who needed glasses or _____ theirs could work on computers or read books in the library.
We invited about 100 people to the party. It was _____ that day but everyone came to the party. We got 83 hats and 47 pairs of glasses! We were _____ that people could be so generous in helping others.
_____ you prepare to have a party, think about doing the same things. Others will benefit much more than we would with lots of _____ .
（六）
Everyone in our school _____ sports. Every morning after we get up, we do morning exercises. After the _____ class, we do exercise again. We only have P. E. classes twice a week, but we do physical training at five every afternoon. The most popular sport is basketball. The boys enjoy _____ basketball and many of the girls like it, too. Another popular sport is soccer and in every class there _____ a lot of students who like soccer very much. We often play volleyball _____ the weather is fine. We have school teams of basketball, soccer and volleyball. Our teams often have friendly _____ with teams from other schools. When there is a match, many of us are very _____ to go to watch it.
Besides ball games, some of us like track and field events , and we often practice _____ and others. Every term we have tests in these events and once a year we have a _____ meeting.
Sports help us to keep _____ and happy. Do you like sports?
（七）
Long long ago, there was a man who lived in a village. One day, he went to a market and did some _____ . He _____ found two boxes. Both the two boxes _____ very beautiful and the man fell in love with them at the first sight. So he bought them.
After he got home, he didn't know how to use the two boxes. He thought it over and decided to do something _____ . He decided to put all of his happiness in the yellow box and all of his sadness in the black box. He thought that it was funny to do that.
A few days _____ , the yellow box was very heavy, _____ the black box was still light.
He didn't know _____. He decided to open the two boxes and found out the _____ . He opened the yellow box and found nothing. Then he opened the black box and saw _____ hole at the bottom .
Then he smiled to _____ and said, "Happiness is for me. Let sadness go."
（八）
Dear Bill,
How _____ your school trip yesterday? _____ you enjoy yourself?
I _____ a farm yesterday. A farmer showed me around the farm, and I saw many _____ animals. I learned a lot about farming. I also _____ fishing yesterday. It was very _____ . _____ the weather great? No. It was very cloudy and I worried it would rain. _____ , it didn't. _____ in all, it was an _____ day.
Please tell me something about your school trip.
Yours,
Jim
（九）
Linda _____ the science museum yesterday. Everything _____ about robots. Lisa was _____ in them, so she _____ feel bored at all. At the museum she learned a lot _____ robots. _____ she take any photos? Yes. She _____ a lot of great photos. She also bought some _____ gifts for her parents at the gift shop. All in _____, it was an _____ day.
（十）
Different people have different ideas about friends.
A good friend is like a _____. My friend Judy is quieter and more serious than most _____ . I am a quiet and serious girl, too. That's _____ we are good friends. Judy often helps me as _____ as she is not busy. She likes sports and she often exercises after school. However, I don't like to do any exercise. She _____ about my health and often asks me to run together with her. once I _____ my arm and she was always there making me _____ and feel better.
Judy is really my true friend. She _____ everything with me, such as learning methods . She often tells me some good ways to do well in my subjects. She is hard-working, so she always gets better _____ .
In all, it's not _____ for friends to be the same or different. Friends can understand and help each other. That's enough.
（十一）
Many people like the story called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland _____ Lewis Carroll. The _____ real name is Charles Dodgson.
_____ the story, Alice met some unusual people when she went to Wonderland. She was sitting by the river and_____ tired. Suddenly she saw a white rabbit with pink _____ . The rabbit took out _____ watch from the pocket and had a look. Alice jumped up and _____ the rabbit when it went down into a deep hole. Then she came to a garden and found a cat on the ground. When she spoke to the cat, she saw it _____ . Then she met the Mad Hatter and the March Hare _____ they were having a tea party. At _____ she met a king and a queen. She had a really wonderful time in Wonderland.
（十二）
English people have porridge _____ breakfast, too. But their porridge is made of oats , _____ rice. Many English people put sugar in _____ porridge, but the Scottish always put salt in it.
English people always drink tea out of cups, not out of _____ . They usually drink tea with sugar and milk. _____ you go to an English family for tea, the host or hostess always _____ you, "How _____lumps of sugar do you want in your tea?"
In ordinary English _____ , the main meal is in the evening, because most of the families are away during the day. But on Sunday when everybody _____ at home, they make the midday meal, and in the evening, they have a much _____ supper.
（十三）
Sophie Chen is a 14-year-old girl from Taiwan. When she was 6 years old, she did something amazing.
She finished a 2,100-kilometer bike journey from Xi'an, the capital city of Shanxi, to Turpan, a city in Xinjiang. Who _____ with her? Her parents. How _____ did it take? It _____ them two and a half months. Did she _____ anything interesting? Yes, she _____. She also met many _____ local people. She was very _____ . She even _____ grapes!
After the journey, Sophie wrote a book about it _____ her father Jack Chen, The book's English version came _____ in Beijing on April 26.
（十四）
One Sunday afternoon Mr. Green and his child, Mary, are _____ a big shop. Mr. Green likes Mary and wants _____ a new skirt for her. Mary _____ the new skirt. She likes something _____ . So her father buys two kilos of apples _____ her, too. Mary also wants to buy some picture-books _____ colored pencils. There _____ many things and many people in the shop. They are men and _____ , old and young. _____all want to buy something there. The people in the shop are very _____ .
（十五）
Last week my grandpa called me. He asked me _____ my vacation with him. He lives in a village. It's small _____ it's very cool there in summer. It's very hot in our city. So I often feel bored here. I was very happy and thanked him. I said, "I'm going to visit you when our summer vacation _____ ."
It was July the _____ , last Tuesday. My parents took me to the supermarket and we _____ some delicious food. They told me to take the food to my grandpa. The next morning my father took me to the train station. It was the first time for me to have a trip by _____ . But I felt _____ . I'm fourteen and I learned a lot in the geography class. The train left at six thirty. I looked out of the windows in the train. I found the scenery _____ beautiful. I wasn't tired at all.
At four in the afternoon my train arrived at a station. I saw my grandpa _____ outside. I got off the train and ran to him. He was happy when he saw me. I looked at him up and down. He was old but strong. His village is about three kilometers away _____ the station. We walked there. I looked around. The mountains are high and green. I thought I could have a good time there.
（十六）
Hello! My name is Messias and I _____ in Brazil. I am 10 years old and _____ school in four years. Kids go to school from 7 years old to 14 years old _____ my country. In Brazil we have only 4 hours of school a day. We have school uniforms that include T-shirts with the _____ name on.
Here are some more facts about _____ country. Brazil is the world's _____ grower and exporter of coffee. Everyone in Brazil _____ soccer and there is a stadium in every city. 3/4 of Brazilians like to live in cities, and most of the cities are on the coast. I live in the capital of Brazil, Brasilia. It is in the _____ of Brazil.
When I walk to school each day, I see many food stands selling pineapples, melons, _____ and other fruit. In Brazil we speak Portuguese . _____ , 60% of Brazilian homes have no toilets, 52% have no waste collection, and 70% have no running water.
（十七）
What would people like _____ on their birthday? Sally and Li Lei give _____ answers.
Sally comes from the USA. She would _____ a birthday cake with _____ on it. She will make a wish and then blow out the candles. The wish will come true if she _____ out all the candles in one go.
What about Li Lei? _____ there anything _____ to eat on his birthday? Li Lei lives in China. He eats very long noodles for his birthday. _____ he like a large bowl? Certainly. He would also like eggs. They are a symbol _____ life and good _____.
（十八）
A boy found an eagle's egg and he put it in the nest of a chicken. Soon the egg _____ open and the eagle came out. He thought he was a chicken. He grew _____ doing what chickens do—searching in the dirt for food and _____ short distances with a noisy waving of wings. It was a hard life. Little by little the eagle grew _____ . One day he and his chicken friends _____ a beautiful bird flying in the air, high _____ the mountains.
"Oh, I wish I could fly like that!" said the eagle. The chicken _____ , "Don't give it another thought. That's the great eagle, the king of all birds—you could never be like him!" And the eagle didn't give it _____ thought. He went on cackling and complaining about _____ life. Finally he died thinking he was a chicken.
My friends, you also were born an eagle. The God expected you to be an eagle, so don't listen _____ the chickens!
（十九）
New Energy in the Twenty-first Century
Energy from the wind
Wind is _____ kind of clean energy, and there _____ lots of it. But, _____ there's no wind, there is no wind energy.
Energy from the water
When water moves _____a high place to a lower place, it can make electricity without _____ . However, people have to build dams _____ this energy, and building dams is very _____ .
Energy from the sun
Solar panels on the _____ of houses can turn energy from the sun into electricity. Solar power is clean and plentiful . _____ when the weather is bad, it doesn't _____ .
（二十）
In a primary school, a teacher asked her students what they wished to become when they grew up. There were several _____ 一a doctor, a teacher, a film star and so on.
One of the students gave a _____ answer. This child said, "I want to be a television!" The teacher asked the child why he had such a wish. He said, with his eyes full _____ tears, "There is no one at home _____ me or care for me. Everyone sits around the television. If there is anything wrong _____ the TV. they give great attention to it and fix it at once."
The loving teacher met the child's mother and _____ about this with her. The mother said. "My husband is a very busy businessman. He never _____ time to look after the child." "But what about you?" the teacher asked the mother. "What do you know about me? I'm the president of the women's club. I have _____ many meetings and activities." The teacher now _____ why the child felt _____ at home.
"I think children need their parents to spend much time with them," said the teacher.
（二十一）
I have a dream. That is I'm going to be _____ artist when I grow up.
You know I _____ to draw pictures _____ a very young age. When I grow _____, I'm going somewhere _____ . Paris sounds like a city that I can enjoy. There are a lot of famous _____ and art exhibitions every year.
So how am I going to do it? First, I'm going to get a part-time job for a year _____ two and save some money. Then I'm going to be a student at an art college in Paris. _____ I'm going to hold art exhibitions that will make me famous and rich. I'll travel all over the world _____ the money. I hope my dream _____ true one day.
（二十二）
One day Mr. Smith went to a dinner party. He was wearing old clothes. He came into the room, _____ people in the room didn't look at him. They didn't ask him to sit _____ the table. He wasn't happy. But he said _____.
Mr. Smith went home and put _____ his best clothes. He went back to the party. All the guests in the room _____ up and looked at him. They gave him good food to eat. Mr. Smith took _____ his coat, and put it on the food and said, "Eat, coat!"
The other people were _____ and asked, "What are you doing? Why do you do that?"
Mr Smith answered, "I am asking my coat to eat food. When I _____ old clothes, the man standing at the door didn't let me in until I showed him my _____ . When I came in, you didn't ask me to sit down. Now I am wearing these nice clothes and you give me good food to eat. Now I see, you give the food to my coat, not to _____ ."
（二十三）
Betty started to learn English at the _____ of six. She went to an after-school English class every week. But Betty thought it was boring _____ to her English classes. She didn't think _____ was important to learn English and she did not need to speak English in her everyday life.
After she _____ a school baseball team, she started to know more about the baseball players who joined teams in the USA. Now, she wants to know more about what happens to them. So she reads English newspapers _____ the Internet. When she meets new words, she looks _____ up in her dictionary and writes difficult sentences in her notebooks. When she goes to school, she asks her English teacher for help. Little by little, she finds that English is _____ important, and she is more and more _____ in it.
Her parents promise to take her to New York to watch a baseball game if she gets good grades in the English exam next month. _____ exciting it is! Betty is so happy that she works _____ on English than before.
（二十四）
Mr Read works in a big shop. He's very _____ and always gets to the office on time. The shopkeeper is satisfied with him and _____ him more. One afternoon he was very tired, as soon as he had supper, he put his watch on the table and went to bed. Little Mabel, one of his daughters, came in and looked for something there. She _____ the watch to the floor. She picked it up and left quickly. The next morning Mr Read got up on time. After _____ he had a look at his watch and began to read newspapers. _____ he got to his office, it was half past eight. He was late for the first time! At that moment he found _____ was wrong with his watch. He had to ask someone _____ it.
The next morning Mr Read was going to _____ a train for London. But he missed it _____ his watch was slow again. He was very strange and said, "It was all right yesterday, but why is it wrong now?"
"I found _____ was dirty last night," said Little Mabel, "I had to wash it for you!"
（二十五）
My mother was a beautiful woman. Her dream was to be a famous actress when she studied in college. And she was the most _____ person in her class.
She _____ many different roles in the shows and got very good _____ . She also enjoyed watching some shows. But some people thought the lives of the performers were made _____. But my mom said _____ you didn't take these shows too seriously, they were fun _____ . However, after graduation, I was born. Finally, she _____ to bring me up and teach me by _____ . She took my education very _____ . For that, she lost lots of chances to make her dream _____ true. My mother gave up many things for me. I'm so thankful for what she has done for me.
（二十六）
I did _____ fun on my vacation last Sunday. I went to visit my grandparents who lived in the countryside. It was far from my home, so I _____ my bicycle there. My grandparents lived in a three-storey _____ . And they also had a big farm. There were quite a _____ fruit trees and animals on their farm. In the morning, I helped my grandparents pick some apples. I also _____ some of them, and they tasted delicious. In the afternoon, I _____ some hens and some ducks. I also saw some baby _____ . They were so cute! _____ I felt tired, I was very happy. In the evening, we ate _____ and meat for dinner. My grandparents wanted me _____ back there very often. I agreed with them.
（二十七）
Dear Auntie Em,
Great news! Mrs. Mumford just told me I had been chosen as one of the school _____ to visit the University of Cape Town in South Africa this summer! She said the program was designed for some of the brighter teenagers _____ a different culture. _____ a good chance!
The only problem is: Mom and Dad _____ won't let me go. They said it was dangerous for me, a girl, _____ alone. But my guess is that they think it too expensive. I _____ telling them I had been on a plane on my own before. They needn't worry about _____ because this trip would be almost the same as that time when I visited you in Texas. _____ they just won't listen!
Will you help, Auntie Em? It will be _____ very important experience to my personal growth.
Love, and love you even _____ if you manage to make Mom ">Dat
（二十八）
Mark Twain, an American _____ , was born in 1835 in a poor village. He was the _____ child in his family. _____ he was 11 years old, his father died. In the next year, he left school and _____ to make a living by himself . He had many jobs and he also wrote something.
He wrote many novels all _____ life, but The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the most famous. This novel is mainly _____ a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. _____ first, this novel wasn't very _____ . But after he died, it began to become popular. Until now, this novel is still one of the most popular _____ .
Mark Twain became famous because of his wonderful books. He died in 1910. But his novels will always stay with us _____ make us happy.
（二十九）
Different students went to different places on vacation. Tina went to the mountains _____ her family and she _____ a good time there. Tom _____ to summer camp with his friends and he _____ had a great time. _____ did Bob go on vacation? He _____ his uncle. They went fishing _____ they didn't get any fish. _____did Sally do on vacation? She just _____ at home and didn't do _____ .
（三十）
Chinese people have been celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for _____ of years. Mooncakes look _____ a full moon on Mid-Autumn night. They carry _____ wishes to the families they love and miss.
There are many _____ folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Chang'e is the most touching. Chang'e was Hou Yi's beautiful wife. After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave him magic medicine _____ him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Chang'e. _____, a bad man, Feng Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi was not home. Chang'e _____ to give it to him and drank it all. She became very light and flew _____ to the moon. Hou Yi was _____ sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was so bright and round that he could see his wife there. He quickly laid out her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he wished that Chang'e could come back!
After this, people started the tradition of _____ mooncakes and admiring the moon with their families.
