Paul is very busy {#blank#}1{#/blank#} days. Every day he gets up {#blank#}2{#/blank#} in the morning. Then he cleans his room. Paul {#blank#}3{#/blank#} breakfast at half past six. After that, he{#blank#}4{#/blank#} to the bus station to take the bus. He begins to work at eight o'clock. He likes {#blank#}5{#/blank#} job.

    Life is not easy, so I'd like to say "When anything happens, believe in yourself."

    When I was a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} boy, I was too shy to talk to anyone. My classmates often laughed at me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to take part in it. How {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the idea is! It meant I had to speak before all the teachers and students of my school!

    "Come on, boy. Believe in yourself. You are sure to win." Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the topic "Believe In Yourself". I tried my best to remember all the speech and practised it over one hundred times.

    With my mother's great love, I did well in the contest. I could hardly believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first prize.

    In most countries, people usually have {#blank#}1{#/blank#} food on special holidays. A special day in the United States is Thanksgiving. It is on the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Thursday in November, and is a time to give {#blank#}3{#/blank#} for food in the autumn. At this time, people also remember the first {#blank#}4{#/blank#} from England who came to live in America about 400 years ago. They had a long, hard winter, and many of them {#blank#}5{#/blank#} . In the next autumn, they gave thanks for life and food in {#blank#}6{#/blank#} new home. These days, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} still celebrate this idea of giving thanks by {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a big meal at home with their family. The main dish of this meal is almost turkey, a large bird.