3 . Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it _________. She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive _________, but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel _________.

They’re part of a new form of the _________ economy (经济): an online group of house sitters.

Throughout their no-cost stays in _________ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s _________.

It’s not all sightseeing. The two travellers carefully _________ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to _________. But house sitting also offers a level of _________ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like __________ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says.

The couple has a high __________ rate in getting accepted as house sitters and they always go beyond the homeowner’s __________. For Jessica, that means __________ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house __________ and leaving a nice small gift before heading to the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right, __________” she says.

4 . My parents were very nice people. My mother moved to America from her hometown on her own when she was a little child. My dad was sort of a street kid, and he eventually went into the _________ business, selling nickel policies door-to-door. It was the 1930s, a time when America had a lot more _________ than it is now.

One day, my dad asked his boss, “What’s the _________ market to sell?” and the insurance guy replied, “Well, black people. They don’t buy insurance.” My dad thought: They had kids; they had _________. Why wouldn’t they buy insurance? So he said, “Give me Harlem (黑人住宅区).” He _________ the Harlem territory and sold nickel policies; every Friday, he would _________ and collect the nickel and give his customers a receipt on the policy.

When my dad died in 1994, I talked about him on The Tonight Show. I told the story of how he worked in Harlem and how he always taught us to be _________ and not to say or think racist things. Then one day, I got a _________ from a woman who was about 75 years old.

She wrote that when she was a little girl, a man used to come to her house to collect on policies, and he would always bring her a lollipop. She said this man was the _________ white person she had ever had dinner with in her house __________ she got to be almost an adult. The man was very kind to her, she said, and his name was Angelo — was this my father?

Her words made me cry. I __________ the woman and said yes, that was in fact my dad, and she told me how kind he had been to her family. Her whole attitude toward white people was __________ that one nice man she met in her childhood, who always __________ her with kindness and respect and always gave her a piece of candy and asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. From this experience, I learned a __________ life lesson, to never __________ people and to be kind to others.

6 . About five days ago, my back started tightening in the middle region. A couple of days ago, I was trapped in my bed, unable to ______ . I hated the looks from my doctor for symptoms that Western technology can’t handle ______ . So here I was, determined to make an ______ at an Eastern medicine school for my first experience getting acupuncture (针灸) .

It was a ______ experience. The room looked no different from a Western medicine examination room. The ______ ancient healing art of acupuncture was amazing. However, it ______ Western medicine in the way they sought to treat me.

Chinese medicine ______   to regard the patient’s symptoms as a whole. I was asked about things in my ______ life, from my sleep patterns to my physical processes, to current life stressors. Then the medical student ______ a plan with the doctor. They came back, asked me to lie on my ______ , and started placing the needles. The needles didn’t hurt. I could barely feel their ______ .

After they placed the needles, the doctor asked me how I felt. I told her I couldn’t feel any pain. This actually ______ that I was responding well to the treatment. So they ______ me in the room with a heat lamp for about twenty minutes. When the appointment was over, I felt super ______ . I would highly recommend this treatment option for anybody who thinks they may ______ .

8 . I was said to be the worst student in my class and my family thought I was hopeless. I had to _________ sixth grade. At that time a new teacher, Miss Sadia, came to our school.

One day after class, she _________ that I was staying alone during the lunch break. She came to me and began to talk to me. It was just a normal conversation. After that day, she gave me particular _________ and it made me feel special. I started to work hard because she gave me the feeling that someone believed me. So my _________ started to improve in her subject.

Months later, she moved into a house near my _________. We would walk home together after school. Her constant support helped me, _________ in my studies. I knew she would check my grades both in her subject and the other subjects. So I tried my best and finally _________ second in my class.

Then, after sixth grade, she started to drift apart (逐渐疏远) _________ still kept a constant check on me. By the time I was in seventh grade, we hardly spoke. But by then I had become the _________ in my class. When I left school, I lost _________with her. As she never answered the _________ when I called her.

Then I graduated and went to a good university. One fine day, our paths _________ again. I met her at a wedding. I could not _________asking her, “Why did you stop talking to me?”

“You are a clever boy. I wanted you to be a tree _________ on your own roots, not depending on others. Now here you are and I feel _________ of you. You are your inspiration and do not need to look for a shoulder,” she said. I could not say anything, but I smiled. I’ll always thank her.

9 . The most unforgettable thing during my long summer holiday last year, of course was my trip ________ England. This was my first time to go abroad, so it really made me ________.

There were quite a lot of interesting places in England, ________ Oxford (牛津). When we walked around Oxford, we saw quite a lot of ancient buildings on ________ sides of the streets. One of the most famous tourist ________ in Oxford is Christ Church, it’s ________ one of the Oxford University’s 39 colleges. There is a huge hall in Christ Church, which was ________ as the dining hall at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter ________. I felt really excited when I heard this.

________ place that impressed me ________ during my trip was a place called Stratford upon Avon. It was a small town. Maybe you haven’t ________ it, but I’m sure you have heard about William Shakespeare — it’s the great man’s ________. In Srtatford upon Avon, I could ________ Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Shakespeare Countryside Museum, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and a lot of places that are connected with ________. I went to Shakespeare’s Birthplace. It was the house ________ Shakespeare was born and spent his early years.

I really enjoyed this nice trip to England, from which I learned a lot. I’m very happy that I could visit such an interesting country. I want to go there again in the future.

10 . Do you know how many languages there are in the world? There are about 5,500 languages, but many of them are not considered very_______. English is considered one of the most important languages because many people_______it, not only in the UK and the US, _______in other countries of the world. About 375 million people speak it_______their own language, and another 750 million people use it as a_______language. It is _______to say how many people are learning it. Millions of boys and girls in schools are trying to do so.

Many children in English-speaking countries _______French. French is also a very important language. Some children learn languages like German, Chinese, Japanese and Russian, among which Chinese is getting more and more popular.

Which is the best_______to learn a language? We know that we all learnt the native language well when we were children. If we learn a second language in the_______way, it may not seem so difficult. What does a small child do? He ________what people say, and he tries to guess what he hears. When he wants something, he has to________it. He is using the language, ________ and talking in it at all times. If people use a second language ________, they will learn it________ .

In school, you learn to read, to write, to hear and to________. It is best to learn all new words through the ears. You can read them, spell them and speak them later.