You want to know about my staying in America, don’t you? Well, to tell you the truth, it is really ________ eye-opening experience to study here.

In China, I had English classes five times a week since ________ grade. However, I didn’t know how difference textbook English could be from everyday English until I came to Hotchkiss School, Conmecticut.

When I first studied English, I was told to say, “I am fine.” when people said “How are you?” But in the USA, I ________ that people said, “I am good.” or “I am tired.”

One day, ________ greeted me with “What’s up?” It made me confused. I thought for a moment and then smiled because I didn’t know what to say. Since then, I ________ more and more differences ________ Chinese and US cultures.

To my ________, US girls spend a lot of time staying in the burning sun ________ a tan (晒黑). However, in China, girls try every possible way to get their skin paler or “whiter”. I am also surprised by how ________ US students study. Before that, I think only students in China study hard. But after coming here, I know a “good” student ________ get good grades, do a lot of the public and play sports or music if he wants to go to a top university. The kids here are so talented, I am starting to be sorry that I gave up playing the piano at an early age and that I have never thought about sports.

【推荐1】In China, a lot of food is wasted every year and the waste food is enough for___________people. The food is wasted in restaurants, at home and in schools, etc.

In restaurants or at home, people often order or cook___________food. But they can’t eat it up. When they go out of a restaurant, full and happy, they never look back___________the uncertain food on the table again. Should Chinese consumers(消费者) be __________for the terrible waste?

In schools, we can often see a lot of students ___________food away after meals and they only eat the food they like.

Everyone is supposed to have enough food to eat. However, in some places, the food is so little___________ a lot of people died from hunger. Although China has tried hard to solve the__________of hunger over the past thirty years, the job is not finished yet. Food is important to us all. We__________live without food. So ___________is necessary for us to love food and try to eat up everything on our plates. When we eat in restaurants, we should pack up the leftovers(剩菜剩饭). We also need to tell other people to stop__________food as soon as possible.

Patrick and Grant are best friends. But one day, the two boys stopped ________ to each other. When they were walking home from school that day, they talked about their homework. Grant wanted his friend to do it for him, so he could spend more time________basketball.

“No way! I can’t help you like that,” said Patrick. “We must know what things in life are ________ to us.”

“You don’t want to help me. What a friend!” Grant said angrily(生气地).

Patrick was not happy, ________. He said, “You can say whatever(任何) you want, ________ I don’t think I can help you in that way.”

Over the following(后面的) days, they didn’t talk to each other and they both ________ bad. When Patrick’s parents found out why, they asked him ________ how to help his best friend. And Grant knew that it was ________ fault(过错) for starting this argument(争吵).

A few days later, there was a school basketball game. Patrick and Grant both went to watch it. At the end of the game, the two old friends’ eyes met. Grant came over and said sorry ________ Patrick. Patrick smiled(微笑) back.

On that day, the two boys________ a plan(计划). First, they would work on their homework after school and then they would play basketball.

Simon was a curious（好奇的）boy. He lived with his grandfather. ________ Simon knew his grandfather did not like anyone to touch his collections, he still entered the store room where his grandfather kept his priceless antiques（古董）. Once inside the room, Simon ________ on a chair. He lifted ________ box carefully. There were watches which ________ from different countries his grandfather had visited. While getting down from the chair, the box fell onto the floor. To ________ surprise, he found the glass of his grandfather’s favorite watch broken. Simon's heart started beating ________ than before. He put the broken watch back into the box and placed the box back on the shelf. He could not sleep in peace during the whole night.

The next morning, Simon collected all of his courage ________ the truth to his grandfather. Reaching his ________ bedroom he told him everything. The grandfather went over to the store room without saying anything. Simon kept standing ________ his head down. Having returned from the store, the grandfather said to Simon, “I felt very angry at first because what you broke was the first gift from your grandmother, ________ it was brave enough of you to tell me about the broken watch.”

At that moment Simon knew that being honest was the only way for him to be free from his mistake.

One day, a man called Clarence Nash went to see the film-maker Walt Disney. He had ______ special voice and wanted to work in Disney’s cartoon film for children. When Disney heard Nash’s voice, he said, “Stop! That’s ______ duck!”

The duck was the famous Donald Duck. Donald Duck first ______ in the film The Wise Little Hen in 1934. The hen expected her friends, Peter Pig and Donald Duck, ______ her plant her corn. But both of them wouldn’t like to help her.

Later that year, he ______ a star after an eight-minute Mickey Mouse film. Donald Duck was lazy and often lost his temper (脾气) very ______. But people loved him ______ he was like a real person. And people also loved his voice. Soon Donald Duck was ______ than Mickey Mouse.

In the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Disney made hundreds of cartoons starring (由……担任主角) Donald and his friends Mickey, Goofy and Pluto. But ______ 1966, Donald Duck and his voice disappeared (消失) because there were no new cartoons starring him.

Clarence Nash died in February, 1985. But today’s children ______ still see the old cartoons on television and hear that famous voice.

【推荐3】When I first came to America, my English was pretty bad. I only knew some easy words such as the names of some fruits, animals, ________ sports. The first day I went into my classroom, I was very ________ to find that there were no Asian faces in my class. And no one ________ speak any Chinese.

The first class I had was science. ________ teacher Mr Hass was talking about how a TV works. He used many big words that I had never heard about. I felt so bored that I almost ________ asleep. At the end of the class, I ________ a question, but I couldn’t answer it. Mr Hass found I couldn’t understand the class. During the 10-minute break, he walked to me ________ an iPad in his hand. Then he sat down and showed ________ the photos of different TVs. At the same time, he did his best ________ everything in easy words. When there was something I still couldn’t work out, he used the iPad to translate (翻译) ________ he said into Chinese. Finally, I was able to understand everything.

Technology really makes our life easier, doesn’t it?