1 . People use body language to send messages to others. It is very ________ because others can understand you easily when you use body language. When you are talking with others, you are not just using words, but also using ________. For example, waving one’s hand is to say, “Goodbye”. Shaking hands means welcome, and clapping hands ________ congratulations (祝贺). Nodding the head means YES, but shaking the head means NO.

Different countries have ________ body language. For example, when in ________, France and Arab countries, people kiss each other when they meet, ________ men in China or Australia shake hands. People in Puerto Rico like touching each other, but people in Britain do not touch each other. People in Arab countries like ________ close to one another when they are talking, but English people must keep a distance away when they are talking. It is very important ________ the meanings of gestures and movements in the foreign country. ________ they will help you communicate with people and make you stay there much more ________ and comfortable.

2 . Our class took a trip to Nanjing these days. We were very excited. It was our first trip to Nanjing. We arrived there on Monday afternoon. We stayed there for one ________. We didn’t have much ________ time during our visit.We were busy. On Tuesday, we ________ the museum. The next day, we went to the Confucius Temple. It’s ________, and we had a good time.

However, one day it was really dangerous for Zhang Fei. On Saturday, we ________ the bus to Nanjing Dongshuiguan Ruins Park. There were many people on the bus. After ten minutes, we got off the bus. ________ we found Zhang Fei wasn’t with us. He was on the bus! He didn’t get off. Our teacher ________ the bus. At last, the ________ stopped the bus and Zhang Fei got off. He became very ________ on the buses after that. Zhang Fei will never ________ the bus trip. We came back to Hefei on Sunday evening.

3 . Sunday was going to be the birthday for me and my other two classmates. As we were born in the same month, we decided to have a big party to ________ it.

On that evening, we ________ all our classmates. We prepared a lot of food and drinks. After singing the birthday song, we ________ the delicious cake together. We sang more songs and played games. Then someone told ________ stories, and everyone laughed. Three hours ________ quickly. Because we had to go to ________ before 11：00 pm, we ended our party at 10：00 pm. Before we left, our classmates gave ________ of us a birthday card with their best wishes. Finally we took some pictures together. What a great time we had! At that moment, I ________ love and happiness.

Before the party, only my ________ could remember my birthday, and I had never had such a big party and so many friends’ wishes. ________ I wanted to say to my classmates, “Thank you, and I will never forget this evening, especially each of you!”

4 . Xian Xinghai was a very famous musician in China. In his short life he finished _____ 300 works.

Xian was born in Macao, China in 1905. He learned to play the violin when he was 13 years old. _____, his violin was so cheap and badly made that he _____ not play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not _____ playing it and soon showed his talent. In 1931, he was _____ of the first Chinese students who studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he _____, Xian became the school’s best student and won several prizes for his talent.

Later, he came to Yan’an to _____ music at a college. There were no pianos in Yan’an at that time, but Xian still wrote some of his most important music there. The Yellow River Cantata is his most famous _____.

In May 1940, Xian was sent to a foreign country to write music for movies. Life was very _____ then. Xian got sick and later died of a lung illness ______ October 30, 1945, aged only 40. Xian’s music, however, lives on in the people’s hearts.

5 . Do you hear of Double 11 Shopping Carnival (狂欢节) (Nov.11) in China? Many people even your parents, probably _____ late that night. They want to buy _____ and useful things online. Well, the USA also has a _____ like it. It is Black Friday. It is one of the biggest _____ days in the USA.   People want to start shopping for some gifts, so they go shopping on this day to _____ money. People call it Black Friday because shops used to record sales _____ black ink (墨水). So when there is a lot of black ink on a page, that means the shop _____ a lot. Shopping on Black Friday takes place at real _____. It is different from Double 11 Shopping Carnival. _____ stand in line for a long time. Sometimes they fight over things because there are only _____ things left. Televisions, computers and video game systems are some of people’s favourite things to buy.

6 . Once upon a time, there was a swan (天鹅). She lived in a lake. A woman with her two daughters lived in a small house _____ the lake. They lived a hard life. Sometimes they _____ money to buy food.

The swan was _____ to see that. She _____ to help them. Every day she came to the woman’s house and left a golden feather (羽毛) without _____ anything. The woman sold the feather _____ bought food. She was happy because her life was _____ than before.

But the woman became greedy (贪婪的). One day when the swan _____ the woman caught (捉住) her and took all her golden feathers. Suddenly the golden feathers _____ common (普通的) feathers.

The swan said, “I come to help you, but you want to kill (杀) ______. I will never come back. Never be greedy.” With these words, the swan disappeared (消失).

7 . The first cartoons appeared in newspapers. They told stories using ________. The first photographed cartoon film (in 1906) was about humorous ________. In the film, an artist ________ pictures of two faces on a blackboard. The faces came to life. They smiled and a small dog jumped through a ring.

There were lots of ________ in early cartoons. One famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat.

Walt Disney started to ________ films in the 1920s. Some of his earliest films were about a famous story, Alice in Wonderland, ________ in Disney’s films it was called Alice in Cartoon Land. Walt Disney’s most famous cartoon character was Mickey Mouse. He appeared in 1928, first in a black­-and-white film ________ sound, then very soon after that in a talking film and later in colour. The Mickey Mouse film with sound became really ________.

Today, over a hundred years ________, cartoons are still popular with people of all ________. They will probably be popular for many more years in the future.

During the break, Ken was     1     games on his mobile phone. Some classmates were standing around him and talking. “It seems that people now can’t live     2     mobile phones. What will the mobile phone be     3     in the future?” One of them suddenly asked. “I think it will be as thin as paper. And we can charge it by putting it in the sun,” Andy said first. Kelly     4     with Andy. She said, “Yes, it is really possible. In the future, people may leave the Earth and live on other planets. It will be very far, but we can still talk on the mobile phone.     5     do you think? Millie?” “Well, I don’t know. Maybe it will be able to do everything.” Millie answered. “No matter what it will be like, I believe it will become better and better.”