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1．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 (检查) 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.

2．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?

3．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.

4．I got an answering machine for my birthday and I soon realized（意识到）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 (联系) 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(总之)，I really don’t know how I lived w_______ this wonderful machine.

5．Near the North Pole (北极) 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.

6．How do you like to go to school like one in Oxford(牛津大学), 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.

7．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 (屋顶) 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.”

8．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_______.
“I had lost my knife,” he said, “ it fell into the water when I was playing here.”
The old woman s______ him a gold (金) knife and asked, “is this y______?”
“No.” said the boy.
The old woman then showed him a silver (银) knife and asked a______, “Is this yours?” “No”, again answered the boy.
Then she showed him an iron (铁) knife. “Yes, that’s mine,” c______ out the happy boy. “I know it well e_______.” said the old woman.. “Now I will give you the gold knife and the silver knife b______ you are an honest (诚实的) boy.”
9．Tom liked to play at school. He had not been doing w______ in the exam.. So the a______ teacher decided to ask his father to come to school to have a t with him. When his father came, the teacher said to him, “ Your son didn’t work hard, and e_____worse, he cheated (作弊) in the exam.”
“ How do you l_____ it?” Tom’s father said. “Since Tom has the s______answer as the girl’s. The girl sits next to him.” The teacher said. Then the father said, “ Then m______the girl copied my son’s answer.”
“Oh no! There are ten questions on the paper. Your son’s answer t_____ the first nine questions are just the same as the g_____. To the last question the girl answered, ‘I don’t know’. And your son write ‘N_____do I’ ”.

10．A shop owner c_______ his shop and went home. He was very t_____ ,but j______as he went to bed, the telephone rang . A man asked, “What time do you o_______ your shop?”
The shop owner was u_______ about this phone call. He put down the receiver(听筒) without a______and went back to bed. A few minutes later the telephone rang again and the man asked the s_______ question. The shop owner became very angry and shouted, “ You needn’t ask me when I open the shop, f______ I won’t let you i______.”
“Oh, no, I don’t want to get in,” the man said, “I want to go o_____.”

11．Lenin learned some English at school. B_______ when he got to England, he met with such d_______ that he could not make himself u_______ and he couldn’t understand the Englishmen, e______. Later he found he wasn’t sure of s______ English and his friends gave him some advice o_______ how to i_______ it. He decided to learn English by always. He went on l_________English for several months. Finally he learned it so well that he was able to express（表达）himself freely. He was praised b_____ his friends f_______ his great progress in English.

12．Len and Jim worked for the same company. One day, Len l______ Jim 80dollars, but then Jim left his job and went to work in another town w______paying Len back his 80 dollars.
Len had not seen Jim for a year, and then he heard from a______ friend that Jim was in town and s____ at Cantral Hotel, so he went to see him there l_____ in the evening.
He found out the number of Jim’s room from the hotel g_____at the desk downstairs and went up to find him. When he got to the room, he saw Jim’s shoes o______ the door, w____to be cleaned.
“ Well, he m______be in,” he thought, and knocked at the door. No one answered.
He knocked again. Then he said, “I know you’re in. Your shoes are out here.”
“I went out in my slippers,” answered a voice i______the room..

13．A foolish (傻) man went to a food shop to buy a fish. As he didn’t know h____ to cook fish, he asked the shopkeeper to tell the way of c____ it. The shopkeeper did so.
“But I can’t remember your w______,” the foolish man said, “Will you please w______ them down for me?” The shopkeeper was kind e______ to write his words down for the man. The foolish man left happily w_____ the fish in his basket and the note in his pocket. On his way home, a cat saw the fish and f______ the man.
Suddenly the cat jumped at him, took the fish away from the basket q_____ and ran off at once. The foolish man stood there, not k____what to do. Then he laughed to the cat, “Never mind. You don ‘t know how to eat it. The note is s_____ in my pocket.”

14．Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (佣人). He and the servant l______wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man l______his house, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew w______his servant did, b______ he had never caught his servant doing that. One morning when he left home, he said to the servant, “ Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” W_____ these words, he went out.
But the servant knew that what the rich man had said was u_______. After the rich man was away from his home, he e_______a nice meal. S______ he drank too much, he was tipsy (醉) and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn’t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had catch up everything. He was a_____ to be punished（惩罚）,so he drank the poison to kill h______.

15．Bill Jenkins worked in a big office in the city and he often went to the barber’s (理发店) d______ working hours to have his hair cut, t______ this was a______ the rules (规定): Office workers had to have their hair cut in their o_____time.
While Bill was at the barber’s one day, the manager of the office came in to have his o______ hair cut. Bill saw him and tried to cover his face w_____ a newspaper, but the manager came up and sat beside him, so he soon found him.
“Hello, Jenkins,” the manager said, “I see that you are having your hair cut in o______ time.”
“Yes, sir, I am,” answered Bill, “You see, sir, my hair g______ in office time.”
“Not all of it.” said the manager of the office at once, “ M_____ of it grows in your own time.”
“Yes, sir, that’s quite true,” answered Bill politely, “but I’m not having it a_______cut off.”

16．A lady once wrote a long story. She sent to a f editor. After a few weeks the editor r_____ the story to her. The lady was angry. She wrote back to the editor:
“ Dear Sir,
Yesterday you sent back a story of mine. H________do you know that the story is not good? You did not read it. B_______I sent you the story, I pasted (粘贴) together page 18, 19 and 20. This was a t______ too see whether you would read the story. When the story came back yesterday, the pages were s_______ pasted together. Is this the w______ you read all the stories that are sent to you?”
The editor wrote back:
“Dear Madam,
At breakfast then I have an egg, I don’t h___to eat the w____ egg in order to d____ that it is bad.”

17．When Mary Smith was a student, she wanted to be a teacher, b____ she liked children. When she was twenty, she began t ____ in a small school. She was a good teacher, and she laughed a lot with the children in her class. They e__her teaching.
One day one of the g_______ in her class said to her, “Miss Smith, w_______ does a man’s hair become gray before his beard (胡子) does?”
Mary laughed and laughed, “I don’t know. Helen, do you know?”
“I don’t know, e_______, Miss Smith.” said Helen, “but it h______ to my father.” The o________ children in the class laughed when they heard this.
Then a boy said , “I know, Miss Smith! A man’s hair becomes gray f______ because it’s sixteen years o______ than his beard.”

18．It was a r________ day. I was on my way home. I hadn’t been back for weeks.
When I got home, to my s___ I found my mother wasn’t busy doing her housework as she u______ to be. She was reading i_____. And I saw some books on her desk . Some years ago, there were no books in my home except my textbook. I took one of the books from the desk. It was about h_____ to raise chicks. At supper time, my father came home. After supper he told me he was going to learn English because he w_______ to run chicken farm. He said that he must learn something more from foreign countries. He also told me that one could do n_______ without knowledge. It was late. The light in my parents’ room were still o______ I was l______ in bed. l______ to the drops of rain outside, as if they were saying, “ You must study harder than before.”

19．Have you heard a_____ that a cow can dance? This cow belongs to (属于) Farmer James. One evening Farmer James gave a p_____ at his house, and he asked all his friends to come to the party. the weather was hot that evening, and many people danced o______ in the garden. That was near the place w_____ the cows s_____. One cow c______ sleep that night. The music k_____her a____, perhaps. So she got up and came into the garden and started to dance. She danced a______, of course, but she danced n_____. And now many people on the farm are talking about her.

20．I went to the d______ yesterday. I had to wait for half an hour before he c______ see me. “I’m going a______ next week,” I said, “I shall go to America on b______. But I’ve had a p_______ for two days. Do you think I’ll be well e______ to go?” “When I have examine (检查) you, I’ll be a_______ to tell you.” the doctor said.
“I was working in the garden when I suddenly f______ the pain.” I told the doctor, “If I stopped at once it would be all right, I think. But I never get any e_______ in my job so I went on working.” After examining me c________, the doctor said, “ You may hurt your back. I would like to send you to hospital for an X-ray.

21．One day a pig went to the stable (马棚) to see his good friend, an old horse, and was going to stay there for the n_______.
Night came and it was time for sleep. The pig went into the straw heap (稻草堆) and lay comfortably. A long time p______, but the horse was s_______ standing there and did not move. So the pig asked the horse w_____ he did not go to sleep.
“Standing like this is the b______ of sleeping.” answered the horse.
The pig found it h______ to believe and said, “How can you stand there s______? It is not comfortable at a_______.”
The horse answered, “Comfort is your habit (习性). A______ horses we have the habit of r____ quickly. So we are always ready to run quickly even if we are asleep.

22．Venice is a beautiful city in Italy. It’s