【推荐1】Fiona is clever and fun, and gets on well with everyone. She is ________ and has so many friends that she hardly gets a chance to spend time with individual friends. However, she feels very lucky, ________ no other girl has so many friends at school.

But everything _________ on National Friendship Day That day everyone had to make three presents to give to their three best friends. Fiona enjoyed the task of choosing three from all her friends. _________ when all the presents had been made and shared out among classmates, Fiona was the only one who didn’t ________ a present. She felt upset, wondering how could it be that?

When she got home that night with ________ in her eyes, Fiona ________ her mother for help. Fiona’s mother listened carefully to her story. Then she said, “If you really want true friends, you will have to give them real time and ________. You can’t be a close friend to everybody. It’s only possible to have a few true friends.The others will be ________ friends or people you know.”

Hearing this, Fiona decided to change her ways. That night, in bed she thought about what she should do. She thought about her mother. Her mother was always _________ to help her. She put up with all of Fiona’s dislikes and problems; she always forgave her; she loved her a great deal. That was what makes friends!

【推荐2】Kate and Ann are good friends. They ________ sing. They ________ swimming. Kate likes English very much. Ann likes math. They ________ in China now. They ________ to school five days a week. They play games on Thursdays. They stay ________ home on Sundays. They ________ two Chinese friends. ______ names are Li Lei and Han Meimei. They are all in ________ school. They like their school. They like China. They say, “The ________ people are very kind. The food is good, ________.”

【推荐3】Hi, everyone, I am Zhou Lifang. I am a _______ in No 9 Middle School in Beijing. I teach history. I have two _______ friends. Their names are Peter and Jane. They come from London.

Peter and Jane both teach English in the Thames School. It's _______ my school. It takes fifty minutes to go there by bus. Peter likes _______. He can play basketball and he can _______ most games too. He also does well in swimming and he is a member (成员) of the swimming club. He is really strong and _______. Jane likes cooking very much. She can cook lots of delicious food. She likes to cook beef for friends. And she wants to learn to cook Chinese food _______ she thinks it's interesting.

Peter and Jane often _______ me. We talk on the phone with each other _______ English. We meet once each month and we enjoy ________. We are good friends.

It was a fine day. A duke went hunting in the forest with ______ knights and servants. They caught many things, such as deer, rabbits, birds and so on. Then they ______ to have a break under a tree. ______, they found many targets for arrow shooting on the trunk. It was ______ to believe that there was an arrow through the centre of each target. Who had such great ______ of shooting arrows? The excited duke said, “I ______ find this great master.”

Keeping going for several miles in the forest, they met a young boy ______ a bow and arrows in his hands. After being asked again and again, the boy finally ______ that he was the “great master”, who had hit the targets. The duke was very ______, for he finally found him.

“You walked near the targets and put the arrows into each ______, didn’t you?” asked the duke, ______ the boy in doubt.

“______,” answered the boy. “I promise that I shot the targets one hundred steps away.”

“How ______ you are!” said the duke in surprise. “I specially invite you to serve me. But may I ask a(n) ______ first?”

The boy nodded. “Tell me why you have such outstanding skill of shooting.” said the duke.

“Well, I have kept doing that ______ I was young,” said the boy with pride. “First of all. I shot the arrow into the trunk one hundred steps away. And then, I painted a target according to where the arrow lay.”