1 . Julia and her classmates had a school trip at the Animal World last Friday.

First, they went to see the elephants. The baby elephants were so cute! She fed one elephant some bananas. She was _______ at first but it was great fun. Their next stop was the Panda House. It was huge but only two pandas lived there. They were tired and _______ all the time. It was boring.

Then they watched a penguin show. The penguins were really funny. They walked _______ but they swam fast.

After the show, they had lunch. They ate sandwiches and _______ milk. Just then, they heard something, Julia thought someone was calling her, so she turned around. It was a loud parrot. Julia and her _______ thought it was hungry and wanted to eat their sandwiches.

After lunch, they saw some monkeys. They were small. They got some food and were really excited.

2 . I did not pass the boys’ basketball tryouts (预选赛) in the seventh grade. Making the team was very _________ to me, but my name was not on the list.

On the way home, I was both _________ and upset (沮丧的). “I can’t believe I didn’t make the team,” I said _________. “How did Alex make the team? He can’t keep up with a tortoise (鸟龟)! Why is Jimmy a better _________ than me? He just stands around moving his arms!” “Adam!” my mom said, cutting me off. “Why don’t you just _________ and think? Maybe you need a little more _________.”

Suddenly, I knew she was right. It was nobody’s fault (错误) but my own. I _________ to work hard for the team over the next year.

I practice hard every day and had _________ every week.

When summer came, I took part in lots of basketball camps. Through camp after camp, my abilities (能力) grew, and I _________ I was ready for tryouts in the fall.

The day finally came. As everyone crowded around the lists, I played it cool and waited for my _________ to read the names. I slowly looked down the list. Not only did I make it on the list, but my name was the very first!

Molly is an 18-year-old girl in Africa. She lives in a peaceful village with her family. Almost every Saturday morning, Molly pulls a table into her front yard. On the table she lays out some _______ in season, such as carrots and tomatoes. They are all from her garden and free for her neighbors to _______. “It’s just lovely, like you walk by and get a beautiful gift around the corner.” said a neighbor.

Why did Molly get used to helping others in this _______ way? That’s because of an unforgettable experience she had before. Actually, Molly started doing this in the summer of 2020. Earlier that year, a fire broke out in her house. Molly’s _______ had a hard time.

“When we felt helpless and even hopeless, people in the neighborhood came to _______. They brought us food and often called to make sure we were doing fine. At that time, I realized that life was full of hope because there were so many warm-hearted people in our neighborhood. I was deeply _______.” Molly said.

Then the pandemic (疫情) came. Molly and her family had much time to _______ in their garden. They decided to _______ what they grew in their garden. No one knew about it at first. But gradually, people got into the habit of coming around. They would stop by and leave with some vegetables. Molly’s yard became a _______ place. The yard is filled with happiness and joy every day.

One thing Molly has learned from this experience is that people have to work together when days are _______. She is glad that love has spread in this community.

There once lived an elephant in a forest. He was very proud of his power and huge body and always played tricks on other animals. The animals in the forest _______ him a lot. He enjoyed doing things that ________ his power and always troubled other small animals in the forest.

In that forest, there also lived a family of ants in a small hole. The ant used to look down on the elephant for his bad nature. One day, when the ants were away to collect food, the elephant ______ them and threw lots of water at them.

The ants got angry and said, “You should not trouble others for ________.” The elephant shouted angrily and said, “You _______ animals, keep quiet, or I will crush (压碎) you to death.”

At that time, the ants decided to teach the animal a lesson for life. They slowly crept (爬行) to his ears and started biting him. The elephant became ______ and started crying for help.

None of the animals came forward to help him. They saw him getting punished for his acts _______. He kept saying sorry to the ants, but they ______ to bite him.

When they were sure that he had learned the ________, they let him go and said, “This is __________ others feel when you hurt them.” The ants went away leaving a wailing (嚎哭) elephant there. From then on, the elephant never troubled anyone in the forest.

On a small hill in Huaping, Yunnan, there is a small school. However, over the past 15 years, it has rewritten the fate (命运) of 1, 804 poor ______ by sending them to universities.

Zhang Guimei, now 66, is the headmaster of this school. She began ______ in Huaping-one of China’s poorest areas twenty years ago. The teacher wondered why many girls in her class stopped coming to school. After some time, Zhang learned that they were from very poor ______. These girls were pushed to work or get married (结婚) at a(n) ______ age. “We often say that we want every child to have a fair start,” she said. “But these poor girls don’t even have a chance (机会) to stand on the ______ line (线).”

Zhang wanted to change this. She spent years trying to ______ money. Finally in 2008, she ______ the Huaping High School for Girls. It’s China’s first and only free public high school for girls.

Zhang gets up at 5 a. m. every day to ______ the lights on each floor of the teaching building. “Many girls are afraid,” the headmaster says. She wants them to feel safer on their way to classes. After years of hard work, Zhang is now in poor health, but the school and the children are more important than ______ else in her mind.

Zhang’s story warmed hearts all around China. Zhou Yunli is one of her students. She says, “When you become strong, you ______ remember to help others. This is what Ms. Zhang taught us.”

Cheung Yan is a great woman. She is one of the most _______ businesswomen in the world. How did she do it? Does she sell computers? Does she sell houses? No. She sells trash (垃圾). In fact, she is _______ “the Queen of Trash” by many people.

Cheung was born in Guangdong in 1957. When Cheung was a young woman, she moved to Hong Kong. There, she became _______ in the paper trash business. She and two partners set up a company (公司) ________ which collected paper trash and sold it to paper factories.

In 1990, she and her husband moved to Los Angeles. There they ________ tons of paper at the garbage dumps (垃圾场) around Los Angeles. They collected the paper trash. Then they sent the trash to________. What did Chinese factories do with Cheung’s paper trash? They recycled  it and made cardboard (硬纸板). Then they made the cardboard into packing boxes. They used the boxes to ________ “Made in China” products. Then they sent these products to the United States and Europe.

In 1996, Cheung moved  back to China. She ________  her own paper-making company called Nine Dragons Paper. Today, Cheung buys paper trash in the United States and Europe. She sends it to her ______  in China. Then she makes it into materials for packaging.

Cheung always knows one ________ thing: There will always be paper trash that she can recycle again and again.

Once a tortoise and two swans lived on a lake. They were very good friends. They spent many hours happily together.

To their bad luck, there was no _____ that year. The lake became dry. So they had to leave the lake in search of another one to live. The two swans could fly easily, but for the tortoise it was _____. The three of them began to wonder, unsure of what to do next. At last, the two swans had an idea. They said to the tortoise, “We will place a _____ in your mouth. We will carry it in our beaks on either side. This will make us fly together. But remember, you must not ______ your mouth. If you do, you know what will happen to you.”

The tortoise was sad to leave the lake, but he agreed to the idea ______.

One fine morning, they were ______ over a large town. The people of the town were surprised at what they saw in the sky. They were very ______ about it and started shouting excitedly. The tortoise heard the noise and wondered what it was about. He forgot his ______ and opened his mouth to ask curiously, “Why is there...? Ah...!”

Sadly, down fell the tortoise. When the swans flew in the direction of the tortoise, they found that he was ______. The swans had no chance to save him. They were sad to ______ their best friend but had to fly away and start their new life.

From the story we know if we break our promises, we will pay the price for it. So it’s important for everyone to keep promises.

Today, China would like to make its voice heard by telling true stories. “Story telling is the best _______ for international communication,” President Xi Jinping said. “We should tell stories about China well and _______ China’s voice well.” Telling Chinese stories warms people’s hearts and brings the Chinese people and people of other countries closer. By listening to _______stories of China, many people around the world get to know more about China.

A good Chinese story should be about the Chinese national _______ and Chinese cultural confidence. Recently, the hot Chinese movie of The Battle at Lake Changjin has been popular with people around the world. The _______ tells an amazing historical story: Seventy three years ago, the People’s Volunteer Army entered North Korea for battle. Under very cold conditions, the soldiers on the Eastern Front _______ fought the enemy at Lake Changjin.

Although Chinese culture _______ a history of thousands of years, we should find a new way to tell Chinese stories. Li Ziqi, for example, has become _______ on TikTok for her short videos. By showing her daily life in the countryside, she has _______ tens of millions of likes on the Internet. In this way, she spread Chinese culture to the world widely.

Therefore, as a Chinese, _______ how to tell a good Chinese story in English is very important. We should fully understand the Chinese culture and learn English well so that the world will have a better understanding of us.

When I’m in trouble, I always take out a book and read quietly. I put my heart into it so that I can forget all the _______ things. I have developed a habit of reading in this way.

When I was a little girl, I was interested in comic books and storybooks. When I grew _______ and went to a middle school, I began to read novels, plays, essays and so on. I found I could get _______ from them. Little by little, I took a great interest in literature and last term I _________ first prize in the composition contest among high school students in our city.

Reading The Emperor’s New Clothes makes me _________ a lot because of the emperor’s silly and funny behavior. The Little Match Girl makes me feel _________ because she lives a hard life. Robinson Crusoe takes me into a strange world _________ danger. My favorite book is The Story of My Life because I’m deeply _________ by Helen Keller’s spirit of being strong and never giving up. Besides these, books also tell me _________ things—how to be a brave man and how to tell the difference between right and wrong. In a word, good books can let me know __________ I didn’t know before. So I think good books are just like my best friends.

10 .

Everyone of us ________ had a headache. But do you know about headaches? What may cause them? And what should we do ________ we have a headache? When should we go to ________ a doctor?

A headache is not an illness, but it may show that ________ in your body is wrong. We may have ________ than one headache each month.

Usually a fever or some other _______ may cause headaches. You may get a headache when you work too hard. You may get a headache when you can’t get enough _________. You may get a headache when you exercise on an empty (空的) ___________.

What should you do if you have a headache?

You should lie down and have a good _________. You should get enough sleep. You shouldn’t take _________ exercise on an empty stomach.

If you have headaches often, you need to see a doctor.