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练习1Do you need some advice on learning English? These will help you learn (1) E______ more easily! Become interestedFind something (2) i_______ about your English study. You can make English (3) c________ with your classmates.Don’t study for too (4) l_______Studying for fifteen minutes(分钟) each day is much better than (5)s_______ for two hours each day. Studying is much more fun if you don’t feel tired(劳累的).Learn through readingRead English as often as you can. It could be (6) n________, short stories or novels. Don’t look up every new word—you can understand a lot without a (7)d_________.Learn through movies and songsChoose your favorite movies, (8) L_______ to your favorite English songs is another cool way. Read first and find out what the song is (9) a________. Pick some words or phrases(短语) that you would like to (10)l________.练习2More and more people like traveling during their holidays. (1)S_______ people like to do some sightseeing, so they like to visit some places of (2) i________. Some people like the sea and want to go (3)s_______ so they like to go to the seaside(海边).In many countries, the travel agency(旅行社) can help you (4) p______ your holiday. You can tell the travel agent(代理人) what kind of holiday you like, where you want to go and how much you want to (5)s_______, and then the travel agent will give you a lot of (6) i________ about where to go, how to get there and what kind of (7) a_______ you can do there. There are many different (8) k______ of holidays. For example, one of the holidays is (9) c________ the “package” holiday. That is, you just pay the money, and the travel agent will plan (10) e________ for you: the ticket for the train, bus or plane, the hotel, the activities and so on.练习3At school we have to study. We need to l_______ (1) something because we can read books and w______ (2) letters to people. Our town is lucky to have a school, b_______ (3) most town don’t have one.In our school there is only one room and one t_______ (4). We eat in room in winter a____ (5) we eat outside in summer. In winter we have to bring some wood(木材) to make a fire to make the room w_______(6). The children in the classroom are all from six to twelve years old. We learn our lessons by repeating the same things many t_______ (7). This can help us r_______ (8) our lessons better.One of the bad things is that school starts very e_______ (9) and we have to walk all the way to school. If we do s_______(10) wrong(错误的), the teacher will punish(惩罚) us. I got punished one day because I di dn’t do my homework. I think school life is very hard.练习4There was a stone in the centre(中心) of a garden of a family. When the family went through the garden, (1)t_______would always be tripped(绊倒) by the stone.One day, the son said to his father, “I h ate(讨厌) that stone. (2) W_______ don’t we move it away?” His father said, “It was there when your grandfather was alive(活着的). It is so big. I’m (3)a_______ we can’t move it. Just be careful when near it.”Twenty years later, the son (4) g______ up and had his son. One day, his son said to him,”There is a big stone in the garden. Shall we (5) m_______ it away?”The father said, “That stone is too (6) h_______. If I could move it, I would have done it twenty years ago.” But the (7) s_______ wanted to move it.One morning, the son brought some tools(工具) to the (8) g______. He dug(挖) around the stone. He thought that it would take him the whole (9) d______ to move it. But he only spent ten minutes (10) b_______ the stone was moved. The stone wasn’t as big as it looked at all.练习5At school we have to study. We need to (1) l_______ something because we can read books and (2) w_______ letters to people. Our town is lucky to have a school, (3) b______ most towns don’t have one.In our school there is only one room and one (4) t______. We eat in the room in winter (5) a______ we eat outside in summer. In winter we have to bringsome wood(木材)to make a fire to make the room (6)w______. The children in the classroom are all from six to twelve years old. We learn our lessons by repeating the same things many (7) t_____. This can help us (8) r_____ our lessons better.One of the bad things is that school starts very (9) e_____ and we have to walk all the way to school. If we do (10)s_____ wrong, the teacher will punish(惩罚)us. I got punished one day because I didn’t do my homework. I think school life is very hard.练习6Maria is a girl. She is very (1) l_____. She is clever. She likes to communicate(交流)with (2) d_____ people. Most people think that she is very friendly. She has many hobbies, and she likes playing the (3) d_____, playing the piano and playing the violin. She is good at all subjects. She always gets good (4) m____. Her favorite subject is (5) E______. She finishes her English exercises more quickly but (1) (6) m______ fewer mistakes. She is the (7) b_____ student in her class.She is a good girl. She often (8) h_____ her good friend Cathy with her homework. When someone is sad, she will (9) p______ the girl or the boy and tell interesting stories to make her or him happy. All of her classmates (10) l_______ her.练习7Yesterday Martin invited his best friend David to take part in his birthday (1) p_____. David was very happy. He wanted to buy a pen (2) a______ a present. After buying the present, he drove his car to the party. After he started, it (3) s______ began to rain. It was such a big (4) s______ that there was water everywhere. His car (5) f_____ into a hole because he couldn’t see the road clearly. It was not too deep, but he couldn’t get his car out. He was afraid to be late for the party so he had to (6) w______ his raincoat and came (7) o_____ to make the car out of the (8) h______.It took him about half an hour to do it. He felt very (9) t______, but he had no time to rest. He drove as fast as he could to the party. When he got there, he (10) j_____ out of the car and ran to the restaurant. Luckily, the party didn’t begin.练习8One day Mozart saw an old blind street performer playing the (1) v______ in the street corner with a hat in (2) f_____ of him. He found the old man was playing one piece of his (3) m_______. The old man played for (4) m_______, but still nobody put any money into his hat. Mozart asked the old man, “Do you often play music by Mozart? “Yes, sir,” (5) a________ the old man. “Now, ev erybody knows Mozart and (6) l______ his music very much.” “Do you make a living by playing the violin?” The old man said he did. Mozart took the violin from the old man and (7) b______ to play. He played so well that all the people (8) s______ to listen to the wonderful music and soon the old man felt very surprised that the man could play so well. He asked Mozart, “Who are you, sir?”” A (9) p______ musician like you.” Then Mozart gave the violin (10) b______ to the old man and went away.练习9A woman had just moved to a new house. Her neighbor was only a mother and her little (1) s______. They seemed very poor.One night, the electricity went off and nobody (2) k______ why. The women lit a candle. (3)A_____ a few minutes, she heard a knock on the door. She (4) o______ the door. It was the little boy, her neighbor. He asked “Do you have any candles at (5) h_______?” The women thought, “Are they really (6) s_____ poor that they do not have any candle candles? I needn’t lend them (7) a______ candles. If I lend, (8) t______ will always borrow candles from me.” So she said to the (9) b_______ loudly, “No!” when she was closing the door, the boy said with a (10) s________, “You don’t have, I guess.” Then he took two candles and said, “You must be afraid without a candle.”练习10Do you often think of your parents? You may say “Of course, I do. I buy a (1) p_______ for my mother on Mother’s Day and for my father on Father’s Day. ” But what (2) a_______ the other days of the year?I have a friend. She is very (3) l_______. Her parents live in another city. One day I went to see her. She made (4) s________ for men. It was delicious. We had a nice talk. She wanted to make a call. She dialed(拨) the number, (5) b_______ then she put down the phone. After about five (6) m_______, she dialed the number again, “Hi, Mom…”(7)L________I asked, “Why did you dial the number twice?” She smiled, “My parents are old and slow. They can’t answer the telephone (8) q_______. I always do so when I call them. I just want to give them more ti me to answer the call.”My friend is (9) q______ good girl. She is always thinking about her parents. You also want to be a good child, right? Please always (10) r_________ to think of your parents all the time, not just on some special days.练习11One afternoon Bob and Jane were walking along a quiet street when they (1) h________ a big sound from the street corner. They (2)r_______ there and found that a small car knocked into the side of a truck(卡车) Both the car driver and the truck driver got hurt. “Bob,” said Jane, “run back down the (3) s________ to Mrs. Day’s house. Ask her to (4) c________ the policemen and the ambulance. Hurry up! I stay here.”Bob went off as fast as he could. There was (5) n_________ Jane could do but wait. She knew that (6) w________ people were hurt in an accident, they shouldn’t be moved.It wasn’t long before the ambulance (7) a________. The policemen made the car door open and moved the man (8) o______. Then they made the truck driver out. Luckily, they weren’t badly hurt, but they were both taken to the (9) h________. The policemen thanked Bob and Jane, “You were very good. You quickly called us when you (10) s_______ the accident. Thank you for all your help.”练习12An old man walked into a street with his horse. It rained outside. The old man felt very (1) c_______. He wanted to stay in a restaurant to keep himself (2) w_______. But there were a lot of people in it. The old man couldn’t come near the fire. He had an (3) i________. He said to the waiter, “Take some fish to m y horse.” The waiter and the people in the restaurant were very (4) s_________. The waiter said “A horse doesn’t eat fish.” The old man told the waiter, “My horse is very (5) i___________. It can sing and dance. It can (6) a_______ eat fish.” Then the wait er brought some fish to the horse. All the people in the restaurant went (7)o________ to see the horse except(除了) the old man. The old man (8) s________ near the fire. Later the waiter (9) c________ back and said, “Your horse didn’t eat any fish.” The old man said, “All right, take the fish back and put it on the (10) t_______ now. I can eat it.” At last, the old man ate the fish happily.练习13A girl thought she was not as beautiful as others, and nobody liked her, she was always (1) u________ and didn’t like to talk to others. (2) H_________, one day, her mother gave her a beautiful hair clip(发卡). When she wore it, she looked much more beautiful than before. So she (3) d_______ to wear it to school.On her way to school she found that everyone (4) s_________ at her. Many of her classmates said “hello” to her, but this never happened (5) b_________. She is very happy. She thought that the beautiful hair clip brought (6) h______ happiness.Although(虽然) she didn’t tell her classmates(7) a_______ hr beautiful hair clip, they all wanted to know what happened to her. When she went back home after school, her mother (8) a_______ her, “Did you know you dropped your hair clip? I found it by the door this (9) m_________”She knew that she didn’t wear the hair clip t o school at all.It is not (10) i___________ what we wear or how we look. The most important is how we think about ourselves.练习14Guo Jingjing is beautiful. Her(1) b__________ is on October 15. She began to dive(跳水) at the Baoding Training Base(2) w________ she was six years old. She started training to take part in matches in 1988. (3) L________ she began to dive for the Chinese women’s national team in 1992. Guo Jinjing first(4) t_______ part in the Olympic Games in 1996. During the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in the women’s 3-(5)m________ springboard(跳板) with Wu Minxia. And (6)t________ she won her first single Olympic gold medal. It is her third (7) t_______ to take part in the Olympics.(8)A_______ it, she became a Chinese national sport s star in people’s eyes. She is the leading member of the Chinese national women’s diving team, and is known in China(9) a______ “The Princess(公主) of diving”. She won two (10) m__________ gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. She isthe most successful women diver in Olympic history.练习15Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. It is true. A large number of people like to begin there (1) t_______ with “Isn’t it a nice day?” or “Do you think it will rain?”Many people think they can tell what the weather is going to be like and they often can’t (2) a_________ with each other. One man may say, “Do you see how (3) c_______ it is in the east? It’s going to rain tomorrow.” Another man will say, “No, it’s going to be (4) f_______ tomorrow.” People often look (5) f________ the weather they want. When a farmer needs water, he looks for something that can tell him it’s going to (6) r_______; he won’t believe anything else. When young people are going on a trip, they are sure the weather are going to become sunny very (7) q________.Almost everyone listens to what the weatherman (8) s________. But he doesn’t always tell us what we want, and sometimes he makes a (9) m_________. But I still think that he is(10) m________ professional(专业的) than us and can give right answers to the questions about the weather.练习16A French student went to London for his holiday. He thought, “I know a little English. I think people can know what I (1) m________.”One day he went to a (2) r_________ and sat down at the table. He wanted to drink a cup of tea and have some (3) e________. Soon the waiter came up to him, and asked, “Can I help you?” “A cup of tea and…” He (4) c________ remember the English word for eggs. He looked around him, but (5) n_______ was eating eggs. And (6) t________ he saw a book on the table next to him. There was a (7)p________ of a cock on its cover(封面). He showed the picture to the waiter. “What is the (8) E_________ for this?” he asked. “A cock,” answered the waiter. “What do you call a cock’s wife?” he asked again. “A hen.” “And what do you call a hen’s (9) c______?” “Chicks.” “And what do you call chicks before they are born?” “Eggs.” “Very well,” said the French man (10) h_______. “Bring me two gees and a cup of tea, please.” And he sat down with a smile on his face.练习17Alicia and Michelle are talking about an interesting question. Why do some people change their names? Alicia thinks there are some names that are easy for people to (1) r_______. Michelle thinks sometimes people change their names because they want to be different. People have a lot of (2) r_______ for changing their names. Movie stars, singers and some other famous people often change their names (3) b_______ they want to be special. They choose “new names” for themselves. Some people have (4) o______ reasons for changing their names. They go to a new country and (5)w______ to use a name that is ordinary (普通的) there. For example, Li Kaiming changed his name to Ken Lee when he went to America. He used the name Ken at work and at school. But with his family and (6) C_______ friends, he used Li Kaiming. For some people, using different names makes life easier in a (7) n_____ country.In many countries, a woman changes her (8) f______ name to her husband’s afte r she gets married. But today, many women (9) k_____ their family name and they don’t use their husband’s. And some use (10) b______ their family name and their husband’s. It is very interesting.练习18People eat different things in different parts of the world. In some countries, people eat rice (1) e_______ day. Sometimes they eat it two or three (2) t________ a day. For breakfast, lunch and supper, they usually eat it (3) w__________ meat, fish and vegetables. Some people do not eat some kinds of (4) m________. Muslims（穆斯林）, for example, don’t eat pork. The Japanese eat (5) l________ of fish, and they also eat a lot of rice. (6) I________ Western countries such as（例如）Britain, Australia and the US, the most important (7) f_________ is bread and potatoes. And people there can cook potatoes in different ways. Some people eat only fruit (8) a________ vegetables. They do not eat meat or fish or anything that (9) c_________ from animals. They eat only food from plant. They think that the food from plant is better for us (10) t_________ meat.练习19 I have fun in Russia. Now I live in Moscow, the (1) c__________ of Russia. Moscow is a big city. It has a (2) p_________ of twelve million people. Oh,my (3) R_______ is very good so I never have problem with the language. In Moscow I live at my aunt’s. Behind her house there is a big (4) p with fish in it. My cousin Maria is older than me. She (5) m_________ five years ago. Her husband is Japanese. He is an (6) a________. Sure, Maria likes his films. In 2007 Maria (7) m_________ to Japan with her husband. On May 29th 2007, their son Alan was (8) b________. He was very(9) n________ and often made the rooms a mess( 混乱). Oh, Maria and her family all loved travelling. In March, 2011 Maria and her family (10) s_________ their holidays in Hainan, China.。