一)

　　Do you have a pet? Are you i_____________ in taking care of animals? Girls and boys who like animals may want to study to be animal doctors. They’re often c____________ “vets”. Many of them work in animal h_____________. Others may work on farms or at a z____________. Some study animal diseases and try to find w____________ to keep the animals from getting i__________. They do studies in m_____________ for animals.

　　Vets listen to an animal’s h____________. They check (檢查) its ears, eyes, mouth and blood. They o___________ on animals when they need to. They may give the animals shots (注射) and tell the pet’s o ____________ what food is best.

　　(二)

　　Dear Tom:

　　Are you surprised to hear from me? I have not heard from you s____________ the beginning of the summer h______________. How are you getting on with your s___________? How are your parents? Is your brother Bill b______________ f______________ Canada yet?

　　My stamp collection is g___________ bigger and bigger. I have collected stamps of more than forty d_______________ countries. In my stamp books. I usually put the stamps from each country together. I have got a pen-friend from Britain. She gave me some B___________ stamps. My American teacher has given me some beautiful American and Canadian stamps. I’m glad to know you are going to give me some foreign stamps, but I still have not r_____________ the stamps of Nepal which you said to p_____________ me. Have you sent them off yet?

　　Please write to me. Have you sent them off yet?

　　Yours

　　Zhou Wen

　　(三)

　　When Martin was a small boy, he lived in the little town of Holtham. Then he thought the town was a big p_____________. Well, Martin went back to Holtham last week. “It’s a small town!” he thought.

　　Holtham has changed little during the p____________ forty years. B___________ Martin has changed a lot. He has g____________ into a man. He is now in m______________ life. His thoughts are a man’s thoughts, and he sees things through a m______________ eyes.

　　Martin s______________ in Holtham for five years. He walked from street t___________ street. He could see no friends. Was Holtham, then, a town of strangers? No, Martin suddenly u________________ it all. Only he h_____________ was a stranger in the town.

　　(四)

　　I got an answering machine for my birthday and I soon realized(意識(shí)到)what a u____________ machine this is. I am not at home m____________ of the day, so someone can leave a message and I can ring them b_______________. They have no way to say they c_____________ get in touch with (聯(lián)系) me. S_____________ when I am at home and have work to do, the phone never s_____________. Now I put the machine on. I am not troubled. So I can do a lot m______________ work. There are some people I j_____________ do not want to talk to. So I put the machine on and I don’t have to s_______________ to them. In conclusion(總之)，I really don’t know how I lived w________________ this wonderful machine.

　　(五)

　　Near the North Pole (北極) there are two s______________, winter and summer. The winter nights are long. For more t____________ two months, you can’t s____________ the sun, e___________ at noon. The summer days are also long. For more than two months, the sun n___________ goes down and there are no n______________.

　　The people there have warm clothes. They make most of these clothes by t____________. They make them from the skins (皮) of a_____________. From skins they make coats and hats and even shoes. In this cold weather, trees can’t g____________. The people there have to build their houses from skins, earth or snow. Life is h____________ for the people there.

　　(六)

　　How do you like to go to school like one in Oxford(牛津大學(xué)), England ? There are no r_____________ classes. The students go from one group to a _____________ when they want to. You may find students of fourteen, sixteen or twenty-five years old all in the s______________ group. They work at their o______________ studies. Nobody tells them what they should or shouldn’t be doing.

　　The day I visited, school b______________ at nine. Some students were working at a tape recorder and listening to their lessons. Others were watching TV on maths. A group was reading in the school l_______________. I didn’t see anybody just sit doing n______________. Everybody was studying.

　　At lunch time I could see students w______________, too. They were talking about their lessons while they were e______________. When you think of these students you can be sure it is one of the best s ________________ in the world.

　　(七)

　　One day when Nasreddin was having a bath, he began to s_____________. The bathroom was small with a stone floor. His song was very b______________, he thought.

　　“Oh”,he said, “I sing very well. I will sing to o______________ people, too, and maybe I’ll be a famous s______________, and most people will want to hear me.”

　　So after his bath Nasreddin went up onto the roof (屋頂) of the house and began to sing his song very l____________.

　　A man was w_____________ in front of the house and he h______________ Nasreddin, he said, “What are you doing? You are m_____________ a terrible noise. Nobody wants to hear it.”

　　“Oh, you think so, don’t you?” answered Nasreddin, “Well, I r____________ sing very beautifully. Come to my bathroom and you’ll hear h_____________ beautiful I can sing.”

　　(八)

　　One day Mike was playing near a river. S_____________ his knife fell into the river. He felt very sad because the knife was g______________ to him by his father as a birthday present, but it was lost. Then all at once, a k______________ old woman came up and asked Mike what was the m______________.