One of Charlie Chaplin's most famous films was The Gold Rush. The film was set in California in the middle of the ___1___ century. At that time, gold was discovered in California and thousands of people ___2___ there to look for gold, so it became ___3___ as The Gold Rush. People said gold could ___4___ be picked up by washing sand from the river in a pan of water. This was known as“Panning For Gold”.

　　Some years ago, Chinese high school students would show their new schoolbags ,new clothes or new pens to their classmates when the new term started. Today, however, all have ___1___. If you still come back to school ___2___ only these things, you are falling out-of-date（过时的）. Students in big cities like to bring the latest high-tech things to school, and feel happy and ___3___ to show off（炫耀）these things to ___4___. Mobile phones, MP3 players, CD players, electronic dictionaries, the list is endless.

　　What do I remember about my childhood? There were good things and bad things. We used to live ___1___, and my parents always got up early in the morning to feed（喂）the cows and sheep. I always remember waking up to the smell of the breakfast my mother was cooking. What a wonderful smell ! I used to ___2___, wash quickly and run downstairs. My breakfast would be waiting for me on the table.

　　Helen Keller was a very bright, beautiful girl. At the age of six months she could already say a few words. But before she was two years old, she was badly ill. She could not see or hear, ___1___ soon she could not even talk. Since then Helen had to tight for ___2___ she wanted. When she was six years old, her parents invited（请）a teacher for her. With the help of the teacher, she ___3___ to see and hear the world around her through her HANDS. She learned to ___4___ the books for the blind（盲人）. The teacher took Helen for long WALKS, and told her about all the beautiful sights（风景）. Helen touched the flowers, ___5___ the trees and smelled（闻、嗅）a rain storm（暴风雨）before it came. She also learned how to swim and ___6___ a horse. After she grew up, she became a famous writer in America. Her first and most famous ___7___ is“The Story of My Life”. Her story has ___8___ new hope to many blind and deaf（聋的）people. It has given light to those in darkness and encouraged（鼓舞）them to live and work.

  Time spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a __1__ shop, no assistant will come near to you and say,“Can I help you?”You __2__ buy anything you don't want. You may try to find out __3__ the book you want is. But if you fail, the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is __4__ selling any books at all.

　　There is a story which tells us about a good shop. A medical student __5__ a very useful book in the shop, __6__ it was too expensive for him to buy. He couldn't get it from the library, either. So every afternoon, he went there to read __7__ at a time. One day, however, he couldn't find __8__ from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing（示意）to him. To his surprise, the assistant pointed to the book __9__“I put it there so as not to be sold out.”said the assistant, Then he __10__ the student to go on with his reading.

　　One Sunday morning, he __3__ his clock and took off its parts. His father came in and asked,“What are you doing, my boy? __4__ did you break the clock?”

　　“Because I want to know how the clock works. Don't worry, Dad. I can __5__ it later on.”The boy answered with a smile.

　　Every day some people are killed while they are crossing the roads. __1__ of these people are old people and children. Old people are often killed（被杀死）because they can't see or __2__ very well. Children are killed because they are not __3__. They forgot to look and listen before they __4__ the roads.

　　A car or a bus can't stop __5__. If a car is going very fast, it will travel many metres __6__ it stops. Some people don't always understand this. They think a car can stop __7__ a few seconds. It is difficult to __8__ how fast a car is moving. The only way to cross the roads safely（安全地）is to look __9__ ways, right and left. Then if the roads are __10__, you can cross them.

　　Every one of us must be more careful when you are crossing a road no matter（无论）you are a driver or a passer-by（过路人）. And all the drivers must drive more carefully and slowly when they are driving.

　　One winter, the man found a job in a town far away from his village. Before he __3__, he said to his wife,“Please take good care of the children when I am __4__. The work was heavy, but I can get some money. Then I'll bring some __5__ for you and our children. Don't worry about me. I shall often __6__ you.”

　　“You can't read,”one of her friends said.“Why don't you ask someone to read them for you?”

　　“__10__!”said the woman.“My husband will read them all for me when he comes back.”

　　We boated all morning. The river got __1__. At last it disappeared（消失）. We saw a wall of white water __2__ us. It was a large waterfall. We __3__ our way to a small beach below the waterfall. It was very __4__ work because the water ran so fast. Then we had to carry the boat on our heads to the top of the fall. It took us two hours to carry, push and pull all the way up the __5__ of the waterfall. We stopped at the top and __6__ the heavy boat in a small pool. We drank some water and lay down, tired.

　　Suddenly Alex shouted,“Where's the boat? It has __7__!”There! shouted Paddy. Then I saw it. It was almost at the top of the waterfall. We ran to __8__ it. We did our best, but at the last minute we were so tired that we had to let __9__ go. It flew __10__ to the bottom of the waterfall.