Coco is a little bear and she is two years old. Her favorite _______ is red, so she wears a red dress every day. Coco is very clever and she is _______ at dancing. Jeff is her elder brother. The cute bear is four _______ old. He likes blue and his shirt is blue. His favorite toy is a blue car. He often plays with it _______. Coco’s mother is a writer. She always wears an orange dress. She _______ the computer at home. What about Coco’s father? He is fat and _______ green shirt. Oh, he wears glasses, but he often can’t find them and has to _______ them.

       Sometimes they go to the _______ to read books. The library is very big and there are all kinds of books in it. In the library, everybody must be _______. Coco and Jeff do very well. What books do they like to ________? They like some picture books, because they only know few words. And their father likes books on his work. They love the library and they have fun there.

【推荐2】Look at this picture. This is a photo _________ my family. There are _________ people in the picture. They are my _________, my mother, my brother, my sister and me. My father _________ very happy every day. My mother is near my father. The _________ beside(在……旁边) my mother is my sister. She _________ playing sports. The little boy near my mother is my _________. _________ is very smart and cute. Everyone likes _________ very much. Who is the boy in the middle(在中间)? Ah! It is me. I love my __________ very much.

【推荐3】My friend Tony is an American ________. He is ten ________. He lives with his family ________ China now. There are ________ people in his family: his mother Mrs. Green, his father Mr. Green and his little sister Amy. He has a white cat. ________ name is Betty. Look! Amy is playing ________ Betty. His father, Mr. Green, is watching TV. His mother is doing ________. What ________ Tony? He is doing ________ Chinese homework. He can’t ________ Chinese well, but he likes Chinese very much. Tony’s ________ works in a TV station. His father works in a school as an ________ teacher. Tony and his sister ________ to the same school. Their home is not ________ the school. They usually ________ to school. They are never late for school.

【推荐1】My son Joey was born with club feet(畸形足). The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but he would never run well. The first three years of his life was _______ in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a problem when you saw him _________.   

Children in our neighborhood always ran around ______ their play, and Joey would jump and run and play,______. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be ______to run like the other children. So he didn't know.

In seventh grade, he decided to join the school_____team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others, ______only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the_______.We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn't know.

He ran four to five miles every day--- even when he had a fever. I was_______, so I went to_______ him after school. I found him running_______ I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept________

Two weeks later, the names of the team______were out. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had ______the team. He was in seventh grade---the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he shouldn't expect to make the team. We never told him he couldn't do it... so he didn't know. He just_____ it.

【推荐2】I used to be ashamed of my grandma. I knew that was a terrible thing to say.

The _______ started when my friend Katy found grandma’s false teeth in a glass. I was so used to seeing them that I _______ noticed them. But Katy noticed and shouted, “Yuck（呸）!”and started laughing loudly. I had to ask her to shut up.

After that happened, I realized there were million things about grandma that were _______. Like the way she always grabbed（抓住）my face in her hand _______ a soft low voice, “Shaine maide!” which means “beautiful girl” in Yiddish（依地语）. What would Katy say if she saw that?

I also spent half my life explaining _______ my grandma wore a wig（假发）. It looked like the hair of an old doll. I always had to explain that she wore it only because the _______ her husband believed in required married women to keep their hair covered.

“But he is dead.” Katy said. Some things you just couldn’t explain.

After a while, I wished I could _______ grandma in a closet（橱柜）.

Last Wednesday, something happened that changed everything completely. My teacher told us to find interesting old people and interview _______ about their lives for a TV program. I was thinking of someone when Katy said, “_______ your grandma. She’s interesting.”

This was how I ________ interviewing my grandma before the whole school today. All my friends and teachers were listening to her as if she was a great hero.

【推荐3】I had too many things to do and always felt busy. ______ my daughter caused me change my plans, I always thought to myself, “We don’t have time for this.” So the two words I always said to her were: ______.

The other day, the two of us rode to a _______ near our home. After shopping I bought her an ice cream, and she sat down at a table happily admiring the ice cream in her hand. Suddenly a_______ look appeared on her face. Do I have to eat it up in a hurry, Mum?

I nearly cried when hearing this. The pains of a hurried life influenced my poor girl so _______! As she looked at me waiting to know if she could _______ her time. I knew I had to make a _______. I thought of the times when I rushed(催促) my child _______ life. I began _______ what really matters in life...

“You don’t have to hurry. Just_______ it.” I said gently. Her whole face brightened and her shoulders relaxed. We ______ side by side talking about things that interested us.

When she got to the last bite(一口), she held it out to me, “______ the last bite for you, Mum.” She said ______. As the icy taste put out my thirst, I realized I just got the present of a lifetime. I gave my child a little time.... and in return, she gave me her last bite and ______ me that things taste sweeter and love is easier to get when you ______ rushing through life. “Thank you, dear!” I kissed my daughter.

【推荐1】Ellen is a famous hostess(女主持人)of a talk show. She looks much ______ than people of her age. Some people ask her why she looks so young. She says it is because of her healthy ______.

       She practices yoga every day.

Yoga gives her a fresh and peaceful feeling. Ellen is busy ______ her work every day, but she still practices yoga. She usually ______ an hour practicing it every day.

       She dances before shows when she is nervous.

Before every show. Ellen always ______ she is relaxed. ______ she feels nervous, she will dance. Dancing is not only good for her body, but also good for her mind.

She is always laughing. Ellen is always laughing and she also makes people around ______laugh. She thinks laughter is certainly the best ______. She says it feels good to laugh her worries away and keep in good health.

       She almost never eats sugar.

She ______ eats sugar. She also ______ her friends to stay away from too much sugar. She often says sugar is bad for health.

【推荐2】Hello! I'm Jane from Canada. I like my school a lot. It's not big ___________ it's very nice. All my teachers and classmates are ___________ to me. I like ___________ very much. We study English, math, art and some other ___________. Some subjects are ___________, but some of them are boring. Of all of them, I like ___________ best, because I like drawing pictures. Oh, my favorite ___________ are Tuesday and Friday. On these ___________ days, we have art lessons. I don't like politics ___________ it's boring and difficult.

My friend Susan ______________ at my school. I often go to school with her. She likes politics. She thinks it's easy.

Have you ever eaten a dandelion（蒲公英）? Me neither. Have you ever blown it to make a wish? Me, too.

“Time to pick dandelions, Athena, "Mum opened the car door and I entered with a _______. My hometown is in Greece（希腊）, where dandelions are _______on the menu. But I didn’t eat dandelions. Why did I have to _______them with my family every spring?

Then I said goodbye to my new friend Brigid, whose family had _______moved in our neighborhood in New York. I was _______Brigid didn’t ask where we were going. Nobody in America ate dandelions. I always worried that _______would notice us picking dandelions.

We _______into a wild field. Hundreds of lively yellow flowers appeared everywhere. Then we stopped our car. Dad went over to cut dandelions and put them in his bag. But I just hid in the book. "_______do we eat dandelions? "I asked. "The best food in the world. "Dad answered, shaking a handful of greens. _______we were ready to leave, we had enough dandelions. On the way home, Mum and Dad talked about hosting a dinner party for the new neighbors to try our ________Greek food.

The night of the party, Brigid arrived with her parents. Mum served ________different Greek foods. Our guests ate everything. Finally came the dandelions. "Wait! " I said to Brigid. But it was too ________. "You ate the dandelions! "I told her. We both ________, and she ate another bite. "________, "she said.

Mum was smiling at us. After dinner. Brigid and I went to the backyard and lay on the grass. The stars reminded me of dandelions in the soft field. I closed my eyes and made a ________: to be as open-minded as my family and my new friend.