A.popular              B.when             C.at all

D.interests            E.pick up               F.in all

    Do you know what gifts Western kids enjoy best? How do they give them? Let's have a quick look.The most {#blank#}1{#/blank#}gifts are fashionable things like the new video games, CDs and DVDs. A video game costs about US$60 and CDs or DVDs are cheaper at around US$20.Girls like to give jewellery (宝石) they make themselves. They {#blank#}2{#/blank#}pretty beads (串珠) in DIY shops and put them together in their own way.

    US kids give gifts according to their friends' {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. Puzzles or airplane models are good for smart kids.But if you are not sure what others will like, you can give them "gift certificate cards (授权卡)" from a store. They can get whatever they like with the cards. The cards can be worth US$20 or US$30 {#blank#}4{#/blank#}.Usually parents help the kids buy the gifts that they want. So they can make the right decision.

    Before the parties, kids usually wrap the gifts in colourful paper. It's also fine to use newspaper as gift wrap.So {#blank#}5{#/blank#}to open the gifts? In the West, it's usually while everyone is at the party. The receiver (接受者) tries to say something about each gift - like how lovely it is.

    In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, only white people were {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to sit in the first four rows of public buses. African-American people had to use the seats towards the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} of the bus.

    If someone {#blank#}3{#/blank#} was African-American sat in the white part, he or she would be asked to move.

    One day, an African-American named Rosa Parks was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} in a “whites only” part of the bus.

    The bus was {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and some white people needed a seat, so the driver asked Rosa Parks to give {#blank#}6{#/blank#} her seat.

    But she refused. She was {#blank#}7{#/blank#} after a long day working in a store and she felt she should have the right to sit {#blank#}8{#/blank#} she wanted, so she told the driver “no”.

    For that, she was arrested (逮捕). She was tried for just 30 minutes and fined (罚款) $10—a lot of money in those days.

    She also {#blank#}9{#/blank#} her job because of that.

    Today, in the United States, December 1 is a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} called Rosa Parks Day. Rosa Parks is celebrated for her action and bravery.

    Little Tom down the street calls our dog the "keep dog". Zip is a sheep dog. But when Tom tries to say "sheep", it comes out "keep". And in a way(从某个方面) Tom is {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

    Zip is always bringing things home for us to keep! I'll {#blank#}2{#/blank#} you about some of them. Zip's first present was a shoe. It was made of green silk. We didn't know {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Zip found the shoe. But after a moment, Mary, my big sister, told me the shoe had a strange {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. I nodded(点头) and held my nose. "What do you think it is?"

    "It smells like something for cleaning. I think someone tried to clean a spot(污点) off the shoe. Then he put it at the 4{#blank#}5{#/blank#} to dry. We can't keep it."

    "Maybe little Tom is right," Mary said. "Maybe Zip is a keep dog!"

    Bill is thirty years old. He works in a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. He is a teacher. He goes to work {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Monday to Friday every week. Usually he {#blank#}3{#/blank#} up at six in the morning. After breakfast, he {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a bus to work. He is a(n) {#blank#}5{#/blank#} teacher, so he often plays basketball, ping-pong and volleyball with his students. He has {#blank#}6{#/blank#} classes every day. Two are in the morning and two are in the afternoon. He likes his students and his students like {#blank#}7{#/blank#} too. He often plays sports, so he is very {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. He usually {#blank#}9{#/blank#} dinner at home and then he watches TV for two hours. At the weekend, he often goes to the cinema. He likes {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. He thinks they are interesting.