Last term, I didn’t like my English class. Every class was a bad dream. I just got 55 points in my final exam. My English teacher spoke ________ so that I couldn’t understand her most of the time. I was afraid to ask questions because my ________ was very poor. I just hid (藏) myself behind my English book and never ________ anything.

Then one day, I watched ________ English movie called Charlotte’s Web. It was about an pig and a spider(蜘蛛). I loved the funny movie at first sight, and then I began to watch ________ English movies. Although I could not completely understand what the characters(角色；人物) said, their body language and the expressions (表情) on their faces helped me get the meaning. I understood the meaning ________ listening to the key words. My pronunciation improved as well ________ I tried my best to listen to the conversations in English movies. I found that listening to something interesting is one of ________ ways to learn a language. I also learned some useful sentences like “It’s a piece of cake.” or “It serves you right.” I did not understand these sentences at first. But because I wanted to understand the story, I often looked ________ up in the dictionary.

Now I really enjoy my English class and get good marks in English. I want ________ new words and more grammar so that I can understand English movies better. I also thank my English teacher.

A lot of students are having all kinds of sports in the playground. A football ________ is going on right now between Class 3 and Class 4. We don’t know which team will ________. Look at those people over there! Some students of Class 1 are practicing the ________ jump. One of them is the best high jumper in the school. He practices very ________ every day. Many people think he will ________ the school record (纪录) in the sports meeting next spring. Not far away from them, some girls are ________ a race(比赛). They will have a 600-meter race in ten minutes. Now on the corner of the playground, you can see another group of students. Their teacher is telling them how to throw the discus (铁饼).

In schools, more and more ________ love sports shows. Sports help people to keep ________. They also help people to live ________. And after doing sports in the playground, many people will ________ good friends, too. Do you think so?

Four students are talking about their National Day holiday.

William Shakespeare is one of the greatest writers in English literature (文学). His plays can be divided into three categories: histories, tragedies (悲剧) and comedies (喜剧). Shakespeare wrote eighteen comedies, although two were lost. These comedies usually have happy endings and a light-hearted tone and style that are quite different from his tragedies.

All of Shakespeare’s comedies have five acts and the most important or exciting point always takes place in the third act. The hero does not appear until other characters have talked about him. Shakespeare had some themes (主题) that he usually wrote about: the fight between good and evil, love’s great effect on people, and the difference between the first appearance and a person’s true personality. Shakespeare also wrote his plays in a certain style. For example, Shakespeare used words in such a clever and humorous way that they had more than one meaning. Some of the characters changed their appearances so that people didn’t know who they were.

Even though the tone is lighter in these plays, comedies in Shakespeare’s day were quite different from modern-day comedies because their purpose was not to make people laugh. Shakespeare’s comedies are very emotional (有感染力的) and often include serious topics to think about.