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How do you usually get to school? By bus? On foot? Roby Burch, 16, a US student, gets to school a little differently---he goes by horse .
Burch has been riding his white horse 4 miles to and from school since(自从)the 83 _____ of the semester. “Every morning, wearing my blue jacket and jeans, I’m on my way at 6 am. ” Burch says, “The streets are mostly 84________ at this time of morning. It’s a nice way to start the day. ”
The idea was his 85__________. His family were 86______ their vacation on their farm this summer, “My dad just said, ‘Roby, you 87__________ ride your horse to school every day. ’” says Burch. He thought it really was a good idea.
When they got back home, Burch asked for permission from the headmaster (校长), Joe Cox, and surprisingly, he got the green light. Cox 88_______ allowed（允许）Burch to keep the horse next to the headmaster’s house. Then his dad helped Burch find the best route to school. It is along back streets and has 89_________ cars than the others.
For the return trip every afternoon, Burch leaves school at 5:45 pm. Even now, as the days grow shorter and colder, he continues to ride his horse. “ I will ride my horse even in the coldest weather. ” he says.
Burch says the 90________ time he sat on a horse as a four-year-old boy he was afraid. 91__________ now, “it’s what I do best. ” It’s no surprise that he wants to be a cowboy (牛仔) when he grows up. “I love riding horses more than 92 _______ else. ” He says, “It’s really a guy thing. ”

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Last night I had a wonderful dream. I 66that I turned into a good swimmer.
In my dream, the weather 67fine and I came to a nice beach. There were few people on the beach and I 68to swim in the sea. While I was swimming, some 69fish followed me all the time. When I stopped, they came to swam 70me. Then, one of the fish began to talk with me. It 71Chinese, too! We had a wonderful conversation. Soon we became good 72and it invited me to visit the place where they lived.
73I heard a voice, “Weiwei, it’s time to get up! Breakfast is ready!” It was Mom’s voice. Just then I woke up from my sweet dream 74had to face the real world again.
My dream was 75like a cartoon film, wasn’t it?

Reading newspaper has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspaper as the first thing to do in the morning; 66_ read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is _ 67 _in the world.
Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news _ 68_, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other _ 69_we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few _ 70_to look at the headlines of the passage.
Newspaper can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different _ 71_of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountains _ 72_we can see few newspaper.
Some kinds of newspaper are published once a week, but most of them are published once a day with many pages, some even published _ 73_a day! You know different people enjoy reading different kinds of newspaper. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are _ 74_in.
Today newspaper in English has the largest numbers of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are _ 75_English newspaper such as China Daily or 21^st Century. Also they bring us more and more imformation with Internet.

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Do you enjoy climbing mountains? I’d like to tell you a true story about John and Peter. They were 66 mountaineers. As John was experienced, he was always asking Peter to copy his example. “Would you like to stand on the 67 of the world, Peter?” “Of course . It has already 68 my dream,”Peter answered.
On a sunny morning, the two men started for the top of Mount Qomolangma. After they climbed over one of the most 69 slopes, they found a man lying in the snow. “He’s going to 70,”Peter looked at John and said, as if he would help the man. “Leave him by himself and just follow me !If you bring the burden with you , I’m 71 you’ll lose your life.”John warned Peter . Then he turned around and walked forward 72. It was too cold. After thinking for a 73 , Peter made up his mind to help the dying man. He carried the man on his back and made his way forward . Little by little , Peter’s temperature made the man74. The man came to himself! And soon he could move all by himself. Together they moved side by side.
About two hours later, they kept up with John.To his surprise , they found that John was almost dead in he snow. He had been 75 to death.

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Did you watch the magic shows played by Liu Qian from Taiwan in CCTV Spring Festival Gala? They great attention and interests of the audience. During the gala, Liu succeeded a coin into a glass which was placed upside down and transferred (转移) a finger ring an egg. The two magic shows were so successful that everyone is now about him and all want to know how to play magic tricks. “I saw the on everyone’s face. It was cool.” Liu said.
However, you may not believe that Liu go to any magic school. He just learned by . When Liu was seven years old, he saw a coin trick in a big store. At that moment Liu to learn magic. He worked quite hard at it. He practiced hard to improve his _. Then one day he was able to put on a show for his class.