1、 wet, changes, also, high, worse, forgetful, feel.Passage 2Bill was fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He had a p_ job which got him up at five oclock. He was a newspaper boy.Each morning. Bill left the house at five fifteen to go to the corner. The newspapers had been sent to the corner by
2、truck at m_. He always rode a bicycle to carry them.In the winter it was still d_ when he got up. But during the rest of the year it was bright. Bill had to send newspapers to the house of people in all kinds of w_. He tried to put each paper in the box where it would be kept s_ from wind and rain o
3、r snow. His customers thought he did a good j_. Sometimes they gave him tips .Bill made about $70 a month, and he was saving some of the money to go to college. He spent the rest on tapes and clothes. Once a month he had to get the money from his customers together. Since many of them worked during
4、the day. Bill had to get the money at night.Sometimes, when Bill was ill. his elder brother had to send the newspaper. O_ Bills father had to help him. part-time, midnight, dark, weather, safe, job, Once. Passage 3About 97% of water on the earth is sea water, or salty water. Man can only drink or us
5、e the other 3% of f_ water which comes from rivers, lakes and u_.The sea is very big. Look at the m_ of the world. There is more sea than land. It covers three quarters of the earth. It looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. But it can be t_ when there is a strong wind.Some parts of the
6、 sea are very deep. There is one place near Japan. It is n_ 11 kilometers deep. The highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometers high. If we put that mountain into the sea at that place, there would be 2 kilometers of water a_ it!The Dead Sea is not a sea. It is a big lake. It is the saltiest
7、 lake. The sun is hot there and the water is salty. Fish cant live in the Dead Sea and p_ cant grow near it.People cant swim well in the Dead Sea, but they can f_ on the water. The water is very blue and the air is clean. In winter, people come to the Dead Sea to enjoy the sunshine. fresh, undergrou
8、nd, map, terrible, nearly, above, plants, float, Passage 4Dear Smith,Thank you very much for your letter. I am glad that you enjoyed your h_ with me. We enjoyed having you and your sister here. We hope that you will b_ be able to come again next year. Perhaps youll be able to s_ longer next time you
9、 come. A week is not really long e_, is it? If your school has five weeks holiday next year, perhaps you will be able to stay with us for two or three weeks.We have been long b_ at school for three weeks. It feels like three months! I know that you are working very hard now that you are in Grade One
10、. I shall have to work hard next year when I am in Grade One.Tom and Ann went for a picnic yesterday but I did not go with them b_ I cut my foot and I couldnt walk very well. They went to an island and enjoyed themselves there. Do you still remember the island? That is where all five of us s_ the la
11、st day of our holiday.We send our best wishes to Betty and you. We hope to see you soon.Yours sincerely. MichaelKEYS: holiday, both, stay, enough, back, because, spentPassage 5My grandfather was a teacher. He was the headmaster of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know t
12、hat he was a kind man when I was young (and he was old), he gave me presents, and sat me on his k_ and told me s_. But I believe the boys at his school were a_ of him. At school, when he walked into a room full of naughty boys, they stopped t_ at once. When he looked at a boy with a certain look in
13、his eyes, that boy was red in the face, and looked down at his s_. If a boy brought him p_ homework, my grandfather would pick up the boys book and throw it across the room, shouting.Do it again, and bring it back first thing in the morning! If the boy was late, or if he f_ to bring his work, he had
14、 to do it again, and again, and yet again. knees, stories, afraid, talking, shoes, poor, forgotPassage 6Most parents always think that they have offered the best things they can to make their children live in a c_ world. They buy their children pretty clothes, cool shoes, strange but e_ school thing
15、s, and a thousand-yuan-cost bike. They think that they have done e they can for their dear little children. In _, they only want their children to give them good results in the examinations.But their little children still cant understand them. Why? Does it m_ that they still want more material thing
16、s? No! As a matter of fact, what they want is a true family. What does a true family mean? I think it means a place where we can hide o_ from the outside cold world. From here, we can get warmth. We can get consolation(安慰), and we can get h_. And one important thing is that we should be stronger and
17、 more confident in the outside world because we know that we have a family. comfortable, expensive, everything, return, mean, ourselves, help, Passage 7Different culture and different people have different manners. We must find out their customs so that they will not think us ill-mannered. Here are
18、e_ of the things that a person with good e_ does or does not do.If you visit a Chinese family, you should knock at the door f_. When the door opens, you will not move before the host says Come in, please. After you enter the room, you would not sit down until the host asks you to take a seat. When a
19、 cup of tea is put on a tea table before you or sent to your hand, you will say Thank you and receive it with t_ hands, not one hand, or they will think you are ill-mannered. Before e_ a house in Japan, it is a good manner to take off your shoes. In European countries, even though shoes sometimes be
20、come very dirty, this is not done. In a Malay house, a visitor never finishes the food on the table. He leaves a little to show that he has had e_. In England, a visitor always finished a drink or the food to show that he has e_ it. This will make the host pleased. examples, education, first, two, e
21、ntering, enough, enjoyed.Passage 8Mr. Brown was going away for a week. Before he left. he said to his son. If a_ asks for me, you can tell him that your father has been out for d_ something, and will be back in a week, then be sure to ask him to sit down for a cup of tea.OK, Dad, said his son. But h
22、e was a_ his son couldnt remember this. He wrote these words down on a piece of paper and gave it to him. His son put it into his small pocket, took it out and looked at it every now and then.Four days p_, but no one came to see his father. The boy thought that there was no man to come and the piece
23、 of paper was of no more u_ for him. so he burnt it that evening.The next afternoon, someone knocked at the door. The boy opened it. A man was s_ at the door and said, Where is your father? The boy put his hand into his pocket at once and looked for the piece of the paper. He could not find it. He s
24、_ remembered he had burnt it, so he shouted. No more.The man was very s_. He asked. No more? I met your father last week. When did it happen? Burnt yesterday evening. anyone/anybody, doing, afraid, passed, use, standing, surprised, suddenly, Passage 9Have you ever wondered where these nice little Te
25、ddy Bears came from? They were n_ for President Roosevelt in 1902. When President Roosevelt was on a h_ trip in Mississippi with others, one person caught a black bear and tied it up to a tree. President Roosevelt was asked to shoot the bear, but he r_ to do so and said it was nothing great to shoot
26、 a tied-up animal.Then there was a picture and an animal in the next days newspaper which showed the President refusing to shoot the bear. People all over America saw the picture . Morris Michtom. a shopkeeper in New York put two toy bears made by his wife in the w_ of his shop. The President allowe
27、d Mr. Michtom to call them Teddy Bear. Children everywhere liked the sweet little bears with black eyes. soon Mr. Michtom started a f_ to make Teddy Bears, and he m_ a lot of money.T_, children all over the world still like Teddy Bear toys very much. They are also collected by people and many are on
28、 show in museums. Teddy Bears are s_ in almost every toy shop. named, holiday, refused, window, factory, made, Today, sold.Passage 10Basketball is still a y_ game. It is not yet a hundred years. In the winter of 1891. a certain college was troubled with its boy students. The weather was so terrible that the students had
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