Everyone has his own way of saying things and his own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are based {#blank#}1{#/blank#} colors. Red is a hot color. Americans often use {#blank#}2{#/blank#}to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. When they are red hot they are very {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(anger) about something. The small hot tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(call) red hots for their color and their spicy taste. Fast loud music is popular with many people. They may say the music is red hot,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (especial) the kind called Dixieland jazz. Pink is a {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(light) kind of red. People sometimes say they are in the pink {#blank#}7{#/blank#}they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(twenty) century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color {#blank#}9{#/blank#}shows that they are in good health. Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is {#blank#}10{#/blank#}opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow, sad and soulful(深情的). Someone who is blue is very sad.

    The university I attend has about 3500 students. One early afternoon, I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (walk) around the campus when I found a female student sitting on the walkway with tears on her face. Everyone just walked by her, so I decided to stop {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (give) her a hand. I dropped my books and sat down beside her. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} turned out that she injured her ankle (脚踝) and was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (able) to walk. So I told her that I would sit with her {#blank#}5{#/blank#} she was ready to get up. It only took a few minutes for her to calm down. Then I took her {#blank#}6{#/blank#}the hand and got her to the nearest hospital.

    She thanked me so much for just stopping! Since then, when we run into each other {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (occasional) on campus, she would smile and thank me again. And we have become good friends now. I am amazed that just my sitting there, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (offer) support and comfort to a total {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (strange) would affect her so greatly. She said she was grateful for what I had done, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} made her feel that she was not alone in the world.

    We are what we eat because what we eat every day has {#blank#}1{#/blank#} great impact on our health. Therefore, we should make every effort to change our bad eating habits. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} we all know, baked or fried foods may be {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (taste), but eating too much of them will {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (probable) result in some illnesses. Moreover, junk food that costs us a great deal of money but is not healthy.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (compare) with people in the west, Chinese people used to eat more grain and vegetables but {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (little) meat, which is a good eating habit. However, things are quite different now. With the rapid economic {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (grow) of our country, now we are also eating a lot of food high in sugar and fat. We {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (run) the risk of eating unhealthily without considering the balance of our diet.

    The food we choose affects our health, so we must keep it {#blank#}9{#/blank#} mind that the food we choose should give us the nutrients that {#blank#}10{#/blank#} need.

After a lot of preparation, Joseph Lockwood and Philippa Amos were finally ready to start their journey into the Amazon rainforest. They were feeling {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(cheer) as they sailed down the great river. Eventually, they got out of the boat and walked into the darkness of the jungle. Neither of them had ever been in such an extreme situation before, using just a compass (指南针) to find the area where the kind of frog they wanted to study {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (live). Suddenly, Joseph, who was holding the compass, tripped and lost it in a river. The situation seemed hopeless—how would they find the frogs now? But just {#blank#}3{#/blank#} they started to feel really sad and worried that their journey {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (be) a failure, they saw the frogs they had come to look for.