Recently, many English teacher from all over China came together. They discussed (1) h____ to use
newspapers to teach English. Wu Ping, a university professor, said that her university has (2) b____ a
course on newspaper reading for freshman English majors. They use English newspapers to (3) t____. It
is said that the (4) s____ enjoy the course. "They say newspapers help them learn English, and also tell them
the latest news (5) a____ the world," he said.
      Outside the classroom, English newspapers are thought by many people to be (6) o         of the most
important and effective ways to learn English. One of the professors believes that newspapers are better
(7) t         other teaching materials in four ways. First the stories are (8) i____ and can get the students to
read on. (9) S____, the language is modern and up-to-date. Newspapers cover lots of topics like sports,
culture, (10) e____ and so on. And last but not least, the language is very practical, and can be used in our
daily life.

     Reading newspapers has becoming an important p______1 of our everyday life. Many people read
newspapers a______2 the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers as soon as they are
free during the day so that they can learn what is h______3 in the world.
     Sometimes, however, we do not have e______4 time to read all the news carefully, so we just take
a quick look at the front page, at other times, we may be in such a h______5 that we only have a few
minutes to look at the names of the passages.
     Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers
in the big cities, of course, but in some of the mountain v______6 we can see few newspapers.
     Some newspapers are published o______7 a week, but most of the newspapers are published once a
day with many pages, some even published twice a day! As you know different people e______8 reading
different newspapers, some like sports news, some like economic news and others prefer short stories.
They just choose what they are i______ 9 in.
     Today newspapers in English have the l______ 10 number of readers in the world.

        How much do you remember of the time when you were a child; I can remember the Christmas
holidays best because I could r     1    presents then.
        When I was a l     2     boy, my mother always took me to London a few days before Christmas.
I saw b     3     lights in the streets. And the shops were full of p     4    . They were busy buying all
kinds of t     5    . I always met Father Christmas in a b     6     shop, There were lots of c     7     near
Father Christmas. He spoke to e     8     one of them. When it was my turn, I t      9     with him and
asked for presents. When I got the presents, I felt very h    10   .
1.                 2.                 3.                 4.                  5.               
6.                 7.                 8.                 9.                  10.              

1. ______ is the fourth day of a week.
2. The writer is busy _______ to his readers' letters.
3. He is such an ______ boy that he never tells a tie.
4. I enjoy surfing the _______ in my free time.
5. Cheer up! I'm sure your dream will come_______ if you work hard from now on.
6. The weather here is quite different from _______ in Hainan Island in winter.
7. How are you getting ______ with your neighbors?
8. The more ______ you do your homework, the more mistakes you will make.