JENNY: Nick, we{#blank#}1{#/blank#}go to bed. It's very late.
NICK: I know, but I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} help Trig than go to bed. He's tearing up his English exercise book and he's throwing his grammar book round the room. I don't think he's very happy.
JENNY: Well, you {#blank#}3{#/blank#}stay up too long.
NICK: Trig, stop it. You {#blank#}4{#/blank#} throw your books at the wall. It won't help and you might break something. You {#blank#}5{#/blank#}work at your English now. What are you learning?
TRIG: Abbreviation [n] 1 U abbreviating, being abbreviated 2 C shortened form of a word, phrase, etc. "Sept" an abbreviation for "September"…
NICK: But Trig, that's from the dictionary. You {#blank#}6{#/blank#} learn the whole dictionary by heart!

help, able, learn, feel, good, wonder, tell, summer, clean, do

A: Hi, Zhang Lin! How was your summer holiday?

B: Just so-so. You know my English is poor. My father helped me find a place to study English. I went to an English {#blank#}1{#/blank#} school to improve my English.

A: Not bad. I think your English will be {#blank#}2{#/blank#} soon.

B: Thank you. How about you?

A:  Jim, Li Lei, Kate and I spent the whole holiday {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the disabled children.

B: Wow, you're great! Could you tell me what you {#blank#}4{#/blank#}?

A: We did a lot of things there, such as feeding the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} children, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} stories to the kids, and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the rooms.

B: What a {#blank#}8{#/blank#} experience!

A: So it was. I have {#blank#}9{#/blank#} a lot from it. Though I had no time to travel, I still {#blank#}10{#/blank#}happy this holiday!

    The Germans published the first modern-style newspaper in 1609. News-sheets existed before then, but these were not really newspapers.

Hundreds of years later, people are still buying newspapers. Shops and stalls all over the world {#blank#}1{#/blank#} millions of newspapers every day.

    However, people do not get their news only from newspapers. They can listen to it, as they did long ago, and they can {#blank#}2{#/blank#} it.

Two inventions, radio and television, have made this {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. These broadcast many news programmes daily. So people now get news from their radios and TV sets, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}from papers.

    However, newspapers remain {#blank#}5{#/blank#} because they give the news in more detail than either radio or TV. That is the main reason {#blank#}6{#/blank#} people continue to buy them.

    One day Mrs. Brown goes {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. She buys {#blank#}2{#/blank#} things. She buys two {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. They are 2 {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. She buys some French fries, 1 dollar. She buys some fruit, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Bananas are 2 dollars and {#blank#}6{#/blank#}Are 3 dollars. She {#blank#}7{#/blank#} buys a T-shirt, socks, shorts, a {#blank#}8{#/blank#}, a hat and a bag. The T-shirt is 4 dollars. The {#blank#}9{#/blank#} are 2 dollars, and the shorts are 10 dollars. The dress {#blank#}10{#/blank#} 7 dollars, the hat is 3 dollars and the bag is 6 dollars.

    One day I was reading the newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked a lot like Mary and whose last name was Lee— Mary's {#blank#}1{#/blank#} name. "There must be thousands of Lee," I thought, but I wrote to her anyway.

    She called as soon as she got my letter. "Mrs. Tobin!" she said in a(n) {#blank#}2{#/blank#} voice. "I haven't heard from you for years!" Minutes later I heard a voice that I recognized {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, even after 40 years. We laughed and cried and caught on each other's lives.

    Now the empty place in my heart is {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. And there's one thing that Mary and I know for sure: We won't lose each other again!