Since her husband died, Mrs. Jackson has lived alone in her big old house. The house was bought by her husband almost fifty years ago. Her daughter has tried hard to ask her to sell the house and buy a n_______ and small one in the town. B___
___Mrs. Jackson doesn’t like the idea. She says that she has to look after her h__
___ old house. But these days, she often hears of stories about unknown people who steal things around here.
That was a cold day before Christmas Eve. Around four o’clock in the afternoon, Mrs. Jackson was e_____ the Christmas music when someone knocked at the door. She h__
____ the sound but didn’t move. Another knock. Who could it be? Mrs. Jackson was a bit a__
___. She decided not to answer the door but kept waiting.
One minute another minute and yet another minute, n___ happened and no more knocks. She walked q___
___ to the door, and listened. She didn’t hear anything but the wind outside. She slowly opened the door and watched through the crack (缝隙) . She then gave a surprised cry and threw the door wide open! At the door, she saw a tall, beautiful Christmas t__
____! Under the tree was a Christmas card w_
___ these words:
Merry Christmas !
Your new neighbour
If you can’t understand a new word, you can look it up in a d________.
Tree Planting Day is on M________ 12 every year.
1. As we all know, J________ 1st is Children’s Day.
2. I’d love to go there with you, but I haven’t finished our task y________.
3. The air pollution will be more serious u________ each of us does something helpful to cut it down.
4. Only five minutes left, ________ (hurry) up!
5. People use too many plastic bags and throw them away, it is ________ (harm) to our environment.
1. Linda,could you (传递)me the dictionary,please?
2. Uncle Zhang often has some (米饭)and meat for lunch.
3. His sister felt (瞌睡的)because she stayed up reading novels last night.
4. Three hundred and seven hundred is one t .
5. Ken is busy working every night and he h ever watches TV.
1. A _______ is the fourth month of the year.
2. The sun rises in the e_______ and sets in the west.
3. I’m h_______. I want to buy something to eat.
4. Alan is an honest boy. You can t________ him.
5. I usually ________(借) some books from out school library.
6. Go to bed if you feel ____________(困倦的).
7. My sister Sally is always _________(有礼貌的) to others.
8. China __________(成功地) held the 24th winter Olympic Games.