1 . A young woman was sitting next to her mother on the train; she was about 20 years old. Both of them looked tired but _________. The young woman was looking_________from the train’s window. Suddenly, she shouted, “Mom, look! The trees are behind us!” Her voice was so_________ that everybody on the train heard.

Mom smiled. But a young couple_________ nearby looked at the young woman’s behavior (行为) with pity. “Poor young woman. There must be something wrong with her_________ ,” they thought. About a quarter later, the young woman_________again, “Mom, look! The clouds are running with us!” Mom_________again. And she seemed very happy with the young woman’s words. _________ , the couple couldn’t help asking the old woman,   “Sorry if We offend (冒犯) you. But why don’t you _________your daughter to a good doctor?” The old woman smiled and said, “We have just come from a ____________.” “Then you should go to a(n)____________one. Because it seems that your daughter’s situation hasn’t____________,” said one of them. They felt so sorry for the old woman.“No, ____________ , I’m very happy with the treatment (治疗),” said the mother, “My daughter was blind from birth. Today, she is seeing the world for the____________ time.”

Every person has a story. Don’t judge people before you really know them, ____________you’ll be surprised at the truth.

2 . It was sunny last Sunday. Freddy’s_______，Mr. Lance, took him and his classmates to Jurong Bird Park. They didn’t feel _______ on the way to the park because they sang a lot on the school bus. The ride _______ about 40 minutes.

At the park, Freddy and his classmates saw many different kinds of _______. They were very beautiful. Then they went to _______ a bird show. The birds performed(表演)so_______. Freddy loved the show a lot. Before they_______，Mr. Lance took the students to see flamingos (火烈鸟). Freddy and his classmates _______the flamingos very much. They wanted to stay there for a long time, _______Mr. Lance said that they had to leave.

Back on the bus, they all said it was a(n) ________ trip. Mr. Lance was happy that Freddy and his classmates enjoyed________the bird park.

“We will have a competition (比赛). Write a composition (作文) on your________ to the bird park. The student who writes the best________ will get a free ticket (票) to the bird park!" Mr. Lance told his class, It was really ________. Freddy wanted to go to the bird park ________, so he would try to write a good composition.

3 . Many animals use some kinds of “language”. They use signals and the signals have meanings. For example, ______ a bee has found some food, it goes ______ its home.   ______ is difficult for a bee to tell   ______   bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it can do a little dancing. This tells the bees where the food is and ______   it is.

Some animals show ______ they feel by making sounds. It is not difficult to tell if a dog is angry because it barks. Birds make several different sounds and ______ has its meaning. Sometimes we humans make songs in the same way we make sounds like “Oh” to ______   how we feel about ______or we ______something on our feet.

We humans have languages. We have words. These words have meanings of things, actions, feelings, or ideas. We are able to ______each other information , to tell other people ______ we think about or how we feel. By writing down words, we can remember what has happened or______messages to people far away.

Languages, like people, live and die. If a language is not used by people, it is called a dead language. This language cannot live and grow because ______ speaks it.

A living language, of course, is often spoken by people today. It grows and changes with time. New words are created, and some old words have______ meanings.

4 . Julia Jarman’s family was upset when she was diagnosed(诊断)with cancer. But soon, her grandson Vigil made a plan to fill Jarman’s last days with an unforgettable_________.

When Vigil’s high school prom(舞会)was_________， his sister said: “Why don’t you just take Grandma to the prom?” Hearing his sister’s _________，the17-year-old immediately remembered that Jarman had_________ been to a prom. But his school had a(n)_________that students could only have partners under 20，so Vigil first_________the principal(校长)of his school to ask him if he could bring his grandmother. Luckily，the principal gave him_________. Excited, the teenager asked his granny if she would like to_________ the first prom of her life，and she_________   the invitation.

While other teenagers walked into the venue with girls of their __________，Vigil entered with his grandmother on his arm. At first, Vigil wasn’t sure how his schoolmates would __________ to watching him dance with Jarman. Later, he was __________to see everyone welcomed her.

The DJ played Jarman’s favorite song. Vigil recalled the __________moment: “She almost had me crying as she was singing it along with me while we were dancing.”

Vigil’s mother felt proud of him for putting in the__________ to please his grandmother. The teenager said: “My grandmother is my best friend; I just wanted to do something__________ for her.’’

“That night was wonderful,” Jarman revealed.

5 . As Gwen Erickson approached 97, she began raising one of America’s most popular, yet endangered butterflies—the monarch butterfly (帝王蝶). She managed to _________ 27 butterflies last year and this year the _________ has gone up to 61.

The whole process is a little _________, beginning with collecting eggs from the milkweed leaves that grow in her backyard. Four days after Erickson placed the eggs in jars on her living room table, the caterpillar (毛毛虫) appeared, and then, within several weeks, formed a chrysalis (蛹). Two weeks later the beautiful butterflies _________. Erickson then released the butterflies into the wild, but a couple seemed a little _________ to leave their loving home and _________ the senior by flying around the house.

Erickson remembered her first attempt to raise _________ and said she hoped it could enable her grandchildren to _________ an interest in these beautiful insects. However, it’s she who has found the _________ in raising butterflies in the end.

Erickson doesn’t like to talk about herself and what she does, but she does so this time as she wants to ____________ others to care for this endangered species. Happily, a friend and her son have joined her in her new-found ____________. Hopefully, we will see a(n) ____________ in those decreasing numbers.

This new ____________ is a fine example of people caring for the smaller things in life. It ____________ us that it’s never too late to be ____________ in life.

6 . We all know that “Practice makes perfect (熟能生巧) ” is a very popular saying both in Chinese and English. It means that if you want to learn ________, you have to practice (练习) it many times, and then you may remember

________ you learn. Also we can say the more you know something, ________ you can do it. No matter (无论) what we do, those words are very ________ to us.

We can take English study ________ an example. If we want to learn some new words by heart, we must learn them and read them again and again ________ we can remember them. Sometimes it will ________ a lot of time for us to remember, but once we remember, we can use them freely. If we ________ our best, we will do it very well. When you take an English exam and ________ some meanings and usages (用法) you don’t remember, how will you feel

________ that time? You must feel sorry. So English study means that you ________ practice (练习) more and more.

We can look at ________ example in learning. When we read the same story for many times, we can remember it ________ well that we can tell it to others. At the same time, we can also ________ some stories from what we have heard. So in our study and life, we should keep the sentence “Practice makes perfect” in our ________. In this way, we can study well and live a better life.

7 . Last year my school tried a new way to get students to behave better in class. It’s called the “secret student”, and the idea is to _________ good behavior. If your class gets enough _________, they’ll get a prize at the end of the year.

Here’s what _________. Every morning the class teacher chooses a _________ student at random — by picking a name from a box. The person _________ the class all day. In every lesson the teacher _________ him or her and gives a tick for good or a cross for bad behavior. At the end of the _________, the class is awarded a point if the secret student has got more ticks than _________.

The _________ thing about this system is that if you were the secret student you wouldn’t know, so everyone has to behave well to __________ the class gets a point. The teachers only __________ the identity of that day’s secret student if they get a point.

The __________ makes everyone feel their behavior has an __________ on the whole class. It also means students encourage each other to behave well. The teachers also warn students who start behaving __________. In the end everyone becomes more responsible and it brings the class together. It certainly worked in my class. Our __________ was much better and we got enough points for a day at a theme park, where we had a great time.