Some students are talking about the inventions.

    Lucy: The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. He was born in 1847. In 1875, Mr. Bell learnt how to send {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(音乐的) notes through an {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (器械) similar lo a telephone. Finally he invented the telephone in 1876. Today the telephone is used around the world.

    Jin Long: The abacus is an {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (古代的) invention, but we still use it today. It was invented a few {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (世纪) ago. Though China is a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (发展中的) country now, I am proud of being a Chinese.

    Tom: I think the invention of basketball is the best. Because I like basketball and 1 think it is an {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (活泼的，积极的) sport. When we play basketball, we should be {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (分开) into two groups. Players on the same team must work together to get the ball into the other team's {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (篮筐). At the same time, they need to stop the competing team from getting the ball into their {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (自己的) basket. It was invented by a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (加拿大人) called James Naismith.

    Last month, our dog w{#blank#}1{#/blank#}me when I came home from school. He wanted a walk, but I was too tired. I threw down my bag and went to the living room. The m{#blank#}2{#/blank#}I sat down in front of the TV, my mom came o{#blank#}3{#/blank#}to ask me to take the dog for a w{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. But I wanted to watch one show first, because I thought I worked all day at school, and I was just as t{#blank#}5{#/blank#}as my mother was. My mother g{#blank#}6{#/blank#}angry. For one week, she didn't do any housework and n{#blank#}7{#/blank#}did I. Finally, I could not find a clean dish or a clean shirt. I f{#blank#}8{#/blank#}very sorry to my mother. I understood that we needed to share the housework to have a clean and c{#blank#}9{#/blank#}home. So I helped o{#blank#}10{#/blank#}around the house. My mother was very pleased after she came home from work.

    I came into a village and I saw a policeman standing outside the post office and reading something carefully. He looked up at the car, w{#blank#}1{#/blank#}into the road, and held up a hand to stop me,

    I a{#blank#}2{#/blank#}stopped, but then I realized that the policeman had been reading about me. I supposed the police at the hotel had worked quickly, and called all the local villages. I drove faster, the policeman jumped out of my way, and I was soon out of the village.

    I left the main road as soon as possible and tried a smaller one. It was not easy without a map, and I realized that I had been so s{#blank#}3{#/blank#}to steal the car. It would help the police to find me in any corner of Scotland. If I left it, and went off on foot, they would find me in an hour or two.

    I was very hungry. I had eaten n{#blank#}4{#/blank#}since morning. And now, as I drove, I heard a noise in the sky, and there was a plane. I drove as fast as I could down into another town. Suddenly, a car appeared in front of me from a s{#blank#}5{#/blank#}road. There was no time to stop. I did the only thing possible and drove off the road into a fence, hoping to hit something soft beyond. But I was out of good l{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. The car went through the fence like a knife through butter, and immediately began to fall. I jumped out and was caught by the branch of a tree, while the car disappeared into a river fifteen metres below.

    A hand helped me out of the tree, and a frightened voice asked me if I was badly hurt. The speaker was a young man who was very sorry. I was more p{#blank#}7{#/blank#} than angry, it was a good way for the car to disappear.