1.It was a dark night when I was coming back from my aunt’s house. I was very sad because my mom refused to buy me an ice cream. Suddenly I saw a young boy and his little sister w___ near me. The moment I looked at the little girl, she gave me a big smile. It___ to smile but I could not. Their c___ were dirty and the girl did not wear shoes. It was clear that they were very p___. I asked my parents if I could give my shoes to the little girl. They a___. The moment I gave her the shoes, she shouted h___. I felt happy, too. Then the boy and the girl said g___ to me and left. Suddenly the brother came back and gave me a balloon(气球) because they sold balloons. I refused to take it because I felt that I was too o___ for a balloon. Then I thought maybe he wanted to thank me in some way. So f___ I took the balloon, the most special g___ in my life. I stood there and watched them walk away in the dark, with a smile on my face. 1.________ 2.________ 3._______ 4._______ 5._______ 6.________ 7.________ 8._______ 9._______ 10._______
2.A famous speaker was in such a hurry to go to an important dinner. When he arrived and sat down at the head table, he suddenly r____ that he had forgotten to take his false teeth. Turning to a man n____ to him, he said, “I forget to take my teeth. Could you help me?” The man said, “No p____ .” He took out a pair of false teeth from his pocket. “Try these,” he said. The speaker tried them. “Too loose(松的).”He said. The man then replied, “I have a____ pair. Try these.” The speaker tried them and said, “Too tight.”
The man s____ very patient and then said, “I have one more pair of false teeth. Try them.” After putting them on, the speaker cheered, “Perfect! They f____ me very well.” Then he gave his address to the man and began enjoying his m_____ . After the dinner, the speaker went over to thank the man who had h_____ him. “I want to thank you for your help. Where is your office? I’ve been l____ for a good dentist.” The man’s face t____ red, “Sorry, I’m not A dentist. I’m the local undertaker(殡仪员).” 1.________ 2.________ 3._______ 4._______ 5._______ 6.________ 7.________ 8._______ 9._______ 10._______
3.Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas , was a school boy who has much interest in computer. One day, he was sending an e-mail to A friend on the internet. Suddenly he r____ A message saying “Help! Pain! Help!” The message was from Finland(芬兰),t____ of kilometers away from America. “I didn’t know w____ I should do,” Dean said to a reporter. “It was really difficult to tell if the message was real.” So Dean did n____ at first. But the message kept coming. “By then it was easy to see that someone was in t____,”Dean explained. He replied and discovered that the sender was a student c____ Tarija, who was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was w_____ , there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by e-mail. Dean got in t____ with the police immediately. And an ambulance(救护车)r_____ to the library. Luckily, she was still a_____ and was sent to the hospital quickly. “I’m glad she’s OK,” Dean said. “It’s hard to believe, but the e-mail saved her life.” 1.________ 2.________ 3._______ 4._______ 5._______ 6.________ 7.________ 8._______ 9._______ 10._______
4.“What are you busy with yourself, mom?” the girl of six years old asked her mother. “Making dinner for the neighbor aunt.” “Why?” “Because the other day the aunt l____ her dear daughter in the earthquake and is so sad now. we must take g____ care of her these days.” “why does she n____ our care?”?” “Because from then on the aunt can’t do what she liked to along with her daughter. Making dinner and doing housework are also becoming so d_______. I don’t know what to do. My dear, can you come up with an i_____ to make the aunt feel better?” All of a sudden, the girl went to the neighbor’s house and k_____ at the door. “What can I do for you?” asked the neighbor. “I h_____ my mother say you’re very sad without your daughter.” The girl handed the Band-Aid(创可贴)tightly h_____ in her hand to the neighbor. Tears ran down from the neighbor’s eyes. She took the girl in her a______ and said, “Thank you. Your Band-Aid will h______.”
5.A man took a pair of shoes to a shoe repair shop and said the shoemaker, “I’d like you to repair these shoes for me, please.” “C______ , sir,” the shoemaker said. “When will they be r_____ ?” the man asked. “I’m a bit busy, but they’ll be probably ready for you on Thursday,” he said. “That’s fine,” the man said, and l_____ the shop. The next morning he received a letter, o_____ him a job in another country. Within 24 hours he was on an airplane to his new job. Twenty years p_____ and he returned to his hometown. He remembered his shoes. “They were a good pair of shoes,” he thought. “I w_____ if the shoemaker is still there and still has them. I’ll go and see.” He was p_____ to see that the shoemaker was still in the same shop, although he was an old man by now. “Good morning,” he said to him. “Twenty years ago, I b______ in a pair of shoes to be repaired. Do you think you’ve still got them?” “N______ ?” the old shoemaker asked. “Smith,” the man said. “I’ll go and see. They may be out back.” The shoemaker went out to the b_____ of his shop and a few minutes later returned, carrying the pair of shoes. “Here we are, “he said. “One pair of brown shoes to be repaired. I’m a bit busy now, but they’ll probably be ready on Thursday.” 1.________ 2.________ 3._______ 4._______ 5._______ 6.________ 7.________ 8._______ 9._______ 1
