1、1Do you have a pet? Are you i_ in taking care of animals? Girls and boys who like animals may want to study to be animal doctors. Theyre often c_“vets”. Many of them work in animal h_. Others may work on farms or at a z_. Some study animal diseases and try to find w_ to keep the animals from getting
2、 i_. They do studies in m_ for animals.Vets listen to an animals h_. They check (检查) its ears, eyes, mouth and blood. They o_ on animals when they need to. They may give the animals shots (注射) and tell the pets o _ what food is best.2Are you surprised to hear from me? I have not heard from you s_ th
3、e beginning of the summer h_. How are you getting on with your s_? How are your parents? Is your brother Bill b_ f_ Canada yet?My stamp collection is g_ bigger and bigger. I have collected stamps of more than forty d_ countries. In my stamp books. I usually put the stamps from each country together.
4、 I have got a pen-friend from Britain. She gave me some B_stamps. My American teacher has given me some beautiful American and Canadian stamps. Im glad to know you are going to give me some foreign stamps, but I still have not r_the stamps of Nepal which you said to p_me. Have you sent them off yet?
5、3When Martin was a small boy, he lived in the little town of Holtham. Then he thought the town was a big p_. Well, Martin went back to Holtham last week. “Its a small town!” he thought.Holtham has changed little during the p_ forty years. B_ Martin has changed a lot. He has g_into a man. He is now i
6、n m_life. His thoughts are a mans thoughts, and he sees things through a m_ eyes.Martin s_ in Holtham for five years. He walked from street t_ street. He could see no friends. Was Holtham, then, a town of strangers? No, Martin suddenly u_ it all. Only he h_ was a stranger in the town.4I got an answe
7、ring machine for my birthday and I soon realized（意识到）what a u_ machine this is. I am not at home m_of the day, so someone can leave a message and I can ring them b_. They have no way to say they c_ get in touch with (联系) me. S_ when I am at home and have work to do, the phone never s_. Now I put the
8、 machine on. I am not troubled. So I can do a lot m_work. There are some people I j_do not want to talk to. So I put the machine on and I dont have to s_ to them. In conclusion(总之)，I really dont know how I lived w_ this wonderful machine.5Near the North Pole (北极) there are two s_, winter and summer.
9、 The winter nights are long. For more t_ two months, you cant s_ the sun, e_ at noon. The summer days are also long. For more than two months, the sun n_ goes down and there are no n_.The people there have warm clothes. They make most of these clothes by t_. They make them from the skins (皮) of a_.
10、From skins they make coats and hats and even shoes. In this cold weather, trees cant g_. The people there have to build their houses from skins, earth or snow. Life is h_ for the people there.6How do you like to go to school like one in Oxford(牛津大学), England ? There are no r_classes. The students go
11、 from one group to a _ when they want to. You may find students of fourteen, sixteen or twenty-five years old all in the s_group. They work at their o_ studies. Nobody tells them what they should or shouldnt be doing.The day I visited, school b_ at nine. Some students were working at a tape recorder
12、 and listening to their lessons. Others were watching TV on maths. A group was reading in the school l_. I didnt see anybody just sit doing n_. Everybody was studying.At lunch time I could see students w_, too. They were talking about their lessons while they were e_. When you think of these student
13、s you can be sure it is one of the best s _ in the world. 7One day when Nasreddin was having a bath, he began to s_. The bathroom was small with a stone floor. His song was very b_, he thought.“Oh”,he said, “I sing very well. I will sing to o_ people, too, and maybe Ill be a famous s_, and most peop
14、le will want to hear me.”So after his bath Nasreddin went up onto the roof (屋顶) of the house and began to sing his song very l_. A man was w_ in front of the house and he h_ Nasreddin, he said, “What are you doing? You are m_ a terrible noise. Nobody wants to hear it.”“Oh, you think so, dont you?” a
15、nswered Nasreddin, “Well, I r_ sing very beautifully. Come to my bathroom and youll hear h_ beautiful I can sing.”8One day Mike was playing near a river. S_ his knife fell into the river. He felt very sad because the knife was g_ to him by his father as a birthday present, but it was lost. Then all
16、at once, a k_old woman came up and asked Mike what was the m_.“I had lost my knife,” he said, “ it fell into the water when I was playing here.”The old woman s_ him a gold (金) knife and asked, “is this y_?”“No.” said the boy.The old woman then showed him a silver (银) knife and asked a_, “Is this you
17、rs?” “No”, again answered the boy.Then she showed him an iron (铁) knife. “Yes, thats mine,” c_ out the happy boy. “I know it well e_.” said the old woman “Now I will give you the gold knife and the silver knife b_ you are an honest (诚实的) boy.”9Tom liked to play at school. He had not been doing w_ in
18、 the exam So the a_ teacher decided to ask his father to come to school to have a t_ with him. When his father came, the teacher said to him, “ Your son didnt work hard, and e_worse, he cheated (作弊) in the exam.”“ How do you l_ it?” Toms father said. “Since Tom has the s_answer as the girls. The gir
19、l sits next to him.” The teacher said. Then the father said, “ Then m_the girl copied my sons answer.”“Oh no! There are ten questions on the paper. Your sons answer t_ the first nine questions are just the same as the g_. To the last question the girl answered, I dont know. And your son write N_do I
20、 ”.10A shop owner c_ his shop and went home. He was very t_ ,but j_as he went to bed, the telephone rang . A man asked, “What time do you o_ your shop?”The shop owner was u_ about this phone call. He put down the receiver(听筒) without a_and went back to bed. A few minutes later the telephone rang aga
21、in and the man asked the s_ question. The shop owner became very angry and shouted, “ You neednt ask me when I open the shop, f_ I wont let you i_.”“Oh, no, I dont want to get in,” the man said, “I want to go o_.”11Lenin learned some English at school. B_ when he got to England, he met with such d_
22、that he could not make himself u_ and he couldnt understand the Englishmen, e_. Later he found he wasnt sure of s_ English and his friends gave him some advice o_ how to i_ it. He decided to learn English by always. He went on l_English for several months. Finally he learned it so well that he was a
23、ble to express（表达）himself freely. He was praised b_ his friends f_ his great progress in English.12Len and Jim worked for the same company. One day, Len l_ Jim 80dollars, but then Jim left his job and went to work in another town w_paying Len back his 80 dollars.Len had not seen Jim for a year, and
24、then he heard from a_ friend that Jim was in town and s_ at Cantral Hotel, so he went to see him there l_ in the evening.He found out the number of Jims room from the hotel g_at the desk downstairs and went up to find him. When he got to the room, he saw Jims shoes o_ the door, w_to be cleaned.“ Wel
25、l, he m_be in,” he thought, and knocked at the door. No one answered.He knocked again. Then he said, “I know youre in. Your shoes are out here.”“I went out in my slippers,” answered a voice i_the room13A foolish (傻) man went to a food shop to buy a fish. As he didnt know h_ to cook fish, he asked th
26、e shopkeeper to tell the way of c_ it. The shopkeeper did so.“But I cant remember your w_,” the foolish man said, “Will you please w_ them down for me?” The shopkeeper was kind e_ to write his words down for the man. The foolish man left happily w_ the fish in his basket and the note in his pocket.
27、On his way home, a cat saw the fish and f_ the man.Suddenly the cat jumped at him, took the fish away from the basket q_ and ran off at once. The foolish man stood there, not k_what to do. Then he laughed to the cat, “Never mind. You don t know how to eat it. The note is s_ in my pocket.”14Once upon
28、 a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (佣人). He and the servant l_wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man l_his house, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew w_his servant did, b_ he had never caught his servant doing tha
29、t. One morning when he left home, he said to the servant, “ Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” W_ these words, he went out.But the servant knew that what the rich man had said was u_. After the rich man was away from his home, he e_a nic
30、e meal. S_ he drank too much, he was tipsy (醉) and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldnt find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had catch up everything. He was a_ to be punished（惩罚）,so he
31、 drank the poison to kill h_.15Bill Jenkins worked in a big office in the city and he often went to the barbers (理发店) d_ working hours to have his hair cut, t_ this was a_ the rules (规定): Office workers had to have their hair cut in their o_time.While Bill was at the barbers one day, the manager of
32、the office came in to have his o_ hair cut. Bill saw him and tried to cover his face w_ a newspaper, but the manager came up and sat beside him, so he soon found him.“Hello, Jenkins,” the manager said, “I see that you are having your hair cut in o_ time.”“Yes, sir, I am,” answered Bill, “You see, si
33、r, my hair g_ in office time.”“Not all of it.” said the manager of the office at once, “ M_ of it grows in your own time.”“Yes, sir, thats quite true,” answered Bill politely, “but Im not having it a_cut off.”16A lady once wrote a long story. She sent to a f_ editor. After a few weeks the editor r_
34、the story to her. The lady was angry. She wrote back to the editor: “ Dear Sir,Yesterday you sent back a story of mine. H_do you know that the story is not good? You did not read it. B_I sent you the story, I pasted (粘贴) together page 18, 19 and 20. This was a t_ too see whether you would read the s
35、tory. When the story came back yesterday, the pages were s_ pasted together. Is this the w_ you read all the stories that are sent to you?”The editor wrote back:“Dear Madam,At breakfast then I have an egg, I dont h_to eat the w_ egg in order to d_ that it is bad.”17When Mary Smith was a student, she
36、 wanted to be a teacher, b_ she liked children. When she was twenty, she began t _ in a small school. She was a good teacher, and she laughed a lot with the children in her class. They e_her teaching.One day one of the g_ in her class said to her, “Miss Smith, w_ does a mans hair become gray before
37、his beard (胡子) does?”Mary laughed and laughed, “I dont know. Helen, do you know?”“I dont know, e_, Miss Smith.” said Helen, “but it h_ to my father.” The o_ children in the class laughed when they heard this.Then a boy said , “I know, Miss Smith! A mans hair becomes gray f_ because its sixteen years
38、 o_ than his beard.”18It was a r_ day. I was on my way home. I hadnt been back for weeks.When I got home, to my s_, I found my mother wasnt busy doing her housework as she u_ to be. She was reading i_. And I saw some books on her desk . Some years ago, there were no books in my home except my textbo
39、ok. I took one of the books from the desk. It was about h_ to raise chicks. At supper time, my father came home. After supper he told me he was going to learn English because he w_ to run chicken farm. He said that he must learn something more from foreign countries. He also told me that one could d
40、o n_ without knowledge. It was late. The light in my parents room were still o_. I was l_ in bed. l_ to the drops of rain outside, as if they were saying, “ You must study harder than before.”19Have you heard a_ that a cow can dance? This cow belongs to (属于) Farmer James. One evening Farmer James ga
41、ve a p_ at his house, and he asked all his friends to come to the party. the weather was hot that evening, and many people danced o_ in the garden. That was near the place w_ the cows s_. One cow c_ sleep that night. The music k_her a_, perhaps. So she got up and came into the garden and started to
42、dance. She danced a_, of course, but she danced n_. And now many people on the farm are talking about her.20I went to the d_ yesterday. I had to wait for half an hour before he c_ see me. “Im going a_ next week,” I said, “I shall go to America on b_. But Ive had a p_ for two days. Do you think Ill b
43、e well e_ to go?” “When I have examine (检查) you, Ill be a_ to tell you.” the doctor said.“I was working in the garden when I suddenly f_ the pain.” I told the doctor, “If I stopped at once it would be all right, I think. But I never get any e_ in my job so I went on working.” After examining me c_,
44、the doctor said, “ You may hurt your back. I would like to send you to hospital for an X-ray.21One day a pig went to the stable (马棚) to see his good friend, an old horse, and was going to stay there for the n_.Night came and it was time for sleep. The pig went into the straw heap (稻草堆) and lay comfo
45、rtably. A long time p_, but the horse was s_ standing there and did not move. So the pig asked the horse w_ he did not go to sleep.“Standing like this is the b_ of sleeping.” answered the horse.The pig found it h_ to believe and said, “How can you stand there s_? It is not comfortable at a_.”The hor
46、se answered, “Comfort is your habit (习性). A_ horses we have the habit of r_ quickly. So we are always ready to run quickly even if we are asleep.22Venice is a beautiful city in Italy. Its one of the most u_ cities in the world. Its b_ on a group of small i_. Hundreds of stone bridges cross the rivers b_ the islands. On the rivers there are l_ boats. The
