2 . Everyone needs water and a diet of healthy foods. These foods should contain some fat, some fiber, a little salt and so on.

People need energy to live. They eat all kinds of foods _________ change into energy. Our bodies use different amounts (数量) of energy. The energy is measured in calories (卡路里). The more _________ we take, the more calories we burn. Even when you are _________, you are using energy — about 65 calories an hour. While you are at school, or walking home, your body is _________ up 100 calories an hour. When playing football or basketball, you might be using 400 calories an hour. On Sports Day, during the relay race, you will use most of all, perhaps as much as 650 calories an hour.

The Chinese diet is considered to be the healthiest in the world. It contains a lot of fruit and green vegetables. It is _________ in fiber and low in sugar and fat. The Chinese eat less sugar than many other countries in the world. That is 36 lots of people in China have white teeth.

People in the Western world do not eat such healthy foods. They eat too much fat and sugar and don’t take _________ exercise. _________ this, they _________ very easily. In order to _________ with the quick pace (步伐) of their life and work, they eat a lot of fast food. They eat a lot of sweets, soft drinks, potato crisps, chocolate, butter and ice cream and so on, which are called __________ food by some epicureans (美食家). The result is that many of them become fat. In order to avoid becoming fat and keep fit it is advisable (明智的) to eat a balanced diet and not eat too many foods that have a high calorie rating.

3 . The Value of an Hour

It was Thanksgiving morning. In the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey _____ the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in _____ clothes and thin little sandals (凉鞋), staying together at the door on the top step.

“Any old _____ , lady?” asked one of them.

I was _____. I wanted to say “no” until my eyes _____ their sandals, which were wet with heavy snow.

“_____ and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”

They walked _____ and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the _____. I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight _____ the freezing cold outside.

The girl put her cup back in its saucer (托盘) ______ and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” They left after that, holding their papers against the wind. They hadn’t said “Thank you.” They didn’t need to. They had ______ me that I had so much for which to be grateful. Plain blue china cups and saucers were ______ worth five pence. But they matched.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and ______ the living room. The muddy (沾上泥的) ______ of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to ______ how rich I am.

4 . I take the train to work every morning from a train station near my house. I can get to the station quite easily because there is a short_______ to the station. But in summer, it can get quite smelly because of all the _______. So I always try to _______ through it. Today I was trying to do so as usual when something made me stop for a moment. I saw the most beautiful act by an old woman walking in front of me with the help of a white _______.

She was short and _______ and had white hair. She was walking slowly as each _______ took some effort. I hadn’t specially _______ her at first, until she stopped near a rubbish bin.

She slowly placed her walking stick against the rubbish bin. Then she leaned (斜倚着) on it with her right hand. She bent down and _______ the rubbish. She clearly found it _______ and it took her a while. She picked some rubbish with her left hand and slowly straightened (伸直) herself up again. All the while she used the rubbish bin to ________ herself. She threw the rubbish inside the bin and then ________ walking. It all took her great effort.

There’s so much rubbish and no one ever does anything about it. I was ________ to see this old woman make such a great effort to keep even a small part of it ________! I haven’t been able to ________ thinking about that all day.

I want to follow her ________. I’ve decided to pick up rubbish off the ground if I meet from now on. I hope people will do the same as I do.

5 . My aunt came to my home with her six-year-old daughter Alice this morning. While my aunt was talking with my mom, my cousin felt a bit _______. So I suggested I went out with her. My aunt happily _______. We went to the park together. There we bought two _______ and started flying them. She jumped up and down and I knew she was _______ having great fun. And I must admit I haven’t enjoyed myself like that for a long time.

Later, we sat down on a bench, looking at the gardens. As we were _______ there, Alice said, “What a great day today!” I smiled at her and agreed. I then started thinking about what we had done that day. We did something quite _______, yet we were very happy.

Many people wait for their “best days”. But I think today is our _______ day. That’s a lesson I learn today. As adults, we often make plans _______ in order to have a great day. Some people think they can have a nice day through spending a lot of _______. I think we should be more like ________. They don’t think about money or what will happen tomorrow. They ________ live in the moment and enjoy the moment!

We often hear the expression that we should live in the ________. How do we do that? We’re not doing such a ________job. Remember today is important as we are exchanging a day of our ________ for it. Yesterday is a history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a ________. That’s why it is called present. So seize the day!

7 . Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to _________ a passenger at 2:30am. When I arrived to collect, I found the building was dark except for a single _________ in a ground floor window. I walked to the door and knocked. “Just a minute,” answered a _________, elderly voice.

After a _________ pause (停留), the door opened at last. A small woman in her eighties stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase. I took the suitcase to the car, and then _________ to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked _________ toward the car. She kept thanking me for my _________ .”It’s nothing,” I told her. “I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother treated.’’

“Oh, you’re such a good man,” she said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me a/an _________ , and then asked, “Could you drive through downtown? ”

“It’s not the shortest way,” I answered quickly.

“Oh, I’m in no hurry,” she said. I’m on my way to a hospice (临终医院). I don’t have any _________ left. The doctor says I don’t have a chance of living very long. I quietly reached over and shut off the meter (计价表). For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She __________ me the building where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived, and the furniture shop where she had gone dancing as a girl. Sometimes she’d ask me to __________ in front of a special building and would sit looking straight into the __________ , saying nothing.

At dawn (黎明), she suddenly said, “I’m tired. Let’s go now.”

We drove __________ to the address she had given me.

“How much do I pay for you?” she asked. “Nothing,” I said. “You have to make a living ,” she answered .

“Oh, there are other passengers,” I answered. Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a __________.

She held onto me tightly. Our hug ended with her remark, “You gave an old woman a little moment of __________.”

8 . The teacher blew the whistle and 30 girls started running. Every kid’s goal was to reach the end of the field and then run back to the _______ point. Those who got the top three _______ would be given awards.

Kids’ parents were present there, _______ them. When kids were running back from the end point, the parents’ _______got louder…

The race _______. The kids who took first three places were _______ their hands happily to their parents. The kids who couldn’t win were _______.

Little Emma finished fifth. She ran towards her father sadly. Her father said, “Well done, baby. Let’s go and eat the ice cream as a reward for _______ the race.”

“But Papa, I didn’t _______ any place in the top three. I came in fifth,” said Emma.

“I mean you beat the other 25 kids. This time, you didn’t ________ the four kids ahead of you.”

“Why?” asked Emma.

Her father smiled and replied, “Because they had made more ________ than you. If you ________ more, you will do better.”

“I’ll practice even ________ and run faster. I’ll beat all girls,” Emma said with ________.

Her father said, “Great. But ________, it’s not about getting ahead of others but getting ahead of yourself.”