About a hundred people lived in a very small mountain village. It was very {#blank#}1{#/blank#} from the other villages and towns. They had few {#blank#}2{#/blank#} and none of them left the village. Of course there was neither electricity(电) nor gas(煤气) there.

    Once a writer{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the village. The backwardness(落后) of the village surprised him. He decided {#blank#}4{#/blank#} about it to the world. So he took the oldest villager to London. The old man told all about his home and village to the people. Several months {#blank#}5{#/blank#} he returned. All the villagers went to see him and asked him how he had enjoyed {#blank#}6{#/blank#} in the city.

    “Everything is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} in London,” the old man said, “I've {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to many good places and eaten all kinds of nice food and other things. But the trouble was I could not {#blank#}9{#/blank#} at night. ”

    “What happened to you?” his wife asked.

    “The{#blank#}10{#/blank#}was on in my bedroom all the time.”

    “Why not blow it out, then?”

    “I tried, but it was inside a little glass bottle.”

    Henry is a fifteen-year-old boy. He {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in a middle school. He often watches TV and likes the trendy(时髦的) hair style. His parents and {#blank#}2{#/blank#}tell him not to do so, but he doesn't {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to them.

One Sunday afternoon his mother bought a beautiful shirt for him and he loved it very much. The next morning it was {#blank#}4{#/blank#}outside. But he wanted to {#blank#}5{#/blank#} it to his classmates and put it on. That evening he caught a bad cold. He went to a hospital. The doctor looked him over and told him to be in hospital. A nurse brought him to a{#blank#}6{#/blank#} ward (房). He felt {#blank#}7{#/blank#} but couldn't ask her why.

    About ten {#blank#}8{#/blank#}later the nurse came back with a red face. "I'm sorry, Henry," said the woman. "I didn't know you were a boy because you{#blank#}9{#/blank#} too long hair."

    Then she brought him to a men's ward. This time the men began to look at each other. They {#blank#}10{#/blank#}to ask, "Why has she brought a girl to our ward?"