1 . People often feel upset because airline companies always lose their suitcases when they fly. It has never happened to me. But something even worse happened to my family recently.

About ten years ago my mum got a job _________ at a university in Thailand. At first she only went for six months. Later because she really liked it, she agreed to stay _________, so my father and I went to live with her in Thailand. We had a great time, but last year my _________ decided that they wanted to return to the UK. We had been there so long. So we wanted _________ a lot of things back with us-all the furniture from our house, in fact. So Mum and Dad went to a shipping company. Workers in the company took everything back in one of those big containers that you see on ships. The container looks like a big green metal box. The _________ put everything into it: the armchairs and sofas, the TV, wardrobes, desks, even all the rugs and curtains. Our whole house was inside that big green metal box.

We flew back to the UK and _________ for the container to arrive. About ten weeks later, we were having _________ one morning when a big lorry arrived outside our house. On the back was a big green metal box. We were so _________. The men _________ the box and started to take out our things. But they weren’t our things. The container was full of gym equipment. It was the __________ one. We were so sad. But the story has a happy ending. The men took the container and gym equipment away, and about two months ago our things finally arrived

One day a farmer went out for a walk     1    his little son. The farmer wore a pair of wrong shoes. One had thick shoe (厚鞋底)    2    the other didn’t. He    3     （begin) to walk and then his    4    (foot) hurt. When he was just out of the house, he turned to his son and said, “Why is one of my legs    5    long) than the other today?”

The son looked at his father’s legs     6    (careful) as he was walking and then laughed, “Oh, no, Daddy. Your legs are all right. You are wearing the wrong shoes.” The farmer was very happy to hear that and said to himself, “    7     a clever son!” Then he asked     8     (he) son to go back and got the other pair of shoes for him. The farmer had only two pairs of shoes.

When the son ran back to the house, he     9     (find) that the other pair was also a wrong pair. He had to return to his father with nothing in his hands and said, “It’s no use     10     (change) them, Daddy! The shoes at home are not a pair, either!”