Decorate the Christmas tree is usually a family event. For many families,
1. ________
it starts with choosing a tree from either a farm and a store. Then the tree
2. ________
is brought at home and put into a Christmas stand that holds the tree up 3. ________
straight. Then everyone helps to hang balls and light. After the tree is 4. ________
decorated, a Christmas tree skirt rapped around the bottom of the tree.
5. ________
Sometime, people make all of the decorations for the tree by themselves.
6. ________
Many people collect Christmas trees decorations throughout their lifetime,
7. ________
adding a new decoration each year. Beside lights and balls, people may 8. ________
also put flowers, pine cones, strings of pop corn and garlands (花环) on the
9. ________
tree, There are as much different ways to decorate a tree as there are people!
10. ________
I can’t swim because I have a strong fear of water. Look back 1. ________
my childhood experiences, I think that three reasons might 2. ________
explain the fear. The first reason is that I was not allow to go 3. ________
near the water when I was a child, for my mother had a 4. ________
unreasonable fear of it. So, even as a child that I was taught to 5. ________
see the water as something danger. Second, my eyes 6. ________
became bad when I was five. If I took off my glass in the 7. ________
water, I couldn’t see anything, or this increased my fear. 8. ________
The worst part of my experience is that as a child I saw 9. ________
a neighbor drowned. After then I have been more frightened. 10. ________
Between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River lie 1. ________
Washington D.C. It is about 220 miles in the south 2. ________
of New York City. The pleasantest and easiest ways to 3. ________
get there is by long-distance bus, or by the fast
(125-mile-an-hour) train which spends a little more money than 4. ________
the bus journey and a little less money than flying. I could travel far
more than 220 miles to see Washington. It’s not city that has 5. ________
been grown up accidently as most big cities have done. 6. ________
It was carefully planned for the nation’s capital by a 7. ________
Frenchman, Perril Enfant. The city was named 8. ________
George Washington, the much-loved, much-admired,
much-respected first president of the United States. 9. ________
In 1791 he himself arranged to buy the land which it stands. 10. ________
Today I visited the Smiths — my first time visit 1.________
to a American family. They live in a small 2 _________
town. It was very kind for them to meet me 3.__________
at the railway station and drove me to their home 4.__________
The Smiths did his best to make me feel 5.__________
at home. They offered me coffee and other 6.__________
drinks. We have a good time talking and laughing 7.__________
together. They eager to know everything about 8.__________
China and asked me lots of question. In fact, 9 .__________
they are planning to visit China in next year. 10.__________
Dear Bob,
Hello. I learn about you from my English teacher, 1.________
Miss Fang. I’d like to your pen friend, and get to 2._________
know more about your country.
First, let me tell you something more about myself. 3.________
My name is Li Hua. I live in Beijing, where is the 4 .________
capital of China. I go to Hongqi Middle School. We 5._________
study quite a few subject, such as maths, Chinese, 6._________
English and physics.1 use to play ping-pong a lot 7._________
in my spare time, but now I am interesting in football. 8._________
Do you play any ball games? What your favourite 9 _________
sport? I look forward to hear from you soon. 10._________
Yours
Li Hua
Dr. Black comes from either Oxford or Cambridge, I can’t remember where .
Life in the city is quite different from one in the country.
The mother didn’t know how to blame for the broken glass as it happened while she was out.