1 . Animals are our friends. We can find ________ kinds of animals in different places. It is Saturday today. Laura’s ________ take her to the zoo near their home. Laura likes animals ________. The monkeys from Africa are very cute. They jump and walk ________ two legs. The pandas from China are very cute and a kind of shy, so please be ________. The lions and tigers are scary, ________ they are lazy. They sleep 20 hours a day. When you’re ________ animals, please don’t give food to them. It’s one of the ________ rules in the zoo. Laura takes some photos of the animals. Laura’s parents and Laura ________ a good time there. Zoos ________ always good places for children to learn about animals.

2 . Every summer, Cathy looked forward to going to the island of Andros for vacation. At there, she would spend time ________ her grandmother in the corn fields and picking sea grapes with her cousins.

One activity she really loved was “crabbing”. She would ________ her grandfather to take her out every evening so she could practice her crab (螃蟹) catching skills on the beach. Cathy wanted to catch the crabs so much that she went out one night while ________ grandparents fell asleep. She took her flashlight and rushed onto the ________.

The sky was ________ and the beach looked pretty different from that of the day. What made Cathy truly ________ was that she could not see anyone on the beach. The only noise she could hear was the comings and goings of the waves. Cathy started to realize that it was a bad idea to sneak (溜) out ________ alone. She decided to rush back home as ________ as she could. Just at that time, a huge black crab got her right foot. She let out a loud cry. Luckily, one of her cousins ________ her and helped her out. After that ________, Cathy decided not to sneak out the house alone at night again!

3 . Traffic is becoming worse and worse in big cities. Heavy traffic has caused a lot of _______ to people’s life and work. For example, people have to get up _______ to go to work on time and come back very late when their work is _______.

There are many causes (原因) for _______ problems, but the followings may be the most important ones. One cause is the great increase (增长) in the _______ of private cars. Cars need more space but they _______ fewer people. When more and more cars appear, roads and streets become very _______. It also causes air pollution. The other cause is that some people don’t care about traffic _______. They cross the streets even when the traffic lights are still _______. This may easily cause traffic accidents (车祸). But how can we ________ these problems? I think if we go out by bus or by bike more often, we’ll use cars less. It may be a helpful method!

4 .

Zu Ti (祖逖) was a great man of Jin Dynasty. He was ______ for his hard work and great achievements. But when he was a child, he was a naughty (顽皮的) boy who showed little ______ in reading. As he grew up, Zu Ti ______ he didn’t have enough knowledge. And he deeply felt that he could not serve his country well. So he made up his mind to study hard.

Zu Ti had a _______ friend named Liu Kun. They had a deep friendship. So they stayed together every day. They even slept on one bed every night and ______ at the same time every morning. One day, when they were _______, Zu Ti heard the rooster crowing (打鸣). An _______ came to him. He woke up Liu Kun and said, “How about getting up to play swords (剑)?” Though he was still sleepy, Liu Kun agreed with Zu Ti gladly. From then on, they got up and played swords as soon as the rooster began crowing. They kept their words day after day. They never gave up no matter how ________ in winter or hot in summer. Besides, they began to study history _______ and put all their energy into reading books. In this way, they learned a great deal of knowledge and made much progress. A few years later, both of them grew up with talents and wisdom. At last, their _______ came true and they made great contributions to their country.

This is the Chinese idiom story To Rise with the Rooster.

6 . Last summer vacation, I decided to visit Wolong in Sichuan Province. Before I started, my mom reminded me to take care of myself again and again. Because it was my first time to travel alone, I felt really ________ at first.

Wolong is a large nature reserve (自然保护区), which includes several panda bases for breeding (繁殖) and research. I stayed at a small hotel next to Wolong China Giant Panda Garden ________ I arrived. I was going to visit the garden the next morning.

Everything went ________ at first the next day. I saw many ________ playing in the trees. They looked so cute. I was not nervous anymore. I also tried to feed them with some bamboo. They were happy and even wanted to ________ me. Later, I left the garden happily.

But while I was going back to the hotel, I lost my ________. I was so worried that I nearly cried. At that moment, a ________ came up to me and asked if I needed any ________. Then he showed me the way and I arrived at the hotel ________ in the end.

The trip to Wolong allowed me not only to learn about pandas in a more satisfying way, but also to meet friendly people. This ________ gives me the courage to travel alone again in the future.

Hello! My name is Sandy and I come from the USA. Today is “Take Our Kids to Work Day”. It’s an interesting day, usually on the fourth Thursday of April. Kids can go to work with their ______.

My mother works at a TV station and she loves the ______ very much. Every year, I go there with her on the day. My mother goes to work early. And she is ______ late for it. So I need to get dressed and brush my teeth ______.

After breakfast, we ______ to the TV station, because it’s not far from our home. ______ we get there, we can see about twenty kids. Some of them dress up like their parents. That makes them look funny.

We kids have lots of ______ to do. In the morning, an uncle takes us to some rooms to see how our parents ______. For lunch, we have our favorite pizza, hamburgers and milk. In the afternoon, we work with our parents. At 5 o’clock, it’s time to ______. I say goodbye to the kids. I think we can _______here next year.

8 . Vincent loves his parents very much. The problem is, they are always telling him what to do and how he should feel! His father is a great man. He thinks that the most important things are having good ______, being nice and teaching others how to be good. Vincent’s mum is called Anna. She is nice, but has a sad way of _________ life. “Bad things can come out at any time!” she says to him. “The best thing you can do is to keep _______. Just find something useful to do every day.”

Vincent does his best to _______ his parents, but he has a fire in his heart, as bright as his red hair. His father wants to teach him the rules , but the boy would not _________. His mother shows him how to draw, and he _______ it—but she is angry about the things he draws. “Why are you drawing untidy ______ houses and fields? You should do beautiful flowers!” So Vincent draws some nice flowers to keep her happy.

The real problem is that Vincent feels trapped in the small house they live in, with its grey walls and strict rules. Drawing helps him to relax, and so does ______ . He likes stories by writers like Shakespeare and Goethe. In their books, people are always with strong feelings-just like him! “At last I will get to _______ the world!” Vincent says to himself.

His strong feelings keep the fire inside him, and the red-haired boy, Vincent van Gogh, does not know it, he will one day change the _______ of art forever！

9 . I was going to work on a small island. I heard the sound of the boat workers telling people to _______ and get on the boat. As always, I was almost the _______ one and I wasn’t sure if I would get on the boat on time. _______ I was able to catch the boat and start my trip. It was just one of those days when things were not going right for me. I sat in a corner of the boat _______ my bag next to me. I wanted to be with myself and I didn’t want anyone to talk to me.

I looked up at the sky and thought quietly. I saw some clouds. It seemed that they were giving me a “thumbs-up (竖拇指)”. It looked _______ wonderful that I couldn’t help smiling. Seeing the _______ of the clouds made me feel relaxed and cool. It seemed to tell me that _______ was going to be all right.

Life is not _______ good. We might be surprised by the bad things that happen to us. Sometimes, things feel messy (混乱的), while at other times, it feels like you have it all. We should learn to _______ it all in, have a try to stop for a while and thank ________ we have though it may be something small.

You never know when you might see something that brightens (照亮) your life. So remember to smile and look up at the sky.

No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own efforts.

I learned this _________ from an experience many years ago. I took the head coaching job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even _________ for the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was _________ because I knew we were sure to win. But unluckily, we were defeated (打败). I couldn’t believe I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to _________ that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were depending on me. I had to change my attitude (态度) about their ________.

I started doing anything I could to help them build confidence. The most _________ thing is that I began to treat them like winners. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we met every day and _________ passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering (遭受) our defeat, we won our first game and our second, and continued to improve. _________, we faced the number one team. I felt that we would be winners even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me the most exciting moment of my life!

From the experience, I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can make a _______ to a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I _________ and encouraged them. I helped them to see themselves differently and they built themselves into winners.

Winners are made, not born.