Li Lei is a middle school student from Xuancheng. He ________ some New Years’s resolutions yesterday. He wants to keep healthy. So he is going to exercise more and eat ________ food. He ________ junk food. He is going to ________ the soccer team because he likes soccer. He is going to practice ________ soccer every weekend. He also wants to improve his English. He has a pen pal named Jenny in Australia. And he is going to write e-mails in English ________ Jenny. Jenny is ________ in Chinese culture, so she wants to learn more about China. Jenny is a helpful girl and she is as ________ as Li lei. When Li Lei grows up, he is going to be a doctor for children. He wants to help sick people. He is going to study in a medical university for six years ________ he finishes high school. He is going to work hard. He loves children and he thinks ________ children will be wonderful.

【推荐3】I am going to have a party tomorrow night. I told my mother that she needn’t do ________ for me. My friend Jane is coming, too. She would like to help me, ________ she can’t. Because she has a piano lesson in the morning and in the afternoon she has to babysit her sister. So I will do everything by myself. I try to make ________ party nice.

I sent invitations to my friends ________. Now I am thinking about what I need to do tomorrow. Yes! I have to clean the room and do some shopping. I am going ________ some food, drinks and some fruit in the supermarket. I am going to make a shopping list ________ I go. I also have to decorate（装饰）the room. I need to do so many things, so I ________ see the movie The Seventh Dwarf after lunch. A terrible thing! The party begins ________ 8:00 p.m., so I must have my dinner ________. I am tired after I finish ________ so many things and after dinner I can have a short rest.

【推荐1】A kind of little cars may take the place of today’s big ones some day. People will like this kind of small cars better than the big ones. The car is as _________ as a bike but can carry two people in it. Everybody can drive it, just like riding a bike. Even children and old people can drive them to _________ and parks.

If everyone drives such a car in the future, there will be less _________ in the air. There will also be _________ space (空间) for all the cars in cities, and the street will have more space for people to walk. Three such _________ can fit in the space now needed for one car of the usual size.

The little cars of the future will cost much less _________ to own and to drive. And they can go only 65 kilometers an hour, so driving will be safer, _________. The cars of the future will be fine for going around a city, _________ they will not be useful for a long trip. This kind of cars can save a lot of gasoline (汽油). They will go 450 kilometers before needing to stop for more gasoline.

If big cars are still used along with the small ones, two sets of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be needed for the _________ faster cars and other roads will be needed for the small, __________ ones.

【推荐2】Life in the twenty-first century will be very _________. Many changes will take place(发生), but _______ will the changes be?

The population is growing _______. There will be many _______ in the world and most of them will live longer than people in the twentieth century.

Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every _________. And _______ studies will be one of the important subjects in school then.

People will work fewer hours and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelling. _______ will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to _______ countries for holidays.

There will be changes in our food, too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead, they eat more fruit and vegetable. Maybe people will be healthier. Work in the future will be different, too. _______ and hard work can be done by robots(机器人). Because of this, ________ will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.

Life in the future ______ one of the topics we often talk about. I think future life will be more beautiful and easier.

First, people will have better education (教育). In the future, kids won’t have to go to school because they can study at ______. They learn everything at home through online teaching. Online teaching will be ______, so every kid, poor or rich, will have a chance ______.

Second, people’s health will improve. New medicine will help people ______ a healthier life, so people will live longer.

Third, people won’t worry about the housing ______. They will build houses under the sea. There will also be many flying houses. The houses won’t ______ from the sky, so it will be safe for people to live in them. Some people will even live on other planets (行星).

Fourth, no one will be ______ all over the world. A lot of ______ kinds of crops (农作物) will be grown. There will be enough food ______ everyone.

Fifth, robots (机器人) will do all the ______ jobs. For example, they will put out (熄灭) terrible fires ______ firemen (消防员). They will take ______ place to explore (探索) the deep (深的) sea. What ______ happen in the future? ______ do you think life will be like?

【推荐1】Mr. Clarke works in New York. Last week he brought his family to China. They visited many places of interest and had a good time here. Before they left for Shanghai, the Clarkes climbed up the Great Wall and they took a lot of ________ there. When they went back to the hotel, they couldn’t find the bag. There was an expensive camera in it. They were all sorry for it. They could buy another camera, ________ had no time to go to the Great Wall again. They could not miss(错过) the plane!

That evening they didn’t have supper. Mr. Clarke hoped to make them _______ and said, “Well, let me tell you a story. An old man lived in a sixty-floor building. One day he fell down from the ________. But he didn’t hurt(受伤) himself.”

“It was a miracle(奇迹)!” called out his children. “Why?” “Because he lived on the first floor!”

They all began to laugh while two policemen with a bag came in. They said a Chinese boy found it under the big tree and he asked them to find out ________lost it.

“It’s really a miracle!” the Clarkes said happily.

【推荐2】When I was young, I was interested in Chinese movies that I wanted to know more about Chinese culture like Kungfu and Xiqu. I often ______ to go to China one day.

Luckily, when I was learning theater at university, I was provided with a chance to study ______. There was a programme study Asian theater arts either in China or in India. I _______ to go to China and learn Beijing Opera in a Chinese theater school. The school offered me a place to practice. It was good ______ I could practice whenever I wanted. Also I had _______ lessons—the teacher would give me one-to-one class for three hours. That was the best part of my study in China. I do appreciate (感激) this chance to ______ the beautiful art!

I got a lot from my study in China. It has greatly ______ me and helped me develop into a more skillful ______. This Chinese art gives me plenty of ______, so I can use them when I perform (表演) other shows in Europe. I have ______ an art center to teach Beijing Opera. Now there are more fans of Beijing Opera in my country.

【推荐3】There are many things we do for the people we love. Some _______ their love with sweet words, and others with gifts. One man, _______ Vojin Kusic, gave love to his wife by building a house that rotates (旋转).

Kusic and his family live in Srbac, Bosnia. Their house is _______, and what makes it more surprising is that Kusic designed and built it by himself. He used electric motors and the wheels of an old truck to _______ the house to rotate. The house can rotate a full circle in just 22 seconds at its fastest speed, and finish the turn in 24 hours at its _______ speed.

Kusic made the decision because his wife said she wanted to see the front yard _______ the living room. And he had to _______ the walls between their two bedrooms to turn them into a living room. This was a very hard _______. It took a lot of hard work _______ the house and even to make it rotate. However, Kusic was happy, because it meant a lot to his ________.

This was not the first time the man had built a house for his family. When they were married, he had built a ________, non-rotating house. At that time, his wife ________ their bedroom to face the sun. As a result, their living room had to face away from the road. Then his wife got a little ________ that she couldn’t see guests walking up to their home. So Kusic decided to do ________.

Kusic’s wife is now very happy, and so is Kusic. He joked, “Now, our front door also rotates, so ________ she finds unwanted guests heading our way, she can rotate the house and make them turn away.”

Thank you for ________ the graduation ceremony. First of all, I’d like to congratulate all the students ________ are here today. I remember meeting all of you when you ________ just starting Grade 7. But today I see a room full ________ talented young adults with hope for the future. You ________ up so much and I’m so proud of you.

Although you’ve worked very hard over the last three years, ________ of you did it alone. I hope you’ll remember the important people in your ________ who helped and supported you—your parents, your teachers and your friends.

I’d like to tell all of you, the end of junior school is the ________ of a new life. You may have different tasks ahead of you. You’ll make ________ along the way, but the key is to learn from your mistakes and never ________.