Li Yang’s brother is a  1 . He works in a bank. One day, he was driving two bags full of   2 important. But he and his truck were lost. The police looked for three hours, then they found Li Yang’s   3 and his truck. His   4   were tied（捆绑）behind his back. The bad man put something round his   5  so that he could not shout. The police climbed into the back of the truck and freed Li Yang’s brother. They asked him what happened.“They asked me to stop soon   6  I left the bank,” his brother said. “Six men stopped me and made me   7  to the river. “If you shout,” one of them said, “we will cut you into pieces.” When I got to the river, they tied   8 up. Then they threw me to the back of the truck. I sat on one of the   9  quietly. They didn’t see the bag, and took the other one.” “How much money was there in the bag? ”a policeman asked. “There was not any   10  in it at all,” Li Yang′s brother laughed. “Only some letters, the money is in this one. I was sitting on it. What a brave and clever man he is!

I have a good pen pal. She is from New York,    53  . she is 15 years old, so she is a       student of Grade 7.    54    name is Carol. She is a good girl     55    big eyes. We meet on the Internet, and we usually   56     e-mails to each other(彼此).
Carol goes to school five days a week. It is from   57  to Friday. On weekends, she often goes to the music club. She likes singing and she thinks it is  58 . So Madonna is her favorite  59 .
Do you know    60    we can be pen pals? Because I want a pen pal in the USA to help me with my English, and Carol wants to learn    61    . Now she can    62  a little Chinese. And she wants to come to China in 2012.

During my second year of middle school, our teacher gave us a test. I studied hard and   __46  well in all the subjects, so the questions were not difficult for me.  47  I stopped when I read the last one：“What is the   48  of the woman that cleans the school?”
Of course this was a joke. I saw the cleaning woman every day. She was short and about 60 years old. She had dark hair. But   49  would I know her name? I had never talked    __50 her before. In fact, I had never even thought about talking to her. I started to feel rather guilty(惭愧的).Finally, I   51  my paper, without finishing the last question.
Before the class ended, one student asked, “Will be last question count(计入) toward   __52  grade?” “Of course,” the teacher said, “In your life, you will meet many people. All are important. They deserve(值得) your attention and care, even if you just   53  and say hello to them.”
I’ve never forgotten that   54 _. I should get to know all of the people who work and live around me. That was, perhaps, the most   55  lesson of my life. Later, I learned that the cleaning woman’s name was Dorothy.

When I was a little girl, mum and dad told me that if you plant something in spring, you’ll get more in autumn. I    1   this without doubt.
At the age of six, while I was eating a big apple, I dropped a tooth.
I was so    2   that I cried all of a sudden and rushed to my grandma’s room. She held the tooth and smiled, “Don’t worry, dear. It’s a baby tooth. You will have a new tooth in a few    3  .”
“A new tooth?” I fell very surprised.
“Yes, you will have that tooth    4   you get old, so you must protect your new tooth well. When you grow old, the teeth will fall out again,   5   this time, it won’t grow again. So it’s not easy for old people to eat anything,” grandma said.
I went out of grandma’s room and thought, “   6   should I put the dropped tooth?”
Suddenly, a wonderful thought came into my mind: Why not plant it in the ground? If I took good care of it, day after day, maybe it would become a big tree. When    7   came, there would be many white and strong    8   on the tree. I could pick them and send them to the    9   people who needed them. So then they could eat well and always open their mouths with a smile full of beautiful teeth.
Of course my tooth didn’t grow into a big tree, but beautiful thoughts made my childhood warm and unforgettable. With them, I    10   up.

Hello, everyone! My name is Ken. I’m     1    years old. I was born (出生) in 1999.  My birthday is     2   . That’s National Day (国庆节). I like music very much and I     3    like sports.
My birthday is coming. My mother     4    buy a beautiful shirt     5    me. On Sunday, she     6    me to a big     7    store. There are     8    shirts and they are         9    blue, yellow and red. She selects(选了) a blue one. It looks cool.
My father gives me some CDs and a     10   . He knows what I like. He wishes(希望) me to play sports more. I am very     11   . And my sister, Monica, she is only two years old, so she can’t buy anything for me.    12    she sings a great song for me. It’s     13    fun. And I like her so much.
My parents want to have a     14    for me at home this year. My friends will come to it. We can play together. It’s very exciting     15    my friends in my house.

Please look at the photo. It is the photo   1  my family.
This is my grandfather.2   name is Dave Hand. He is a doctor. And this is my grandmother. Her name  3  Anna Brown. She is my father’s  4 .
The tall man is my father. He likes playing baseball. He   5  cool. The nice woman is my mother. She likes watching TV. She has   6  yellow ring.
The man with glasses is my  7 . He is my father’s brother. His   8  is Paul. He comes to see my grandparents with Emma and their daughter Mona. Look!  The young woman is my aunt. Her  9  name is Smith. And the little girl is my  10 . Her name is Mona Hand. The boy in the photo is Tim. It’s me.

Once, the famous scientist Einstein travelled to many places in America to give lectures. He travelled in a __1__, and soon made friends with his driver.
Each time Einstein gave the lecture, his driver __2__ sat in the front row and listened to him very carefully. The __3__ lecture was given so many times that the driver learned it well enough to give it himself.
One day, when Einstein was __4__ about it, he asked the driver to give the lecture for him in a small town.
That evening, both Einstein and the driver went into the lecture room. __5__ there had seen Einstein before. When the driver took his place, everybody applauded (鼓掌). Then he began the lecture. __6__ it was over, the people warmly applauded. The driver turned to look at Einstein. Einstein nodded with a smile on his face.
When they began to leave the lecture room, a man __7__ them and asked the driver a very
__8__ question. The c river listened carefully, then he __9__ and said the question was interesting but really quite easy. To show how easy it is. I'll ask my __10__ to answer it," said the driver.

Mr. White was holding a party at home to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. To make him happy, one of his women friends __1__ to sing a song for him. Now she was singing. One guest turned to a __2__ by his side and criticized the singer.
“What a __3__ voice!" he said. "Do you know __4__ she is?"
“Yes," was the answer, " She is my wife. "
“Oh, I beg your pardon,” the man said. "Of course her voice isn't bad, __5__ the song is very bad. I wondered who wrote that awful song?”
“I did," was the answer.

The bell for class rang. All the students took out their  1  , waiting for the teacher. Our Chinese teacher, Miss Liu, had told us before that we were going to write a composition 2  class.
A minute passed, and another,   3  the teacher didn't appear. We began to wonder what the matter with her was. Was she ill? Or had she forgotten about the class?    4  could tell. Soon some students began to study other subjects, some students began to talk and even made  5  .
About ten minutes later, the door opened and Miss Liu   6  came in, smiling. She didn't say sorry to the class. We felt   7  angry. The teacher often told us never to be late for class and said it was   8  manners to be late. She also said that if we were late, we should make an apology (道歉)   9  at once or after class. But now she was late and had kept the whole class waiting for such a long time and didn't even tell us the reason. It was unfair. At this moment, Miss Liu picked up a piece of chalk(粉笔) and     10     "Teacher IsLate" on the blackboard and said that was the topic of our composition today. All of us smiled and understood what the teacher meant.

A king was old and he knew it was time to choose a new king. He told all the young people in the country, “I’ll give   51  of you a seed (种子). Plant it and bring it back one year later. Show me the plant that you bring.    52   I’ll choose a new king from you.”
A boy   53  Ling got a seed, too. He planted it   54  . But the seed doesn’t grow at all. A year later, Ling had to take his   55   box to the palace. Others all brought beautiful plants there and Ling felt   56  .
The king   57  the palace and look around. When he found there was nothing in Ling’s box. The king smiled and said to the others, “One year ago, I gave everyone a seed    58  couldn’t grow. But all of you,   59  Ling, have bought me plants and flowers. Ling was the only one with the honesty (诚实) and   60  to bring such a box. So he will be the new king! ”