Last week my niece stayed with us ____ her brother was going to have a surgery and her parents needed to concentrate on looking after him.
My daughter, my niece, and I went out for some shopping and while I was in line _____ (wait) to pay, the girls asked if they could wait ___
__ me at the supermarket door.
Some minutes later they returned to ask if they could give the sweets they______ (buy) to a man in the street, so their sweets were given away. ____
____ two minutes they returned to ask me if there was anything else they could give to the man. They took some biscuits away and came back with a huge smile on their faces. ___
____ we got out of the shop I saw the man. He said “Thank you” to me and the girls.
On the way to the car my daughter wanted to buy a drink for the man, _____ I had no change, so I went to the cash machine, took some cash and gave ___
____ to the girls to give the man, so that he could buy a sandwich and a drink if he needed. The girls were very ___
___ (excite).
To me the bonus was _____ (probable) my niece’s first random act of kindness, and that was awesome.
Lionel Messi, ___ player from the South American country of Argentina, is the greatest soccer player alive today. At a young age, he _
__(move) to Spain and now plays ___
___(profession)for the Barcelona soccer club. Messi started playing soccer at the age of 5 for a small soccer team _
____(own) by his father. Even as a young boy, he did very well. But when he was 11 years old, he found out he had a sickness which would prevent him from growing much
____(tall). There was a way to help him grow more, ___
_____his parents did not have enough money to pay for his medical needs. So, they looked around for a soccer club __
____would be able to do this for them. The clubs in Argentina couldn’t help him, but the famous Barcelona club in Spain offered ___
____ (accept) Messi on the junior team and pay for the bills. The Messi family happily took the offer and moved to Spain. In the Barcelona soccer club, Messi was one of the best ___
____(play)through his teen years. Messi has surprised the world ___
__his incredible talent. He has led Barcelona to many victories and earned his place among the greatest players ever.
In most Chinese tea villages, March is the time of year inlocals start to pick and process tea. The usually quiet villages suddenly become busy centers of activity, as people take out special tools and prepare
tea processing. In some villages, local residents hold traditional ceremonies,
(thank) heaven for its blessing. The price of tea
(pick) in March is extremely high because
is fresh, tender and contains multiple trace elements.
China (be) famous for tea production since ancient times. Of the goods transported and traded along
Old Silk Road linking China to the Middle East and Europe, the importance of tea was matched only by silk. China produces Oolong, black, green, white, yellow
dark (aka post-fermented) tea. The Oolong, green and black
(vary)are most notable for their high quality.
Most of China's tea villages are found in remote mountainous areas in the country's south and southwest, the beautiful scenery is often hidden under clouds.
My friend Vernon Davies kept birds. One day he called and told me he was going away for a week.He asked me to feed __birds for him and said that he would leave the key_
_his front door in my mailbox.
__(fortunate), I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse,_
_was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key Verson gave me could not unlock either the front door _
__the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of
__Vernon would say when he came back.
I was just going to give up__I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed in under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb
__and open the window.
I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone __(shine) a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon’s neighbors. “What are you doing up there?: said the policeman._
__(feel)like a complete fool, I replied,”I was just going to feed Mr Davies’ birds.
Shopping habits in America have changed a lot over the past few decades. Early ____ the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in __
__ heart of a town. This street was built with many stores on both sides. Shoppers walked into the stores to look _
__ what they needed. _
__, a change began to take place in the 1950s. Too many cars had crowded into Main Street while too __
parking places were available(可用的) to shoppers. __
_ the streets were crowded, shop owners began ___
__ look with interest at the open space from the city limits. When the first shopping center was built in the United States, an open space became __
___ they first had considered.
People ___（live）in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred __
_ in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four ___
_five hundred thousand words. But we do not need___
___ these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. __
__you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary ____（big）. Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books ___
___（write）in easy English. You will enjoy them. When you meet __
_ new word, look it __
___ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your __
_（much）useful book.