Mr. and Mrs. Black have a happy {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. They have a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Jack and a daughter Mary. Mary {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) a good girl. Every evening she usually has dinner with his parents. And Jack 39．{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (like) sports. He often plays football and basketball{#blank#}5{#/blank#}his friends. Sometimes (有时候) brother Jack goes to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (play) soccer and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} Mary also wants{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(go) with him. Mr. and Mrs. Black sometimes take{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (they) daughter to watch his son's soccer game,{#blank#}10{#/blank#}. Look, they watch the game under the tree.

    What will you choose, if you are sitting in front of a TV and there is a book right next to you? The{#blank#}1{#/blank#}will probably be the TV! Young people will certainly choose the TV, but you will be{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(surprise) to find that the older will take time to think about it. Why is this? Are the books not as interesting as they used to{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(be) ? Is it that the world has{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(change) so much in the past years that our habits are not the same anymore?

    Nowadays many people have no interest {#blank#}5{#/blank#}literature (文学). This may be a possible explanation(解释).{#blank#}6{#/blank#}reason might be the change of lifestyle. We'd like to visit a club or a bar to relax{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(we) after a long day's work rather than read a book in our own homes.All the stress of the work makes us want a quick relaxing way. It is much{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(simple) to turn on the TV and watch the latest news around the world than read 19th century literature!

    With all the TV programs, an interesting show or movie can{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(find) easily. The only disadvantage is that TV never provides you{#blank#}10{#/blank#}all the facts as a book can do. TV is much more superficial(肤浅) than books. Even if it does get you relaxed in just a moment.

    My mother only had one eye. And because of this, I never wished her to show up in my school, being afraid that my classmates would find out I had {#blank#}1{#/blank#} ugly mother.

    One day during elementary school, I was terribly ill. My mother {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (come).

    "Your mom only has one eye?!" asked some of my classmates. I was so embarrassed.

    I wished {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (I) mother would just disappear from this world. "If you make me teased（嘲笑）, why don't you just die?" I shouted at her, taking no notice of the sad look on her face. My mother just handed me some medicine and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (leave) without saying anything.

    At that time, I felt good to say what I always wanted to say, and I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (not) think I had hurt her feelings very much. That night I saw my mom crying in her room, so {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (quiet), as if she was afraid that she might disturb me. Even so, I hated her {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (tear) from one eye. I made a decision: I must study hard and leave her.

    Years later my dream came true. I was quite successful and lived alone. I never thought of going back to see my "ugly" mother {#blank#}8{#/blank#} one day I got a letter, which said, " My son…I'm sorry I only have one eye. When you were little, you got into an accident and lost your eye. As a mom, I couldn't stand {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (watch) you live with only one eye. So I gave you mine. I was never angry {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you and I never regretted what I did because I love you…"

    I cried out aloud. Only then did I realize how beautiful my mother was!

    Do you know what is special about November and June in the UK? They are, possibly, the only two {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(month) with no school holidays. A newspaper recently did a survey among a group of students. In {#blank#}2{#/blank#}survey, 68 percent of the students said that their parents were at work in the school holidays. 73 percent said that they were bored during the school holidays and 35 percent said they were happy to go back to school! The results of the survey show that not everybody {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (want) to have many holidays.

    If you don't want to stay at home, go out and take part {#blank#}4{#/blank#} some interesting activities. A lot of schools organize different kinds of trips during the holidays, especially when they have a one-week holiday. You have many {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (choose) to make.

    Many schools take groups of students to some {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (train) centers. There, students can learn how to do things by {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (they). For example, students learn how to make a camp in the forest. They also learn a lot {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (many) about animals and plants. At the same time, they are {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (teach) how to find their way back to the centers.

    In most towns, some other centers offer students different courses,  {#blank#}10{#/blank#}as computer game design, film-making and painting. Students can also go abroad for school trips. They can practice their foreign languages and experience everyday life in different cultures.