1 . Some people in Britain or America like to invite friends to dinner at home. But this is ________ in America than in Britain. Don’t worry ________ your English friends don’t invite you home. It doesn’t mean that they ________ you.

When you ________ to an evening meal, ask your friends what time you should ________. It is a good idea ______ a small present when you arrive, and it ________ polite to say how much you like the house, ________ the room, or the picture in the room. But don’t ask how much these things ________.

In this way both you and your friends will have ________ pleasant get-together.

Hello, everyone. My name is Tara. This is ______ room. There is a bed and two ______ on the floor. What can we see ______ the wall? We can see some photos and ______ kite. We can also see ______ windows. ______ is the computer? It’s on the table. Some flowers are on table, ______. Where are my pencil box and books?   ______ are on the bookshelf (书架). We can ______ a chair near (在……附近) it. It ______ a very nice room.

Look at the woman in the picture. Her name is Milanonna. Believe（相信）it or not, she is 68 years old. _________ does she keep young? Let’s learn about _________ life.

It’s seven o’clock _________ the morning. Milanonna goes to the kitchen after she gets up. She’s drinking a glass of water. “The _________ thing I must do in the morning is to drink some water,” says Milanonna. Then she takes some exercise before breakfast. Milanonna never _________ too much in the morning. She usually has _________ egg, a glass of milk, some fruit and a piece of bread for breakfast. After that, she goes to work.

Milanonna is an artist（艺术家）. People like _________ pictures of her. She is always wearing cool clothes in those _________. Sometimes she is busy, but she can always _________ home at 6:00 p.m. every day. Every night, she does yoga（瑜伽）for about half an hour. She says doing yoga is very relaxing, __________ she likes to do it. She really lives a healthy life.

4 . There is some ________ for you to follow in order to learn English well. Firstly, it’s a good way ________ your English ________ reading, so do more reading every day. But ________ try to translate every word when you read an English article. Secondly, do more listening exercises. You should repeat the sentences ________ your hear them. It’s good ________ your pronunciation (发音). Sometimes, we offer exercises to you to number the pictures in the right order as you hear them, or find the mistakes in the sentences and then correct ________ . Thirdly, try to speak to foreigners. Don’t be afraid of ________ mistakes. Take a deep breath and start talk with ________ . Always remember to enjoy English ________ , and you will surely be good at it sooner or later.

5 . Food is very important. Everyone needs to _________ well if he or she wants to have a strong body. Our minds also need a kind of food. This kind of food is _________ . We begin to get knowledge even when we are very young. Small children are _________ in everything around them. They learn _________ while they are watching and listening. When they are getting older, they begin to _________ story books, science books, anything they like. When they find something new, they love to ask questions and try to _________ the answers.

What is the best _________ to get knowledge? If we learn by ourselves, we _________ the most knowledge. If we are always getting answers from others and do not ask why, we will _________ learn well. When we study in the right way, we will learn more and understand __________ .

6 . My name is Ji Zhen. There are（有）_______ _______ in my family. My grandfather is sixty-eight _______ old and my grandmother is sixty-five. My father likes to play _______ sports. And my mother likes to watch sports on TV. I like _______ play soccer.

My grandfather’s birthday is on New Year’s Day-_______. My grandmother’s birthday is on November 26th. September _______ is my _______ birthday. They have the same birthday! When is my birthday? It’s on June 1st—Children’s Day! We have _______ on our birthdays every year. I have a ________ family!

7 . The Chinese high-speed railways have a quality（质量）all on its own. Tier 1 （ 一线）cities like Beijing have a couple hundred high-speed trains stopping at the _______ every day. China's technology on building the railway is _______ the rest of the world. There is no _______ that any other country could be better than China in near future. I had my first chance to ride the high-speed trains last week _______ I had a business meeting in Zhengzhou.

I _______ with a disdain （偏见）for public transportation. Although I was not sure why the US hated it so much, I was afraid of the experience. I hoped to fly, but was told that it would be much better if I _______ the train.

The train was _______. I had traveled on a train before in the US and hated how slow it was and how many stops there were. Chinese high-speed trains are on a different _______. The trains are clean and the seats are huge.

You can’t even feel how fast the train is moving. If there were no windows, I wouldn't be able to tell when we were _______ or when we were traveling at 300 km/h—it is that smooth.

I'm traveling again this week by train and I’m ________.

8 . In China, a lot of food is wasted every year and the waste food is enough for___________people. The food is wasted in restaurants, at home and in schools, etc.

In restaurants or at home, people often order or cook___________food. But they can’t eat it up. When they go out of a restaurant, full and happy, they never look back___________the uncertain food on the table again. Should Chinese consumers(消费者) be __________for the terrible waste?

In schools, we can often see a lot of students ___________food away after meals and they only eat the food they like.

Everyone is supposed to have enough food to eat. However, in some places, the food is so little___________ a lot of people died from hunger. Although China has tried hard to solve the__________of hunger over the past thirty years, the job is not finished yet. Food is important to us all. We__________live without food. So ___________is necessary for us to love food and try to eat up everything on our plates. When we eat in restaurants, we should pack up the leftovers(剩菜剩饭). We also need to tell other people to stop__________food as soon as possible.