One evening two young men were walking in the street.
They tried to find a chance to steal everything.The clock 1.
struck twelve.Most people were in the bed.Quickly they came 2.
to a house so it seemed that everyone in the house had fallen 3.
sleep.Standing at the front gate,one man said in English to 4.
the other at a low voice,“You wait here.I will go around to 5.
the back door and then got into the house.” Suddenly out 6.
of the house ran a dog,barking at them.The two men were 7.
very afraid and ran away as fast as possibly.They didn’t stop 8.
until they had got to a lonely place.One man said to the other 9.
in surprise,“It’s too bad.I had thought that the dog could 10.
understand English.”
During the summer of 2009,I started reading books
in English,mostly stories.I would learn a lot of new 1.
words from these books,but I had terribly problems 2.
memorizing them.I had to look up to the same word 3.
many times,for which was quite troublesome.I realized 4.
I do need a way to remember all this vocabulary.It was 5.
a great achievement for myself.I started writing down 6.
words from books that I read.I would come back from 7.
school,and then sit for an hour and two.I wrote down 8.
new words and added it to my collection.By the end 9.
of last year，my collection has grown to 3 000 words. 10.
When a young man starts to earn his own living,he
can no longer expect others to pay his food,his clothes, 1.
or his room,but he has to work till he wants to live 2.
comfortable.If he spends most of his time playing 3.
about in the way that he used to as a child,they will go 4.
hungry.And if he breaks the laws of society that he used 5.
to break the laws of his parents,he may go to the prison. 6.
If,therefore,he works hard,keeps out of trouble and has 7.
better health,he can have the great happiness of seeing 8.
himself to make steady progress in his job and of 9.
building up for himself his own position in society. 10.
The Problem with Television
Now I can’t watch much television but a few years ago, 1.
I was used to watch it every night.I was often 2.
a little tired after a day’s work and watch TV 3.
demands very little effort.Unfortunate,there are 4.
too many people among my family.Some wanted 5.
to see the programme while others preferred 6.
another.I am happy with any programme but 7.
the others spent a lot time arguing and there 8.
was no way of settling the matter except by 9.
selling the set.Now someone at home reads instead. 10.
Nowadays millions of people of all age take pleasure in a 1.
hobby which is both interested and fun.And every year 2.
more and more people start a stamp collection of your own 3.
and discover an interest which can even last lifetime.Starting 4.
your collection of stamps are easy because they are everywhere. 5.
Holidays and birthday postcards from relatives and letters 6.
from friends can all provide you for stamps from all over 7.
the world.So once you’ve started collecting seriously,you 8.
will probably want to join in the Stamp Collectors’Club 9.
which exist to add more stamps to your collection. 10.