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Dear Gill,
Do you remember me telling you about a health farm I've seen advertised? Well, I've looked at the ad again and I must say that _______ looks fantastic. Now I'm hoping to persuade you ______ (join) me there for a weekend!
The rooms you stay in sound really luxurious and apparently they all have an access ______ the gardens. All the meals _______ (offer) at a reasonable price and you can also get room service ________ you want. The brochure says that what you do is _______ (entire) up to you. You can have programs specially _______ (design) to suit you, or you can just ask staff to make a few suggestions about activities to do. You can use any of the sports and leisure facilities _____ much as you like, and the brochure also mentions lots of other activities every day. But don't worry, as nobody will watch you do anything, you could just spend the whole time relaxing in the sauna if you want! There's a terrific offer on at the moment with weekends costing only half the normal price although that only _____ certain dates. Anyway, let me know ______ you think.
Best wishes.
Sue

It was a dreadfully cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, heading home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean a wet walk home the bus stop.
my house was merely two blocks away, it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road. I tried to thumb a ride but failed. My little boy woke up with a start and began to cry. I(convince) that things might become worse and nobody would bother to help on such a terrible day.
A few minutes later, truck drove by, but to my surprise, I saw it (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us.
A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you, please take .” He called out.
I stood there (astonish), barely believing that the man existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so (consider). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I accepted the offer and expressed my gratitude to him.
This man might have needed the umbrella for himself later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me it’s possible to give without expecting anything in return.

Christmas 2003 was bittersweet for Mars scientists. Because one gift they (desperate)wanted never arrived: The British-built spacecraft Beagle 2(schedule)to land on the Red Planet, radio home the good news and begin a search for life. Instead, mission(control) heard nothing. They finally declared the Beagle 2 lost after months of silence. Many space scientists thought crash-landed or broke up in the thin Martian atmosphere.
But now Beagle 2’s final resting place has been found. New images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showed the spacecraft in its(intend) landing region, an enormous impact basin near the Martian equator.
By now, investigators(gather) enough information to piece togetherprobably went wrong: the probe’s solar panels seem to have only partially spread out, throttling（限制） Beagle 2’s power preventing it from phoning home. Without contact with mission control, the probe could not perform any science .
However, the lander appears (damage) and in good condition, and the remains of a parachute and an atmospheric-entry cover lie hundreds of meters away. Beagle 2 may now be considered a partial success,(deliver) the United Kingdom a very late Christmas gift: the nation’s first soft landing on another planet.

【改编】Visitors to London always have to be on the look out for pickpockets, but now there’s another, more positive phenomenon on the loose----putpockets.
Nowadays,being aware that people(suffer) in the economic crisis, 20 former pickpockets have turned over a new leaf. They wander in London’s tourist sites,(put) money into unsuspecting pockets. Anything from 5-pound_____ 20-pound notes is being _____(secret) put in unguarded pockets or open handbags in Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden and other busy ______(spot).
“ It feels good ______( give) something back for____ change, and Britons certainly need it in the current economic climate,” said Chris Fitch, a former pickpocket, who now (head) Talk Talk’s put pocketing campaign. “Every time I put money in someone’s pocket, I feel less guilty about the fact that I spent many years taking it out.”
The campaign, __runsuntil the end of August in London before being spread out countrywide, was funded by a famous businessman. He said he wanted to brighten up people’s lives in unusual ways, which plans to give away at(little)100,000 pounds.

Keeping a diary in English is one of the _____ (effect) ways to improve our English writing ability.
______ (compare) with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes _____ (little)time. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. ______ we persist in this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many ___（difficult）. In the first place, ____ often happens that we have trouble _____(find) appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English properly.
As far as I_____ (concern), my suggestion is that we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then consult our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is _____ great use to keep a diary in English for _____ development of our writing skills.