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 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 him 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.”

　　Farley worked for the Canadian government. One day, he was ___(1)___ to learn more about wolves. Do wolves kill lots of caribou（北美驯鹿）? Do they kill people?

　　It was a Monday morning. When a teacher walked into the ___(1)___, he heard a low voice, “Here is the teacher. I am ___(2)___ this boring fellow（烦人的家伙）is going to talk about putting in commas（逗号）.” It was ___(3)___ voice. His name was Bill. He was talking ___(4)___ the boy next to him.

　　The teacher didn't get angry. He said ___(5)___ about it, then he really began to talk about putting in commas, and then he wrote ___(6)___ the sentence:“Bill says the teacher is a boring fellow.”

　　“Now,” said the teacher, “I'll ___(9)___ you how important commas are.”

　　He put two commas in the sentence, and now read, “___(10)___ is a boring fellow.”

　　Twenty-five of the states have Indian names, but other names ___(4)___ from different languages. Georgia and Pennsylvania have names from the Latin language（拉丁文）. Florida and Golorado ___(5)___ Spanish people. States, like New Hampshire and New Jersey were named after places in England.

　　Ashley Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter. She was moving into her house in Atlanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man ___(1)___ her to her door, and put a gun（枪）to her side.

　　“I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really ___(2)___,”she said in a TV interview（采访）last week.

　　The man was Brian Nichols, 33 years old. He ___(3)___ at an Atlanta courthouse（法院）on March 11. The police were ___(4)___ him.

　　Nichols tied Smith up with a rope, but set her free after she begged him not to take her ___(5)___ again and again.“I told him ___(6)___ he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mummy,”she said with tears.

　　“I just talked to him and tried to ___(7)___ believe me,”Smith said.

　　She asked Nichols ___(8)___ he chose her.“He said he thought I was an angel ___(9)___ from God, and God asked him to do so.”

　　Smith even ___(10)___ for the man before he allowed her to leave. Nichols was ___(11)___ when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched TV, seeing ___(12)___ looking for him.“I cannot ___(13)___ that's me on the TV!”Nichols told the woman.

　　Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he ___(14)___ do. She said,“I think you should turn yourself in. If you don't, lots of more people are going to get ___(15)___.”

　　Once a ___1___ daughter was taking her bottle of milk from the field to the farmhouse. ___2___ she began to think and plan.“I will ___3___ this milk,”she said to herself,“and ___4___ the money I can buy three hundred eggs. I will put these eggs under hens, and surely two hundred and fifty of them will hatch（孵化）. I will feed these chickens, and make them fat, and I ___5___ them to the market when chickens are ___6___. I will sell them at the market, and with the money, I'll ___7___ a new dress. In this dress, I shall look so fine that all the young men will ___8___ me to marry them. But I will toss（摇晃） my head, and refuse them all.”As she said this, she really tossed her head. Then she tripped over a stone. All the milk spilled（溅出）all ___9___ the ground. That was the ___10___ of all her fine plans.

　　Philip wanted to ___6___ the master of all Greece. So he fought with the other states with his men. When nearly all of them were forced to call him their ___7___, he ___8___ a letter to the Spartans in Laconia, saying,“If I go down into your country, I will turn your great city ham the ground.”

　　___9___ a few days, an answer was ___l0___ back to him. When he opened the letter, he found there was only one word. That word was“IF”.

　　In the old days, in London, the smog（烟雾）was very thick. Car and bus drivers __1__ to drive very slowly because they could __2__ see the road clearly in front of them even during the daytime. People did not like going out in the smog __3__. If they had to go out, they wore smogmasks（防雾面具）over their faces.

　　In December 1952, a very thick __4__ cloud came down over London. It was the __5__ smog Londoners had ever seen. __6__ of it was bad factory smoke. Nearly fifty people died in road accidents. But many more people became unhealthy. The smog was very __7__ for old people and children. One man said,“The streets were almost __8__ because people stayed at home as much as possible. The air was very thick, and you could almost cut it with a knife.”

　　I like collecting stamps. When I was only a baby, my mother began to collect for me. Of course, she didn't let me __1__ the stamps __2__ I was old enough not to spoil（损坏）them. I remembered that it was __3__ my fifteen bit. day that she first put them into my hands. They were in four thick books and since then I have added three more books. I have a __4__ collection than any of my friends.