1 . Last month, I took a baby cat named Xiaobao home. No one else wanted him. There is something _______ with Xiaobao, whose new name is Egon. He cannot _______. By the time the center (中心) introduced (介绍) him to me, he was about 4 or 5 _______ old.

Would I be able to look after him well? I wasn’t _______ because he was so small. And it might be hard to _______ a cat that can’t see.

But as soon as I met him, I _______ he was the cat for me. He is very _______ and funny. He loves to run around me when I play the _______ in my room. He is a good _______. ________ he can’t see, he is very interested in the world around him.

He becomes good at getting around my home. He knows ________ every table or chair is. And he has no problem ________ his way around. He is naughty (淘气的) sometimes, ________ most of the time he is a good little cat. Best of all, he ________ right next to me every night. Every morning, I ________ up and give him a big hug (拥抱). He doesn’t have to be able to see me to know that I love him.

Hello, everyone. I’m glad to ____ my topic here. How do you usually go to school, by bus ____ by bike? My family have different ____ of going outside.

My parents ____ in a hospital. The hospital is ____ our home, so they have to go to work by car. They often go there ____ ten to six in the morning. My sister has a clothes store. It’s about two kilometers from her ____ to our home. She goes there ____ every day. She thinks walking is good for health (健康). My brother is a ____ in a school near the Hongxing Park. He teaches math. He likes ____ very much, so he rides to work. I’m a middle school student. I ____ the school bus to school. Many of my classmates think taking the school bus is ____, but I don’t think so. I can talk about the weather and our ____ songs or movies with my friends on the bus.

What about ____ family? Do you have the same way of going outside or different? Please ____ us about that.

I arrived in the UK last weekend to learn English. I ________ a few new friends here and had some traditional English food. But after having three ________ of hamburgers, sandwiches and potatoes, I thought they were really not as ________ as Chinese food, especially my favorite—huoguo. It’s the most delicious food in my world! So you can’t ________ how excited I was when I got to know that there would be a free meal of hotpot to welcome the new ________. I could have huoguo here! On ________ way to the dining hall, I seemed to smell huoguo in the air.

When I went into the hall ________, I didn’t see huoguo. ________ was it?

With many questions in my head, I sat ________ to have the free meal. After talking with an English girl, I got to know that Chinese huoguo is completely (完全地) ________ from hotpot. Chinese huoguo is written in two words—hot pot; and hotpot, one word, is a traditional English dish.

Hotpot is made from mutton (羊肉) and onion with pieces of potatoes on the top. People put it in a heavy ________ on a low heat all day. It takes very little ________ to prepare. You just need the special pot. You can often ________ it at parties in the UK. It is easy to ________ for a large number of people.

________ hotpot doesn’t taste bad, I still miss huoguo—hot pot, two words!

6 . Twelve years ago, Mr Allen, a friend of my parents’ went to Africa to help in a poor village.

One afternoon, Mr Allen took a walk in a town. He saw ________ moving in the tall grass and thought it was an animal. As he got ________, he found it was a baby. He got hurt a little. Mr Allen asked the ________, “Can we find his family?” The guide ________ and said, “I don’t think so.” Finally, Mr Allen adopted (收养) the baby ________ the help of many friends. The next year, Mr Allen ________ him back to America and gave him the name Liam.

Liam isn’t as ________ as other kids, ________ he studies hard. He likes ________ and has joined our school football team. Everyone in his class likes Liam. Whenever there is a need, he is always the first one to ________.

Last year, our school ________ to sponsor (资助) some poor children. We needed to raise ________ and send it to them every month. Liam ________ helped do some work. So far we have raised a lot of money and we are ________ to help twenty children.

Do you know ________ Liam always works so hard? Because many people have helped him a lot in his life.

Once there was a trader. He had a lot of ______. He built himself a big house and ______ everything he loved. He grew all ______ of flowers in front of his house. He also bought a farm and ______ as many animals as he could. Although he had ______, he was not happy. He asked his friends ______ he could be happy. One of them said he could try walking in the ______ of a happy man. The trader thought it was a great ______. So he started to look for a truly happy man. ______, everyone in the country was not always happy. They often had something that made them ______ or angry. At last, he found a poor beggar, who was truly happy. “Could you ______ your shoes to me? I’d like to pay as much money as you want ______ them. They may make me happy”, the trader said.

The beggar thought it was funny and ______. He said to the trader, “I’m sorry I will let you ______. I don’t have any shoes. And I don’t think a pair of shoes can bring you ______.”

Nowadays, bicycles are very ________ around the world. In some places, people use bicycles ________ to work. Some people even ride their bicycles ________ exercise. But do you know who ________ the first bicycle? Some people think Leonardo da Vinci (1452 — 1519) was the ________ of the bicycle. But ________, he only drew some pictures for bicycles. ________ he was the first to have the idea of the bicycle. More than 300 years after his ________, the first bicycle was invented in the early 19th century.

The ________ bicycle was very difficult to move. In 1817, a German named Sauerbrun made the first bicycle ________. The seat was comfortable. The wheels could ________ direction. ________ in the forest took only one hour instead of three hours on foot. But these bicycles still had no brakes (刹车), and people often ________.

It took another 45 years for the bicycle ________ popular again. Over 100 years later, bicycle riding is ________ popular than before. In fact, there are more bicycles than cars in the world today.