Charles Dickens, one of the greatest English writers, was born _______ 1812 in one of the small towns of England. When Dickens was nine years old, the family _______ to London, the capital of England. There were several _______ children in the family. Their life was hard, so Dickens _______ go to school. He didn’t go to school until his father came _______ prison (监狱). At that time he was _______ twelve years old. Two years later, he began _______. But he often went to the _______ to read books. He read a lot and wrote lots of novels (小说) and stories _______. Dickens died over a hundred years ago, but people are still ________ his books with great interest.

My favorite sport is baseball. It is fun to play and it is fun to watch.

I went to my first baseball game with my grandparents when I was 6. It was really wonderful. We had a good time. I was happy to be with my grandparents. My grandfather made me love the game.

My dad knew I loved baseball, so he gave me a baseball on my eighth birthday.

When I was 12, my friend came to me and asked me to join his team and play baseball. I agreed. From then on, I got to learn more about baseball. I practiced a lot and I learned how to play better.

My favorite baseball player is Derrek Lee. One of my favorite things about Derrek Lee is that he is a very nice person. He never shouts at others. He always has a big smile (微笑) on his face. He seems happy all the time.

Mary was an operator(接线员) of 911 in Los Angeles. One Thursday morning, she was surprised to get a call from a little girl. She said, “Mum my ill, Mum my ill, ”again and again. Mary soon found the address of the call. She called the police. In a minute, the policemen and doctors arrived at the house. They broke the door open. They couldn't believe their eyes. The little child was so young that maybe she could not walk！She was sitting beside her mother and holding her mother's hand. Tears were running down her face.

The doctors gave the woman some medicine and soon she woke up. Later, she told people, “Everyone was surprised that my daughter could call 911. On Monday I tried to teach her how to call 911, but she couldn't do it. ”Mary was surprised, too. “It's the first time that I have seen a two­year­old child call 911. ”

Zhou Youguang, who created (创造) Chinese Pinyin, died on January 14th 2017, just one day after his 112nd birthday.

It took Mr. Zhou and his team three years to create Pinyin in the 1950s. It changed the way we learned Chinese. Before Pinyin was created, 85% of Chinese people could not read, but now almost all can. “Pinyin is a bridge between China and the other countries,” said Zhou.

When Zhou was young, he studied in Japan. Later, he worked in a bank in New York. At that time, he made friends with Albert Einstein. He returned to China in 1949 and taught economics (经济学) at a university in Shanghai. A few years later, he helped create Chinese Pinyin. He never stopped writing books, even when he was more than 100 years old. In his life, he published (出版) over 30 books.

William Shakespeare was a famous English     66     (write) of plays and poems. He was born in 1564 in England. He liked plays, so he decided     67     (be) an actor     68     the age of 14. When he was 28, he     69     (join) a theatre company and became a     70     (success) actor. At the same time, he began to write     71     (play). In his life he wrote 37 plays.     72     of his famous ones were Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. Queen Elizabeth I enjoyed his     73     (work) very much. Shakespeare     74     (die) when he was 52. He is famous     75     the world. You can still see his plays in English and many other languages.