Do you love animals? Would you like to keep animals as a pet? Nowadays, many people like to keep pets at home. The most popular{#blank#}1{#/blank#} are cats and dogs. They are friendly to people, and they are also {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to take care of. Some people like parrots as pets. Pets lovers will{#blank#}3{#/blank#} lots of things for their pets, such as beds, clothes and even toothbrushes. Pets are very useful, too. The people who can't hear need the dogs' help to answer the door. And the people who live{#blank#}4{#/blank#} should keep a pet if he wants to be healthier and {#blank#}5{#/blank#} . If you have pets, don't forget to spend more time with them. They need love, too.

    I'm Rodd．Last Friday,I planned to go to the national forest park to {#blank#}1{#/blank#}．Expecting to have someone with me．I called Mike and he {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to go the next day．I got up early the next morning and arrived at the appointed (约定的)time，{#blank#}3{#/blank#}Mike didn't show up．So I called him and he said he missed the first bus and would be late for half an hour．When he {#blank#}4{#/blank#},we set out (出发) for the park．The national forest park was a nice place and we enjoyed fresh {#blank#}5{#/blank#}and beautiful natural scenery(景色)there．At noon，we ate some food that I had prepared.After lunch,we climbed a mountain {#blank#}6{#/blank#}．It was so tiring—I kept jogging(慢跑)in the university but gave up doing it after {#blank#}7{#/blank#}university for busy work．At about four o'clock，we reached the top and shouted with excitement．What a(n){#blank#}8{#/blank#}day!But I forgot to take a camera with {#blank#}9{#/blank#}and I felt a little sorry for not taking photos．From that day on，I decided to go {#blank#}10{#/blank#}every weekend instead of(而不是)staying at home．

    Thanksgiving Day is a big holiday in America. It falls on the fourth {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in November. The day after Thanksgiving Day is Black Friday. It has become the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} shopping day of the year in America. Why is it called Black Friday? How did it become {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a big shopping day?

    In fact, nobody is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} where the name comes from. Some people say the term Black Friday from Philadelphia in the 1960s. At that time, the police used the term to describe the traffic jam that happened on the day after Thanksgiving Day.

    Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult without their parents. They don't know how {#blank#}1{#/blank#}housework. Because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big problem.

    Joy is 14 years old. One day her parents{#blank#}2{#/blank#}away on business(出差), so they asked Joy {#blank#}3{#/blank#}home alone. At first she thought she would be happy {#blank#}4{#/blank#}her parents were not in. She could do what she liked. But it was six o'clock {#blank#}5{#/blank#}the afternoon, she felt hungry.“Oh, it's time {#blank#}6{#/blank#}supper. Where can I get my food?”she said to herself.Later she found some food in the fridge, but she didn't know how to cook.At that moment, she missed her{#blank#}7{#/blank#}very much. At last she could only go to the supermarket and{#blank#}8{#/blank#}some food to eat.

    Many teenagers are the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}as Joy. So I think they should learn some basic life skills,{#blank#}10{#/blank#}as cooking, cleaning their rooms or dressing themselves properly. They shouldn't depend too much on their parents.