Let me {#blank#}1{#/blank#} you something about my little dog, Snoopy(史努比). Snoopy is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} American dog. He looks very cute. He has two small eyes（眼睛）, two big ears(耳朵), four short {#blank#}3{#/blank#} and a small tail（尾巴）. Now he can play many games. If I say “Go to sleep!” he goes to his bed {#blank#}4{#/blank#} lies（躺）down. If I say “{#blank#}5{#/blank#} basketball!” he goes to catch a ball and puts it into a basket. If I say “Please dance {#blank#}6{#/blank#} us!” then he dances to the music. “Can he {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a song(歌曲)?” a friend asks me. “Sure, he can, but he doesn't sing {#blank#}8{#/blank#} English or Chinese. When he sings, nobody can understand him.”

    Nowadays, we are in a modern society. Everybody should be polite in public. But sometimes some people like to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in line when they buy tickets or get on the bus or subway. They take {#blank#}2{#/blank#}places as well as time when they are in line, so it is {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. I can't {#blank#}4{#/blank#} that. Sometimes, I even get mad when I see them cut in line.

     When this {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, I often say, "Would you mind {#blank#}6{#/blank#}in line?" But sometimes some of them are angry {#blank#}7{#/blank#}me and they say, "It's none of your business." So I {#blank#}8{#/blank#}angrier. Then I only tell it to the people who sell the tickets. At last the people who are breaking the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}of etiquette(礼数) don't get their tickets. So I am happy and the people who cut in line are {#blank#}10{#/blank#}

    Trees are useful to man in three very important ways. The first important way is that they provide man {#blank#}1{#/blank#} food, wood and other products(产品). Trees provide man and animals with food to live {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the earth. It's not easy {#blank#}3{#/blank#} man to live on the earth without trees.

    The {#blank#}4{#/blank#} important way is that trees give us shade(树荫). On a hot summer day, people can have {#blank#}5{#/blank#}rest under the shade of a tree after they have walked a long way. You can imagine（想象） {#blank#}6{#/blank#} important the shade of a tree is to man and animals.

    The third important {#blank#}7{#/blank#} is that trees help to prevent droughts（干旱）and floods. However, in many parts of the world, man has {#blank#}8{#/blank#} realized the third important way. He has cut {#blank#}9{#/blank#}trees in large numbers.{#blank#}10{#/blank#} the end, he finds that he has lost his best friends.

Dear Sandy，

    Thanks {#blank#}1{#/blank#}your email. I've arrived at home {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (safe).

    My grandparents live in a small town fifty kilometres away {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Jiaxing. I spent about half an hour {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (get) there. They gave me a warm welcome，and {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (cook) me a big meal. We talked far into the night and they told {#blank#}6{#/blank#} some happy stories about them and their neighbours.

    Since 2001，great changes {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (take) place in Jiaxing. I will take some photos and send some {#blank#}8{#/blank#} you. Next time，I'd like you and your family {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (come) with me. You can {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (visit) many places of interest here.

Yours

Chang Lee

    History is the story of us, human beings. Everyone who has lived and everything that has h{#blank#}1{#/blank#} are part of history. But history is not only what happened in the past. The word also means the study of the past, through old w{#blank#}2{#/blank#}records and other kinds of facts.

    Why do we study history? One r{#blank#}3{#/blank#}is that we enjoy it. A good story is even better if it is true, and history is full of good s{#blank#}4{#/blank#}though they can be terrible too. A more serious reason is to understand o{#blank#}5{#/blank#}and the world we live in. To understand events happening now, we need to know their causes. We cannot understand the p{#blank#}6{#/blank#}if we know nothing about the past. History helps us understand why things are the way they are.

    Of course, history books cannot tell us everything about the past, not even everything that i{#blank#}7{#/blank#}recorded. A history of the world has to pick out the people and events t{#blank#}8{#/blank#}changed the world.

    Since ancient times, great civilizations have appeared in d{#blank#}9{#/blank#}countries and regions. Usually, only three or four existed at the same time. While they lasted they changed the l{#blank#}10{#/blank#}not only of their own people, but of their neighbors, today.