-1-My husband and I are very lucky. We have close friends in this city, and they are all interesting people.Our first friend Greta is an a____1____. We see her when she isn’t making a movie in Hollywood. When we meet her, she always tells us about her l____2____ in Hollywood as a movie star. Greta is our very close friend. We like her very much.Our second friend Dan is a scientist. We see him when he isn’t busy in his lab. When we get together with hi, he always tells us about his new e____3____.Bob and Carol are also our friends. They are famous newspaper r____4____. Bob is 46 years old and Carol is 50 years old. We see them when they aren’t travelling around the world.However, we don't see Greta, Dan, Bob, and Carol very often. In f____5____, we seldom see them b____6____ they’re usually so busy. But we think about them a____7____ the time.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-2-My favorite shop is c____1____ “Model World”. It is located on the second f____2____ of Happy Plaza. It is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day.“Model World”s____3____ all kinds of models. It has model soldiers, cars, boats, planes, space rockets and even dinosaurs. It has models for people of all age.The shop assistants at “Model World”are very nice. They are quite interested in making models t____4____. They will give you useful a____5____ and they are pleased to answer all of your questions. The prices there are neither very cheap nor e____6____.My best buy was a model of a helicopter. It cost me $240, but it had over 400 pieces. It was really f____7____ to make models. If you are interested in models, you should visit this shop.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-3-People began making clocks over 500 years ago. The first clocks had o____1____ one hand — the hour hand. The minute hand appeared at a later time. The first clocks were big and heavy. Some rich people had servants to c____2____ their clocks. Time p____3____ and clocks became smaller. Clockmakers were able to make smaller parts for clocks and the sizes were reduced.Bells became a p____4____ of some large clocks in cities and towns. They were for people unable to s____5____ the clock. Some clocks were put in large towers. Many of these clocks s____6____ exist today in Europe. Some of them are 400 to 500 years old. Big Ben in London is a very famous tower clock.The first alarm clocks were used by monks(僧人) to w____7____ them for prayers(祈祷). Today many clocks even alarm clocks are electric.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-4-Early men did not have clocks. They told time by the sun and the shadows of trees. Then, they placed sticks in the ground instead of t_____1_____. They made marks on the ground, and the s_____2_____ from the sticks told the time of day. Later, men began to use sundials(日晷). But sundialsMen had many i_____4_____ for telling time. One idea was to use rope made from plants. Knot were put in the rope at certain p_____5_____. The distance between knots was a certain amount of t_____6_____ . Candles with marks to show a length of time were used much like a rope with knots. The candle burned and melted from mark to mark. U_____7_____ the mark showed a half-an-hour or an hour.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-5-In 1987, an American couple called Jane and Robert Bentley went for a picnic on a beach in California. When they r_____1_____ home Mrs. Bentley realized that she had lost her wedding ring. It wasn’t w_____2_____ a lot of money but it was valuable(珍贵的) to Jane Bentley. The Bentleys drove straight b_____3_____ to the beach and s_____4_____ for the ring for three hours, but could not find it.A few months later, Mr. Bentley went fishing off the same beach. A_____5_____ he pulled a large crab out of the sea, he n_____6_____ that there was s_____7_____ attached to one of its claws. It was his wife’s wedding ring!1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-6-There is a one-room schoolhouse in northern Minnesota(明尼苏达州), the Angle Inlet School. This school is near the border of Canada. In this school, there are s_____1_____ from kindergarten to sixth grade. Some of the children live on islands, some of the children live on the mainland of Minnesota, but there are no good r_____2_____ for cars and buses. The students go to school by b_____3_____ or by snowmobile in the wintertime.Everything that the students n_____4_____ is in one big classroom. There is one teacher. There are only fifteen students. There are desks and chairs for the students. There is a big desk for the teacher. There is a U.S. map on the wall. For music lessons, there is a a_____5_____. There are three c_____6_____, so the students and the teacher can use the Internet. They can communicate with students in other schools. There is even a small l_____7_____ with five or six bookshelves. This school is a small school, but the students are happy there.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-7-It is surprising that though most Japanese parents are worried about their children, they do not help them in any way. Many parents feel that they are not a_____1_____ to help their children and that it is the teachers’ work to help their children. To make matters w_____2_____, a lot of parents send their children to those schools opening in the evenings and on weekends-they only teach the students how to pass the exams and n_____3_____ teach them any real sense of the world.Many Japanese schools usually have r_____4_____ about everything from the students’ hair to their school bags. Child psychologists now think that such s_____5_____ rules are harmful to the feelings of the students. Almost 40% of the students said that no one had taught them how to get on with o_____6_____, how to tell right from wrong and how to show love and care for others, e_____7_____ for their parents.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-8-Dear Diane,Istanbul(伊斯坦布尔) is great! There are so many interesting places to v_____1_____. The people are also very f_____2_____. I met a student named Levent. He invited me to have dinner at his house.My guidebook says guests usually bring flowers. The n_____3_____ is very important. Even numbers(偶数) like 6 or 8 are not right. Odd numbers, like 7 or 9, are good. Candy is a_____4_____ a good gift for the host(主人).When I arrived, I sat down in the l_____5_____ room with Levent and his father. We talked for about one hour. Then Levent’s mother s_____6_____ us dinner. His sister didn't speak to me and the women didn't eat with us. When I left, we s_____7_____ hands and said goodbye in the living room, and again at the lift. Then they came down to the street and said goodbye again.Your brother,Roy1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-9-Many people begin each year by starting a diary. Few of them continue writing in their diaries,h_____1_____. They forget or at the end of the day they are too t_____2_____.A good diary is not j_____3_____ a list of what a person has done. A diary that reads ”G_____4_____ up. Had breakfast. Went to bed,” is not a good diary. It is b_____5_____. A good diary says something about the most interesting things that have h_____6_____ to the writer, and something about what they t_____7_____.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-10-We went to the swimming pool today. I had my first swimming lesson. At f_____1_____ I was very afraid. I was sure I would drown. I hated it when the water went up my nose and into my ears. I kept my eyes c_____2_____ all the time.S_____3_____, however, I became more confident. The teacher made sure I would always touch the bottom of the pool with my feet and that my head was a_____4_____ water. By the end of the lesson I could float on the water for at l_____5_____ a minute.I’m glad I’m learning to swim; it can be lots of f_____6_____. Soon I hope to be able to dive into the pool and swim u_____7_____.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-11-Jerry is an astronaut. He talks about his life in space:” When you f_____1_____ go up into space you may get sick for a few days, but then you g_____2_____ used to it. There is no gravity(重力) in space and you are w_____3_____. It’s fun to float around inside the s_____4_____. But your body starts to change: your bones and muscles get weaker. You have to do a lot of exercise every day to keep your bones and muscles s_____5_____. That can be very b_____6_____. The food is not very interesting, e_____7_____. On my last flight, we ran out of chocolate, and I really wanted some!”5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-12-Japanese students work very hard, but many are unhappy. They feel heavy pressure(压力) from their parents. M_____1_____ students are always told by their parents to study harder and better so t_____2_____ they can have a wonderful life in the future. Though this may a good idea for those very b_____3_____ students, it can have terrible(严重的，糟糕的) results for many students who are not gifted e_____4_____. Many of them have tried very hard at school but have failed in the e_____5_____ and have their parents lose hope. Such students feel that they are h_____6_____ by everyone else they meet and they don't want to go to school any l_____7_____. They become dropouts(退学).1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-13-Years ago people began building and using factory ships. Such ships can c_____1_____ hundreds of workers who clean and package(包装) the fish as s_____2_____ as they are caught. With the rapid d_____3_____ of science, people are catching more and more fish. But sometimes they catch too many of them, so that some types of fish have almost d_____4_____. To make sure that there will always be p_____5_____ of fish for human in the years to come, s_____6_____ all over the world are trying to keep checking on the population of fish in different parts of the world, and many government have taken or are taking measures to p_____7_____ the fishing resources.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-14-As one of the world’s oldest industries, fishing has a h_____1_____ of one thousand years. Today there are o_____2_____ five million people in the world who make their l_____3_____ by working in this field. In the United States alone, about one hundred and forty thousand people c_____4_____ fish, sell fish or do some other work in the fishing industry.The fishermen all over the world can have seventeen kilograms of fish a year. Yet people in some places s_____5_____ use small boats and old fishing methods to catch fish as they did in the p_____6_____; however, some countries search for and catch fish by making full use of advanced fishing m_____7_____. 1. ____________ 2. ____________ 3. ____________ 4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-15-One day a few years ago a very funny thing happened to a neighbor of mine. He is a teacher at one of London’s big m_____1_____ schools. He had finished his teaching for the summer t_____2_____ and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture. HE had put a f_____3_____ clothes and his lecture notes in his shoulder bag, but he had put Rupert, the skeleton(人体骨骼) to be used in his lecture, in a large brown suitcase(箱子). At the airport desk, he s_____4_____ thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop. When he got back he d_____5_____ that someone had taken his suitcase by m_____6_____. He often w_____7_____ what they said when they got home and found Rupert.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________Many people said our earth is completely polluted. Things are not as bad as they say. We’ll have a bright f_____1_____. We don't need to give up cars but we need to i_____2_____ better, cleaner engines.This won’t stop the problem of traffic j_____3_____. So we need better public transport. We should also recycle more.But some things are getting b_____4_____. My sister returned last month after living a_____5_____ for five years. She said, “Our old neighborhood doesn't look the same as before-it is cleaner and greener now”S_____6_____has brought many improvements. A hundred years ago, most people died in their 40s. We can’t go back to a l_____7_____ like that.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-17-Our future on Earth looks very bad. We are dumping waste on our l_____1_____. We can’t breathe the air. The sea is p_____2_____ too.I visited some relatives r_____3_____ in a small village. They grow their o_____4_____ food and cycle everywhere. They are not w_____5_____, but they are happy and h_____6_____.We must close the factories producing useless products. That would reduce r_____7_____ and air pollution. We must recycle more, give up all cars, and improve public transport.A big problem is overpopulation in big cities. We must give up big cities and factories, and get back to a s_____8_____ way of life.1. ____________2. ____________3. ____________4. ____________5. ____________6. ____________7. ____________-18-The world has a big headache and it’s caused by money. It began in America last year and it’s traveled around the world helped by the speed of the Internet.In just a few short months billions and billions of dollars have d_____1_____. They just vanished(消失) into thin air. How can this be? Well, to understand the idea of “value”, The value of something is what someone is what someone is willing to pay for it. That’s easy when it comes to buying a bottle of green tea. You wouldn’t pay more than a few Yuan. But what about something like a h_____2_____?In America, houses are e_____3_____. People have to get loans(贷款) in order to buy them. To get a loan you have to have a good j_____4_____ so the lender knows you’re going to pay the money back. But America started making it easier for people to get loans. That meant more people could buy houses. The demand(需求) for houses increased their “value” so their prices went up and people had to get bigger loans to buy them. Of c_____5_____, many of these people couldn’t afford to pay back the bigger loans. S_____6_____ the banks couldn’t get their money back, the price of houses went down and all that “value”disappeared.Now the banks are o_____7_____ of money and governments around the world have had to step in and help them.What does this all mean? Well, with the banks in trouble there is les money to invest(投资) and less money for people to buy things. That means less business, fewer jobs and more unemployment(失业)。