The Wizard of Oz is a famous fairy tale. It has many exciting plots.The following is one of them.

The Witch（女巫）wanted to _________ the Silver Shoes which the girl Dorothy always wore. She watched Dorothy carefully to see _________ she had a chance to steal them.But the girl _________ took them off except at night and when she took her bath.The _________ was that the Witch was too afraid of the dark to go in Dorothy’s room at night. And her fear of water was _________ than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was _________ . In fact, she never touched water.

However, the Witch though to fat rick that would give her _________ she wanted.She placed a piece of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor. Then, using magic, she made the iron not be seen by humane eyes.When Dorothy walked across the floor, she _________ the iron.

She was not much hurt, but in her fall _________of the Silver Shoes came off, and before she could reach it, the Witch had gotten it.

The Witch was pleased with the __________ of her trick. The little girl, seeing she had lost one other pretty shoes, grew __________ , and shouted, “Give me back my shoe!” “I will not, for it is now my shoe, not __________ .”

“You are an awful witch.” cried Dorothy. “You have no __________ to take my shoe.”

“Someday I shall get the other one from you.” laughed the Witch.

This made Dorothy so angry that she picked up the bucket（桶）of water that stood near and threw it over the Witch, __________ her from head to foot.

The Witch gave aloud cry, “Didn’t you know water would be the __________ of me? I’m going, going, going!” and soon there was nothing left of her except a pool on the floor.

If you want to travel to Yangzhou, here are two famous places of interest.

“Yangzhou is wonderful! The teahouse is a popular place for local people to treat their important visitors…”This poem of the Qing Dynasty describes the comfortable life of living in Yangzhou. In Yangzhou, various snacks and refreshments(茶点) make each morning a pleasant one.

For many years, Yangzhou snacks and refreshments have been well known for their great variety with different fillings and elegant shape. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yangzhou city was praised as “a place whose pastry(糕点) shops were the finest under heaven”. Listening to A Hundred Tunes while Enjoying the View of Jiangnan talks of Huaiyang snacks, “Huaiyang snacks and refreshments are known for a perfect mixture of freshness and sweetness. Huaiyang snacks in Yangzhou won high praise from both at home and abroad.

Among the famous masters making Huaiyang snacks and desserts during the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the most celebrated was Beauty Shaw in Yizheng country. The snacks she made were said to be as valuable as gold. Yuan Mei, a famous Qing-dynasty writer , wrote in his book The Menu of Sui Garden: “Outside the south gate of Yizheng country lives Beauty Shaw, who is an expert in making snacks and desserts.” She is also regarded as one of the top ten masters of ancient China. Yin Changshan, Zhang Guangqing, Dong De’an, Chen Ende and many others are reputed as modern masters. Take Chen Ende for example. He mixed his idea with the traditional cooking skills and recreated the snacks in the Red Mansion Banquet style, which is designed to present the theme and background of A Dream of the Red Mansions(红楼梦).These masters have been abroad many times to show their skills in making Huaiyang-style pastry. With their efforts, Huaiyang-style pastry has become popular at high speed and is showing its charm to the world. The pastry of Fuchun Teahouse is the most outstanding one.

A new study warns that about 30% of the world’s people may not have enough water by the year 2025.

A personal American organization called Population Action International（PAI）did the new study. It says more than three hundred and thirty-five million people lack（缺少）enough water now. These people live in twenty-eight countries. Most of the countries are in Africa or the Middle East.

PAI researcher Robert Engelman says by the year 2025, about three thousand million people may face water problems. At least 18 more countries are expected to lack enough water. The need for water keeps increasing. Yet the amount（数量）of water on the earth stays the same.

The report says lack of water in the future may cause several problems. It may increase health problems. Lack of water often means drinking water is not safe. Mr. Engelman says there are problems all over the world because of diseases, such as cholera, which are carried in water. Lack of water may also lead to more international conflict（冲突）. Countries may have to fight for water in the future. Some countries now get sixty percent of their water from other countries. This is true of Egypt, the Netherlands, Cambodia, Syria, Sudan and Iraq. And the report says lack of water would influence the ability to improve their economies（经济）. This is because new industries often need a great amount of water when they are beginning.

The Population Action International study gives several ways to the water problem. One way, it says, is to find ways to use water for more than one purpose. Another way is to teach people to be careful not to waste water.A third way is to use less water for agriculture.

The report also says a long-term way to the water problem is to control population growth. It says countries cannot provide clean water unless they slow population growth by limiting the number of children people have.

Most students like junk food（垃圾食品） because it is tasty. Whether it should be allowed in schools or not is still a question. Just as every coin has two sides, junk food in schools has its advantages and disadvantages.

Most junk food is quite cheap, tasty and easy to get. If a child forgets to carry a lunch bag, he or she will go hungry for most of the day. Here, junk food helps him or her to have something to eat. Moreover, it is possible for students to save a lot of time.

Sometimes having junk food instead of a part of one’s main diet is thought to be OK. It doesn’t have a big influence on a person’s health if someone only eats from time to time.

Compared with some junk food with high oil and salt, food like potato chips or juice can be made in school dining halls. So students don’t have to choose unhealthy food from outside.

However, too much oil, salt and sugar in junk food do harm to human bodies. Some of them cannot be broken down in the body. If someone eats too much junk food, it can lead to obesity（肥胖） and other health problems like heart trouble, high blood pressure and so on.

Usually, children have snacks between classes. There is a sudden increase of sugar, so they get a lot of energy and become too active. But when classes begin, the effects（作用） of the snacks begin to reduce, they become slow. This causes low energy levels and lack of concentration（注意力）. It has a bad influence on a student’s performance during classes.

In all, it is important that parents and schools should provide their kids with healthy and balanced food and make them know the disadvantages of junk food. Then they will make healthier choices for themselves.

Treasure Island is an adventure story of “pirates and buried gold”. The narrator for most of the story is a boy n    66       Jim Hawkins. He finds a map showing where the terrible pirate Captain Flint h    67       his treasure. Jim joins Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey on a journey to find the t    68     along with a number of pirates, led by the fearful Long John Silver.

One of the main themes of the story is Jim Hawkins’s coming of age. At the b    69       of the story, Jim is an innocent child, l    70       in a safe world with his parents. When his father dies, Jim goes to search for treasure. This adventure tests his courage and morals. In the end,   Jim finds the treasure, but he has also become a mature young man who chooses good over evil and a q    71       life over adventure. His search for treasure is also a metaphor (隐喻) for his search for h    72    .

Treasure Island has g    73     influenced our idea of pirates and has introduced many popular images (形象) into our c    74     treasure maps marked with an X, tropical islands, one-legged sailors w    75       parrots and the black spot. The characters of Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver with his pet parrot, Captain Flint, have become legends all over the world.