One day Mrs. Green took her child Tom to go shopping. They {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(go) to the supermarket in the shopping mall.

    "{#blank#}2{#/blank#}do you buy things here, Mom?" Tom asked. "Because the things here are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (cheap) than those in other stores," Mrs. Green said, "Help me check the prices."

    The Greens  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(be) not rich, so Mrs. Green was always careful to spend the money. She looked {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(careful) at the prices of the things. She bought many {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(kind) of things there.

    When they got home, Tom said, "I don't think you saved money by {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(go) to the supermarket there." "Of course I did," said Mrs. Green. "Everything was cheaper there."

    "Yes," said the child, "{#blank#}8{#/blank#}we must take the taxi home because we had too many things {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(carry). The cost of the taxi was more  {#blank#}10{#/blank#}the money you saved!"

    Then Mrs. Green added everything up and found her child was right.

"Well done," she said. "Next time we will do shopping near our home.

    Last term, I was not happy. I had some difficulty in studying. My classmates often laughed at me. That {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (drive) me mad. And my parents were hard on me. It made me {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (comfortable).I knew it was important for me to study hard. And I didn't want to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (let) them down. The {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (carefully)

I wanted to study, the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (bad) my grades were. Sometimes I thought my teacher {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (would like) me to leave her class. My parents told me that I should ask my teacher for help.

    One day, I talked to my teacher with great {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (courage).When she heard what I had thought, she gave me some advice on how to study .And I nodded in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (agree).With the help of my teacher, I improved my grades.