What a day! This morning, I was worried that no one would talk to me. But I was wrong. I didn’t feel awkward or f    1     at all. I miss my friends from junior high school, but I believe I will make new friends here, and there’s a lot to e    2     at senior high. I feel much more c    3     than I felt this morning. I think that tomorrow will be a great day!

I r    4     that you talk to your friend about his behavior. It is not unusual for teenagers of your generation to be a    5     computer games and the online world. But spending too much time online is unhealthy and makes it very difficult to focus on other things in life. Some students even become a    6     the Internet and cannot c    7     school and family life.

A short f    8     from Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there, you’ll spend one day travelling by boat to your a    9     in the middle of the forest. You can then spend three days exploring the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals u    10     the rainforest.

On Jan 26, 2020, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, together with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others was killed in a helicopter c    1     near Los Angeles. He was at the age of 41.

He entered the NBA directly when out of high school in 1996 and led the Los Angeles Lakers to win five NBA championships. He       2    (正式地) retired after the season in 2016. Bryant accomplished a lot of matches in his 20-year career with the Lakers. Undoubtedly, he made a d    3    in NBA history.

“Kobe Bryant was a giant (巨人), who inspired, amazed, and thrilled people everywhere with his incomparable skills on the court, and made an i    4    on us with his     5    (智慧) and optimism as a father, husband, creative genius, and an ambassador for the game he loved,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted (在推特上发微博).

“He will live forever in the hearts of Los Angeles,     6    he? This is a moment     7    leaves us     8     (struggle) to find words that express the shock and sorrow we are all feeling right now,” Garcetti said.

NBA     9    (运动员), officials and fans mourned (哀悼) the loss of Bryant. People     10    (视为) him as a legend.

Your problem is a c    1     one among middle school students. Maybe the following a    2     can help you. First of all, b    3     in yourself. Your greatest problem is that you lack self-confidence. The first thing you must do is to s    4     at your classmates. One smile speaks louder about your wish to make friends than any words. Your smile will s    5     that you are f    6     to them. Next, t    7     talking with a student who is as shy as you or who s    8     the same interest as you. You can discuss your studies with a classmate and you can talk about your h    9     as well. If anyone is in trouble, you should be ready to help him or her. Once you have confidence, you can make as many friends as p    10    .   

Yours

Lily

Many     1     (music) meet and form a band because they like to write and play their own music. They may start     2     a group of high-school students, for     3     practicing their music in someone’s house is the first step to fame. Sometimes they may play to     4     (passer-by) in the street or subway so that they can earn some money for themselves or to pay for their instruments. Later they may give performances in pubs or clubs, for which they     5     (pay) in cash.

Daisy smiled. “That’s good news. It shows the     1     (important) of wildlife protection, but I’d like to help as the WWF suggests.” The carpet rose again and almost at once they were in a thick rainforest. A monkey watched them as it     2     (rub) itself. “What are you doing?” asked Daisy. “I’m protecting myself     3     mosquitoes,” it replied. “When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It     4     (contain) a powerful drug     5     affects mosquitoes.”

Many musicians may start as a group of high-school students,    1     practicing their music in someone’s house is the first step to    2    . Sometimes they may play to passers-by in the street or subway so that they can earn some extra money to pay for their instruments. Later they may give    3     in pubs or clubs, for which they are paid     4    .

I have the greatest job in the world. I study     1     (volcano) and I travel to     2     (usual) places and meet interesting people from all over the world. I am never bored. I find that the volcano eruption     3     (it) is really exciting     4     (watch) and I should never forget my first sight of one. It was in the second week after I arrived in Hawaii.     5     (work) hard all day, I went to bed early. I was fast asleep when suddenly my bedroom began shaking and I heard a strange sound, like a railway train passing my window. Having experienced quite a few earthquakes in Hawaii already, I didn’t take much notice. I was about to go back to sleep     6     suddenly my bed room became as bright as day. I ran out of the house into the back garden     7     I could see Mountain Kilauea     8     the distance. There had been an eruption from the side of the mountain and red hot lava was     9     (fountain) hundreds of meters into the air. It was     10     absolutely fantastic sight.

I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years before I was built as an analytical machine. After I was programmed by an operator who used cards with holes, I could “think”     1     and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a     2     and the start of my “artificial intelligence”.