dream of              play jokes on              to be honest with      base on                

produce records     come true                   stick to                    have fun

sort out                play instruments

1. I think what you want __________in a few years.

2. On April 1st,all of us __________each other and we are all happy.

3. __________ yourself, you want to be famous and can become a film star.

4. They __________and started touring and playing their own music.

5. He __________being a great writer when he was a very little boy.

6. The book that he will write __________the fact.

7. There are so many books in the room. It is very hard __________the books.

8. He likes music very much, and has produced 2 records. He often__________.

9. Make a special time for practicing speaking English and__________ using it, and you will learn it well.

10. When you are playing in the mountain. Pay attention to your safety. Above all, just__________！

However, there was one band that started in a different way. It began as a TV show. The musicians of   31________ the band was formed played jokes   32___________    each other as well as played music. Their music and jokes were based loosely on the band called “The Beatles”. The TV organizers  33      (look) for four musicians who were lively and who could make good music. They put an advertisement in a newspaper  34      (look) for rock musicians, but they could only find one that was good enough. They had to use actors for the other members of the band. Actors may not be able to sing so at first other musicians sang the songs for the programme   35       the band pretended to sing them.

Their attractive performances  36      (copy) by other groups and their fans supported them fiercely. Each week the group that was called “The Monkees” would play a song or two written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became   37        (serious) about their work, “The Monkees” started to play their own instruments and write their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. They became even more popular than “The Beatles” in the USA and sold even more records. However, the band broke   38          in about 1970, but  39        (unite) in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, which was a  40         (celebrate) of their time as a real band.

However, there was one band that started in a different way. It began as a TV show. The musicians of   31________ the band was formed played jokes   32___________    each other as well as played music. Their music and jokes were based loosely on the band called “The Beatles”. The TV organizers  33      (look) for four musicians who were lively and who could make good music. They put an advertisement in a newspaper  34      (look) for rock musicians, but they could only find one that was good enough. They had to use actors for the other members of the band. Actors may not be able to sing so at first other musicians sang the songs for the programme   35       the band pretended to sing them.

Their attractive performances  36      (copy) by other groups and their fans supported them fiercely. Each week the group that was called “The Monkees” would play a song or two written by other musicians. However, after a year or so in which they became   37        (serious) about their work, “The Monkees” started to play their own instruments and write their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. They became even more popular than “The Beatles” in the USA and sold even more records. However, the band broke   38          in about 1970, but  39        (unite) in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, which was a  40         (celebrate) of their time as a real band.

have fun with, as a consequence, break out, differ from, benefit from, stand for,

round up, have a/an. . . influence on, feed on

1. The letters PO _______ Post Office.

2. Young people like playing jokes and ________________each other.

3. The thought of Confucius _______ great ____________ Chinese people.

4. A terrible earthquake ___________in Japan on March 11, 2011.

5. Both sides have ___________ the cooperation, so they decide to go on working together.

6. The story he told the police ___________ the one he told his mother and it remained to be discovered which story was true.

7. We ___________ our dogs _______fresh meat.

8. Lorenzo told the girl to _______ all the children and take them down to the river.

9. Her hair started falling out _______________of radiation treatment.

Pete hated losing at anything. His parents, teachers, and many others, said he didn’t know how to lose, but the truth of it was that he couldn’t stand losing. It seemed to Pete that losing was the worst thing that could happen to anyone. If there was a game Pete wasn’t good at, he simply wouldn’t play it.

        A new kid, Albert, started at Pete’s school; he was a good table football player, and it didn’t take Pete and Albert long before they challenged each other to a game. Pete prepared for the match carefully, but Albert seemed not to be taking the thing at all seriously. He walked about the whole time, smiling and telling jokes about all kinds of things. But on the football table, Albert was a real player. He scored goals again and again, laughing and joking all the time. However, Albert was paying so little attention to the match that Pete managed to change the scoreboard（记分板）while his opponent was looking elsewhere, and so Pete managed to win by cheating. Pete made a big thing of his win, but it seemed not to matter to Albert.

        “It’s been fun. We should play again some other time”, said Albert.

        On that day, people at school talked about Pete’s great victory. But, that night, Pete didn’t feel happy. For several days Pete didn’t feel happy. For several days Pete watched the new guy. He was great at some things, terrible at others, but he enjoyed everything equally. Gradually, Pete understood that the result was not very important. He began learning to enjoy a game while playing with others and didn’t care about winning or losing. Fortunately, he felt happier than ever before.

71. What did Pete think of losing a game at first?  ( no more than 10 words )

       72. What was Albert’s attitude towards the game?  ( no more than 10 words )

       73. How did Pete win the game? ( no more than 10 words )

       74. Whom do the underlined words “his opponent” refer to?  ( no more than 3 words )

     75. What’s your opinion on losing a game? ( no more than 15 words )