How are you? I’m happy here, ______ I miss you very much. ______ Sunday today. I don’t have ______. I ______ an e-mail to you in the computer room now. There are ______ students here. Some students are ______ their friends on QQ. Some students are ______ music on computers. My new friends, Peter and Bill ______ here with me. Peter is buying a T-shirt on the Intermet and Bill is reading a book. They’re ______ and they often help me with my study and life.

Please don’t worry ______ me. I hope you are happy and well.

Love,

Molly

2 . When my daughter was in primary school, she brought home four small twigs (嫩枝) from school to plant. _________ of them looked very strong, but with hope for the future, I planted them somewhere in our backyard that had enough sunlight. Over the years, because of the _________ soil (土壤), three of them died. Only one survived. It grew very _________. It looked more like a fat bush (灌木丛) than a tree. Later, I noticed that it was starting to _________. The lower branches were becoming bare. Only the top third of the tree was still _________. I did my best to save it _________ feeding it a lot of fertilizer (肥料), but it didn’t work.

Later one morning, I_________ and looked at it again. I was wondering whether it would be better to just cut it down. It would make the yard look cleaner. As I walked over to take a closer look at it, however, I noticed _________ moving within the leaves. It was a robin (知更鸟) patiently building a nest in the top branches. I smiled when I looked at it. I thought maybe this old tree was still useful. It might not be healthy or pretty, but it was still giving a bird a home.

This tree _________ me that all of our lives have a purpose. It doesn’t matter if we are young and strong or old and sickly. _________ our last breath, we have things to do, love to give, and joy to share. We can help to make this world a better and more beautiful place.

3 . During my life of school, I have many good teachers. Mrs.Wang is one of them who has influenced me most. I truly believe that my teenage years were the _______ time of my life. At that time, as a girl, I _______ it when my parents asked me about my problems directly. This made me very uncomfortable. I remember many times when Mrs.Wang would take me aside (旁边) and talk to me. She had a _______ way of drawing out what the problem was. Every time she talked with me, I felt _______.

She has a way of making her classes interesting and enjoyable. We always got the highest marks in English in our grade with her teaching. _______ there was a big sports game on TV, we would drop everything and she would put the game on so we could all enjoy it. That’s just the way she was.

Teenage students often hear things on TV or from adults about global (全球的) problems that can frighten them. Now it is terrorism. Back in my teenage years, it was the Cold War.It worried me so much that I thought each day could be my _______ day. Mrs. Wang knew how much this troubled her _______. She opened the subject up for discussion. She gave us a way to show our greatest _______ and helped us understand war and politics. “One can even feel afraid, no matter how _______ he or she is,” we were told.

When I ________ to those special days, I appreciate that she helped me through such a difficult time in my life.

4 . Everyone loves toys. But do you know how toys are designed and produced? A visit to Yottoy, a toy company in New York, can show you how to do this. Yottoy _______ toys that are based on children’s books. These toys _______ Padington Bear, The Little Prince and Mary’s Little Lamb.

Peter Doodeheefver, who designs the toys, took us around his shop to see _______ the toys are created.

We _______ a sewing (缝纫) station. People there were busy sewing some toys together. Later, we saw another station where a woman was painting pieces of a Paddington Bear toy set. Here, we learned how they use clay and molds to _______ toy parts. The molds are painted to look like characters from children’s books.

Throughout the toy- creating process, the creators _______ the writers of the books.

They need to make sure the toys perfectly _______ the images the writers describe in their books. Sometimes changing the color of the fabric (织物) or the length of the arms can make the toy more accurate (精确的). It can be something as _______ as making the hole in a doughnut (甜甜圈) just a little bit bigger or making the eyes look smaller.

Once their toys are created, they send them to a lab for _______ tests. At the lab, they make sure all the parts are put together perfectly. For example, they make sure the eyes can’t be ________ by a baby, or that pieces of the toys won’t fall off. After the lab says the toys are ready, they can be sold.