Bill Bird is a shoemaker in London. He makes shoes for people with feet of unusual {#blank#}1{#/blank#} very large, very small, very fat or very thin.The shoes are as beautiful as those found in shopping centers! His shop is so popular that he {#blank#}2{#/blank#}he can't make shoes fast enough for his growing number of customers (顾客)

   Mr. Bird says, "My {#blank#}3{#/blank#} is that I need more work and I can't find them young people all went to work {#blank#}4{#/blank#} computers these days. I'm afraid shoemaking will {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a lost art because there are fewer and fewer shoemakers nowadays. I am 45, and now I want to teach young people {#blank#}6{#/blank#} I know about making shoes. It's a good job, and a lot of people want to buy beautiful shoes specially made for  them."

    Mr. Bird {#blank#}7{#/blank#} making shoes 19 years ago and now he employs (雇用) three people. "Our customers come because they want {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. shoes which are the right size," he says .His customers pay about ￥500 for {#blank#}9{#/blank#} first pair of shoes. Extra (额外的) pairs of shoes are between ￥320 and ￥450. They are never cheap, as it takes one employee about a week to make {#blank#}10{#/blank#} one shoe.

    Modem life is not possible without travelling. The fastest way to travel is by plane. With a modem plane, you can travel in one day to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} which it took a month or more to get to one hundred years ago.

    Travelling by train is {#blank#}2{#/blank#}than travelling by plane, but you can see beautiful places {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the windows. Modem trains have comfortable {#blank#}4{#/blank#} and dining cars. They make the long journey pleasant.

    Some people prefer to travel by {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Ships are not so fast as trains or planes, but travelling by sea is a very pleasant way to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}a holiday.

    Many people like to travel by car. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty miles a day, just as you like. You can stop anytime if there is {#blank#}7{#/blank#}interesting to see. That is why travelling by car is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}for pleasure trips, while people usually take a train or a plane for business trips.

—It's Lucy's.

    Last night, Dave met Tina. They {#blank#}1{#/blank#}about their last weekend. For Dave, the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} was very nice. On Saturday, he{#blank#}3{#/blank#}for the history test. On Sunday, he watched a (an) {#blank#}4{#/blank#} TV play. "It was great!" he said. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Tina's weekend wasn't very good. She was really   tired because she had a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} weekend. She went shopping on Saturday morning and read a book {#blank#}7{#/blank#} music on Saturday afternoon. She visited {#blank#}8{#/blank#} grandmother on Saturday evening. On Sunday, she wrote {#blank#}9{#/blank#} new song for the school music festival. It was a little {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, so she asked her mother for help.