The night of graduation, I was afraid. Two hundred people were sitting out there. I felt tense and I wanted to run away,   1  I couldn’t! After all, my own children were sitting in front of me with many other persons. I couldn’t be a coward(懦夫) before   2 .
When I ended the speech, I was   3  at the cheering. And I never forget the first time I received the cheering in my life.
Flowers arrived   4  my brothers and sister. My husband gave me silk roses. The reporters came with   5  and recorders and lots of questions. There were tears and hugs and congratulations.
Sometimes, I sit down and   6  the tape of my graduation speech. I hear myself say to the audience, “Don’t’ give up your   7  in life. Anything can happen if you believe. It means hard work, but   8  sure that you can do it, with God’s help.”
And then, I remember mother’s   9  to me , a young girl: “Hurry, Gin, you’ll be late for school.”
Yes, Mom, I was late   10  school, but it was sweeter for waiting. I only wish you and Dad could have been there to see your daughter and granddaughter in all their show and speech.

Mr. Black was working in a factory in a big town. He liked 　1　 very much, and was very good　2　 it. When he was free, he　3　 down to a small river behind the factory and tried 　4　 some fish, but there were very few there, 　5　 the water wasn’t clean. One summer he went to the seaside during his holiday and stayed at a small cheap hotel.
“I have never fished in the 　6　 before.” He thought. “It will be more interesting than fishing in our river.”
　7　 first he caught a lot of fish and was very 　8　 . He gave them to the hotel and they cooked them for guests, and he enjoyed himself very much. After　9　, he did this every day. But 　10　 he got his bill(账单) at the end of the week, he saw it, “For oil（油） to cook fish(7 days), 70 dollars（美元）.”

My father is a farmer. he lives__1_my mother in a house in a village. It is__2_the town of Ashland.
My father grows rice and__3_.he works very hard. He gets up very__4_every morning. He_5__home at half past six and walks to the field. His work starts at seven o’clock.
He comes__6_home for lunch. He has a short_7__after lunch. Then he goes back to work again. He often__8_his work at a quarter to six. He goes back home at a quarter past six. He usually goes to bed_9__ ten o’clock.. He goes to bed earlier_10__my mother.

Tom is a middle school student. He is studying in Grade 7. He usually  1 at 7:00 o’clock in the morning. 2   today he gets up at 6:30 and goes to buy a big cake. After that he helps his grandparents clean their room, because it is his   ___3  birthday. His grandpa is going to be 78 years old.
Tom  4 two CDs about Beijing Opera(京剧)___5  his grandpa. He is sure his grandpa would like  6 very much, because his grandpa likes listening to Beijing Opera.
When Tom   7  home at noon, his mother is making noodles with his grandma. They are laughing and talking about something happily. His grandpa is drinking tea   8  listening to Beijing Opera.
Tom says, “Happy birthday to you, Grandpa!” Then he cuts the big cake and gives grandpa a   9  piece. Grandpa is very happy and eats it.
In the evening, Tom watches TV with his grandparents together. He is a little__  10  but very happy, because he can make his grandparents happy.

It is interesting to visit another country, but there are some problems when you don’t know the   1  very well. It may be   2  to talk with the people there. We may not know how to use the telephone in the country that we are visiting. We may not know how to buy   3   we need. In a   4  country we might not know where to eat or what to order in a  5 . It is not easy to decide how  6  to tip waiters or taxi drivers. When we need help, we might not know how to ask for help. It is not pleasant to have an experience   7  that.   8  a short time, however, we learn what to do and what to   9 . We learn to enjoy life in another country and then we may be   10 to leave.

In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. I call these things  1 and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did  2 the water. Any kind of 3 ride seemed to give him pleasure.  4 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being  5 the water, moving through it, having it all around me. I was not a strong  6 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my 7 . But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and  8 those summer days with my father, who  9 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the  10 person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go  11 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me  12 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk while he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his 13 . But my father always showed up and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s fine.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get  14 an ice cream…
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is memory.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but  15 , in that childhood, look at us.

Linda loves her dog Davy.  They went to New York last Saturday.  While Linda was 1    a newspaper at the railway station the dog got out of his box and ran away. The station was 2    and Linda couldn’t see Davy anywhere. When Linda 3    his name, some people looked at her but Davy didn’t 4   . Then she called the police. While she was talking on the 5   , Davy met another dog outside the station.  While the police were coming,  Linda  walked  around the station and called Davy’s name.   She  didn’t 6    about looking outside the station. Finally, a little boy said to her, “Did you look outside? I 7   a big black dog when I came in.” When Linda 8   saw Davy, he was jumping and running with another dog. There was a police officer 9    them. The police officer said to Linda, “ I think my dog 10    your dog.”

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Mr. Brown lives in a village. He has got a big family and a strong  1 . His farm is small and he is often   2  in winter. So he goes to the city and finds work there.
Once he stayed there for about two months. When New Year was coming, he   3  home to see his wife and children. On his way home, something was wrong with his eyes. When he was knocking at the door, his dog came out and bit（咬） him. His wife hurried to drive  4  away. The next morning he went to see  5 . The doctor looked over his eyes carefully and gave him some medicine. Before he   6  , he told the doctor about his dog. When he heard this, the doctor began to   7  and said, “Maybe something is wrong with  8  eyes, too, I think.”
When he got home, he told his wife about it. The woman said, “I  9  it’s true. If a thief comes into our house, it won’t see him and he’ll steal something here.”
Mr. Brown thought his wife was  10  . He had to make his dog take his medicine instead.

Tomorrow is Saturday. It is Linda, my 1    birthday. She will 2    seven years old. She is very happy because she 3    to school in autumn. We are all very 4   , too. We are going to 5     a party for her. My mother will make her a big _6 __. She likes reading ,my father will buy her an interesting 7     _. I will buy a CD _8    her ,9   she likes singing. She is going to 10      her favorite songs for us. We all hope she can be happy forever (永远).

A new term has begun. Teachers are   1  about the fact that new students are not easy to deal with. They like to bring cell phones and MP3 players to school. What is worse, some students even use cell phones   2  out-of-class matters in class, or sometimes just for fun. Some   3   students listen to MP3 players when they are having a lesson that they are not interested in.
Are these new students really that ___4____?  "Yes," says Delaney Kirk, a professor at Drake University. But she adds it's not their fault. 5 , the teachers should be blamed (责备). Mrs. Kirk first began thinking about students' manners six years ago.  "I had my first Class in which students were sleeping or talking to each other. It seemed that learning well had nothing to do with them," she says.  "At first, I got worried about this. But then I said to  6 ' You're giving lessons, and you need to manage this kind of situation. These students need to know more about manners. It's time to help them develop some good  7 They shouldn't waste time doing nothing when they are young. Sooner or later, they may regret the time they  8  '"
Mrs. Kirk also makes a list of suggestions to help teachers better manage their classes. The following are among her suggestions:
On the first day of class, tell students how they will benefit  (受益) by taking the class and the importance  9  listening carefully in class.
Do not allow them to bring cell phones or MP3 players to the class at all.
Tell them how to use Cell phones or MP3 players  10