1. —What did you _________ for in front of your birthday cake?

—I can’t tell you, or it will not come true.

2. Robinson Crusoe arrived on the island with enough food and _________.

3. The _________ are drawing with their colourful markers.

5. Mr. Green had _________ coffee for many years before he came to China. But now he is used to drinking Chinese tea.

6. I bought a new _________ machine for my mom last month. So she doesn’t have to wash her clothes by hand.

9. If you want to learn swimming, you’d better go to the swimming _________ instead of the rivers or lakes.

11. Did you read the news in today’s _________? It’s really terrifying.

12. —Nancy, I really don’t know how to write articles.

—Don’t worry. _________ a mind map to organize your ideas.

13. As we all know, there are fifty _________ in the US.

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. Zhu Hui’s family are at home in Shenzhen. But Zhu Hui isn’t there. Where is he? He is     14     in the United States now. He is living in New York with an     15     family. What are Zhu Hui’s family doing?     16     mom and aunt are making zongzi. His dad and uncle are watching TV. What are they watching? They are watching the boat     17    .

Is Zhu Hui also watching the races and eating zongzi? No, he’s talking on the phone with his little brother that is     18     than him. It is the night before the festival in the US. But there isn’t a Dragon Boat Festival in the US. So Zhu Hui’s host family are doing usual things. The mother is telling     19     story to her other children. The father is watching a soccer game on TV.

Zhu Hui likes New York and his host family very much. But he still     20     his family and wishes to have zongzi made by his mother. His mother is good     21     making delicious zongzi. Zhu Hui likes zongzi     22     it is a symbol of his hometown, but there’s still “no place like home”, just as the old saying goes, “    23     or west, home is the best.”