Nancy is from the USA but she   {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  in Shanghai now. She is 12 years old. She {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to Shanghai with her parents because they {#blank#}3{#/blank#} here. Her father {#blank#}4{#/blank#} English in her school and her mother is a doctor.

      Nancy and I are {#blank#}5{#/blank#} .We study in No.21 Middle School in Shanghai. Nancy likes{#blank#}6{#/blank#} school very much. She is nice to others(其他人). She often helps us {#blank#}7{#/blank#} our English and we often help her learn Chinese. Nancy loves {#blank#}8{#/blank#} very much. Every Sunday she has a swimming class with twelve students. She is {#blank#}9{#/blank#} at swimming and she is in the school swimming {#blank#}10{#/blank#} .

      In 2008, an Indian film Slumdog Millionaire(《贫民窟的百万富翁》) won an Oscar a{#blank#}1{#/blank#}. It tells the story of a poor young man who wins the top prize on a TV game show. Now, in r{#blank#}2{#/blank#} life, there is a “slumdog millionaire” too. An Indian office worker has b{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the first person to win the＄1 million top prize on the Indian TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

The w{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, Sushil Kumar, is 27 years old. He works as a computer operator in a government office. He earns around only $120 every month. His house is almost broken and he had a lot of loans (贷款) to be repaired. He e{#blank#}5{#/blank#} watched the TV game show at a neighbour's house, because his family is too poor to a{#blank#}6{#/blank#} a television set.

      People are i{#blank#}7{#/blank#} in how Kumar will use the prize. Kumar said that he was going to r{#blank#}8{#/blank#} his house and fulfill a few basic needs. He would also use part of the prize to study f{#blank#}9{#/blank#} the civil service（公务员）exams. “I love reading,” Kumar said in an interview after his win. “Before winning the prize, I c{#blank#}10{#/blank#} buy many books, but now, I will make a huge library.”

Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult w{#blank#}1{#/blank#}their parents. They don't know how to do housework. Because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big p{#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

Joy is 15 years old. One day, her parents went away on b {#blank#}3{#/blank#} , so she had to stay at home a{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. At first she thought she would be happy because her parents weren't in. She could do a{#blank#}5{#/blank#} that she liked. But it was six o'clock in the afternoon, she felt h{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. “Oh, it's time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to h {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. Later she found some food in the fridge, but she didn't know how to cook. At that moment, she m{#blank#}8{#/blank#}her parents very much F{#blank#}9{#/blank#}she could only go to the supermarket and bought some food to eat.

Many of teenagers are the same as Joy. So I think they should learn some basic life s{#blank#}10{#/blank#}, like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves. They shouldn't depend too much on their parents.

    Mrs．Marks bought a printer yesterday．She was h{#blank#}1{#/blank#} because she could print anything she wanted at any time．H{#blank#}2{#/blank#},after about an hour, she was angry because she couldn't print the color blue．All the other c{#blank#}3{#/blank#} printed free, except(除了)blue，which was very unusual．

    She d{#blank#}4{#/blank#} to call the after-sales service department(售后服务部)to help her solve the problem．David answered the phone．He t{#blank#}5{#/blank#} everything he could think of to help Mrs．Marks．He asked her to reinstall(重新安装) the program，to reboot (重新启动)the computer and to turn the printer on and off．N{#blank#}6{#/blank#} of these things helped．

After hours of trying，the problem s{#blank#}7{#/blank#}wasn't solved．Finally, David asked Mrs．Marks if he could go to her h{#blank#}8{#/blank#}and try to solve the problem in  person．Mrs．Marks agreed and t{#blank#}9{#/blank#} him her address(住址)．When he arrived at her house，she showed him her computer and the printer. David u{#blank#}10{#/blank#}what the problem was right away．He told her,“From now on，print on white paper instead of blue!”

    Recently, a foreign student in China gave a very touching answer to the question: What should China be proud of? It was{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(wide) spread online.

      Emma is from Canada. She came to China four years ago. Now she is{#blank#}2{#/blank#}university student in Ningbo. The following is China in her eyes.

    "{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(find) a job in China can be really simple. There are more job{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (chance) here than in any other country in the world."

    "Its public security（安全）is great. I{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(travel) to many countries so far, and I think China is really safe."

    "About 400 million Chinese are studying English. China will become the country{#blank#}6{#/blank#}has the greatest number of English speakers in non-English speaking countries." "The speed of Chinese trains is high. On my{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(three) visit to my friend in Beijing, I took a train there. From Ningbo{#blank#}8{#/blank#}Beijing, the train runs 1,365 kilometres for only seven hours."

    "There{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(be) many more things China should be proud of. I believe China must be much{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(good) than other countries."

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