1 . I am a girl, but I was born to be a rebel (叛逆者). I like games that can be _________. Some of the sports I like, even boys won’t play!

Wrestling (摔跤)is _________ seen as a sport for men, but I _________ to see if I could do it. Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed early to go and watch my brother_________. From morning to night, I would sit watching the boys have all the fun. Since then, wrestling has been part of my _________.

For three years, I beat all the boys and became the best player in the team. My _________ memory of wrestling is when a boy walked off _________ because he’d lost to a girl. My last match was at this year’s Girls’ State Wrestling Championships. I was so _________. I was sure I would win. My heart was beating hard when the match started. I could see _________ but my competitor. When the final whistle(口哨) blew, I had ____________ by four points. The cameras and ____________ all turned to me: I was the new wrestling champion. I felt so happy. But after a few minutes of enjoying being a champion, ____________ began to run through my knee. Because I hurt my knee, my ____________ of being a national champion ended. Even so, I won’t lose heart and still want to wrestle next year when I go to college. I have ____________ that you can do anything you want if you stay positive and put your ____________ into it.

3 . There are times when people are so tired that they fall asleep almost anywhere. We can see there is a lot of sleeping on the bus or train on the ______ home from work in the evenings. A man will be reading the newspaper, and seconds later it ______ as if he is trying to ______ it. Or he will fall asleep on the shoulder of the stranger ______ next to him. Another place where unplanned short sleep ______ is in the lecture hall where a student will start snoring(打鼾) so ______ that the professor has to ask another student to ______ the sleeper awake. A more embarrassing situation occurs when a student starts falling into sleep and the weight of the head pushes the arm off the ______, and the movement carries the ______ of the body along. The student wakes up on the floor with no memory of getting there. The worst time to fall asleep is when ______. Police reports are full of ______ that occur when people fall into sleep and go off the road. If the drivers are ______, they will not be seriously hurt.One woman’s car,______, went into the river. She woke up in four feet of ______ and thought it was raining. When people are really ______, nothing will stop them from falling asleep—no matter where they are.

4 . Even though my grandfather was a farmer, my grandmother would iron (熨烫) his work clothes every day. She would sprinkle (喷洒) grandpa’s _______with something, hang them over a chair so they could dry a bit, and then iron them. I _______ her do this through my childhood. I thought every old woman in the world did it. But as the years passed, I began to _______ this practice. Why did grandfather need his work clothes   _______? Most days, he never met anyone but me and a few other farmers.

One day I asked grandma about it. She told me that grandpa was the most _______ man in the world, and he was the _______ of her life.

Later that day, I looked closely at grandpa. He sure didn’t look all that handsome to me. He was a short and skinny man. His hair was _______ on top, and his false teeth didn’t line up very well when he smiled. So I _______ grandma about it again. I informed her I had observed grandpa. She _______ and said, “You just aren’t viewing things from the right perspective (角度). Those eye wrinkles haven’t always been there. He has beautiful blue eyes.” She ________,“I want him to feel beautiful. I iron his clothes every day ________ he has made me feel beautiful for all these years. He is a man worthy of ________．” I heard what she said and was still puzzled. How could this old woman think that an old man with false ________ was beautiful?

The years went on, and I watched grandma and grandpa grow old together. I ________ knew what beauty really was — it was grandma ironing grandpa’s pants. I was ashamed and decided to ________ the question I had asked.

5 . I think that sleeping is the most wonderful thing in the world. While asleep, I do nothing but close my eyes, _______ all my work behind. In fact, I have to get up early _______ every morning.

My classes begin at 8: 00, but the teacher asks us to arrive before 7:15, so we have _______ time to prepare for the class. If you are late, you will _______ one point. And when you reach 10 points, _______visit to school will be demanded. _______ I think it’s silly, I still don’t want to lose any point.

One morning, my alarm clock _______. I woke up and found that it was already 7: 00. Even worse, I lost six points in a _______, that is to say, I was late every day that week. My teacher said that he now_______me to be late again. My friends joked that my ________ was coming soon. I finally ________ to do something. I bought a new alarm clock. It sings songs for five minutes before I shut it ________.

It’s perfect for a ________ cat like me. The first time I used it I ________ got up at 6: 00 the next morning. ________ of myself, I took a deep breath and found that the early morning air is surprisingly __________. I did some reading, ________ that English is really beautiful. I hadn’t ________ before that the morning was so wonderful.

From that I’ve learned sometimes we should break our ________. You may find that a new way can ________ things for the better.

6 . Agatha Christie would never forget the night when she met a robber (抢劫者) many years ago. That evening, she went to a birthday party which ________ until two o’clock in the morning. Agatha walked in the ________ street alone. Suddenly from the back of a dark ________ a tall man with a sharp knife in his right hand ran out at her. “Good ________ , lady,” the man said in a low voice. “I don’t think you wish to ________ here!” “What do you want?” “Your earrings. Take them off!”

Agatha suddenly had a ________ idea. She tried to cover her necklace with the collar (衣领) of her overcoat while she used ________ hand to take off both of her earrings and then quickly ________ them on the ground.

“Take them and let me go,” she said. The robber thought that the girl didn’t like the earrings at all, only trying to ________ the necklace. It would cost ________ , so he said, “Give me your necklace. ”

“Oh, sir. It doesn’t ________ much. Please let me wear it. ”

“I’m not that ________ . Quick!”

With shaking ________ , Agatha took off her necklace. As soon as the robber left, she picked up her earrings and ran as ________ as she could to one of her friends. The earrings cost 480 pounds and the necklace the robber had taken away cost ________ six pounds.

7 . Like any parent, Belle, the mother of a six-year-old boy, wanted her son to grow up and fulfill all his dreams. That was not _________ any longer now. Her son was _________ of a serious disease. But she still wanted her son’s dream to come true. She took her son’s hand and asked, “Bopsy, have you ever _________ what you want to be when you grow up?” “Mommy, I always want to be a _________.”

Later that day, she went to the local _________ department (部门). She _________ her son’s final wish and asked if they could do her a favor to give her son a _________ on a fire truck. Fireman Bob said, “Perhaps we can do _________ that.”

Three days later, fireman Bob came to _________ Bopsy on a fire truck. __________ he even brought the boy a small-sized fire __________. Then Bopsy got dressed and got on the truck back to the fire station. There were three fire __________ that day and Bopsy joined them in performing the tasks. With his dream coming true, the boy __________ three months longer than doctors had expected.

Yet one night all of his vital (生命的) signs began to weaken __________. The mother called the fire station again and asked if the firefighters could come to the hospital to be with Bopsy. About five minutes later, the fire truck arrived. The firemen held the boy’s hands, telling him he was a real fireman. In the touching moment, Bopsy smiled and __________ his eyes.