Today,afterfinishingdinnerinto-优题课

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示；2）首字母提示；3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。
Thirty years ago, communication wasn’t so convenient. And my grandparents wrote letters to their friends and __________（亲戚）. They wrote to each __________ because Grandpa worked in the city and Grandma lived in the country. It__________（花费）about one week to deliver a letter. When Grandma asked questions in her letter, she had to wait more than two weeks to get the answers! If they had anything uand to deliver immediately, they had to send telegrams.
The telephone became popular in the early 1990s. But not until 1998 did my dad’s familyha telephone. Although it was much fthan writing letters, it was still inconvenient. Once Dad arrived home late because he helped a granny __________ his way. My grandparents were very worried because they couldn’t get in with him. Then my dad bought his first mobile phone in 2002.
My favorite communication tool is the mobile phone. I have used it since my sixteenth birthday. My parents and friends can find me wI am. It’s very convenient, but at the same time it is easy to get bothered, especially when I want to stay alone. Sometimes I have headaches after _____（谈话）on the mobile phone for a long time.

Camels certainly like eating green grass, not dry grass. But (strange), camels always keep looking for dry grass their stomachs are filled up.
A classmate of (I) whose home is on the edge of Turpan Basin in Xinjiang told me his home has two camels; he said you could imagine a camel’s appetite, for it can slowly swallow dozens of kilograms of hay (干草). I asked him camels eat hay, not green grass. He said the camel is a kind of animal with strong sense of suffering, (fear) its master letting it travel through the desert the next day, and the hay in its stomach is more hunger-resistant green grass.
The camel has the best tolerance. Unfortunately, many people can only see a camel’s outstanding performance, but few understand its (prepare) made for it.
Life, a camel traveling through the desert, (need) the adequate accumulation, but not everyone can understand it.

One(rain) night I was driving along a lonely highwayI saw a man walking rapidly ahead of me along the side of the road. It was pouring rain and I slowed down to avoid(splash) him as I went by.
He misunderstood,(think) I was offering a ride and ran towards my car. He was very tall, had a full beard and he scared me. I stepped on the gas pedal to leave(quick), and I saw the look of total despair in his eyes.
Suddenly, all fear was (go) and I backed up and unlocked my car door, praying this was not the (big) mistake in my life but somehow knowing it would be okay.
The man was a plumber（水暖工人）, truck had got stuck in the mud. He(walk) for miles. No one would pick him up and his wife was in the hospital in labour（分娩） with their first child!
He had cried at the thought that he might not be there.
We(arrive) at the hospital moments before his son was born.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
What on earth does happiness mean? I can’t give you exact definition, but I’m sure if you love and help _________ , you’ll get it .
I’ll never forget an old lady. She lives in __________ small house alone. It is said that her husband and her son_______( die ) in a road accident years ago . Her life is bitter, but she often helps others with a smile. Whenever it snows, she is always the first _________ (clean) the paths. She looks after several children living nearby. I am one of them. I often remember the stories she told us and her kind smile. Perhaps she is unlucky, but I think she is a happy person. Her life is full of _________( laugh ) and love .
But I’m sad to see some people getting their happiness in bad ways. They talk________ (noisy) in cinemas and meeting rooms; they destroy trees to enjoy themselves and they laugh at others’ shortcomings. Perhaps they feel happy at that time , __________ they will never get true happiness because they ________
(lose) their personality already .
Now I know what happiness is. _________ means kindness, love and unselfishness. Above all, I have come to understand that _______ (bring) happiness to others is getting ourselves happiness.

Some say that madness and genius often come hand in hand. This is especially true the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh.
Van Gogh is famous for his (amaze) use of color and shape. Born in 1853, he was painting at a time when art was changing. A long time ago, artists tried to make their (paint) look real like photographs. But later on, art became more about the artist’s own ideas. If you see Van Gogh, it won’t look like the real world. It will look even more beautiful.
Some of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings are of natural scenes and flowers, such as sunflowers. He also painted many wonderful self-portraits, which (bring) him a lot of fame. Van Gogh had a gift for painting; however, he was a troubled man. At one point, he cut off own ear.
Van Gogh is now one of the world’s most famous artists. But he died at the age of 37, alone poor. Almost nobody knew or cared about his art at that time. Although he was a great genius, he suffered (great). Some say that his madness was he paid for his art.
Actually, if Van Gogh had died at the age of twenty, no one would have connected him with failure or mental illness. , he would have been remembered by those close to him as a dutiful son.