Dear Ricky,
How are you {#blank#}1{#/blank#} on? Thanks very much for sending me the pictures and the English reading materials. From the pictures I can {#blank#}2{#/blank#} that your school looks very beautiful. The reading materials are very useful and {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. I can learn a lot from them. Some stories are so interesting that I like them very much.
Now I don't have {#blank#}4{#/blank#} time for my hobbies. I am busy getting ready for the coming exams. I'm working hard at all my lessons because I want {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a better result.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours,
Wu Ming

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A: Hello, Steve! You must have had an {#blank#}1{#/blank#} experience living in France.

B: Yeah, Tom, but I was a little nervous.

A: Nervous about what?

B: Well, for one thing, I didn't know what I should do at the dinner table.

A: What {#blank#}2{#/blank#} do they have?

B: For example, you shouldn't put your bread on your plate.

A: Where should I put it?

B: You should put it on the table!

A: I have to say it's very {#blank#}3{#/blank#}.

B: I thought it was strange, but now I am used to it.

A: What else do you find surprising?

B: You shouldn't put your {#blank#}4{#/blank#} on your lap.

A: Oh? Where should people put their hands?

B: They should always {#blank#}5{#/blank#} their hands on the table.

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    The California Institute of Technology, a university in the US, has a special day on which students are{#blank#}2{#/blank#}to play big tricks. One time, a group of students took part a car, moved the parts into a student's room and then put the car back together next to the bed.

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