Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词,使内容通顺, 每空格限填一词，首字母已给) (14分)
More play and less work makes for more talented(有才能的) children. Some officials suggested that school hours for children aged 7 to 12 should be reduced, and that they should be e to spend at least an hour a day on team sports.
All work and no play makes children depressed. Becky, an 8-year-old girl, used to be happy when she finished classes every day, but now, life has become unhappy. To make sure she has enough time for the lessons, she has to study until 11 at night to finish her homework.
Some ideas are offered for helping cultivate(培养) kids’ talents. The ideas i cutting down classroom hours, introducing more team sports for children, getting parents to stop putting too much pressure on children and some other suggestions. It is believed that all these can help train young people to be confident.
“I used to go to the park with my parents on weekends before because I like playing tennis with my dad and I can play well,” a boy said, “But now, I h have time to do that any more.”
“I would like to try other things, such as drawing,” Nara said. She was interested in drawing, but her parents thought it was not a bright way for her.
Children now spend more time doing homework than playing, and we all know it’s quite n for them to have plenty of sleep. A lot of homework and heavy school bags are driving more young children away from a joyful childhood.
Parents believe that b well in school is a sure way to make their children have a bright future. The study showed that about 80 percent of parents said they expected their children to get a university degree or some form of higher education. About 15 percent of students in primary school and 40 percent in middle school said they thought their parents were not s
with their marks.
“Parents must always be willing to talk to their children and make them happy,” an educator advised, “Encourage him or her to be confident when he or she faces d . Parents should know what their children like and what they want.”
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Thanks for ________ me the snow globe of the monster ,I love it. In fact I think it's __
______ my favorite. I've been __
_______ snow globes for seven years, and now I have 226 of them .My mom says I have to stop, because we've___
_____ out of room to store them. They're all around our apartment. I
_______store in boxes under my bed. The first one I ever_____
____was a birthday cake snow globe on my seventh birthday. I ____
_______ love globes with animals. I have a big one with bears in it and _
________ one with penguins. If you know anyone else who __
_____ them, please tell me. I'd like _____
____a snow globe collectors' club. By the way, what's your hobby?
I have been collect ___________(邮票) .
We will give you free __________(话题)
On Nancy’s n_______ (九岁) birthday, she got a nice model car.
His sister works as a w________ (服务员) in the hotel near the factory.
The father got a_______ (生气的)when he found that his son was late for school again.
Could you please not f_______ me around?
We all know Beijing is the c_________ of China
Next week , many __________(外国人) will come to visit our school.
If you finish these ___________（任务），we can go to a movie tonight.
Although rules of ____________(礼节) can often be different in different countries.
There were kangaroos that were_______(跳跃) alongside the car on our way back from Uluru.
The Australians have many British __________(亲戚，家人)and they’re like us in many ways.
I got some great shots of the boy who plays the guitar on the____(左边)
We didn’t________(盼望)to see you .
He Zhong manages to show the ________(运动，动作) and the sounds of the great new band.
This is like a _______(卡通)story.
He flies into a peach garden and eats as many __________(桃子)as he likes.
He’ll need to take a lot of __________(练习).
I’ve just _______(碰，撞)into the head teacher.
Don’t________(放弃)if you want to stay fit.
根据短文内容和汉语提示，写出短文空白处各单词的正确形式，每空限填一词。
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. When he was a child, he always had a lot of questions and started asking questions about _____________ (如何)things worked. So his teachers didn’t like him. They thought he was kind of ____
________(笨的) and many people didn’t understand him, either. He was only in school for three months. His mother _____
_____(教)him at home. His parents _____
_____(注意) he loved to read. They introduced him to the ____
______(图书馆). He read many books there. The books _____
______(使…感兴趣) him very much. ________
____ （在）the help of his parents, he also built his lab by _______
______(他自己). He ______
____ (发明) more than one thousand things, ______
______(包括) the first silent film, the light bulb, the record player and so on. He died on October 18,1931 at the age of 84.
Jessie feels excited bit is her first day to work at Mr. Smith’s shop. After breakfast she w
a pair of new shoes. She says g
to her mother and goes out of the house. The shop is n
her home so she walks there.
There is a heavy rthe night before and there is dirty water all over the street. W
she goes across the street, a car runs p
her and splashes（溅起）water on her. Her shoes g
dirty. Luckily, it is hot. She is very sad and she wants to cry. However, she knows she has to hurry to the shop so she s
to run. When she gets there, she sees a n
on the door. It says: CLOSED BECAUSE OF POWER FAILURE（停电）.