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We arrived at the school gate I could see the playground, wide and full of boys and girls. Father asked me to go in by myself. I felt I was a stranger who had lost his way. I did not know a single one of them. Then I was led into a classroom by a woman. When I entered the classroom, I found many children were crying there. The bell rang and another woman with a smiling face came in. " This is your new home, " said the woman. " Everything that is enjoyable and (1)______ here. So don't cry. Dry your tears and face school life happily. "
Well, it (2)______that she was right. I had never imagined school life would be so colorful. In the music room we sang songs. We also learned letters. We saw a map of the world which (3)______different countries. We started learning numbers. We ate delicious food, took a little nap(小睡), and woke up to go on with friendship and love, playing and learning.
Our road, however, was not always sweet and pleasant. We had to (4)______ school rules and be hard﹣working. Some competitions could bring about tears. In this environment, I grew up day by day.

18．
I walked with my father, pulling his right hand. I was unhappy as this was the day I was to be put into school. "Why school?"" I asked my father sadly. " I have done anything (1)______, so you punish (惩罚) me now?"
"School is not a punishment, " he said, laughing. "School is a place that makes useful men out of boys. In the school, you can learn a lot of (2)______. Don't you want to be useful like your brothers?" I kept (3)______. I didn't think what he said was true. I did not think it was anything good to be taken (4)______from my home and put into the huge building with high walls.

19．Gork lived on the              (twenty) floor with his kangaroos.

20．My sister is the              (own) of the big hotel.

21．He looked              at his son and said, "You did a very good job. " (happy)

22．The roar he gave was so              (frighten) that turned our blood to ice.

23．I think              (free) is more important than anything else.

24．The parents thanked the police over and over as he took the lost child back home             (safety).

25．Scott shook the bottle before taking the medicine. (改为否定句)
Scott              the bottle before taking the medicine.

26．Peter seldom puts up his hand in class. (改为反意疑问句)
Peter seldom puts up his hand in class,             ?

27．It took us two months to finish the work. (保持句意基本不变)
We             two months              the work.

28．She has bought a very nice purse. (感叹句)
             nice purse she has bought!

29．in his cave, the monster, the laser beam, in the eye, hit
____________________________________.

30．Today many people all over the world ride bicycles. This is because it's a wonderful means of transport. It is also an excellent form of exercise. Bicycles don't pollute the air, either. At present, there are about a billion bicycles in the world. But how much do you know about bicycles?
About 100 million bicycles are made around the world each year. Now there are over a half billion bicycles in China alone. Bikes were first brought to China in the 1800s. Today bicycles are very important for transportation in the world.
Then who invented the bicycle? A long time ago, Leonardo Da Vinci drew some rough pictures that looked like a bicycle. But he is not the inventor of a bicycle. In 1690, a Frenchman named De Sivrac invented the first bicycle. But it didn't have pedals(脚登). Pedals were added in 1840 by a Scottish named Kirkpatrick Macmillan. He is considered as the inventor of the real bicycle.
Riding a bicycle has a number of health benefits. Riding for three hours or thirty kilometers every week cuts your risk of heart disease in half. Many people in Asia and Europe use their bicycles when travelling short distances. However, Americans only use their bicycles once in a hundred trips. If they use their bicycles a lot, they would save a lot of gas and help protect the environment.

31． How many times have you seen someone on TV or in a crowd and had that nagging feeling that you've seen them somewhere before but can quite place them? This seems to be quite a(n) (1)______experience and it raises questions about exactly how we recognize faces. What's going on in our brains when we see a face?
Scientists have recently carried out tests on volunteers to find out which areas in the brain are involved in face recognition. The tests must have been a lot of fun to take part in! The volunteers were (2)______a photograph of a famous person on a computer and then the face gradually changed into another famous person's. For example a picture of the 1950s film star Marilyn Monroe changed into a picture of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher! Obviously, Marilyn's beautiful curly blonde hair became greyer, her nos became sharper and longer, and her face developed wrinkles and lines around the mouth. As they watched the person change, complicated equipment scanned thevlunteers' brains to see which parts of the brain were lighting up.
The (3)______showed that we use three main areas of the brain to identify people's faces. While one section of the brain looks at the physical features such as size and shape of eyes, another part identifies the face as known or unknown. (4)______, a third part of the brain is checking out the name or other information about the face in our memory. It sounds (5)______but it seems that human beings can store as many as 10, 000faces in their memories and most of us can recognize about ninety per cent of our classmates up to thirty five years after we last saw them!

32． Most cell phone companies design models especially for kids. But parents are usually the ones buying the phones, and (1)p       the bill. According to a recent study, 56% of parents of children aged from 8 to 12 have given their children a cell phone. The percentage goes up with age. Most kids get their (2)f______cell phone at the age of 12. But 13% of children aged 6 to 10 already have one.
Many parents think it is necessary for kids to have a cell phone (3)b______ it helps kids keep in touch with their friends and families. They believe that cell phones are an important tool when something happens (4)s______. Kids can stay connected with their parents at all times. It is also convenient for them to receive a good﹣luck message before a big game. Some people also think cell phones help teach kids to be responsible.
But other people are (5)w______ about the health and safety effects of kids' cell phones. They believe that sending messages while doing homework is bad for kids' concentration (注意力). They say that kids are spending too much time sending messages (6)i______of talking to each other. But we do need to communicate face to face. Also the radiation (辐射) that the cellphones give off can be (7)h______ to young people.
What do you think? Do kids need their own cell phones?

34．Write at least 60 words on the topic： I want to say thanks you to      !为题，写一篇不少于60个单词的短文，要求内容适切，意思连贯，标点符号不占格。）
Suggested questions：
1. Who do you want to say thanks you to？
2.Why do you want to say thanks you to him/her/it/them？
3. What can you learn from him/her/it/them？