1. This Thursday morning, Mrs. Taylor will make a speech and give students some ________ on how to learn English well.

2. Ted hopes the weather improves. If not, they’ll have to ________ the picnic.

3. —What happened to Ruby?

—She was ________ hurt when playing soccer.

4. —It was ________ of you to ask the woman her age, Jimmy.

—Er, I’ll go to say sorry to her.

7. Gina won’t feel ________ if you ask her to go hiking with you next week.

8. —I must go home.

—It’s raining heavily outside. You must wait ________ it stops.

10. —Can you wait a minute? I need to take down the information.

—Of course. ________.

One snowy afternoon, Mom picked up Eve from school. When they reached ________, they raced inside.

Mom shook snow off and said, “I’m ________ of snow. I miss sunshine, flowers and birds.”

“But I love snow. I think I’ll play outside for a while.” Eve ________ her bag on the floor and ran outside.

Eve had fun in the snow with her friends. They ________ snowballs at each other and even made snowmen. Then Eve felt ________ and came back home. “Here you are,” Mom said. She handed Eve a cup of hot chocolate. “I love hot chocolate!” Eve took a sip (一小口) and ________. “Mom always takes care of me,” Eve thought. “I wish I could give her a gift.” But Eve didn’t know ________ to give Mom. Eve couldn’t give sunshine. And there were no flowers outside to pick. And she didn’t have money to buy a ________.

Eve had an idea. She took out a piece of paper. Then Eve drew flowers on it. She smiled and said, “I can give Mom flowers after all!” She painted the flowers in many ________ like red, yellow and blue. She cut them out.

Eve carried the flowers to Mom. “Wow, these are the ________ flowers I’ve ever seen!” Mom put them in a vase near a window. “They even make the snow seem nice!”

When Tony became a successful businessman, he decided to invite his father to Mumbai (孟买). His father was a little ________ to go to the city as he had spent most of his life in a small village. He only knew his local language and didn’t ________ Hindi (北印度语) or English.

When the old man arrived, Tony showed him around the city. ________ of them enjoyed themselves. One day, Tony took his father to a five-star restaurant and ________ delicious drinks and snacks. After finishing the meal, the old man put a handful of nuts (坚果) in his pocket. On the way out of the restaurant, the old man stumbled (绊脚). ________, Tony stopped him from falling down, but the nuts fell out of his pocket. Tony laughed with his father about what had happened.

Later, Tony ________ the experience with his best friend. The friend asked, “Weren’t you embarrassed then?”

Tony replied, “No! He’s my ________. He’s a person who loves to talk in his native (本地的) language and prefers to take nuts to eat later. He should be allowed to do whatever he feels comfortable with ________ he’s not hurting others.”

“At that time, I didn’t ________ what people there would think about me. My only concern (担心) was my father’s ________.” Tony added.

There was once a boy called Mario who loved to have lots of friends. He always talked about how many friends he had at school.

One day his grandfather said to him, “I have a very special chair. It’s invisible (隐形的), but if you take it to school and manage to sit on it, you’ll be able to tell who your real friends are.”

Mario went to school. At break time he asked everyone to form a circle, and then he put himself in the middle, with his chair. Mario told them about the magic chair and said he would try to sit on it. Then he began and fell straight onto his backside. Everyone had a pretty good laugh.

Mario kept trying to sit on the magic chair, and kept falling to the ground... until, suddenly, he tried again and didn’t fall. This time he sat, hovering (盘旋) in mid-air...

Looking around, Mario saw George, Lucas, and Diana, three of his best friends, holding him up, so he didn’t fall. At the same time, many others he had thought of as friends had done nothing but make fun of him.

Leaving with his three friends. Mario explained to them how his grandfather had so cleverly thought of a way to show him that true friends are those who care for us, not just someone who happens to be passing by.

Have you ever got your lunch, but not known where to sit? You don’t want to sit alone. But you are not sure who would be friendly and let you sit with them.

To solve the problem, Natalic Hampton, made an app called Sit With Us. It makes finding friends in the school canteen (食堂) very easy. Natalie is from Sherman Oaks, California, US.

Students can sign up as “ambassadors (大使)” for a club. Then they can post “open lunch” events to invite others to join in.

Natalie got the idea to create the app after she ate alone her whole seventh grade year. The experience made her feel sad and she was even bullied (欺负). She changed schools because of that.

People may want to know why you don’t just ask to sit down. Natalie said the app stops kids from being rejected in front of others. “This way is very private. It’s through the phone. No one else has to know. And you know that you’re not going to be rejected once you get to the table,” she told NPR.

So far, the app works well. “I had my first club meeting, and everyone was very excited. People are already posting open lunches at my schools. So I’m very excited,” Natalie told NPR.

阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题（请注意每小题后面的词数要求）。

When people around the world talk about ping-pong, they must think of China. Without doubt, ping-pong has been China’s national sport for a long time. Why do Chinese ping-pong players always dominate (称霸) the world’s major (主要的) ping-pong events? One of the reasons is that there is a large fan base (基础) for the sport in China. People of all ages like this kind of sport. You can hear the sound of ping-pong almost everywhere in China.

My father, for example, has played it for more than 50 years. Every day, he goes to the park and plays ping-pong with his old friends for two hours. It is part of his life. He was even named one of the “Beijing Masters (高手)” when he was 70.

Not only the old people, but also kids are practicing hard in any ping-pong club in China. Many kids hope that they can be excellent players one day. The great players’ spirit of never giving up encourages the young to stick to their dreams. Also, many kids say playing ping-pong helps them relax after doing schoolwork.

Chinese people take part in this sport, not only to win, but also to have fun, to socialize (社交) and to live a healthy life.

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56. Their English p________ (发音) is not good, but it is improving.

57. Peter is honest so we all think his words are b________ (可信任的).

58. Hundreds of e________ (敌人) searched the mountains for ten days without result.

59. How amazing! He s________ (进球) the first time he touched the ball.

61. 对于学生是否可以带手机到学校里来，不同人有不同的看法。请你根据下列提示，以“Should middle school students be allowed to take their mobile phones to school?”为题写一篇英语短文，谈谈同学们对此的看法并发表你的意见。

注意：

1.短文须包含上图所有信息，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

2.文中不得出现真实姓名和地名；

3.词数80~100（短文题目与开头已为你写好，不计入总词数）。

Should middle school students be allowed to take their mobile phones to school?

Should middle school students be allowed to take their mobile phones to school? We did a survey about it. Different students have different opinions about it.

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