—Yes. So you should be careful when you walk on it.

—Let me have a look…Well, it dried up.

—No, you can't. It smells__________. It has gone bad.

—Sure, I have. __________ great achievement our country has made!

—I saw a __________film, so I have no time to do my homework.

—I'm sorry, but__________. Although it may be old, I still think it's a moving story.

    When I was a little girl, my mum and dad told me that if I planted something in spring, I could get1in autumn.

    At the age of six, when I was eating a big apple, something hard (硬) pressed against (挤压) my tongue (舌头). What was it? It was a tooth!

    I was afraid. I2and ran to my grandma's room. She picked up the tooth and said, "Don't worry, dear. It's a baby tooth. You will have a new tooth in a few3."

    "A new tooth?" I felt very4.

    "Yes. But when you get old, your teeth will5out again, but at that time, they won't grow again. So it's not6for old people to eat something hard," my grandma said.

    I went out of my grandma's room and thought, "Where can I7the dropped tooth?" Suddenly, a good idea8into my mind, "Why not plant it in the ground? If I look after it well, maybe it would become a big tree. When 9comes, there will be many white and strong teeth10the tree. I can give them to the old people then."

    Of course my tooth didn't grow into a big tree, but I won't forget the beautiful dream in my childhood.

    A dinosaur for my birthday is the only thing I need. It doesn't matter if it's slow or one that has a fast speed.

    A huge one, a tiny one or one that's in between. A dinosaur that's dark brown or bright green.

    I don't care if it's big and tall or really old and not beautiful. I don't care if it's rough and tough or soft and cute.

    Just it's a living, breathing (呼吸的) dinosaur, and_____________.

    I promise if you bring me one I'll never ask for more. That's all I want for my birthday: just one single dinosaur.

    William Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth. He wrote thirty-seven plays in all. They are still popular today.

    He was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor (演员) when he finished school at the age of fourteen. In 1582, he married a farmer's daughter. She was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter. Later they had twins. In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind. No one knows why he left or what he did between 1585 and 1592.

    At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays. He earned almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from acting. With the money he bought a large house in his hometown.

    At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired (退休) and went to live in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died at the age of fifty-two. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. You still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world.

Mother bird is busy,

Flying from tree to tree,

Trying to find the right one,

To raise (养育) her family.

Should it be a maple, or maybe a pine?

Whichever it is, it will be just fine.

She finds one stick and another,

And hurries back to put them together.

She sits on her eggs to keep them warm,

And hopes they don't fall during the storm.

The nest is strong and holds them well.

The babies suddenly come out from their shells (壳) .

Mother bird is happy and as proud as it can be.

Now she is looking for food you see.

She feeds her babies most of the day.

They eat and eat but have no time to play.

It's time to learn to fly from the nest.

Mother bird doesn't get much rest.

The babies are so eager (渴望的) to fly,

But sad to tell their mother, goodbye.

She       like writing poems             .

They              as soon as the classroom began to burn.

      very important to                    in games.

The Geography teacher told us that the Sun              in the east.

You'd better              the door first before you       others' room.

    He was a poet known for the nostalgia (乡愁) he describes in his poems. Now, it's time for us to express        (us) nostalgia for this great writer.

    On December 14, 2017, the famous Chinese poet Yu Guangzhong passed away in Taiwan. He was born in 1928 in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Yu and his family moved to Taiwan in the 1950s. He lived and worked there        his death.

    Nostalgia is Yu's famous poem in which he        (express) his homesickness (乡愁) for the Chinese mainland when he was in Taiwan. The poem came out in 1971, and it remains highly popular among Chinese        (speak) worldwide. Even those who know little about literature        (enjoy) lines from the poem. The poem is included in        (China) high school textbooks.

    Besides his achievements in poems, Yu was also a        (success) translator (翻译家), essay writer and critic.

    He once translated (翻译) English poet Siegfried Sassoon's poem In me, past, present, future meet       Chinese. It is regarded as       perfect and powerful translation, in which the most famous line is“心有猛虎，细嗅蔷薇”for "In me the tiger sniffs the rose".

    Yu spent his whole life        (write). In a 2015 interview with People's Daily, he said, "The reason why I keep writing till today is my passion (热爱) for the Chinese language." He then added that his love for his mother and his motherland made this passion stronger.

    Xu Yuanchong was born on April 18, 1921 in Jiangxi, China. He is best known for translating Chinese ancient poems into English and French. Xu took foreign language studies at Tsinghua University after he studied abroad. And after that, he became a professor in English and French. Since 1983, he has been a professor at Peking University.

    Xu's mother was well educated and good at painting. She had great influence on Xu in his literature. His uncle Xiong Shiyi was a translator, who translated the play Wang Baochuan into English, which was a hit in the UK. Xiong's achievement gave Xu a strong interest in learning English. In 1939, he translated his first work, Lin Huiyin's poem Do not throw away into English, which was published in the Literary Translation News.

    His 30 poems were selected (选) as teaching materials by foreign universities. In 1994, British publishing company Penguin published Xu Yuanchong's 300 China's immortal poems (《中国不朽诗三百首》). That was the first time that the publishing company had published a Chinese translation. Apart from (除……之外) translating the classical Chinese poetry into foreign languages, Xu Yuanchong also translated many of the British and French classics into Chinese. Xu was awarded the “Lifetime achievements in translation” from the Translators Association of China (TAC) in 2010.

    Now, at the age of 97, Xu is still working hard at translating. He said, “I start my work at 3：30 in the morning because I like doing what I like.”

要点提示：1）我妈妈是名医生；2）她工作很努力，耐心照顾医院里的病人，每天工作到很晚才回家；3）表达我对妈妈的爱。

My mum