When I got up and looked out the window, I found,　　   　　  　　　　   1.——

to my surprised, it was snowing heavily. I was very　　　　　　　　  2.——

excited since it was the first snowfall in this winter.　　   　　  　　   3.——

I put on clothes quickly but ran to the yard. Some kids　　    　　　　　　     4.——

had already been there. We enjoyed the fun of playing　　　　　　    5.——

snowball-fighting game. Laughing and crying, all of us　　　　　　   6.——

were so happy. Suddenly we notice that the buses and　　　　　　 　　     7.——

cars were moving slow because of the heavy snow. “Why　　　　　　 8.——

don't we go to clear the snow?” Someone suggested. On hear　　　　  9.——

my words, we ran to fetch tools and began clearing the snow.          10.——

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I’m glad to hear ___1___you. I know you’re dying to h___2___ about my life here. I’m still trying to adapt ___3____ the conditions here. The other days I visited a ___4____(偏远的)village with another teacher. We walked for two and a half h____5___ to get there. We s___6___a day in the home of Tombe, one of my students。The hut was d___7___ inside so it took time for my eyes to adjust. We also had a meal there. I don’t speak much of the __8___(当地的)English dialect yet, so I could not _____9______(参加) in their conversation. Luckily, Tombe could act as our interpreter. We left the village the next morning. It was  s__10__ a privilege to have spent a day with Tombe’s family.

“Daddy, can I have a piece of cake?” my oldest son asked me.

We had just been to the gym and stopped to   31  at the restaurant.

“No,” I replied, “you don’t need a piece of cake.”

My son   32  15 in a few days. He   33  over 6 feet tall. He is very slim and athletic in shape. It was not always that way. My wife wrote a book about the challenge and   34  of getting him fit. He now takes it   35  and looks as he’s never been overweight in his life.

He had a full plate of   36  and tofu. He didn’t need a piece of cake. Besides, everything in the restaurant is quite   37 . Our dinners could have   38  a family of seven at a fast food restaurant. That cake probably cost $5.

He was   39  as he looked at the delicious cakes. I had forgotten that I had walked over to the cake shelf while he was   40  his food from the buffet (自助餐).

I looked at my   41 . There sitting on the edge was a piece of   42 . I looked at it wondering but also knowing how it got there. “We will divide it,” I said.

A few days later my oldest son was with me again. We stopped at a   43 . He ordered a sandwich. I then   44  two sandwiches. He immediately barked, “Can I have two?” He wanted exactly what Daddy had.

Your kids are very likely to put on their plates, exactly what you have on yours, and I think this applies to more than food. Keep your   45  plate with only what you want your kinds to have.

Many famous painters worked in Antwerp during the city’s period of greatest power but Peter Paul Rubens is undoubtedly the most famous one of them. Known as Rubens House, the palace-like residence(大宅) and studio where Rubens worked and lived from 1616 until his death in 1640 is now one of Antwerp’s most visited museums.

Almost all of the works Rubens and his students created in the Rubens House have been dispersed (分散) over major museums across the whole world, but there is still an impressive collection well worth the visit. Besides paintings form the master himself you will find other works of art and furniture of the 17th century as well as paintings from his students, including works by Jacob Jordaens and Anthony Van Dyck.

The Rubens House was not only a studio but also a meeting place for the rich and famous. His clients(委托人) included wealthy merchants, diplomats, and there were also many noblemen who often visited his studio to see how work progressed. The Rubens House even had a special viewing area which allowed visitors to see the artists at work.

Ruben bought the house at the beginning of the 17th century after his eight-year-long stay in Italy. Influenced by Italian architecture, he rebuilt the building into an Italian-styled palace with a beautiful garden and moved in the house in 1616.

After his death the building was sold. New owners modified the building greatly and by 1937, when the building was purchased by the city of Antwerp, it hardly resembled the original structure.

The impressive entrance hall, which connected the studio and the residence, is one of the few parts that survived. Other parts have been carefully restored and reconstructed after original plans and paintings of the house.

As a museum, the Rubens House is popular because ________.

A. it lies in the famous city of Antwerp

B. it holds all the works by Rubens and his students

C. there are many people who enjoy visiting it

D. Rubens, a great artist, lived and worked there

We can learn from the third paragraph that ________.

A. the Rubens House was popular with upper-class people

B. the Rubens House was the best studio in its time

C. Rubens’s students included noblemen and diplomats

D. people were not allowed to view the artists working

What can be inferred from the text?

A. Thanks to its great painters, Antwerp became a rich city.

B. Ruben possibly showed strong interest in Italian buildings.

C. Antwerp must be a historical city in Italy.

D. The Rubens House was completely rebuilt before 1937.

Which of the following is TRUE, according to the text?

A. Rubens created his works by working with his students.

B. A beautiful garden was added to the Rubens House by new owners.

C. Today’s Rubens House looks like its original structure.

 D. The Rubens House is decorated with furniture of the 17th century.

We were driving along the village of Simdara. I  36  to my right and saw an old shelter 20 meters from the side of the road that appeared to be filled with  37 .
“Would you mind  38 ?”  I asked the driver Waris. “I think there is a(n)  39 .”
Waris laughed. “No, Greg, that’s actually a public toilet,” explained Waris and he kept  40 .
“But why are there so many kids? What are they doing there? We need to  41 ,” I insisted. The word caught Waris  42  and he stopped the car.
When we reached the shelter, to my surprise, it was  43  a toilet—or at least it had been at one time. The roof was gone now, and the four toilet pits (坑) had been  44  with old boards. There were 25 children between 4 and 5 years old, one  45 , and a wooden board against the wall.
Though having a tough learning environment, the students are quite  46  to chat with us about their class and curriculum (课程). After about ten minutes, the teacher  47  if we might like to see “the rest of the school”. We  48  and followed her up the hill.
Just over the top of the hill, there was an old tent. It was very  49  inside because nearly 100 students were packed like sardines (沙丁鱼). These students were a little  50  , fourth-, and sixth-graders, and all of them were sitting on the ground.  51  the teacher, they were doing extremely well —  52  most of them had no books, paper or even pencils.
We were forced to  53  to catch our plane. We were all  54  and decided to collect money to build a school for these children who had a hunger for  55 .