Susan was a woman who hated animals very much．She never w{#blank#}1{#/blank#}to keep any pets at home．To her，all pets were very dirty and boring．Susan could never understand w{#blank#}2{#/blank#}people would like to have pets in the house．“It is so stupid!”she always said．

    Last month Susan's  daughter' Penny， came home from school w{#blank#}3{#/blank#} a mouse in a box．Susan was very angry. But Penny said that it was her h{#blank#}4{#/blank#}．Her teacher asked each student to take care of an animal and l{#blank#}5{#/blank#}to get along with it．Susan had to say v{#blank#}6{#/blank#}．

    It was fun for Penny at the very beginning，but then she got quite lazy and f{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. to do her homework． It became Susan's homework． She g{#blank#}8{#/blank#}it food and water every day and found that the mouse was in fact not dirty．She e{#blank#}9{#/blank#} talked to it! It was not boring or stupid! Now Susan is having a good time with “her” mouse．She named it Nini．And she is going to buy a{#blank#}10{#/blank#}one to make a pair．

Dear Jessica,

    Let me introduce {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. My name is Wang Mei. I'm twelve years old. I live with my mother and father. I have no brothers {#blank#}2{#/blank#} sisters, but I have many friends. I am 1.6 metres tall. I like to play chess. Last year, I {#blank#}3{#/blank#} first place in my school. My favorite food is noodles. I can {#blank#}4{#/blank#} noodles myself!

    Do you study any other languages in school? I am learning English now. I want to have some more English-speaking friends. Learning English {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the world up to me.

    Here is a picture of me. What do you look like? Can you send me a photo of yourself? I'm looking forward to your reply.

Your new Chinese friend,

Wang Mei

    Hello, my name is Joe, I am a vegetarian(素食主义者). I like eating {#blank#}1{#/blank#} and vegetables. They are {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.  Look! {#blank#}3{#/blank#} are apples. They are red. I often eat them {#blank#}4{#/blank#}breakfast. I often eat some carrots and broccoli in the evening. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} I don't like onions.

 My friend Helen {#blank#}6{#/blank#} eating hamburgers. A lot of people say they aren't healthy, but she likes {#blank#}7{#/blank#} . So she often goes to the fast {#blank#}8{#/blank#} restaurant(餐厅) to eat hamburgers and French fries with her sister. She likes {#blank#}9{#/blank#} , too. She often makes fruit salad, and she can do it {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. Her family all like it.

No one knows exactly when jazz was invented, or by whom. But it is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (据说) that it began in the early 1900s. 

Jazz was a new kind of music for America and the world, and New Orleans was its birthplace. Who were the jazz pioneers? Most were blacks. This music was not {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (写) down, and at first only blacks played it. It was hard for white musicians to learn the new style. But soon they, too, were {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (弹奏) jazz. 

The popularity of this music {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (传播). From New Orleans, it traveled up the Mississippi to Chicago, then to Kansas City and New York. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (在……以前) the time of the rise of America, there were many jazz musicians, both black and white. Many of them were famous. One man was {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (好) than the rest. His name was Louis Armstrong. 

Louis Armstrong was a born musician. He was not only talented but also hard- working. He also had a good sense of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (幽默) and a big, good- nature d smile. These personal qualities were {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (有价值的) in his rise to fame. After he became famous, he traveled around the world. It seemed that everyone wanted to hear Louis play. 

But life was not always easy, especially at the beginning. Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 in New Orleans. His father {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (从不) went to school and his mother could hardly read. When Louis was still a kid, his parents separated, and Louis lived with his mother. How hard their life was can be imagined. And yet Louis smiled through everything. He later wrote, " My whole life has been happiness. Life was there for me and I accepted it. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (无论什么) happened has been beautiful to me. I love everybody. "

Kuang Heng was born in a poor family. He liked reading books very much. He needed to work at daytime, so he had to read books during night. But he was too poor to buy candles. 

One day, he found his neighbor had candles, but the light couldn't go through his room. So he dug a small hole on the wall so that he could use the light to read books. From that day, he read books every night until the light went out. 

However, he finished reading all his books and there were no books for him to read. Then he went to a rich man's house and worked for him without payment. The rich man asked: "Why don't you want the money?"

Kuang Heng said: "Because I only want to borrow your books." The rich man agreed. Kuang Heng read the books one by one. 

Because he tried to get over difficulties and worked hard, he became a great scholar（学者）at last.