My father {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  me to school every day.
When I got home yesterday afternoon, my mother{#blank#}2{#/blank#}  a button(纽扣).
I {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  two hours doing my homework last night.
The food {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  better than it tasted.
Our school year usually {#blank#}5{#/blank#} at the end of July.

    Jack's uncle lives in a village. This summer Jack went to stay with him. He {#blank#}1{#/blank#} his holiday there. Every day they went out for a walk and his uncle {#blank#}2{#/blank#} at everyone. Jack didn't {#blank#}3{#/blank#} and asked，“ Uncle George, do you know {#blank#}4{#/blank#} around here?”

    “No,” said his uncle.

    “Then why do you smile at them?” asked Jack.

    “Well, when I smile at someone, if he {#blank#}5{#/blank#} me, he'll be happy. But when I smile at someone, even though he doesn't know me, he'll feel {#blank#}6{#/blank#} and think, ‘Who is that man? Why does he smile at me?' He'll think about these {#blank#}7{#/blank#} all the way, and he will be {#blank#}8{#/blank#}, too. So I give everyone happy {#blank#}9{#/blank#} I think nobody refuses the smiles.”

    “I see, Uncle George. Being kind to others is also be kind to {#blank#}10{#/blank#},” Jack said happily.

    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.”

    My children are growing up fast. My daughter is 16 and my boy has just started junior high school. As they get bigger, our house {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to get smaller. So we have been {#blank#}2{#/blank#}out a lot of things from our bedrooms for a yard sale.

    We've decided to each sell five things that we no {#blank#}3{#/blank#} use. We'll give the money we raise to a {#blank#}4{#/blank#} home. My son was quite sad at first. He {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a lot of toys that he doesn't play with anymore but still wanted to keep. For example, he has owned a train and railway set since his {#blank#}6{#/blank#} birthday, and he played with it almost every week until he was about seven. And he didn't want to {#blank#}7{#/blank#}the toy monkey. I remember that he would never go to bed {#blank#}8{#/blank#} it. My daughter was more {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, although she also felt sad to part with certain toys. As for me, I didn't want to give up my football shirts, but, to be {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, I haven't played for a while now. I'm getting older, too!