Do you use your right hands more or left hands more? Very{#blank#}1{#/blank#} of us use both of our hands well. Most people use right hands. Only about five people of a hundred use left hands. New-born babies can take things with {#blank#}2{#/blank#} of their hands, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in about two years, they like to use {#blank#}4{#/blank#} right hands. Scientists don't know why this happens. They've studied it. They think our animal ancestors used their right hands, this may not be true. Monkeys are our {#blank#}5{#/blank#} relatives in the animal world.
Scientists have found that monkeys like to use one of their hands more than the other—but it can be either hand. There are as many right-handed monkeys as the left -handed {#blank#}6{#/blank#} . Next time you visit the zoo and do watch the monkeys {#blank#}7{#/blank#} . You'll see that some of them will use their right hands and others will use their left hands. But men use their right hands better and this {#blank#}8{#/blank#} life difficult for the left-handed ones. We live in a right-handed world. Some scientists have found out that more of {#blank#}9{#/blank#} people are left-handed, but they don't know why. But they are {#blank#}10{#/blank#} hard to discover the secret.

In many European countries it is normal to have a long break in the middle of the day when all members of the family return to their houses to eat together. This is not very {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in Britain because normally it is a long way from the place of work or school to the home. The {#blank#}2{#/blank#} people often have a big breakfast before they go to work and the meal at midday is not{#blank#}3{#/blank#} _with the members of the family but with workmates or schoolmates. Lunch is normally{#blank#}4{#/blank#} between 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm. Most people finish work at five thirty. It often take at _{#blank#}5{#/blank#} an hour to get home from the school or workplace so people eat their meal {#blank#}6{#/blank#} "dinner" between 6:30 pm and 9 pm.
On Sundays people don't have to work so they take the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} to eat together with their family. Sunday lunch is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the best meal of the week and many of the meals which are considered real British food are eaten for Sunday lunch, such as roast beef and pudding.
{#blank#}9{#/blank#} everyone in Britain understands that "breakfast" is the first meal of the day, there is a lot of confusion(混乱) about the words for other meals such as "dinner, lunch, tea, high tea, elevenses, brunch, supper". And if you ask a British person what these words {#blank#}10{#/blank#} , most of them will give you a different answer according to what part of the country they are from.

    A man walked i{#blank#}1{#/blank#} a doctor's examining room. "Put out your tongue," the doctor said.   

  “OK. There is nothing s{#blank#}2{#/blank#},” the doctor said. "It's clear what's wrong with you.  You need more exercise." “But. doctor." the man said. “I don't think…”

    “Don't tell me what you think," the doctor said “I am the doctor, not you; I know what you need. I see hundreds of people like you. N{#blank#}3{#/blank#} of them get any exercise. They sit in the office all day and in f{#blank#}4{#/blank#} of the television in the evening. What you need is to walk quickly at l{#blank#}5{#/blank#} twenty minutes a day.”

    “Doctor, you don't understand;" the man said “I.”

“There is no e {#blank#}6{#/blank#},” the doctor said. "You must spare some time for exercise. If you don't, you will get fat and have health problems when you are old.”

    “But I walk every day," the man said.

    “Oh, yes, and I know what kind of walking that is. You walk a few metres to the office from your house, and a few more metres to a r{#blank#}7{#/blank#} for lunch and back.”

    “Please listen to me, doctor!" the man s{#blank#}8{#/blank#} at the doctor angrily.

    “I'm a mailman.”the man w{#blank#}9{#/blank#} on, “I walk for seven hours every day.”

     For a moment the doctor was silent, then he said quietly, "Put your tongue out a{#blank#}10{#/blank#}, will you?"

    One of the most {#blank#}1{#/blank#} ['beɪsɪk] human needs is a home. A home is a safe place. While most people around the world {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (valuable) their homes, there are many people in every country who are homeless.

Some people are homeless for a short {#blank#}3{#/blank#} ['pɪəriəd] of time because they are moving from one place to another, and other people are not able to find a home. They must live on the streets or in a shelter.

There are many causes of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (homeless). Sometimes people cannot keep a home because they do not earn enough money, or because they do not have a job. Sometimes people are homeless because they have a problem {#blank#}5{#/blank#} drugs or because they have a mental illness. No one is ever homeless {#blank#}6{#/blank#}purpose.

{#blank#}7{#/blank#} [wɒt'evə(r)] the cause of homelessness is, the effects are the same. Homeless people must work very hard to live. They cannot raise their children. Sometimes they must steal food just {#blank#}8{#/blank#} eat. The government in every country has worked for many years to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} [help] the homeless but more needs to be done. We must think of the homeless as people, not just as problems.

      “Sorry” is a word that people in Britain often say in their daily life.

      One day while I was {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(walk) on the street, a young man ran by hurriedly, brushing（轻擦）against my handbag. He continued his way, but turned  {#blank#}2{#/blank#} /bæk / and said “sorry” to me. Even in a rush, he didn't {#blank#}3{#/blank#} /fə'get / to say “sorry”. One day, after I bought some bananas, the shopkeeper was passing me the change, but I wasn't ready for it and a coin dropped onto the ground. “Sorry, Madam,” he said while bending to pick it up. I was  {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (surprise) why he said “sorry” to me. Another time, I stepped on a man's foot at the entrance to a cinema. At the same time, we  {#blank#}5{#/blank#} /bəʊθ / said “sorry”.

       Slowly, I got to know that when something unpleasant happens in daily life, the British don't care much {#blank#}6{#/blank#} who is wrong. If someone is in trouble, a “sorry” is always {#blank#}7{#/blank#} / 'nesəsəri /. Perhaps that is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} /waɪ/ I seldom see people quarrel on the buses or streets in Britain.