Kites invented in China 2000 years ago. The

(1) ______

earlier kites were made of wood, that were expensive.

(2) ______

Kite flying began to spread between ordinary people

(3) ______

only after paper was invented and then kite making cost little.

(4) ______

Weifang City is the birth place of the kites. Now kite

(5) ______

flying is more and more popular here. Every spring 

(6) ______

people all over the world come to take part in the 

(7) ______

International Kite Festival. They would see beautiful

(8) ______

kites fly in the sky. I believe you will enjoy yourselves

(9) ______

here. I hope you to go to the Festival every year.

(10)______

　　　Today if you go on board the ship and the

　　(1) ______

airliner, you will see signs and notice that

(2) ______

will give you some useful informations and

(3) ______

warnings. If you will come by air, you will see

(4) ______

a notice where says: NO SMOKING; FASTEN SEAT

(5) ______

BELTS. When the plane is well up in air,

(6) ______

the light behind this notice is switched on.

(7) ______

You then allowed to smoke and may unfasten

(8) ______

your seat-belt. The notice will appear on

(9) ______

again when the plane is about come down.

(10)______

　I just had a baby． 　　 He's a beautiful baby boy made up

white cloth with big eyes, nose and mouth, I had 

(1) ______

thought it would be interesting to have a baby, but 

(2) ______

now that I have the little one, so I even want 

(3) ______

to send him back． I have carry him around 

(4) ______

school all day and he was not light． He has a 

(5) ______

sandbag for extra weigh so he looks like a 

(6) ______

real boy． All of my friend love him and always 

(7) ______

want to have a look, so usually I let them watch for 

(8) ______

him during the day． Carry this baby around 

(9) ______

is supposed to teach me the responsibility（责任）of 

(10)______

a parent, but really all it's taught me is how heavy babies are．

　In America the piles of abandoned 　　 （被遗弃的）car are continuing to

(1)______

grow．In New York, the number of cars leave on the 

(2)______

streets in a single year over eighty-two 

(3)______

thousand．Thomas, a police officer, says, “We’re

taking a hundred and twenty abandoned cars off from the street

(4)______

every week, but people are leaving them slower than we can 

(5)______

pick them up．”Two reasons are given to the problem．

(6)______

First, there are a large number used cars for sale, which

(7)______

makes it impossible for a person to buy one for very little 

(8)______

money and throw it away when everything goes wrong．

(9)______

Second, the expense of repairing a car is increasing fast．

(10)_____

　Robert E．Lee had fine qualities as leader．He was,

(1) ______

first of all, a strong leader who treat his soldiers as human

(2) ______

beings, not as machines of war．A most popular leader couldn’t 

(3) ______

be found． Secondly, Lee was a good strategist（战略家）．Usual his 

(4) ______

strategy was a number of quick moves which greatly puzzled

(5) ______

the Union forces．Sometimes, he divided his army to two

(6) ______

forces in order defeat the Northern forces．Thirdly,

(7) ______

Lee was a gentleman． This shown when he accepted defeat

(8) ______

with dignity（尊严）and asked his soldiers to work at peacefully for a

(9) ______

united nation．He put the interests of the national in the first place．

(10)______

　There was a great number of trouble in the city the

(1) ______

other day．A horse got out of a field and came into

(2) ______

town on its own．Oh heavens! A horse walked across

(3) ______

the Public Gardens and throughout a busy street．Then

(4) ______

it sat down just in the middle of the main roads

(5) ______

contrary a church．All the traffic stopped．Quite

(6) ______

few people tried to lead it away, but the horse

(7) _____

refused to obey to them．Just then and old farmer

(8) ______

appeared．He took a few low whistle．As soon as the 

(9) ______

horse heard the whistles, it rose up and followed

(10)______

the farmer tamely．

　Pigeons have a nature instinct (天性) to return home,

(1) ______

even they are very far away and the trip is hard or 

(2) ______

dangerous． Men used this homing instinct to send 

(3) ______

messages on small piece of paper which are fixed 

(4) ______

upon the pigeons' backs or legs． In war time, pigeons

(5) ______

have been known to fly as fast as 75 miles an hour

(6) ______

and to covering distances of 500 to 600 miles . 

(7) ______

Homing pigeons begin their training unless they are 

(8) ______

about four weeks old． After a few weeks later they

(9) ______

can began flying and carry messages． If all goes well

(10)______

their flying lasts about years．

　Before he was a teacher, Bob told me that

he would like to be a lawyer．So he tried her

(1) ______

best to enter into the university．But he failed．

(2) ______

At that time, something unhappy happened in his

family, which made necessary for him to work

(3) ______

in the society．Mary is a helpfully and good-

(4) ______

mannered girl．After she left a school, she

(5) ______

worked in a hospital．She wished to be a good nurse．

The last ones I want to tell you of is Ann．Like

(6) ______

her classmates, she has many wishes．Yet she

(7) ______

failed the exams three time．Because she didn't

(8) ______

become a film star, she felt very sad, and

hid herself at home for several months．Under the

(9) ______

help of her friends, she finally passed through it．

Young people are full of wishes and hopes after

(10)______

they step into the society．

　One day a rich man met Sam．A rich man asked．

(1) ______

“I hear of that you're very clever and nothing

(2) ______

is difficult for you．Can you tell me what you're

(3) ______

so clever?”Sam answered with smile, “Oh, I'm

(4) ______

not clever．If you think I'm clever, you're a 

(5) ______

fool．”The rich man became angrily, Sam said,

(6) ______

“Don't be so．If you don't believe what I said，

let me to ask you a question．Suppose you have a 

(7) ______

group of sheep, and I sent you another group．Then

(8) ______

how many group of sheep do you have?”“Why!

(9) ______

That's the easiest question in the world．One

added one is two．Anybody knows that．I have two

(10)______

groups．”Sam laughed and said, “You're wrong．Two

groups of sheep put together is still one group．

That's the easiest question in the world．”