{#blank#}1{#/blank#} My parents buy some             , such as some tables, chairs and so on for our new house.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} My mother is planning  _______ a birthday party for me .
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} It's too             in this park, I don't like going there.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} He likes swimming            the river in winter.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} All the books are on these _________.

    Modem life is not possible without travelling. The fastest way to travel is by plane. With a modem plane, you can travel in one day to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} which it took a month or more to get to one hundred years ago.

    Travelling by train is {#blank#}2{#/blank#}than travelling by plane, but you can see beautiful places {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the windows. Modem trains have comfortable {#blank#}4{#/blank#} and dining cars. They make the long journey pleasant.

    Some people prefer to travel by {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Ships are not so fast as trains or planes, but travelling by sea is a very pleasant way to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}a holiday.

    Many people like to travel by car. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty miles a day, just as you like. You can stop anytime if there is {#blank#}7{#/blank#}interesting to see. That is why travelling by car is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}for pleasure trips, while people usually take a train or a plane for business trips.

    There is a big zoo in our city. In the zoo you can see many animals. Look! There is a big {#blank#}1{#/blank#}monkey there. Next to the monkey, there are two {#blank#}2{#/blank#}They are from Africa. They like{#blank#}3{#/blank#}in the water. Look! That is a panda. It is two years old. It is from Sichuan, China. It {#blank#}4{#/blank#}bamboo and other plants. There is also a tiger in the zoo. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}favourite food is meat.

    Mary always wanted to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a singer. Music was the most important thing in her life. She kept {#blank#}2{#/blank#} again and again in her daily life. But to tell the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, she had a bad vice. She took lessons for many years. But her voice didn't become {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, it just got louder.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} her teacher wanted to give up and stopped, the lesson，but Mary refused(拒绝) to stop. One day she decided to give a concert and invited her teacher to come. The teacher was {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. What to say after the concert because she knew it {#blank#}7{#/blank#} be bad.

    At last she got an idea and after the concert, she went to see her pupil.

    "Well," said Mary. "What do you think of my concert?"

    What was the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} answer, do you know?