At the weekend, many {#blank#}1{#/blank#} people in the UK do some sports on Saturday morning, and maybe they{#blank#}2{#/blank#} shopping in the afternoon. On Sunday they get up{#blank#}3{#/blank#} . They usually see friends and have lunch with {#blank#}4{#/blank#} family on that day. In the afternoon they sometimes go for a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} . But on Sunday evening, it's time for homework.

    Reading is very useful for English learners. When you're learning English, listening, speaking and writing are very {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, but reading is also very helpful. When you read, you can both learn some new words and learn how to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} them. When you read, it gives you a good {#blank#}3{#/blank#} for writing.

    Read something at your right level. Read {#blank#}4{#/blank#} that you can more or less understand. If you need to stop every three words to use a dictionary, it's not {#blank#}5{#/blank#} for you.

    Try to increase your vocabulary. If there are 4 or 5 new words on a page, try to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} their meanings. Then look them up in a dictionary after reading and write them down in your notebook. Try to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} them.

    Try to read regularly. Reading for 15 minutes every day is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} than two hours every Sunday. Fix a time to read. For example, you could read for 15 minutes {#blank#}9{#/blank#} you go to bed or at lunch time.

    Read what interests you. Choose a book or a magazine that you like. You can also read newspapers, for example, 21st Century. There is always {#blank#}10{#/blank#} in it.

    One evening Nasreddin heard a noise in his garden and looked out of the window. A white ox had got into the garden and was eating his vegetables. Nasreddin at once took his{#blank#}1{#/blank#}, ran out and chased the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to his garden, he found that the ox had ruined(毁坏)most of his precious vegetables.

    The next morning, while he was walking in the street near his house, he saw cart(运货车)with two white oxen which{#blank#}2{#/blank#}the one that had eaten his vegetables very much. He was carrying his stick with him, so he at once began to beat the two oxen with it. As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than the other, he beat{#blank#}3{#/blank#}of them equally hard. The owner of the oxen and the cart was drinking coffee in a nearby coffee-house. When he saw what Nasreddin was doing to his animals, he{#blank#}4{#/blank#}out and shouted, "What are you doing? What have those poor animals done to you for you to beat them like that?" "You keep out of this!" Nasreddin shouted back. This is a matter between me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well why I am beating him!"