Once there was a boy in Toronto. His name was Jimmy. He started drawing when he was three years old, and when he was five he was already very _______ at it. He drew many beautiful interesting pictures, and many people _______ his pictures. They thought this boy was going to be _______ when he was a little older, and then they were going to _______ these pictures for a lot of money.

Jimmy’s pictures were quite different from other _______ because he never drew on all of the paper. He drew on _______ of it, and the other half was always _______.

“That’s very clever,” everybody said. “_______ other people have ever done that before.”

One day somebody asked him, “Please tell me, Jimmy. Why do you draw on the bottom (底部) half of your pictures, _______ not on the top half?” 

“Because I’m small,” Jimmy said, “and my brushes (毛笔) can’t ________ very high.”

Hello, I'm Yang Fan. I live in a small village. Five years ago my school ________ small. There was ________ one building and a small playground. We couldn't play football. But now my school is _______. There are five new buildings. And the playground is very big and beautiful. I often play games with my friends on it. There is a big _______, too. We often read books in it. I can learn a lot ________ the books. I have a good time in my new school.

Mary's family is ________at home. Her father, Mr. Smith, is sitting ________a chair near the window and ________a newspaper. Mary is in her room. She is listening to the radio. Peter and John, Mary's ________, are not playing. They are ________their new bikes. Where is Mrs. Smith? She is in the garden. She is ________the flowers. Kate, Mary's sister, is helping her mother.

Jim Green is an announcer(播音员)for the programme(广播节目). Most(大多数) of the girls_______boys like the programme. They______ like Jim Green. Some of them often make phone calls to him and thank him______his work. There are,lots of letters(信件)to him every day too. Jim Green _________ at 6: 00 every morning. He has bread and a glass of milk ______breakfast, He leaves home at 6: 30 and gets to his office at 7: 15. The programme____at 7:30. He plays the new records(唱片)of the pop songs and modern(现代的)music for his listeners. At 8: 00 it's time_______the news. Jim finishes(结束)work at 10: 30. He goes home________car. He____a newspaper and listens to music_____supper. He thinks his life is very interesting.

Claire always wanted to be a singer. ________ was the most important thing in her life, but to tell you the truth, she had a terrible ________. She took lessons for years, practiced every day, but in spite of(尽管) all this, her voice didn't improve. Honestly it didn't get better, and it just got ________. Her teacher finally gave up and stopped the lessons, but Claire refused to quit (放弃), and one day she decided to give a ________ and invited her former teacher to attend.

The teacher was worried about what to say after the performance. She knew it would be awful and it was. She didn't want to ________ a lie but she didn't want to hurt Claire's feelings either. Finally, she got an idea and went backstage to greet her former pupil.

"Well," said Claire, "what did you think ________ my performance?"

"My dear," said the teacher, "you'll never be better than you were tonight."

 On Sundays we often go to the __________ near our school. There are many ____________ in it—tigers, elephants, pandas and monkeys. The ___________ are very big. They all have __________noses. Their noses can __________ them eat and drink. Tigers are very __________. They often run about. They don't like to ___________ in the zoo. Many people like ___________. They are animals of China. But I like monkeys best. We like ___________ to the zoo. We can __________ more (更多) about animals there.

____ the new house, Ann is lonely. The school isn’t open. And she doesn’t ____ any friends. ____ out .Don’t sit in the house. Her mother says to her But Ann still sits ____. She hears children playing in the street. She wants to ____ them. She has a good idea. She ____ a box of orange and some paper ____ to the street. Soon, a girl ____ near. “ Would you ____ some orange?” says Ann. “Thank you” the girl says. Ann gives the girl some orange. How good the ____ is ! Before long many children come and have the orange. They are good friends soon.

My name is Jim. My father, Mr Read, works ____________ a farm and my mother is in a factory. My father and my mother work five ____________ a week and I also go to school ____________ Monday to Friday. ____________ Saturday we all stay ____________ home. We often go to the rivers or lakes on Sundays. My father likes ____________. I like swimming. My mother sits there and watch ____________. My father is good ____________ fishing. He often catches ____________ fish. We take them ____________ supper.

My name is Li Hua. I'm thirteen. I'm a middle school student. I am _________ Class Five, Grade One. My English teacher _________ Mr Lin. He is _________ old teacher. I _________ a pen, a ruler and two _________ in my pencil-box. I have a bike, _________.

Liu Ping is in my class. She is a girl. We _________ good friends. She is not_________ today. I think she is at home. Look! Here is a _________. But it is not my book. I think it is _________ book.

Today _______Friday, November 9. Jenny and Li Ming are _______ready for school. It is________this morning. Jenny and Li Ming _______ on the winter jackets. Li Ming puts on his scarf, hat and gloves, _______.

The Diffos are different. Their favourite colour is ______. They like ______ caps. Mr. Diffo wears caps on his fingers. ______ like hot dogs for breakfast. ______favourite dinner is fish with ice cream. David and Debbie Diffo go to school ______. They sing songs in the library. People get angry at them.

My name is Mary. I went to Beijing ________ my parents last summer holiday. Beijing is in the ________ of China. It has lots of places of interest(名胜). I ________ the Great Wall and took many ________ of it. I ________ went to Tian'anmen Square. It is very beautiful. We stayed there ________ one week. We had a lovely time there.

Hello! My name is Anna. I am eleven years _______. I live in a house _____ the park. I have a friend. He _______1.9 metres tall. He is ______ years old. I like to play football. But he________to play basketball. It's so easy for him!

Ben is a new student. He is twelve. He _________from the UK. He _________in Beijing. He can _________ English very well. _________is his hobby. His parents _________doctors. Ben _________ in a school near his home now. He_________ _________ from Monday _________Friday. On Saturdays and Sundays, he often plays games with his Chinese friends. He loves _________and his Chinese friends.

There ________ a big playground ________ our school, so ________ students in our school like to play sports ________. Some like to play ________ and some like to play football. ________ almost(几乎) all the boys like to play football. ________ often play football after school. Unlike(不像) boys, most ________ like to play ping-pong in the room. They ________ like to run in the sun.

We all like sports. It's good ________ us to play sports.

Miss Zhao is our teacher. She is _______ teacher. We all like _______ very much.

Li Yanhui and Wang Fang are in _______same school. They are in the same _______, too, They are_______. After class, they _______ games. _______friends play _______. Some play basketball, some play football, some fly _______ and some ride _______. They _______ jump, swim and sing, too. They _______ all good students. They love their school.

Lili, look _______ the picture. It's _______ picture of our classroom. In the picture, you can see some desks _______ chairs. _______ the blackboard, you can see two black and white cats. A map is _______ the door. It's a map _______ Beijing. Under the _______ desk is a ball, but you can't see it. The girl in the hat is my good friend Kate. She is a new student. She is _______ English girl. She looks _______ Lucy. But they aren't _______.

Twenty years ago, Li Wei was a student. He liked going to school. He ________ Maths, Science, Art and Chinese. He ________ very hard. Now Li Wei is thirty. He is a ________. He ________ working at school. He ________ Maths, Science, Art and Chinese.

Mrs. Green lives in the country, and she doesn't know London very well. One day, she went to London. She couldn't find her ________ Just then, she ________ a man near the bus stop. “I can ask him the way.” she says to ________ and asked, “Excuse me, will you please ________ me the way to King Street?” The man smiled with ________ answers. He ________ know English. He spoke Russian. He was a ________. Then he ________ his hand into his pocket, ________ a piece of paper and let her ________ it. On the paper are these words, “Sorry, I don't speak English.”

Most English people have ________ names: a first name, a middle name and a family name. Their family name comes ________. For example, my full name is Jim Allan Green. Green is my family name. My parents give me_________ of my other names.

People don't often use their ________ names. So “John Henry Brown” is usually called “John Brown”. People never use Mr, Mrs or Miss ________ their first names. So you can say John Brown, or Mr Brown, but you should_________ say Mr John. They use Mr, Mrs or Miss with the family name but never with the first name.

Sometimes people ask me ________ my name. “When you ________ born（出生）, why did your parents call you Jim?” they ask. “Why did they choose that name?” The answer is that they didn't call me Jim. They called me James. James was the name of my grandfather. In England, people usually call me Jim ________. That's ________ it is shorter and easier than James.

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Mr. White is a farmer. Last month he drove his truck to town and _________ the way his truck knocked down a boy and hurt him. He sent the boy to a __________ at once. He paid a lot of money for that, but the boy's parents wanted to get ________ money from him. So they said their son could___________lift his right arm above his head.

Mr. White's lawyer came and asked the boy a few questions in the court.

“Now, my boy,” he said, “you_________last month, weren't you?”

“Yes, sir” said the boy.

“And you can't lift your right arm now, can you?”

“___________, sir.”

“Could you_________us how you___________lift your right arm?”

Slowly the boy lifted his right arm before his nose.

“Poor boy,” said the lawyer. “And how high___________you lift it before the accident?”

“Oh, very high,” said the boy proudly and the____________went up right over his head.

I think ________likes dogs. Dogs are our friends. My friend Tomson likes dogs very________ . He has a big dog. _______name is Bobo. He's bright(聪明的). Every Saturday aftemoon Tomson takes Bobo for a long walk in the street. Sometimes Tomson takes Bobo to the park. Tomson ________the frisby and Bobo catches it in the air. Bobo can open the door and close the door. When Tomson goes to school, Bobo stands in _________ of the door and waits __________Tomson coming. When he sees Tomson, he________ the door and catches his bag. What a bright dog!

I like Bobo. I often go to Tomson's home to play__________ him. I often give Bobo________ to eat. I want to have a dog, too.

The Spring Festival（春节） is the Chinese New Year's Day. It usually（常常） comes ________ February. Everyone（每个人） in ________ likes the Spring Festival very much. When Spring Festival comes, Li Lei usually_________ his parents ________ the housework(家务活). ________ that day everyone in China wants to eat_________ their family. They eat ________, New Year's cake and some other delicious（好吃的）________. Li Lei likes New Year's cake, but for Wang Lin, jiaozi is better than New Year's cake. The Chinese people ________ the New Year's food and jiaozi in their homes. They are very ________!

We have a big playground in our school. We all like to ________ games ________ after school. It's Friday. We have only two classes ________ the afternoon .When school is ________ a lot of students go to the playground.

Look! The boys of Grade Two are ________ a basketball match. So me girl are ________ and shouting. Football is our favourite sport. Many teachers are also ________ football.

Li Ming, Li Lei and Wei Fang are students of Grade One. They are ________ volleyball. It's six o'clock. It's time ________ home. The students all leave the playground.

David was a little boy. He ________ four years old. One day his mother ________ him to see his grandmother. His grandmother's home was very far ________ them, so they went there ________. There ________ only a few(一些) people on the bus. They all sat on ________ seats. David was ________. He looked out of the window and talked with his mother.

A moment later(一会儿以后), David started running on the bus. He ran and ran(不停地跑来跑去). "________ are you always running? Please sit ________." His mother said. "I want to see my grandmother ________. I want the bus to go faster," David answered.