Last Friday, my friend David called me and invited me and our friend Tom to a party in his university. Tom and I are in{#blank#}1{#/blank#} same class. We both wanted to go to the party, but there was a problem--we'd have a final exam on the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (come) Monday.

    “Don't worry. We can come back on Sunday and won't miss the exam,” really{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (want) to go to the party, Tom said. So I decided to go{#blank#}4{#/blank#} him.

    The party was great and we{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (true) enjoyed ourselves there. However, we stayed up late on Saturday night and slept all day on Sunday and didn't make it back to our university until Monday morning. We missed the exam. Then we went to our professor's office and explained{#blank#}6{#/blank#} we missed the exam. We lied that there was a flat tire（车胎漏气）on our way back to the university. Our professor {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (agree) that we could take the exam the following day.

    When it was time to take the exam, Tom and I {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (take )to different rooms. After we opened the test paper, we saw only one question, “Which tire?”

    Neither Tom nor I answered the question. Instead we told our professor the truth. Luckily, he later gave{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (we) the real test paper. And both Tom and I made a{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (decide): never to lie again.

    Jean Little who was born in Taiwan, China, has been living in Canada since the age of seven. In spit of the challenge of{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(she) blindness. Jean began writing as a child and has never stopped. despite{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(limit) vision, she attended regular school {#blank#}3{#/blank#}graduated in 1955 from the University of Toronto with an Honors Degree in English. She taught special need children until 1962. That year, her first book, Mine for Keeps, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(win)the Little Brown Children's Book Award and since then Jean has written 50 books, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (include)novels, picture books, autobiography, poetry and short stories, among {#blank#}6{#/blank#}are some of Canada's best-loved works for children, such as Dancing Through the Snow, Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird, Listen for the Singing. Her books {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(translate) into a dozen languages so far and have won many awards.

    In addition {#blank#}8{#/blank#}all her awards, she has received six honorary degrees and is a member of the Order of Canada for her outstanding {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(contribute) Canadian children's literature, and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(recent) she won the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.

    Over the years I've been teaching kids about a simple but powerful concept—the ant philosophy, an{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (amaze) four-part philosophy.

    First, ants never quit. If they're heading somewhere and you try to stop them, they'll climb over. they'll climb under, or they'll climb around. They never give up{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (look) for a way to get where they{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (suppose) to go! Second, ants think about winter and summer. They are always gathering in their winter food in the middle of summer and they are making{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. (prepare) for the long cold winter. So you have to think about storms in summer; think about rocks{#blank#}5{#/blank#} you enjoy the sand and sun. Third, ants think about summer all winter. During the winter, they remind{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they), "This won't last long and we'll soon be out of here. " On {#blank#}7{#/blank#}first warm day, the ants are out. If it{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (turn) cold again, they'll dive back down. But they come out again if it is warm Last, how much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare for the winter? All that it{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (possible) can. {#blank#}10{#/blank#}you can learn from the ant philosophy is: Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.

    The film Goodbye Mr Loser（《夏洛特烦恼》has neither a team of shining stars nor a money-consuming publicity campaign to appeal to numerous moviegoers. But{#blank#}1{#/blank#} it does have is a bunch of middle-aged actors and actresses pretending to be high school students. Yet{#blank#}2{#/blank#} is amazing that the film is funny enough to earn it belly laughs from beginning to end.

    The movie, just{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the title indicates, is about a small fry named Xia Luo, who is merely {#blank#}4{#/blank#} loser. He's down and out with no job, and he lives with his wife in a crowded apartment .In a dream, Xia relives his life with everything he ever wanted. But at last he realizes that what he {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (true) misses is his ordinary life.

    The movie is adapted {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a theater play of the same title produced by Mahua FunAge (开心麻花). The company set out {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (stage) its first amusing plays, known as “grassroots theater”, in 2003.Up to now, the group {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (produce)21 plays and built a considerable fan base.

    The popularity of these plays and the recent hit, according to critics, reflects a trend of the public's increasingly mature and diverse taste in cinema. Previous {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (success) include A Hero or Not (《煎饼侠》）, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (release) this summer by Dong Chengpeng, and Crazy Stone by Ning Tao.

    George Bernard Shaw was interested in the way people spoke. He argued that he was never{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (mistake) about a person's status. However, Professor Higgins thought a superior social position was more dependent on grammar and pronunciation. Actually, his view was only accepted by a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (hand) of his followers. Eliza, a flower girl, was ambitious to improve herself. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (force)to earn money herself because her family was poor, she dreamed of working in a proper flower shop. George Bernard Shaw teamed {#blank#}4{#/blank#} with Professor Higgins to help her. An English teacher {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  (hire) to give her lessons. But after her first lesson, she was {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (apparent) disappointed because the teacher was so impatient with her. Actually, Eliza didn't give it up easily. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (look) ahead, she decided to work hard. Knowing it was impossible {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (accept) in that profession if she did not speak correct English, she asked Professor Higgins to give her lessons. Trained for several months, she set out to speak in {#blank#}9{#/blank#} more attractive accent. Shortly, she became known as “the London songbird” {#blank#}10{#/blank#} her spoken English became so pleasant.

    This year I was chosen as the vice monitor (副班长) of the class. At first, I was really excited to have been chosen. And I like the monitor, Charlie as well,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} has a funny face but works very hard.

    My best friend, Sally, was also happy for me. She said the last vice monitor, Joey, had been very rude and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (kind) to her. She always talked about it, but I usually {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (ignore) it.

    Charlie and I have to stay behind after school to make sure the classroom is clean. I came back before Charlie last Thursday. I found Sally at Joey's desk {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (cut) up Joey's English textbook. I was {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (extreme) shocked. Sally asked me not to tell anyone. After that, she ran out and Charlie came in.

    Charlie saw the book and soon realized {#blank#}6{#/blank#} had happened. He asked me what I had seen but I said {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. The next day, Joey was crying. She was {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (frighten) to tell our teacher because he may think she did it. Sally is happy about this. This makes me angry. Charlie insists that I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (tell) our teacher the truth, but I am concerned {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the friendship with Sally. What should I do?