1 . Do you know how rice first came to China? There is an old Chinese story. It is about a little girl _________ went out to fish. There was a famine (饥荒) and everybody was very _________.The little girl felt her net growing heavy and was very happy. _________, it was the King of Frogs that she caught. When the frog knew the girl wanted _________ to eat, the frog promised _________ her. The frog let her hold out her fishing net to the _________ and he would sing a magic song. The little girl _________ his instructions. She was greatly surprised to see the sunshine falling _________ the net. And it was changed into golden grains (谷粒) of rice. The first rice was thought to arrive _________ this way.

We do not know __________ this story is true or not, but it tells us that rice has the __________ value as gold to the Chinese. Rice is always the main food for the Chinese. For __________, much land has been devoted (奉献) to rice-planting and many Chinese people are __________.They work very hard for each grain.

Waste can bring lots of problems. Although China is __________ in some resources (资源), we are short of others. In some other parts of the world, people even don’t have enough food to eat. It’s important to __________ food and say no to waste. Waste can be stopped if we do our best.

2 . The Great Wall of China is one of the greatest wonders of the world. With a ________of more than 2, 000 years, some parts of the Great Wall have disappeared. ________, it is still a very popular place of interest.

It is the ________wall ever built. It is about 8 meters high. The top is 8 meters wide and it ________even wider at the bottom. It is made ________stone and brick. People built it by ________and it took a long time to finish.

No one knows ________when the building of the Great Wall was started. It is believed that the wall was built to ________parts of the country in the old days. It also made people live a (n) ________life.

Today, many of the visitors go to see the Great Wall. ________they stand on top of a tower and look down on this wall, they can’t help saying, “Wow, that’s fantastic!”

3 . Lucy and Matts mum is a doctor. The children and their dad were ______ last Monday evening.

Mum ______ and said, “I ______ do some more work here at the hospital. Ask Dad ______ your dinner.”

“Oh no!” said Matt, “Dad ______ cook!”

The family ______ some food in the kitchen cupboards. They found some onion, potatoes and ______.

“What can we make with these?” asked Matt. “I’m very ______! I think I could eat a horse!” Then Lucy said, “I know! We can make ______.” Matt was not happy. He said “I don’t like soup. I want pasta and meatballs!” “Sorry, Matt,” Dad said. “We haven’t got any pasta or meatballs. We ______ have these vegetables to eat for dinner.”

Lucy and Dad made the soup. Then the ______ of them sat down and started eating. Lucy asked Matt, “So, ______ do you think?” “It’s fantastic! I ______ it!” Matt answered.

“Can I have ______ bowl of soup, please?” ______they all laughed. What an able cook Dad is!