A: Are you going to Helen's birthday party {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Friday evening?

B: I wouldn't miss it! It's sure to be fun. She's {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(invite) a lot of people.   Do you think everyone will be able to get into her house?

A: {#blank#}3{#/blank#}everyone turned up, it would be crowded, but a few people said that they couldn't go, so I think it should be OK.

B: Are you taking {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (something) to her?

A: I've got her {#blank#}5{#/blank#}birthday present and I'll take a bottle of wine, too.

B: That's a good idea. She told me she had bought plenty of food and snacks. I think it's going to be a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (noise) party. I hope her {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(neighbor) don't mind too much.

A: Helen gets on very {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(good) with them. It wouldn't be{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(surprise) if they went to the party, too.

B: I'm really looking forward to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (take) part in it. This party is going to be fun!

A: Well, don't be late. I'll see you on Friday at Helen's.

    Last week I took a train home. My friend gave me her newspaper and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (say) there was an article(文章) I would like. I opened the newspaper. I saw a picture of a little girl and her mother, and there were some words {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the picture. It {#blank#}3{#/blank#} "Mom, do caterpillars (毛虫) know they become butterflies (蝴蝶), or does God surprise them? "I was very {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (surprised) to see these words. They let me remember something about myself.

    Two years ago, doctors told me that {#blank#}5{#/blank#} was very difficult for me to be a mother. But I {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (real) wanted to be a mom. Would God surprise me and let me have a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (child)? After two weeks, it was Christmas Day. My husband gave me a present. It was a butterfly ring. I liked it very much. A few {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (day) later, I learned I was pregnant (怀孕的). I had waited for four years. Finally, I had my own baby. Life is full of {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (hope). Maybe some surprises are {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (wait) for you in the future.

    "After walking through the mirror, many strange things happened to Alice. One day, she{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (meet) a unicorn(独角兽).'What－is－this? 'the unicorn asked its friend. 'That is a child,' {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (reply)the friend. 'Ah,' said the unicorn, I always thought they were fabulous monsters(传说中的怪兽)! Is it alive？'Alice then said, "Do you know,' I always thought unicorns, were fabulous monsters {#blank#}3{#/blank#}? I never saw one alive before!'"

    Fifty years before Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) wrote{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (he) stories about Alice, many people still believed in the myth (神话) of unicorns. But in the early nineteenth century, a French{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (science) named Baron Cuvier showed that unicorns were only a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (product) of imagination.

    For hundreds of years before that, things were very different. Everybody{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (believe) that unicorns were real, but very few people saw them. Julius Caesar, who built the Roman Empire, ever said that the animal had the head of a deer, the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (foot) of an elephant and a one-meter-long horn on its forehead. Marco Polo, who thought he saw a unicorn in India, agreed that it had elephants' feet and a horn, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} said it had a pig's head. He was almost certainly describing a rhinoceros(犀牛)! By the sixteenth century，when books about animals were {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (become)very popular, everyone agreed that the unicorn looked like a white horse with a horn.