Jane was walking round the department store. She remembered how difficult ____ was to choose a suitable Christmas present for her father. She wished that he was as easy _
___ (please) as her mother, who was always delighted with perfume.
Besides, shopping at this time of the year was not __ pleasant experience: people stepped on your feet or _
__ (push) you with their elbows (肘部), hurrying ahead to get to a bargain.
Jane paused in front of a counter ____ some attractive ties were on display. “They are real silk,” the assistant tried to attract her. “Worth double the price.” But Jane knew from past experience that her __
_ (choose) of ties hardly ever pleased her father.
Jane stopped where a small crowd of men had gathered. She found some good quality pipes _____ sale. She did not hesitate for long: although her father smoked a pipe only once in a while, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please _
_.
When Jane got home, with her small but well-chosen present in her bag, her parents were already ____ table having supper. Her mother was excited. “Your father has at last decided to stop smoking,” Jane ___
__ (inform).
I am a junior in high school. There is a lady at my school _______ job is to hand out call slips(借书单)and prevent students from leaving campus __
____ permission. Before today I had never seen her smile. The other day my friends and I were eating in the cafeteria and I saw her__
___ (walk) around. When she came _
___ (close) to us I could see that she was crying. She pulled out a tissue and quickly wiped her eyes. I thought to myself that this lady is so under-appreciated and needs recognizing for all her hard work. So I __
____（write） a note telling her that the students appreciated everything she did and __
___her contribution to our school made a difference in all of our lives. I signed it “some thankful students” and slipped it into _
____envelope. Then I realized I didn’t even know her name. I asked all of my professors but no one knew her name I finally went to ask the lady at student services and __
__ (tell) that her name was Kathy. I brought her a bunch of ___
___ (color) sunflowers and taped the envelope to it. I brought the flowers to school and left ___
___in her office. She came into my third period class shortly afterwards to deliver a call slip, and there it was a smile on her face！
This year, I will spend Thanksgiving Day at my elder brother’s home. I will be offered wines, seafood, turkey and other delicious(dish). But the Thanksgiving I remember with the _____
________ (sweet) memories is the first one. It made me understand the meaning of “Thanksgiving”
That Thanksgiving, my family gathered on the floor and ate two turkeys ________(give) to us by a charity. The children fought over the food _____
_____ the adults talked about job matters. There was even talk of __
___ possible trip the following summer to the place I had been looking forward _________
____ seeing: Disneyland. Although I wore old clothes at that time, I was very happy. I had many friends. They tried their best to help me. Eric ____
______ (teach) me to play baseball; Jack protected me from naughty children, and Robert offered ____
________ (take) me on vacation with his family. And best of all was _____
____ English teacher: Mr. White. Whenever I missed the bus, he _______
_______ drive ne home after school.
My life is a lot easier at high school because my ______ students have accepted me. The few who cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me __
___, and I just ignore them.
My ambition is to work for a ___ that develops computer software when I grow up.
As a ___ Tony promised to help Claire make herself smarter and her home more elegant. So Claire borrowed a __
_ of books from the library for him to read, or other, _
__.
Without ___ we jumped into the boat with the other whalers and _
__ out into the bay.
Within a moment or two, the baleen whale’s body was ____ swiftly by the killers down into the __
__ of the sea.
One morning, I was waiting at the bus stop, worried about _____ (be) late for school. There were many people waiting at the bus stop, ___
___ some of them looked very anxious and __
__(disappoint) . When the bus finally came, we all hurried on board. I got a place next ___
___ the window, so I had a good view of the sidewalk. A boy on abike __
_ (catch ) my attention. He was riding beside the bus and waving hisarms. I heard a passenger behind me shouting to the driver, but he refused _
__ (stop) until we reached the next stop. Still, theboykept ____
___(ride). He was carrying something overhisshoulder and shouting. Finally, when we came to the next stop, the boy ran up the door of thebus. I heard an excited conversation. Then the driver stood up and asked,“__
___ anyone lose a suitcase at the last stop?” A woman on the bus shouted, “Oh, dear! It ‘s ___
___ (I )”. She pushedherway to the driver and took the suitcase thankfully, Five others on the bus began talking about what the boy had done and the crowd of strangers __
__(sudden) became friendly to one another.
With the ________ (develop) of industry, air pollution
_______ (get) more and more serious. In Beijing, many people suffer different kinds of illnesses as a result of air pollution.
Air pollution is caused by the following__________: about half of the problem is caused by transportation. There are more and more cars, buses on the roads, and they give off
_________ (harm) gases. 25% of air pollution is caused by factories. Another factor is the smokers. Smoking not only does harm to their health
_________ to others.
_________ these, about 10% of air pollution is caused by other reasons.
We should take some measures to fight ________ pollution. New fuel can be used to take
________ place of gas. We can plant more trees.
__________ everybody realizes the importance of environment and does something to stop pollution, the problem will
________ (solve).