1 . My name is Jane. I’m 14 years old. I study in a middle school in China.

You want to know ________ I go to school, right? Well, I usually ________ home at about 8 a.m. and walk to the bus stop. The school ________ usually comes at 8:15 a.m. My school is ________, about 15 kilometers from my home. It’s about 30 minutes by bus. The bus ride is ________ boring because I always talk to my classmates.

Everyone in our school loves sports. Every morning ________ getting to school, we do morning exercises. After the second class we do exercise again. The most popular sport is basketball. The students love playing it.

There are many ________ in my school and I want to join the music club. My friend Lisa is a girl and she likes ________ chess very much. She wants to join the chess club. Do you know Linda’s hobby? Well, let me tell you. Linda’s favorite sport is high jump. ________ she doesn’t want to join the high jump club. She wants to join the music club. Why? Because she wants to be ________ the same club as me.

2 . Different students may go to school in different ways. Then how do you usually go to school? Some students may _______, “I usually go to school by car.” Maybe some others will look at them through green glasses (羡慕地).

It’s true that cars are _______. Many people find it hard to think about _______ life will be like if they have no cars. But now more people know that too many cars may bring different kinds of _______. They make streets too _______.

People are trying to stop pollution (污染) from cars. One way is to _______ green cars. But we _______ to spend much making these cars because the price is high. And more people are thinking about better _______. It’s good to go out by bike or on foot. They are good ways to stop pollution. And now lots of people go to work by bike. _______ bikes is healthy. It _______ people get strong. Also, it’s good for the world, too. I hope we can live in a green world.

3 . I’m a fan of pop music. Today I’d like to ________ a pop singer to you. His name is Mao Buyi. ________ you watched the TV show The Coming One, you might know him.

Mao Buyi has been popular ________ he took part in The Coming One. At first, Mao didn’t ________ that he would become so popular. He just wanted to know whether people would love the songs he wrote.

Quickly he knew the answer was yes. Lots of people say his songs are great and ________ stories. They also wonder if Mao has got lots of unusual (不寻常的) experiences. Actually, he hasn’t. He lives a ________ life.

“Everyone has troubles and ________. I just wrote them in my ________,” he said.

It could be a big ________ to become famous in a short time, but Mao doesn’t seem to be very proud (骄傲的). He has never had professional (专业的) training before, so he often says that he needs to practice more and improve ________. Many people think his name Buyi means “not easy”. In fact, it means “never change”.

Mao hopes he will never change his love of music and that he can be a better singer and write better songs.

4 . About three months ago, I took my nine-year-old son to Qingdao, Shandong. It was a special _______. When we got there, my son was very excited because it was the first time for him to take the _______.

When we got on the subway, I found it was full of people and we had to _______. However, a boy wearing sports clothes asked me to sit on his seat. He also _______ his friend sitting next to him to do that. So it would be _______ for me to take care of my son.

I said “thank you” as he _______ up and then we sat down. When we got off the subway, the kind _______ said goodbye to us. I used to think that people in Qingdao were very indifferent (冷漠的). But this _________ really changed my opinion.

Later I lost my wallet while I was shopping in the city center. _______ a stranger picked it up and gave it back to me.

These _______ people really made our trip to Qingdao very unforgettable. I told my son that we should try our best to help the people in need in return.

5 . My grandpa loves playing chess. Every day he plays chess ________ his friends. Last week, he came to visit us. We live in the ________ part of the city. But he was very sad because ________ here could play chess with him. One day, when I came back from school, I found my grandpa was sitting ________ in a chair, doing nothing. Why not teach him to play online chess on my computer? Then I took him to the computer in my room and taught him ________ to use the Internet. At first, he was slow. Having tried several times, he became much ________. Now he is quite good at playing chess online and ________ a lot of friends through it.

“________ interesting it is!” he told us. He enjoyed ________ when playing on it. Internet brought him a lot, but every coin has two ________. It’s not good for him to play too long. So we often advise him to use it properly.

I used to have little passion (激情) in my life. But what happened the other day changed my ______ It was then that I learned how important it is to have a ______ in life.

That day I went home in Mom’s car. When Mom stopped at a red light, someone on the side of the road ______ my eye. It was a man dressed in rags (破旧衣服). He was homeless. That didn’t ______ me, because I had seen many like him before. Those people usually looked unhappy and hopeless.

But this man was ______ in some way. He was not sitting down with a sad ______. ______, he had a radio in his hand and was dancing ______ to the music. The radio seemed to be the most precious (珍贵的) thing he had. “Mom, why does that man have a ______? He’s homeless?” I asked.

“He bought it,” she replied.

“But why doesn’t he ______ the money to buy food or clothes? He owned something that he didn’t ______. ”

“Well, Sarah, sometimes food and clothes aren’t the most important.”

That man must care so much about music ______ he bought a radio instead of food or clothes. I soon ______ that happiness is the key to life.

Since then I am always thinking of what is truly important in life, A home, a meal, clothes—these things are ______ part of the life. What we often ______ is that we all need a joy, a light in a dark day. We all need a passion which gives a person the happiness they need to keep going.

I was driving to the town ______ a beautiful summer day. The sky was full of clouds. The sun was dancing ______ the green trees with its golden light and I was smiling at the wonder of it. Suddenly, a truck jumped in front of me, two feet over the center line! I pulled my wheel to the right quickly and luckily I just ______ the truck on one side. I noticed the truck’s driver looking at his mobile phone, _____ noticing the near miss at all. I closed my mouth tightly in order to ______ saying the words that I promised ______ I would never use.

Later in the town, I was coming out of a store when a yellow butterfly started to dance around my heads. ______, I opened my hand and the butterfly landed on it softly. It swung (挥动) its wings beautifully ______ flying away. I looked around to see if anyone else noticed this small ______, but only two people near me had their ______ down, looking at their phone screens.

I began to think that life is ______ happens while people are busy looking at their mobile phones. We need mobile phones, but it doesn’t mean that they will ______ our days or take over our lives. Amazingly, we can turn a power button ______ anytime we wish to.

Don’t let your smart phone take away your smart ______. Don’t let technology take over your soul. Turn your heart on ______ and your phone on less. Share your life that makes others smile.

8 . Ever since “Mother Nature” gave me life, I’ve expected to grow tall and big. As a young _____, I was well protected in the forest. I used to _____ a good time with my friends under the blue sky and _____ the river. Our only purpose was to stand high. My pal, Tim, often said, “All I ask for is to be _____ the whole day.”

More than 300 days passed and we grew straight. Until one day, our _____ birthday, people came, moved us from the earth and put us on their ______. “I don’t want to go!” Tim cried.   

After a long journey, we arrived in a completely different place with _____ green. Here we were planted in a line. ______ the wind blew strongly, I could not even open my eyes to see Tim ______ beside me. So we needed enough water to grow thicker and higher to ______ the wind. As time went by, we finally ______ much stronger. I could keep my eyes open in the wind! I even found the blue sky was back!

This was no longer the no-man’s-land, and hundreds of visitors came here. A man took a picture of us with his ______. “Thank you. We can enjoy clear days ______ worrying about sand storms.” A young girl jumping up and down came over and ______ me. “Thank you,” she said. “It’s you that have turned the desert into a green land!”

Tim and I smiled at each other, feeling ______. The sun was shining brightly in the bluer sky.

Once upon a time, there lived a teacher in a small town. He often taught his students in ______ ways. Once he sent ______ of his students to a small farm to see apple trees in different seasons. The first student went in winter, the second in spring, the third in ______, and the last in autumn.

After the four students ______, the teacher called them together. They described their feelings to the teacher. The ______ student said that there were no leaves on the trees. It made him very ______. The second student said his ______ were full of light green. It made him feel hopeful. The third one ______, “What are you talking about? How pretty the trees were! The sweet ______ of the beautiful flowers spread here and there.” The last one shook his head. He saw a lot of red and big ______ on the beautiful trees.

The teacher smiled and told his students ______ of them were wrong. They each just saw one ______. He continued, “The trees are not the same in different seasons. You can’t judge a tree ______ only one season. Don’t let the ______ of one season destroy (破坏) the rest.”

Everything has different sides in our life. Don’t hurry to make a conclusion (结论) before ______ the whole of it.

10 . Don’t give your bad temper to those closest to you. This is a ________ lesson, but I paid a big price to learn ________.

Things started with my grandpa’s ________. It was very old and often stopped working. But grandpa didn’t want to throw it away because it was a gift ________ my sister and me. We sent it to him on his ________ birthday. One day, the phone wasn’t working again. Grandpa asked for help from me. I was ________ at that time because I was having difficulty ________ my lessons and was not used to middle school life. This was my first time to fix a phone. Without doubt, I failed to make it work. But grandpa kept asking me to have a ________ try. I got angry and said, “I can’t fix it and I am busy with my studies. Can you just leave me alone?” I could tell the sadness on grandpa’s face. He said ________ and left.

The next day, I went to school as usual. In the afternoon, Mom picked my sister and me up from school and told us that grandpa ________ in the morning and was in bad condition. Time seemed ________. I couldn’t move or speak for a minute. Then, regret came along with the fear of ________ losing grandpa.

We nervously waited at home ________ dad came from hospital. He told us that the doctor had saved grandpa’s life, but he had to stay in hospital for a long time.

I will never forget that day. I now ________ every minute with my family, friends, and ________ loved ones. I won’t again give my bad temper to the ones I love and later regret my actions.