Tom Smith is English. He is 12. He is in No.8 Middle School. Is he in {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, Grade 7? Yes, he is. There are {#blank#}2{#/blank#}people in his family. Amy Smith is his {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. She is 60. His {#blank#}4{#/blank#} is John Smith. He is 41. What's his mother's name? Her name is Kate Smith. How old（多大年纪）is she? She's 40. Who is Mike Smith? He's Tom's {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. He is only eight.

    Emily and Alex were happy when their family moved to a house with a very big garden. They could climb up trees, grow flowers and even play badminton. They liked to watch the birds flying among the trees in the garden. They even started to put food out to attract（吸引） more birds.

    Everything was fine for a few days until one afternoon there was a strange bumping noise on a window. Emily went outside and found a small bird dead on the grass. Its neck seemed to be broken.

    "It must have flown into the window," Alex said when his sister Emily called him to have a look. "Ah, yes, look here. You can see the mark where it hit the window. There are a couple of tiny feathers stuck(粘贴) on the window."

    "Poor thing!" Emily said.

    During the next month, another five birds died in the same way. "Why would they fly to the windows?" they wondered. Finally they found out the truth. When the birds were flying, they couldn't see into the rooms. All they saw was the reflection(反射) of the garden. They thought that they were flying into trees because they saw trees reflected by the window.

    "Something has to be done to save the birds." the parents decided.

    At first, he family tried keeping curtains（窗帘）across the windows, but this made the room dark. Then they bought some strong black paper and cut out the shape of a hawk. They made six hawks—one for each window. They stuck the hawks to the windows. They looked pretty and did not keep out much light. When the birds saw the hawks, they would fly away.

    After that, there were no more dead birds. The family were much happier.

    Mrs Wilson{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(like) to ask her husband{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(go) shopping{#blank#}3{#/blank#}her on Sundays. Her husband{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(pay) for the things that she buys. Now they are in a shop.

    "Look, Andy. Is it a fancy hair clip?" Mrs Wilson asks her husband.

    "All right. And how{#blank#}5{#/blank#}is it?" he answers and{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(give) money to the shop assistant. When Mrs Wilson asks him about{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(anything) good or bad, he often says "All right. And how much is it?"{#blank#}8{#/blank#}her.

    At about 8 p. m., Andy is tired and thirsty, and he wants to have a drink. Suddenly (突然) his wife looks{#blank#}9{#/blank#}at the moon and says, "Look, Andy. Is the moon so beautiful?"

    "All right. And how much is it?" her husband answers{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(quick)

Two men were travelling together through the forest on a lonely path. Before the travelling, they said they would help each other when there was danger. They had not gone far when a bear rushed towards them from some bushes.

One man was a good climber, and quickly climbed up a nearby tree. The other man tried to climb the tree but failed. Looking at his friend in the tree, he shouted loudly for help. The man in the tree was afraid that his friend under the tree would pull him down, so he didn't give his friend a hand.

The man under the tree, seeing that he had no chance alone against the bear, fell to the ground and pretended to be dead. The bear came nearer and nearer. It made his blood run cold.

The bear came to him, lowered its great head, smelled him all over and touched him with its nose. The bear thought the man was dead, so it went off into the forest again without hurting him. After the bear left, the other man came down from the tree, and smilingly asked his friend what the bear had said to him. "For I could see," he said, "that he put his mouth close to your ear."

"He told me to tell you," replied the other, "that you were a great coward(懦夫), and that it is dangerous to travel with a friend who leaves you behind when there is danger."