Tom and Bill are my new neighbors (邻居). They are ______ and they are from America. Their father is a ______ in a hospital and their mother is a manager in a company. They are ______, so they can’t cook for Tom and Bill every day. After my family ______ about that, we often invite (邀请) them for dinner. Tom and Bill like Chinese ______ very much, especially (尤其是) dumplings.

We are in the ______ school, so I often go to school with them. On our way to school, they often ______ me with my English. Thanks to Tom and Bill, I can speak English very ______ now. We are all good ______ basketball, so we play basketball after school every day.

At weekends, our families sometimes have a ______ on the farm together (一起). We are happy to travel together. And we love each other very much.

Today Mr. Lion holds a party. Many animals come and have a lot of delicious food. After dinner, they all want to see who is good at drawing. Then he can get a nice present. Who is it? They think out an idea and decide (决定) to have a match—draw a snake. If you finish it quickly (快地) and perfectly (完美地), you can get a nice present.

Soon Mr. Wolf finishes drawing. “Yeah, I’ve finished. I’m No.1,” he says. But he draws again and says, “Oh, let me add feet to my snake.” At the time Mr. Gorilla also finishes. He takes away present, then he says, “That isn’t a snake. Snakes have no feet. I get the present, ha-ha.”

Do you like a balloon (气球)? Do you like to play with it? Do you want to travel with a balloon? Of course, it’s not a toy balloon. It is a hot balloon. You can have an exciting trip with the hot balloon in Chicago (芝加哥).

In Chicago, travelers from all over the world can enjoy the wonderful view (风景) of the city by taking a hot balloon. There is a big basket under the hot balloon. They can stand in the basket. The basket can hold (容纳) 18 travelers once. They can take a picture of the beautiful city with their cameras. Each hot balloon is about 22 meters tall and can fly up to 120 meters high. Sarah is one of the travelers from Australia. She says, “It is exciting and fun to look around from the basket!”

The computer and the Internet are important in our life. People can use     46     to do different things. People in the company often     47     on the computer. They use the computer to     48     work plans, send email and so on. With the     49     of the computer, they can finish work in a short time. For students, we can     50     do a lot of things by computer. Firstly, we can know what is     51     in the world easily on the Internet. Secondly, when we are         52    , we can use the computer to listen to music or watch movies. Finally, we can talk with other people and make some new     53     by Internet. However (然而), sometimes it’s     54     to do that because we don’t know whether (是否) the man is a good man or not.

The computer is useful to us,     55     we should use it in the right way. Remember not to use it to play too many computer games.