【推荐2】When school finishes, many students go home, but Becky doesn’t. It’s _________ outside. She wants to go home after the rain _________. Half an hour later, it still rains. She has to go out of the classroom with _________ pink umbrella (雨伞). She gets home at about 5:00 p.m. Her mother is _________ dinner in the kitchen. It smells good. Her father is watching TV. “It’s so windy!” she says to her father. “The _________ breaks (弄坏) my umbrella.” “Go and put on some _________ clothes,” her father says. She goes to her room, puts on dry clothes and _________ down at the computer. After an hour, she _________ from her computer and walks into the living room. She sees her father working on the umbrella. “_________ are you doing, Dad?” she asks. “I’m fixing (修理) your umbrella,” her father says. “I know you like the umbrella very much. You can use it ​__________ tomorrow.” “Thank you, Dad,” she says.

【推荐1】Everyone needs friends. _________ is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh and do things with. Certainly, sometimes we need to be alone. We don’t always want people _________ However, we would feel lonely if we _________ had a friend. Not two people are _________. Friends _________ don’t get on well.

This doesn’t mean _________ they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up and become _________ again. Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very _________. We miss them very much, but we can _________ them and write to them. However, we can __________ new friends. If someone often cares about you, you should feel happy.

Have you ever read Treasure Island? It’s one of the most ______ novels nrovels (小说) by Robert Louis Stevenson from the UK. The novel is so interesting that ______ of children are reading it. So we can say that if Chinese children are reading Journey to the West to grow up, and then ______ children also have their own—Treasure Island to grow up. The hero of the story, Jim, was a 10-year-old boy. His parents had a ______ and they wanted Jim to be the future ______ of this hotel, but Jim didn’t want to live like that.

One day, an old seaman came to his parents’ hotel with a treasure map _______ everyone was looking for. Blind Pew, Black Dog and other pirates (海盗) followed him, because they all wanted to get the map. Jim was _______ enough to get the treasure map and began to find the treasure with his friends. But another pirate, one—legged Silver wanted all the treasure too, so he hid in Jim’s group. When they got to the treasure island, Silver killed some of Jim’s friends _______ they didn’t listen to him. Jim found it _______ to stay with the pirates, so he and his friends left the group quietly. Luckily, they met Ben Gunn, who lived in the Treasure Island for a long time. ______ the help of Ben Gunn, Jim and his friends found the treasure and at last they came back home with plenty of treasure.

In a word, Treasure Island can be regarded as the best pirate novel in history.

The world is so big. Do you want to have a look?

At the present time, more and more people love traveling. It’s a very good ________ to know about cultures and acquire experiences. It helps travelers ________ a lot. Travel can make our minds become ________.

But travel does more than all that. It can also make us more creative (创造性的). In recent years, some professors have been doing research on what many people have already learned from travel experiences They believe that spending time abroad (海外) makes it possible to ________ people’s mind. For example, they found that the students who lived abroad for a longer time were better at ________ problems creatively than those who did not. If you stay in the same place, you can’t experience new sights, new smells, new sounds and new cultures. All these can ________ your mind and make it more active. ________, that doesn’t mean the more places you went to, the more creative you’ll become. Another group of professors did some similar research. They found the people who often traveled from one place to another didn’t have enough ________ to lose themselves in a new place and a new culture. They weren’t as creative as the people who spent the time ________ getting to know a place. You have to interact (相互影响) with the places you go to and then you can learn a lot.

If you go travelling, which do you ________, staying in a place for a certain period or rushing all the way.

【推荐2】We had a _______ school trip last weekend. It was sunny in the morning. Some students _______ late. Then we waited _______ the school bus for half an hour, but it didn't _______. Finally, our teacher took us to take the subway. It _______ us about an hour. After we got off the subway, we walked and got lost. _______ we finally arrived at the zoo, we were tired and hungry. We wanted _______ giraffes, but there weren't _______. There were some really smart dogs, but we didn't _______ the show because we arrived too late. We ________our camera at school, so we didn't take any photos. Then it started to rain, and no one had a(n) ________. So we went for lunch. My friends had some ice cream.________ I didn't have any, because I don't like it. We didn't see many animals because of the rain. ________ we went back to school. We were so ________ and wet ________ we didn't enjoy our school trip at all.

【推荐3】It was seven o'clock on the morning of August 29th. The Kelly family were going to Brighton, a town by the sea.

“Can we have breakfast _______ we leave?” asked Gina Kelly.

“No,” said her mother. “We must leave now, or the traffic (交通) will be _______. We'll have breakfast when _______ the seaside.”

Gina ran downstairs. “I’m ready,” she said.

The family climbed into the _______, and Dad started driving. In the front of the car was Mike. He was eleven. He didn’t talk but just _______ music. In the back of the car were Gina, her mother and Ellen. Gina was nine and Ellen was three.

Dad drove very fast. “You’re driving too fast,” said Mum. “You don’t have to drive so fast. It’s _______.”

Dad laughed and drove more slowly. There wasn’t _______ traffic, and they reached Brighton at nine o’clock. It was a sunny day, and the sea _______ very blue.

“There’s a cafe,” said Gina. “Can we have breakfast there?”

“Yes,” said Mum. They went into the café, and ate a very big breakfast.

“Oh dear, I am full,” said Gina. “_______ can I swim when I’ve got all that food inside me?”

“Easy,” shouted Mike. “Just watch me!” He ran towards the sea, followed by Gina happily.

What a(n) ________ day it was going to be!