Dear Tina，

    Steve is my cousin．{#blank#}1{#/blank#}is he like?Mm，he is friendly．He{#blank#}2{#/blank#}my uncle．He has short{#blank#}3{#/blank#}hair．He's not short and not{#blank#}4{#/blank#}．Is he eleven{#blank#}5{#/blank#}twelve?Oh!I forget it．He{#blank#}6{#/blank#}eleven years old．Well,I'll ask my uncle and then I'll tell you．Now I want to tell you Steve is going to your school on Monday．Please be friendly to him,OK?

    Yours，

Bob

    It is helpful for English readers to improve reading speed. Before{#blank#}1{#/blank#}to read the material(素材), learn about the background knowledge.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}its help, you can read faster. While reading, many students think the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}thing they should do is to look up the new words. That will make them feel bored and disturb (打扰) their speed! What's{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, they always pay more attention to English grammar than the main idea of the material. To tell the truth, you'd better grasp(领会) the main information in a short time.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}, this is the key to making your reading speed faster and faster.

    Is there something strange high up in the world's {#blank#}1{#/blank#} mountains? If so, is it a big bear? Is it monkey? Or is it a kind of man?

    No one knows. This mystery has puzzled the world for years.

    In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don't walk {#blank#}2{#/blank#} shoes in the snow!

    In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. As he watched, it ran very {#blank#}3{#/blank#}.

Fifteen years later, newspaper had new stories about the "something". A mountain climber said he had seen the "{#blank#}4{#/blank#}" walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.

    From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back of large footprints. "The pictures showed clearly {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the Snowman walked on two legs." So it was not a bear or a monkey. Could it be an ape man? The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Some day we may {#blank#}6{#/blank#} what it is that makes the large footprints.

I'm Eason. I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in "New York with my family. I like reading very much, and I have many books at {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, I'm in the school book club now. There're{#blank#}3{#/blank#}students and three teachers in the club. We meet from 7:00 to 8:00 {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  Wednesday afternoon. We usually{#blank#}5{#/blank#}about one book together. Our teacher {#blank#}6{#/blank#} asks us some questions about the book. All of us want to answer them, because it's interesting {#blank#}7{#/blank#}a game. We can borrow (借) a book from the club, but we must take it back {#blank#}8{#/blank#}  It's fun joining the book club, because we can also make {#blank#}9{#/blank#} friends here. There's a new book {#blank#}10{#/blank#}every month in the club. I like the show very much and I never miss (错过)it!