1 . Teenagers spend more time at school than with their parents. So communication between them can be ________. Parents spend all day working. They don’t come back home ________ late in the evening. They can’t almost ________ their children. And the problem will become worse ________ the parents work in another city. The parents and their children ________ have the weekends or holidays to spend all together. Sometimes they don’t ________ have a chance to communicate together all the year around. This is quite ________ because we know how important communication is to people, especially to children. As they grow up, they need to learn ________ to communicate with others. So, school becomes a (n) ________ place to help children.

School is where teenagers learn to read and write, ________ they can learn good manners from teachers. School is also the place where teenagers can learn lots of communication ________.

As teenagers, we’ve all ________ what school means to us. Our teachers usually ________ us how important it is to get information from others. The things we learn at school will help us ________ some important decisions in life later.

It’s sure that school will ________ help for our future. So, in school, we should work as hard as we can.

2 . “I can’t believe what I’m hearing!” I thought to myself. I thought Jeff was the last candidate (候选人) for president of the Students’ Union. My best friend Tony came to me and said, “I’m sorry. I really thought you should be _______.”

Later that day, I happened to pass Jeff in the school dining hall. I offered him a(an) _______ “congratulations” and walked away to my usual table. To my _______, Jeff put his plate beside mine.

“I’m, …er, er—I’m just wondering _______ you would…er…consider (考虑) coming to work on my team,” he said _______. “You are really smart, and you would be a great partner.”

“I don’t think so,” I replied, feeling _______.

“Well, if you change your mind, we are meeting tomorrow.”

All that right, I thought about the offer from Jeff. Maybe being a part of the election (选举) process would give me a _______ to make important changes at our school. I decided to join them.

My first goal was to _______ an eye-catching advertisement. Within a few days, we completed a poster with Jeff’s pictures showing him in a number of activities. No one could walk through the hallway _______ noticing Jeff’s smiling face.

My next step was to ________ which new activities students would like to have at our school. Many of them wanted a ________ club.

With the information I had collected, Jeff had a conversation with the headmaster. Soon a volleyball team and a football team were ________ to add to our after-school programme.

Many students said, “It’ll be like attending a new school with Jeff as president of the Students’ Union.”

Hearing these words made my heart filled with a ________ of achievement (成就). I had wanted to become president of the Students’ Union to do things for students myself. Now I’ve achieved that and ________ more by working as a member of Jeff’s team. He’s become the most popular candidate and I am a big part of his success. The fact that it has made a change to other people’s lives is the real ________. What a great feeling!

4 . 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!

5 . Diana touched her ________ on the sofa. She wasn’t feeling well. Her headache was getting worse and worse.

Diana was nine years old. About two hours ago, her mother went down the street to visit Mrs. Smith. She didn’t know that Diana was ________. And she thought Diana was old enough to stay at home by herself.

Diana turned ________ the TV. She hoped that watching TV could make her forget about the headache. However, it didn’t help. Then, she went to her bedroom and ________ down on the bed. However, she couldn’t fall asleep.

Lying down on the bed with the washcloth (毛巾) on her head, Diana started to feel a little better, but the washcloth couldn’t stay cold for long. Her head began to ache again. Finally she called her mother, she wanted to go to see the ________.

6 . On my first day of high school, a roommate (室友) of mine asked me for help. He ________ a bottle of cola out of his bag. “I couldn’t open it.” he said. I opened it ________ him quite easily, and he thanked me.

One week later, we started to get military training (军训). We had to gather (集合) at 5:30 a.m. every day. One ________ morning, I was still sleeping at 5:20. That roommate of ________ woke me up. Both of us were not late for that day’s training. I ________ thanked him. I felt very great to live with him.

I had a ________ with that roommate that day. I said that we were no longer just roommates, we were good friends, I added, “we didn’t have to mind our ‘please’ and ‘thanks’ so much around each other.” He thought about my words and said yes. Over the next three years, we helped each other quite often, but we ________ said thank you.

I always feel thankful when someone helps me. But I was often too ________ to say thank you out loud.

However, my opinion about thanks changed ________ I started to work. I learned from my work that a thank you is often just a polite ending to a talk, but it is important. Saying thanks lets the other side know that I’m thankful. It also makes the office a lovelier ________ .

Thanks is a wonderful word. Whenever you feel thankful, say it.

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.”

A group of boys stand around a tree. “What a tall tree!” They say to each other, “It will be ________ to climb to the top (顶端).” The group of boys then decide (决定) to play the game to see ________ will climb to the top first. Their   ________ sit not far away, looking happily at their children. They are also interested in what will   ________.

One of the ________ is an 8-year-old boy named David. He is the shortest child in the group. No one ________ he will make it.

Then the game ________. All of the boys ________ to climb. All the other boys climb faster than David at the beginning. ________ David is the first to reach the top of the tree in the end.

David’s mother is proud. She asks him, “David, ________ do you get to the top of the tree so quickly?”

“It is easy,” David says, “The other children are always looking ________ when they climb. They are ________ that they will fall off the tree. I only look up and I don’t ________.”

It is ________ that we should go forward without looking back in life. If so, we can do well ________ many things.

9 . I still remember that day. I was waiting to get some _________ for shopping in a bank. Among the crowd, I noticed a little boy carrying some sunglasses in one hand and a big bag in _________.

The boy was about 10 years old. He was walking around the people inside the _________ and asked them to buy his sunglasses. But _________ would buy any from him. He tried from one person to another. From the look on his face, I know he would not _________ anyway.

Now, I decided to have a _________ with him. I went up and asked, “Do you go to school?” He nodded his head. Then I continued, “Why do you _________ sunglasses?” He said nothing. I gave him $20 and said that I was not in _________ of the sunglasses but he could keep the money. To my _________, his face changed a lot, which is still in my memory today. I didn’t know __________ to say next. Then he replied, “Either you buy sunglasses or you __________ back the money. I don’t need your pity (怜悯).” I felt very __________ for what I did, and I told him that I would buy two pairs.

I took these sunglasses home and kept __________ myself, “Did such a young boy need to do it for his self-respect?” He could __________ take the $20 and left. But he chose to sell his sunglasses and get the money not because of others’ __________. I will remember this lesson forever.