根据句意，填入适当的单词：

　　Dear friend,

　　I am a (1) American boy. My n (2) is Jim Green. I'm fifteen. I have two s (3) . One is Mary, the other is Kate. My sisters and I are at school. We go to school f (4) Monday to Friday. We don't go to school o (5) Saturday o (6) Sunday.

　　My parents are both t (7) . They teach Chinese. They say China is g (8) .

　　I like reading and I like football. My sisters like basketball. W (9) do you like? We often w (10) TV on Saturday evening. Do you often watch TV? Let us be friends.

　　Please write soon.

1．________　2．________　3．________　4．________　5．________

6．________　7．________　8．________　9．________　10．________

 Boys and girls, let’s begin our English class now. This time I want to talk about my family. Then I want you to say something about your families.

There are seven people in my family. They are my parents, my two sisters, my brother, his wife (妻子)and I. In England, a family like this is a big one. My father has a factory（工厂）. It isn’t very big. It makes all kinds of boats. My brother is a doctor. He works in a hospital(医院). His wife works in a hospital, too. She is a nurse. My two sisters are students. One wants to be a teacher. She studies hard and well. The other likes singing very much and can sing very well. So she wants to be a singer(歌手). I’m now in China teaching English and learning Chinese. My mother stays at home. Can you guess (猜测)what she does at home? Yes, she does housework. She is a housewife.

1.Where do I come from?

2.Where am I now ?

3. Who works in a school in my family?

4.My brother and his wife work _________.

5. In Chinese “ housewife” means_________ .

Learning to Accept
I learned how to accept life from my father.  1 , he did not teach me to learn to accept when he was strong and healthy, but when he was   2 and ill.
My father was 3  a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness  4 all that away. Now he can   5  walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair 6 . Even talking is  7 . One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started   8  about life, and I told them about one of my  9 . I said that we must very often give things up as we grow —our youth, our beauty, our friends -- but it always seems that after we give something up, we get  10  in its place. Then suddenly my father spoke up. He said, “But Peter, I gave up   11 ! What did I get?” I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. 12 , he answered his own question: “I 13 the love of my family.” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes,  14 hope and thankfulness, I was also  15  by his words.

1__________ are my sisters．This is Alice，and this is Lily．

A．These            B．That             C．This             D．It