Kate is an English girl. She lives in a tall building in the city of London. There are sixteen floors in the building, and she lives on the tenth floor. She uses a lift to go up and down. Kate studies in a middle school near her house and she works hard. She goes to school early. Every day she leaves her home at half past six. She walks to the lift, and it takes her down to the first floor. There is a bus stop near the building. Usually she takes No.7 bus to her school, but sometimes she goes on foot. It is only four kilometers to her school from the building. She gets to school at about seven twenty. Classes begin at eight. She goes to play games at three forty. She gets home at a quarter past five. She begins to do her homework at eight and finishes it at half past nine.
【小题1】Kate lives in a tall building ________ London.

Ann is one of my  1  .She lives in a big city. She has many pets,  2 cats, goldfish and birds. Her favorite pet is a cat.  3 name is Mimi. It likes eating birds. One day,   4  father buys her a parrot(鹦鹉). Mimi sees the parrot and wants__5_  if (是否)it is a bird or not. So Mimi comes over   6  the parrot, it wants to eat   7  parrot. The poor parrot is very afraid. When Mimi    8  it, and wants to jump on it, the parrot  9  , “Hello, nice to meet you .” Mimi is afraid, and it runs away quickly. It thinks: “That thing can speak. It must   10   a man.”