{#blank#}1{#/blank#} All of us hope you _____________ your best to learn English well this term.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} How long ___________ you ____________ solving this problem yesterday afternoon.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} If it _____________ next Sunday，we will have a football match in our school.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} — ________ you __________ reading the story book?—Not yet. It's too hard to understand.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} The family ______________ where to go this weekend when the telephone rang.

   "Mommy, what are you doing?" asked Susie.
   "I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a dinner for Mrs. Smith next door.”
   "Why?" asked Susie, who was .only six years old.
   "Because Mrs. Smith is very sad; her daughter {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  in an earthquake and she has a broken heart. We need to look after her. "
   "Why, Mommy?"
   "You see, Susie, when someone is sad, they have trouble{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the little things like cooking dinner or other chores. Because Mrs Smith is  our neighbor, we .need to do some thing to help her. Mm Smith won't ever be able to talk with her daughter or do all those wonderful things {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  mommies and daughters do together. You are a very smart girl, maybe you'll think of some way {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  care of Mrs Smith. "
   Susie thought seriously about {#blank#}6{#/blank#}  she could care for Mrs Smith. A few minutes later, .Susie knocked on her door. Mrs Smith answered the knock with a "Hi, Susie.”
   From her sad look, Susie noticed that Mrs Smith must {#blank#}7{#/blank#}  for a long time. "What can I do for you, Susie?" asked Mrs Smith.
   "My mommy says that you lost your daughter and your heart is broken." Susie held her hand out shyly. In it was a Band-Aid(创可帖). "This is for your broken heart.” Mrs Smith burst into tears. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}  her tears she said, "Thank you, darling girl, this will help a lot."
   Mrs Smith accepted Susie's {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  and she put Susie's Band-Aid in a small picture frame(相框). She feels a little{#blank#}10{#/blank#}  every time she sees it. She wisely knows that healing takes time and support.

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A. raised  B. brought  C. dislike  D. opinions  E. held

    In Yulin, Guangxi (广西玉林) a dog meat-eating festival is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in summer every year. Tens of thousands of dogs are killed and cooked every day during the festival. This year, the controversial (有争议的) festival was protested (抗议) by a large number of dog lovers.

    Should dogs be eaten? People hold different {#blank#}2{#/blank#} . Some of the local people want to keep their custom and enjoy the traditional dishes.

    They think eating dog meat is a tradition in many parts of the world. It should not be stopped simply because some people {#blank#}3{#/blank#} it. Besides, most of the dogs are not pet dogs; they are {#blank#}4{#/blank#} by farmers. However, some people want the festival in Yulin to be banned (禁止). They say that dogs are man's best friends. Dogs make cute pets. Man should love them and they will love us, too. It is cruel (残忍的) to cook and eat them. Do you support the Yulin tradition that has lasted for hundreds of years, or do you believe this custom should be stopped? What is your opinion?

    Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America. One was a very rich banker, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}owned(拥有)one of the largest companies in the world, and the third owned many buildings in the center of New York.

    The reporter was {#blank#}2{#/blank#}to them about being important.

    "How do we know if someone is really important?" the reporter asked the banker.

    The banker thought {#blank#}3{#/blank#}a few minutes and then said, "I think anybody who is invited to the White House to meet the President(总统)of the United States is {#blank#}4{#/blank#}important."

    The reporter then turned to the owner of the very large company. "Do you {#blank#}5{#/blank#}with that?" she asked.

    The man{#blank#}6{#/blank#}his head, "No. I think the President invites a lot of people to the White House. You'd only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president of another country, and the President of the US said he was too busy to answer it. "

    The reporter turned to the {#blank#}7{#/blank#}man. "Do you think so?"

    "No, I don't." he said. "I don't think that makes the visitor important. That makes the President important. "

    "Then what would make the visitor important?" the reporter and the other two men asked.

    "Oh, I think if the visitor to the White House was talking to the President and the phone rang, and the President picked up the receiver, listened and then said, "it's for you."

    Margaret always {#blank#}1{#/blank#} her friends cards on Christmas Day. She thinks it is a great way to tell each other how much she values their {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Last week, Margaret went to several different {#blank#}3{#/blank#} looking for special cards for her friends. Margaret likes all the friends equally. She wanted to find a card for each friend that was personal, and she wanted the cards to also look sort of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} same. Margaret spent over an hour looking at cards, but she could not find the cards {#blank#}5{#/blank#} were right.

    Margaret had a great idea. She would make cards for each of her friends. But she wasn't sure how to make cards. She remembered {#blank#}6{#/blank#} somewhere about Christmas Cards that were {#blank#}7{#/blank#} by hand over a hundred years ago. She used the Internet to find out {#blank#}8{#/blank#} about these cards. She made notes for all the materials she would need and went back to the store to get them.

    Margaret spent several hours working on the Christmas cards {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. That night at dinner, Margaret showed her family the cards she had made for her friends. Even her brother thought they were great, and he almost never thinks Margaret's ideas are great. Margaret {#blank#}10{#/blank#}to make each of her parents a Christmas card and one for her brother, too.