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（一）Do you have a pet? Are you i_nterested in taking care of animals? Girls and boys who like animals may want to study to be animal doctors. They‟re often c____________ “vets”. Many of them work in animal h_____________. Others may work on farms or at a z____________. Some study animal diseases and try to find w____________ to keep the animals from getting i_________. They do studies in m_____________ for animals.Vets listen to an animal‟s h____________. They check (检查) its ears, eyes, mouth and blood. They o___________ on animals when they need to. They may give the animals shots (注射) and tell the pet‟s o ____________ what food is best.（二）Dear Tom:Are you surprised to hear from me? I have not heard from you s____________ the beginning of the summer h______________. How are you getting on with your s___________? How are your parents? Is your brother Bill b______________ f______________ Canada yet?My stamp collection is g___________ bigger and bigger. I have collected stamps of more than forty d_______________ countries. In my stamp books. I usually put the stamps from each country together. I have got a pen-friend from Britain. She gave me some B___________ stamps. My American teacher has given me some beautiful American and Canadian stamps. I‟m glad to know you are going to give me some foreign stamps, but I still have not r_____________ the stamps of Nepal which you said to p_____________ me. Have you sent them off yet?Please write to me. Have you sent them off yet?YoursZhou Wen（三）When Martin was a small boy, he lived in the little town of Holtham. Then he thought the town was a big p_____________. Well, Martin went back to Holtham last week. “It‟s a small town!” he thought.Holtham has changed little during the p____________ forty years. B___________ Martin has changed a lot. He has g____________ into a man. He is now in m______________ life. His thoughts are a man‟s thoughts, and h e sees things through a m______________ eyes.Martin s______________ in Holtham for five years. He walked from street t___________ street. He could see no friends. Was Holtham, then, a town of strangers? No, Martin suddenly u________________ it all. Only he h_____________ was astranger in the town.（四）I got an answering machine for my birthday and I soon realized（意识到）what a u____________ machine this is. I am not at home m____________ of the day, so someone can leave a message and I can ring them b_______________. They have no way to say they c_____________ get in touch with (联系) me. S_____________ when I am at home and have work to do, the phone never s_____________. Now I put the machine on. I am not troubled. So I can do a lot m______________ work. There are some people I j_____________ do not want to talk to. So I put the machine on and I don‟t have to s_______________ to them. In conclusion(总之)，I really don‟t know how I lived w________________ this wonderful machine.(五)Near the North Pole (北极) there are two s______________, winter and summer. The winter nights are long. For more t____________ two months, you can‟t s____________ the sun, e___________ at noon. The summer days are also long. For more than two months, the sun n___________ goes down and there are no n______________.The people there have warm clothes. They make most of these clothes by t____________. They make them from the skins (皮) of a_____________. From skins they make coats and hats and even shoes. In this cold weather, trees can‟t g____________. The people there have to build their houses from skins, earth or snow. Life is h____________ for the people there.(六)How do you like to go to school like one in Oxford(牛津大学), England ? There are no r_____________ classes. The students go from one group to a _____________ when they want to. You may find students of fourteen, sixteen or twenty-five years old all in the s______________ group. They work at their o______________ studies. Nobody tells them what they should or shouldn‟t be doing.The day I visited, school b______________ at nine. Some students were working at a tape recorder and listening to their lessons. Others were watching TV on maths. A group was reading in the school l_______________. I didn‟t see anybody just sit doing n______________. Everybody was studying.At lunch time I could see students w______________, too. They were talking about their lessons while they were e______________. When you think of these students you can be sure it is one of the best s ________________ in the world.(七)One day when Nasreddin was having a bath, he began to s_____________. The bathroom was small with a stone floor. His song was very b______________, he thought.“Oh”,he said, “I sing very well. I will sing to o______________ people, too, and maybe I‟ll be a famous s______________, and most people will want to hear me.”So after his bath Nasreddin went up onto the roof (屋顶) of the house and began to sing his song very l____________.A man was w_____________ in front of the house and he h______________ Nasreddin, he said, “What are you doing? You are m_____________ a terrible noise. Nobody wants to hear it.”“Oh, you think so, don‟t you?” answered Nasreddin, “Well, I r____________ sing very beautifully. Come to my bathroom and you‟ll hear h_____________ beautiful I can sing.”（八）One day Mike was playing near a river. S_____________ his knife fell into the river. He felt very sad because the knife was g______________ to him by his father as a birthday present, but it was lost. Then all at once, a k______________ old woman came up and asked Mike what was the m______________.“I had lost my knife,” he said, “ it fell into the water when I was playing here.”The old woman s_____________ him a gold (金) knife and asked, “is this y__________?” “No.” said the boy.The old woman then showed him a silver (银) knife and asked a____________, “Is this yours?” “No”, again answered the boy.Then she showed him an iron (铁) knife. “Yes, that‟s mine,” c____________ out the happy boy. “I know it well e_____________.” said the old woman.. “Now I will give you the gold knife and the silver knife b_____________ you are an honest (诚实的) boy.”（九）Tom liked to play at school. He had not been doing w____________ in the exam.. So the a__________ teacher decided to ask his father to come to school to have a t___________ with him. When his father came, the teacher said to him, “ Your son didn‟t work hard, and e_________ worse, he cheated (作弊) in the exam.”“ How do you l___________ it?” Tom‟s father said. “Since Tom has the s___________ answer as the girl‟s. The girl sits next to him.” The teacher said. Then the father said, “ Then m__________ the girl copied my son‟s answer.”“Oh no! There are ten questions on the paper. Your son‟s answer t__________ the first nine questions are just the same as the g____________. To the last question the girl answered, …I don‟t know‟. And your son write …N___________ do I‟ ”.（十）A shop owner c____________ his shop and went home. He was very t___________ ,but j____________ as he went to bed, the telephone rang . A man asked, “What time do you o_____________ your shop?”The shop owner was u______________ about this phone call. He put down the receiver(听筒) without a_____________ and went back to bed. A few minutes later the telephone rang again and the man asked the s_____________ question. The shop owner became very angry and shouted, “ You needn‟t ask me when I open the shop, f____________ I won‟t let you i___________.”“Oh, no, I don‟t want to get in,” the man said, “I want to go o___________.”(十一)Lenin learned some English at school. B_____________ when he got to England, he met with such d_______________ that he could not make himself u______________ and he couldn‟t understand the Englishmen, e_______________. Later he found he wa sn‟t sure of s____________ English and his friends gave him some advice o____________ how to i_____________ it. He decided to learn English by always. He went on l______________ English for several months. Finally he learned it so well that he was able to express（表达）himself freely. He was praised b____________ his friends f______________ his great progress in English.（十二）Len and Jim worked for the same company. One day, Len l__________ Jim 80 dollars, but then Jim left his job and went to work in another town w___________ paying Len back his 80 dollars.Len had not seen Jim for a year, and then he heard from a__________ friend that Jim was in town and s__________ at Cantral Hotel, so he went to see him there l________ in the evening.He found out the nu mber of Jim‟s room from the hotel g___________ at the desk downstairs and went up to find him. When he got to the room, he saw Jim‟s shoes o___________ the door, w_____________to be cleaned.“ Well, he m____________ be in,” he thought, and knocked at the d oor. No one answered.He knocked again. Then he said, “I know you‟re in. Your shoes are out here.”“I went out in my slippers,” answered a voice i____________ the room..（十三）A foolish (傻) man went to a food shop to buy a fish. As he didn‟t know h___________ to cook fish, he asked the shopkeeper to tell the way of c____________ it. The shopkeeper did so.“But I can‟t remember your w____________,” the foolish man said, “Will you please w___________ them down for me?” The shopkeeper was kind e_____________ to write his words down for the man. The foolish man left happily w_____________ the fish in his basket and the note in his pocket. On his way home, a cat saw the fish and f_____________ the man.Suddenly the cat jumped at him, took the fish away from the basket q_____________ and ran off at once. The foolish man stood there, not k_____________ what to do. Then he laughed to the cat, “Never mind. You don …t know how to eat it. The note is s_____________ in my pocket.”(十四)Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (佣人). He and the servant l__________ wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man l__________ his house, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew w___________ his servant did, b___________ he had never caught his servant doing that. One morning when he left home, he said to the servant, “ Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” W________ these words, he went out.But the servant knew that what the rich man had said was u____________. After the rich man was away from his home, he e_____________ a nice meal. S____________ he drank too much, he was tipsy (醉) and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he coul dn‟t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had catch up everything. He was a____________ to be punished（惩罚）,so he drank the poison to kill h_____________.(十五)Bi ll Jenkins worked in a big office in the city and he often went to the barber‟s (理发店) d____________ working hours to have his hair cut, t____________ this was a___________ the rules (规定): Office workers had to have their hair cut in their o___________ time.While Bill was at the barber‟s one day, the manager of the office came in to havehis o___________ hair cut. Bill saw him and tried to cover his face w__________ a newspaper, but the manager came up and sat beside him, so he soon found him.“Hello, Jenkins,” the manager said, “I see that you are having your hair cut in o___________ time.”“Yes, sir, I am,” answered Bill, “You see, sir, my hair g___________ in office time.”“Not all of it.” said the manager of the office at once, “ M___________ of it grows in your own time.”“Yes, sir, that‟s quite true,” answered Bill politely, “but I‟m not having it a___________ cut off.”（十六）A lady once wrote a long story. She sent to a f_____________ editor (编辑). After a few weeks the editor r_______________ the story to her. The lady was angry. She wrote back to the editor:“ Dear Sir,Yesterday you sent back a story of mine. H______________ do you know that the story is not good? You did not read it. B______________ I sent you the story, I pasted (粘贴) together page 18, 19 and 20. This was a t________________ too see whether you would read the story. When the story came back yesterday, the pages were s________________ pasted together. Is this the w_____________ you read all the stories that are sent to you?”The editor wrote back:“Dear Madam,At breakfast then I have an egg, I don‟t h_______________ to eat the w_____________ egg in order to d________________ that it is bad.”（十七）When Mary Smith was a student, she wanted to be a teacher, b______________ she liked children. When she was twenty, she began t _____________ in a small school. She was a good teacher, and she laughed a lot with the children in her class. They e_____________ her teaching.One day one of the g________________ in her class said to her, “Mi ss Smith, w_____________ does a man‟s hair become gray before his beard (胡子) does?”Mary laughed and laughed, “I don‟t know. Helen, do you know?”“I don‟t know, e_____________, Miss Smith.” said Helen, “but it h_____________ to my father.” The o_____________ children in the class laughedwhen they heard this.Then a boy said , “I know, Miss Smith! A man‟s hair becomes gray f_____________ because it‟s sixteen years o________________ than his beard.”(十八)It was a r________________ day. I was on my way home. I hadn‟t been back for weeks.When I got home, to my s_________________, I found my mother wasn‟t busy doing her housework as she u________________ to be. She was reading i______________. And I saw some books on her desk . Some years ago, there were no books in my home except my textbook. I took one of the books from the desk. It was about h____________ to raise chicks. At supper time, my father came home. After supper he told me he was going to learn English because he w____________ to run chicken farm. He said that he must learn something more from foreign countries. He also told me that one could do n_______________ without knowledge. It was late. The light in my parents‟ room were still o_____________. I was l______________ in bed. l________________ to the drops of rain outside, as if they were saying, “ You must study harder than before.”（十九）Have you heard a_____________ that a cow can dance? This cow belongs to (属于) Farmer James. One evening Farmer James gave a p______________ at his house, and he asked all his friends to come to the party. the weather was hot that evening, and many people danced o______________ in the garden. That was near the place w_______________ the cows s______________. One cow c_____________ sleep that night. The music k______________ her a______________, perhaps. So she got up and came into the garden and started to dance. She danced a_______________, of course, but she danced n______________. And now many people on the farm are talking about her.(二十)I went to the d_____________ yesterday. I had to wait for half an hour before he c___________ see me. “I‟m going a______________ next week,” I said, “I shall go to America on b_____________. But I‟ve had a p_____________ for two days. Do you think I‟ll be well e_____________ to go?” “When I have examine (检查) you, I‟ll be a____________ to tell you.” the doctor said.“I was working in the garden when I suddenly f____________ the pain.” I told the doctor, “If I stopped at once it would be all right, I think. But I never get anye_____________ in my job so I went on working.” After examining me c_______________, the doctor said, “ You may hurt your back. I would like to send you to hospital for an X-ray.”(二十一)One day a pig went to the stable (马棚) to see his good friend, an old horse, and was going to stay there for the n_____________.Night came and it was time for sleep. The pig went into the straw heap (稻草堆) and lay comfortably. A long time p____________, but the horse was s___________ standing there and did not move. So the pig asked the horse w_____________ he did not go to sleep.“Standing like this is the b_____________ of sleeping.” answered the horse.The pig found it h_____________ to believe and said, “How can you stand there s____________? It is not comfortable at a_____________.”The horse answered, “Comfort is your habit (习性). A___________ horses we have the habit of r_____________ quickly. So we are always ready to run quickly even if we are asleep.（二十二）Venice is a beautiful city in Italy. It‟s one of the most u_________________ cities in the world. It‟s b_______________ on a group of small i______________. Hundreds of stone bridges cross the rivers b______________ the islands. On the rivers there are l______________ boats. They are the “ water buses” of Venice. I f we travel a_______________ the rivers in a boat. Italians may tell about the beautiful p_______________. Italians may tell us about the rivers. We can see on b___________ sides of the rivers. We can also see many old buildings and the church of St. Mark. W____________ a beautiful city Venice is! I w_____________ I could visit it one day, but it‟s so far away.(二十三)A young officer (军官) was at a railway station. He was going to v____________ his mother in another town, and he wanted to t______________ her to tell her the time of his train so that she could meet him at the station in her car. He looked in all his pockets, but found that he did not have the right money for the telephone, so he went o_____________ and looked a____________ for someone to help him.At last an old soldier came b___________, and the young officer stopped him and said, “ Have you got change for ten pence (便士)？”“ Wait a moment,” the old soldier answered, b_____________ to put his hand inhis pocket, “I‟ll see w_____________ I can help you.”“ Don‟t you know h___________ to speak to an officer?” the young man said a____________, “Now, let‟s start again. Have you got change for ten pence?”“ No, sir.” the old soldier answered q____________.（二十四）When Bob was three years old, he suddenly f_____________ ill one evening. The next day he got m______________ worse. His parents could do n_____________ but take him to a Negro（黑人）doctor. The doctor said that Bob was b______________ ill and must be s_____________ to a hospital at once. In a hurry, his father took him to a hospital n______________, but the hospital refused (拒绝) to take him in because it was for the w______________ only. Bob‟s father took him to a______________ hospital. The same thing h_______________ to him. At last his father has to drive him to a black hospital far away. But it was too late. Little Bob d______________ on the way.（二十五）Mark Twain was a______________ one day if he could remember the first money he earned (赚得). He thought a long time before a________________ and then said, “Yes, it was at school. There was a rule in our school that anybody w_______________ damaged (破坏) his desk with a pencil or a knife would be b________________ in front of the whole school o_____________ would have to pay five dollars. One day I damaged my desk in some way. I had to tell my father I had b_____________ the rule, and had to pay five dollars, or be beaten before the whole school. He agreed to pay. But before g________________ me the money he took me upstairs and gave me a b____________. Now as I had had one beating and got used to it. I decided I would take a________________ beating at school and k_______________ the five dollars. So that is what I did. That was the first money I ever earned.”（二十六）One day a poor farmer was taking a bag of wheat to town. Suddenly the bag fell from his horse onto the road. He did not know w____________ to do about it because it was too heavy for him to lift by himself. He only hoped that someone would soon pass by and l_____________ him a hand.Just at this moment a man r_________________ a horse camp up to him. But the farmer‟s heart went down when he saw who he was. It was the great man living n______________. The farmer had hoped to ask another farmer or a poor man likehim to come along and help him. He couldn‟t ask s_______________ a great man to help him. But to his s________________, the great man got off his horse as soon as he came nearer. He said to the farmer. “I see you n_____________ help, friend. How good it is that I‟m here just at the right time.” Then he took one end of the bag, the farmer the other, they t_________________ raised it and put it on the horse.“Sir”, asked the farmer, “How can I p____________ you?”“It‟s quite easy,” the great man replied with a smile.“Wherever yo u see anyone e________________ in trouble, do the same for him.”(二十七)There was an old man who loved money very much. He n______________ gave anything to a______________. After some years he became rich.One day he was walking near the river with his friends. When he fell into the river. His friends ran to help him. One of them held out his hand and cried, “G____________ me your hand and I‟ll pull you out!” The rich m______________ head went u______________ the water and then came up again, but he didn‟t give his hand to his friend. Again a______________ friend tried, but again the s__________ thing happened.Then another friend, Nasreddin, said, “T_____________ my hand and I‟ll pull you out!” the rich man gave his hand and Nasreddin pulled him out of th e water.“You don‟t know your friend well.” Nasreddin said to the others, “When you say …give‟ to him, he do n______________, but when you say …take‟, he a_______________ takes.”（二十八）All men n_____________ air. When you put your h______________ under water you cannot keep it i_____________ long.A swimmer can‟t swim under water very long. He needs air.A good swimmer may swim w_______________ his face in the water, if so he keeps raising his head to take a breath t______________ his mouth. If he goes down under the water, he has to come up for air e_____________ twenty or thirty seconds.He does not take in air t_______________ his nose under the water, b_____________ water could get in through his nose with the air and go to his lungs (肺). W___________ water in his lungs a man c_____________ go on living.（二十九）Computers are very important to m______________ life. Many people think thatthe f_____________ computers will be used in lots of everyday life. It is thought that we won‟t have to go shopping b ecause we will be able to get most things which are sold in shops on the I_____________. There will be no more books because we will be able to get all texts from computers. The Internet will be used to play g_______________, see films and buy food. Most telephone calls will be made by computers, too.Some people are glad about these new ways of shopping and communicating (交际). Others do not think that computers will replace (代替) our old ways.Let‟s look at books, for example. Some people think that one day we will not read books m____________ of paper. Instead, we will buy and read books using computers. We will read texts on small personal computers. The computers will k_____________ many different books in them at the s______________ time. We won‟t need t o turn lots of pages and paper will be s______________. Computerized (计算机化) Books will be used more and more.Is Internet shopping such a pleasure as going to the shop? Many people say it is p____________ to go into shops and look at things you want to buy. It is also unlikely (不大可能) that many people will want to read large texts on our computers. Because paper books will perhaps be more friendly. Maybe computers won‟t c_______________ these two habits (习惯).（三十）Susan was c____________ in the rain on her way home after school. It was only half a kilometer from her home. She r ____________faster and hoped to go back as soon as possible. The rain got h____________ and she didn‟t find a fallen tree on the road. She fell off her bike and was badly hurt. Mr Hunt found her and c_____________ her in his car and two hours later she came to h_____________. Her relatives were standing n______________ her bed. She felt p_____________ in her leg. Her mother told her to take some medicine and a nurse gave her an i_____________. The next day Miss King and her classmates came to see her w____________ some flowers and fruit. They told her not to worry about her lessons. They said they would help her after she h_____________.(三十一)American people like to say “Thank you”, when other people help them or say something kind to them. People of many o_______________ countries do so, too. It is a very good habit.You should say “Thank you” when someone passes you the salt on the table, when someone walking before you k_______________ the door open for you, whensomeone s________________ you have done your work well, or you have bought a nice thing, or your city is very beautiful.“Thank you” is u________________ not only between friends, but also between parents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and w_____________.“Excuse me” is a______________ short sentence they use. When you hear someone say so b_______________ you, you know that somebody wants to walk past you.It is not p______________ to interrupt others while they are talking. If you want to speak to one of them, say “Excuse me” first, and then begin t________________. You should also do so when you want to cough or make any unpleasant n_______________ before others.( 三十二)Here‟s a story about Ming‟s life on t he water. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r_____________ in China. His home is a large house-boat with a roof. In about six years he has not once been on l__________, but he is never lonely. Ming is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f______________, he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v________________ them.Ming‟s father is a fisherman, but he never u_____________ a line or a net（网）. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings have been put around the birds‟ n____________ so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been taught to b_____________ the fish to people. And then people reward them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f______________. Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s________________ with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o________________.(三十三)All life on our earth depends, in one way or a_______________, on the sun. W______________ its light and warmth, there would be no life. The sun gives us our food and our clothing material (衣料). It e______________ gives us our coal (煤), too.The sun also m______________ our day and our night. Light travels in s______________ lines. It comes from the sun, 95,000,000 miles a________________.The sun lights half the earth at a time. It is day on the lighted side. It is night on the dark side of the earth. Almost every part of the earth turns from day to night d______________ 24 hours.A sunny day in winter is colder than a sunny day in summer. This is because the summer day is longer, everything has a longer time to warm up and the sun shines more directly on the earth. In winter, the day is short, there is l_____________ time fo r everything to get warm and the sun doesn‟t shine more directly on the earth.Land, just like the sand, warms up more quickly than water but it also l______________ its heat (热量) more quickly. So on a hot summer‟s day on the beach, you can feel how hot the sand gets. The water is cool to the feet when you go for a paddle.The sun makes our earth b_______________. It gives us light. It keeps us warm. It makes things grow. We can not live without the sun.(三十四)Many people think the more time is s_____________, the more work will be done. So students have to spend the whole day doing school work e_______________ the three meals. They always work b_______________ at school and at home.Modern students usually have many h________________. They love music and sports. They like reading and watching TV. But a two-day weekend is often f______________ with too much homework. What can they do? Many students have to do their homework all day. Some of them don‟t do their homework u________________ Sunday night. So they have to finish much homework carelessly in a short time and the homework often m______________ teachers very angry.Things always get w______________ without right ideas. Too much homework makes students l______________ interest in learning. It‟s also bad for their health. Such a condition should be changed to give students both pleasure and k_______________. Please give students more free time.(三十五)When women got married in some western countries, they change part of their n___________. That is, th ey take their husband‟s last names as t______________.Miss Surrey r_________________ to teaching in September after she got married. She told the first-grade students that they were to c_______________ her Mrs White. Most of the s____________ were the ones she had taught before and quite a few of them looked confused (困惑的).When school was over in the a________________, a girl went home and told her mother, “ We have a new t______________, Mum. Her name is Mrs White, but she l_____________ like Miss Surrey so m_______________ that it will be very difficult to t____________ one from the other.”。