Mona is a girl in No. 1 Middle School. It’s 7:50. It’s time to go to school, but she is still (仍然) in her ________. She can’t find her red ________. Mona asks Mrs. Brown, “Mom, ________ is my red pen? I need it.”

Mrs. Brown ________ it on the sofa, but she says, “Sorry, I don’t know.”

“Can you ________ me find it, Mom? I must go to school now,” says Mona.

Mrs. Brown says, “Sorry, I can’t, Mona. I always ask you to be ________, but you don’t listen.” Then, Mona asks Mr. Brown where ________ red pen is. Mr. Brown says, “I don’t know. And I can’t ________ my keys now. Are they in your room?

“No, Daddy,” says Mona. “________ always asks us to be tidy. I think we must ________ her.”

“Yes. You’re right (正确的),” says Mr. Brown. “Your mom is always right. Hahaha..”

【推荐2】Do you like doing housework? More students are doing chores around their houses these days because it ______ them with life skills (技能). However, some students ______ doing housework. But I think doing housework can ______ bring us a lot.

Firstly, doing housework can help us bring our energy (能量) back. Doing housework frees us from studying and relaxes both our body and mind. So it isn’t a ______ of time.

Secondly, doing housework can make our parents ______. When they come home from work, they are so tired that they don’t want to do ______ . If we help them do chores like ______ the floor or washing the dishes, they will feel happy.

Finally, doing housework can really help us become independent and understand the meaning of ______ . It will be very useful in our future life to learn how to take care of ourselves from housework. We live in one house with our parents, ______ we should do our part in keeping it clean and tidy.

These are my views on doing housework. In a word, it is ______ for us to do housework. After all, it is good for us and our parents at the same time.

I always remember the date when there was no light in my home for more than 10 hours. My families were watching TV at 4: 00 p. m. that day. Suddenly the lights went on and off a few _______. It was clear that there must be something _________ with the circuit (电路). Before my father went to have a look, the room became _________ dark. So we had to use the flashlight to find out what happened.

There were strong winds outside and it _______ hard. We could even feel the coldness through the windows. Several hours later, we realized that the _______ would not come back in a short time. When we were ready to go to bed, my sister shouted, “Look! It’s _______.” We jumped up and down and felt very _________. We looked forward to making a snowman and having a snowball fight. Because there was still no power, we went to _______ earlier than usual.

The snow stopped the next morning. When we _______ outside, we saw a white world. The trees were covered with snow and the roads became ________. Luckily, the power came back. After we had breakfast at home, we went out to play with snow happily.

【推荐3】When Jeff was young, he had always been thin and strong. Now Jeff was forty, and he was fat and his muscles (肌肉) were very _________. He did not wish to get fatter and softer every year. One day, one of his friends said to him, “Do you want to be thinner, Jeff?”

“_________, I do,” Jeff answered.

“Well, stop going to your office _________ car, and get a bicycle.”

Jeff had not ridden a bicycle for many years. “It is very hard to learn to ride a bicycle again at your _________,” his wife said.

In _________, it was not too hard for Jeff to ride a bicycle again. He usually sat in his living room and read the newspapers in the evening. But now he _________ riding his bicycle every evening. He hoped that it would help him to get _________, and he also got a lot of pleasure from it.

He found some paths which were not really very narrow but were not _________ enough for cars, and there he got away from the noise of the city, which was becoming too _________ for him.

Then he began to go to his office on his bicycle. Sometimes all the cars stopped at a red light, but he could pass them to the _________, because his bicycle was narrow. So he was very happy.