①You {#blank#}1{#/blank#} require a lot of talent and hard work to succeed.

②In autumn almost all {#blank#}2{#/blank#} fall.

③The number of foreign players in the NBA has {#blank#}3{#/blank#}.

④The hotel is on your left, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the bank.

⑤Sometimes he is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} from classes.

    Langston Hughes was a famous black poet (诗人). And he also wrote novels, plays and short {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the US. He {#blank#}2{#/blank#} with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. She told him stories about their family. These stories made Hughes feel proud (自豪的) to be black. He {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to write when he was living with her. During his life time, he wrote a lot about black people. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}his poems, novels and stories, Hughes helped other black people to see themselves as part of a much bigger group of people.

    After his grandmother died in 1915, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to live with {#blank#}5{#/blank#}mother and her new husband. Hughes went to high school there. His first short stories came out (出版) when he was still in high school.

    After finishing high school in 1920, he {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to Mexico City to live with his father. Hughes had a very {#blank#}7{#/blank#} relationship (关系) with his father. His father didn't want him to be a writer. He said that Hughes could go to {#blank#}8{#/blank#}only if he studied engineering (工程学). Hughes agreed. He went to Columbia University in New York City in 1921 but left the university in 1922 because of his colour.

    When I was six years old, I hurt my legs and spent a lot of my first grade year in the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Mrs. Nelson, instead of letting me fall behind my classmates, came to my bedside and helped me{#blank#}2{#/blank#}my lessons. She would not let my illness {#blank#}3{#/blank#}me from learning. Mrs. Nelson was not {#blank#}4{#/blank#}in who I was, but who I might become. She told me to believe in{#blank#}5{#/blank#}and encouraged me a lot.

    If you visit the animal shelter (收容所) in Salinas, California, you'll see huge signs that have a picture of a dog and a cat on them. These {#blank#}1{#/blank#} are put in front of the shelter to catch people's attention. The signs {#blank#}2{#/blank#} people interested in the shelter and encourage them to visit it and maybe even take a cat or a dog into their homes.

    Each year, the shelter accepts thousands of dogs and cats. The animals are{#blank#}3{#/blank#} lost ones or left by people who can't take care of {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Of all the animals, some of them are taken into new homes. Some {#blank#}5{#/blank#} are moved to other shelters. And, unluckily, some cannot be saved because they are too sick or are thought to be dangerous.

    Animal shelters {#blank#}6{#/blank#} food, medicine, and safe places for animals. But they are not the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} homes. The animals stay in small cages (笼子). The people who work at shelters do their best {#blank#}8{#/blank#} for the animals, but the animals do not always get the attention or exercise they need.

    To prevent animals from becoming homeless, pet owners should take good care of their pets. Most pet doctors also suggest people make {#blank#}9{#/blank#} their pets have a special surgery (外科手术). It {#blank#}10{#/blank#} animals from having more babies. And that reduces (减少) the number of homeless animals.

    Once upon a time, in a small village, there was a place {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the House of 1,000 Mirrors(镜子). A small happy dog knew this and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to visit it. When he arrived, he happily climbed the stairs(楼梯) of the house. He looked into the doorway {#blank#}3{#/blank#} his tail wagging(摇动) as fast as he could. He smiled, and saw 1,000 other warm and friendly smiles. As he left the house, he thought, "This is a nice place. I will come back and visit it often.

In this village, another little dog，who was not as {#blank#}4{#/blank#} as the first one, also decided to visit the house. He {#blank#}5{#/blank#} climbed the stairs and looked unhappily into the doorway. He saw 1.000 unfriendly dogs staring at(盯着看) him. He growled(吼叫) at them and saw 1, 000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought, "This is a bad place， and I will never come back here.