16． What do you want to do in the future? Eighth-graders from Thunderbolt Middle School in the US, asked themselves this question during their school's career day (职业生涯日).
(1)       Oct 23, the students heard presentations (介绍) about 20 different (2)      . Volunteers gave (3)       about fighting fires, cooking, managing in a restaurant and working for the city.
Mike Suminski, the lineman (线路工人) of the town, gave one of the displays. To let the students know what electricians do, Suminski made a big model of the power grid (电网) of a district. He showed (4)       the lines went and walked them through the most common accidents: flying a kite into them.
"No wonder we should only (5)       the kites in the park," one of the students said after he saw a real spark (火花) when the model kite (6)       the lines.
Firefighters and police officers also gave presentations. River Medical, a local hospital, even gave some students a (7)       in an ambulance (救护车). The students (8)       closely as doctors and nurses did first aid for the first time.
Thunderbolt has hosted the career day for 10 years. In counselor (顾问) Shellie Clarks' words, they want the (9)       to see all kinds of possibilities of careers and get them considering the classes they want to (10)       in high school.
"We try to get them thinking about high school and get them prepared for the future," Clark said.

17． Many people think heroes need to be handsome, rich, or very smart. But as for me, a hero is a person who always helps others. My hero is Uncle Bill. He is the oldest son of a worker, an he grew up in a poor family with four younger brothers and two little sisters.
He was good at neither writing nor maths. In fact, he never did well in school. So he had to give up school at a very young age. He worked and gave all his money to help his parents. When he was getting older, he found that he was very interested in fixing things. He collected broken things which people threw away and fixed them. He could fix almost everything that did not work. He worked hard and never gave up. Finally, he opened his own repair shop. It took him about 20 years to become a successful shopkeeper.
Now, he is very rich and has four shops. But he never forgets the days when he had nothing. He gives money to poor families, helps poor kids buy books and offers them free lunch. He also encourages people to reuse things. He always says, "Make good use of what you have because we just have one earth."
I am proud of Uncle Bill. He is really a hero.

18． Sometimes people come into your life and you know at once that they were sure to be there. They serve some certain purpose, teach you a lesson or help find out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be:your classmate, neighbor, teacher, long-lost friend or even a real stranger. But you know that every moment they will influence your life in some serious way.
　　Sometimes things happen to you. At the time they may seem terrible, painful and unfair. But later you realize that without overcoming those difficulties, you would have never realized your further ability and advantages. Everything happens for a reason and nothing happens by chance or with good or bad luck.
　　The people you meet influence your life, and the success and failure you experience create who you are. Even the bad experience can be learned from. In fact, they are probably the most poignant and important ones.
　　Enjoy every day even every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people whom you have never talked to before, and really listen. You should set your goals high, hold your head up, tell yourself you are a great one and believe in yourself.
　　You can make your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it.

19． When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence "How do you do?" as example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, once at a time, what is your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.
Languages do not just have different sounds, they are different in many ways. It's important to master (掌握) the rules for word order (顺序) in the study of English, too. If the speakers put words in a wrong order, the listener can't understand his sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of the sentence doesn't change. Let's see the difference between the two pairs of sentences.
"She only likes apples." "Only she likes apples. "
"I have seen the film already." "I have already seen the film"
When you are learning English, you must do your best to get the spirit of the language and use it as the English speaker does.

20．A: Good morning. Sit down, please.
B: Morning, doctor.
A: (1)      
B: I was caught in the rain. I've got a bad cough and my head hurts.
A: Do you have a fever?
B: (2)       I feel terrible.
A: Let me see. There's nothing serious. (3)       Have a good rest, and you'll be fine soon.
B: Thanks, I will. (4)      
A: You'd better choose your clothes according to the weather report. The weather often changes in summer.
B: How will the weather be tomorrow?
A: (5)       Now we're in the season of rain.
B: What bad weather!
A: When you go out, please wear warm clothes and take an umbrella with you.
B: Thank you, doctor.

26． In the United States people don't like to stay at home during the holidays. They prefer to go camping for their holidays.
When they are camping, they live in the woods or parks and do everything for themselves for a few days to relax. For example, they can have a picnic and make all their food themselves. Barbecues (烧烤) are very popular. They bring meat and vegetables and make a fire by themselves. When the fire is ready, they can cook food over it. Besides meat and vegetables, they can also cook many other foods with the fire.
Children really like this activity at night. All the family sit around the fire, eat delicious and drink hot chocolate. Everyone can sing songs and dance together.
Camping is a fun activity for the family to do. Holidays don't have to mean going to visit places faraway. It could be going to the woods or parks near your houses and camping there!

27．　　Tyler was a troublesome student. He sat in the back row. Every time I called him to answer questions, he'd r(1)             with a flip (轻率的) answer. If he got it wrong, he would get very angry.
　　Usually kids could sit q(2)             in class. However, Tyler was just loud. One day, Tyler was talking while I was teaching. I said to him, "Tyler, why not join in our discussion i(3)             of having one of your own?" He got up from his chair, pushed it over, and s(4)             something I can't remember. I sent him to the office and he received a week's out-of-school punishment.
　　The week was a wonderful time for me, but when it came to an e(5)            , I began to feel worried. So I came up with a plan. On the day of his r(6)            , I told him I wanted to start over with him. If he felt like he was going to lose control (控制) in class, he could step o(7)             the door for a moment.
　　From then on, Tyler was a changed s(8)             in my classroom. In fact he was a smart child and he even stopped a fight between two students one day. And he never used the privilege (特权) to leave the class for a moment. I believe that just letting him decide for h(9)             made all the difference.
　　When the year was over, he wrote me a thank — you note about h(10)             good the year had been for him. I still have it today and find it very moving to reread when I get stressed (有压力的) about teaching.

28．你马上就要初中毕业了,恩师难忘,请你根据下面的提示,向大家介绍你的一位老师（Ms Wang）.
（1）Ms Wang的基本情况：学科、年龄、外貌;（以上内容自拟）
（2）老师的特点：严格,与学生相处融洽,和善,耐心,有创造性;
（3）你对老师的评价.
参考词汇：对某人严格的 be strict with sb.
创造性的 be creative
要求：
（1）词数：80〜100个.
（2）开头已给出,不计入总词数.
（3）要点齐全,行文连贯,可适当发挥.
　　I'll graduate from my middle school. I've met many good teachers since I came to this school. Here I'm going to share my ______ teacher, Ms Wang with you. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________