一)

Do you have a pet? Are you i_____________ 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?

Yours

Zhou 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 he 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 a stranger 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___________.”

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