Many objects that people use each day started with a simple idea. These objects have often changed the way we  46 . Some help us to do a job more   47 . Others fill a need or solve a problem.

In 1858, Lipman had such an  48 . He took out a pencil, a piece of paper,   49 an eraser. Then he began to write. Sometimes he needed to  50  a word. Each time he had to search under his books and papers to   51  the eraser. “ I wish my eraser would stay in one 52 !” he said.

Then Lipman had his simple idea. He   53  a groove(凹槽) in one end of the pencil. He glued(粘牢) the eraser into the groove. Lipman had solved his problem. Later he thought that others might like to have such a pencil. So he sold his  54 .Some pencils with erasers were 55 . His design earned $ 100000.

Hello!        name is Li Ying. I’m twelve. I’m from Kunming. Now I’m in Beijing No.14 High School. I’m       Class Five, Grade Seven. Miss Gao      my English teacher. She is         new teacher. I have有 a pen, a ruler and two       in my pencil-box文具盒. Liu Ping is in Grade Seven, too.         is from Guangzhou. She is my good       . We are in        same class. Now she can        English well好. I think认为 she is a good girl. Look！      is that? She is Liu Ping.

Adam: Hi, Jim. This is my friend, Paul. Paul, 1   is my brother, Jim.

Paul:  2  , Jim. Nice to meet you.

Jim ：Hello, Paul. Nice to meet you, 3  .

Paul: Jim , what’s your  4   name ?

Jim ：White.

Paul: How do you  5   it?

Jim：W-H-I-T-E, White.

Paul: What’s your  6   number?

Jim ： 7  322-5674 .

Paul : OK. I’ll （我将）  8   you . Adam, how  9  you ?

Adam:  10  , thank you . And you?

Paul: I’m OK, thanks. I must leave now. Bye.

Jim and Adam: Bye-bye.

1．A．this                   B．it                C．that

2．A．Hello                  B．No               C．Thanks

3．A．two                   B．too               C．to

4．A．first                   B．one              C．last

5．A．see                   B．spell     C．look

6．A．telephone               B．card             C．ID

7．A．This is                B．It’s                    C．That’s

8．A．call                    B．meet             C．see

9．A．is                     B．are               C．am

10．A．Fine                  B．Good           C．Yes

Long time ago, there was a woman with a surpring spell(魔法).If someone was under the spell, he or she would get perfect  26 .One day, the woman put the spell on her toad(蟾蜍),and then the toad got beautiful teeth. They could help him  27 all kinds of food. He could  28 start speaking.

The toad was  29 with the spell.He started to eat lots of chocolate.The woman found this and said to him,“30 your teeth and brush them often.Don’t eat so much chocolate…”31 the toad didn’t listen to her.He believed his teeth were very good and he didn’t have to brush them ofen.And he liked chocolate very much,so he didn’t want to eat  32  .

One day,one of the toad’s teeth got bad.Day by day,all the teeth in his 33 got bad.The toad decided to start looking after them,but it was too 34  .And when he 35  his last tooth,he couldn’t speak any more.

The toad thought if the woman put the spell on him again,he would brush them every day.But that never happened again.