【推荐1】Last Sunday was my 15th birthday. I was very excited. I couldn't wait to know what presents I would________from my parents and my brother.

After supper, I walked into the living room with a big smile on my face, but________noticed me. Mom and Dad were________their newspapers, my brother was watching TV. They didn't say a word! "They must forget my birthday!" I said to myself________. I walked out of the living room. Suddenly, I________a noise. So I went back to see________it was. I couldn't believe my eyes! There were some________on the table. "Surprise!" When I turned around, I saw my parents and my brother! They were singing Happy Birthday________me and Mom was holding a big cake. We shared the________and opened the presents happily.

It was really a________day! I'll never forget it!

【推荐2】Today is a happy day. It’s _______ birthday. I have a big party for it. Many of my _______ come to the party. We have a good time together. All of us feel very happy.

Look, there are some _______, food and fruit on the table. There are some _______ flowers, too. I _______ a lot of presents. My uncle buys me some comic books. My grandfather buys me some CDs. He _______ I like listening to music. I must thank him.

All of us have a good time. Some of us _______ our favourite films. Tom and Peter chat with each other on the chairs.

At last, all my friends come to me and _______ “Happy Birthday” to me. After that, we share (分享) the _______. It’s very sweet. How ________ we are!

【推荐3】Hi , my name is Dave. I’m ______ years old. My birthday is _____ December 12^th, I have _______ birthday party every year. Today I had my fourteenth birthday party. I got some presents（礼物） at the party. ________ are very good and I really like them. This _____ T-shirt is from my mother. Green is my ______ color. My mother bought me a pair of green shoes, too. My father bought（买） some _____ about history (历史）for me, because I like _____ best. I think these books are very interesting. My grandparents ________ I like playing volleyball, ______ they bought me a volleyball, I can play it with my friends after class. I’m very happy today.

【推荐1】About 70,000,000 Americans are trying to lose weight. That is almost one out of every 3 people in the United States. Some people eat _______ food and they hardly have any fat or sweets. Others do running, exercise with machines, take medicines, or even have operations. So you can see losing weight is _______ work, and it will also cost a lot of money. But _______ do so many people in the United States want to lose weight?

Many people in the United States worry about their looks. For those people, looking nice also means to be _______. Other people worry about their health because doctors say overweight is not good.

Most people want to find a faster and _______ way to lose weight, and books of this kind are very popular. These books tell people how to lose weight. Each year a lot of new books like these are _______. Each one says it can easily help people to lose weight.

Losing weight can be expensive. Some overweight people go to health centers. Men and women _______ several hundred dollars a day at these health centers. People live there for one week or two, _______ exercise and eating different foods.

After 4 days on the program, one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5 pounds. At $ 400 a day, she spent $ 320 to lose each pound. But she said she was still _______ to do so.

Health centers, books, medicines, operations, running and exercise machines all cost a lot of money. So in the United States, losing weight may mean losing _______ too.

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Country western music is very old. It came from the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Great Britain. Country western music is a mixture of music from all of these places.

In the west of America, cowboys had to _______ the cattle（牛）. They had to watch them all day and all night _______ the cattle sometimes ran away. A cowboy’s life was lonely and dangerous. When he was in the desert with cattle, he drank strong coffee to stay _______. He also sang songs to calm them. He sang about the stars and the moon, about his family and his friends. The cattle listened to the cowboy and went to sleep.

In the south of America, many people came from Ireland, Scotland, and England. They played their own kind of music. They also brought instruments _______ their homes. They used guitars, violins, and harmonicas（口琴）, too. When they visited their friends and families, they usually sang together.

Country western music describes _______. It talks about love, jobs, home, and money. It talks about friends and enemies, trucks and highways, farms and _______. People in many parts of the world like country music because everyone knows something about these ideas. Many country western music fans wear western clothes and dance together. Many bands all over the world now perform country western music.

Every country has its own culture. Even though each country uses doors, doors may have different functions and purposes which lead to cultural _________.

When I first to came to America, I noticed that a public building had two different _______ and they had different functions. You have to push the door with the word "PUSH" to go out of the building and to pull the door with the word "PULL" to _________the building. This was new to me, because we use the same door in South Korea. For quite a few times I _______ to go out of a shopping centre and was embarrassed.

The way of using school bus doors was also _______ to me. I used to take the school bus to classes. The school decided that when the driver opened both the front and back door, students who were getting off the bus should get off first, and students who were getting on should get on _______. In South Korea, we do not need to wait for people to get off. One morning I hurried to the bus through the front door. All the students around looked at me. I was totally embarrassed, and my face went red.