1．　　In the US, lots of people have waimai, or food delivered to their home. Pizza and Chinese food are popular. The delivery (1)       can usually get the food to your door in half an hour.
　　But wanmai for other things is not so quick in the US. For example, if you order toothpaste or cooking oil, it will usually (2)       at least one day to arrive.
　　Here in China. I can order nearly anything and get it (3)       just 30 to 45 minutes. Did I forget to buy onions and cabbages for making dinner? No problem — waimai will deliver it soon. There is even waimai for things (4)       medicine and snacks.
　　Some people say this makes people lazier. I guess they're not wrong. But I really love the (5)       life.

2．　　Zhang Jiacheng is a 13-year-old and one-armed basketball player. He is not (1)       in the face of a taller, stronger, and older player. Often his skillful plays are followed by loud cheers from the crowd, showing great (2)       for the young rising player.
　　The young boy (3)       his arm in an accident when he was 5 years old. (4)       year(s) later, basketball became his strong wish, which led him to make an effort to (5)       the game, regardless of his physical condition.
　　Encouraged by his own motto "Learn well and play well", he (6)       with the balance between studying and playing basketball. His being (7)       on social media (媒体) has since given him even more courage to work harder towards his great goal: (8)       a professional basketball player.
After only a year of (9)      , Zhang Jiacheng has improved his skills dramatically. Through patience, confidence and resolution, the young basketball player continues to get (10)       to his life goal.

3．　　There is an old Chinese saying, "If someone gives you a little drop of water, you should return a spring of water." That means if someone helps you a bit, you should remember it and thank them gratefully (感激的) in return.
　　We should live in a world of gratitude. We should prove it with actions, not just words. We thank people who hurt us, because they teach us important things. We thank people who give us up, because we learn how to be independent. We thank people who selfish (自私的), because we learn the importance of being kind. Of course, we should thank people who help us. We should thank people who teach us. We should thank people who care about us.
　　We thank our parents. They work hard all the time in order to give their sons and daughters a better life. They cook meals for us, they do the chores for us, they always give us food and clothes, they teach us what is right and what is wrong.
　　We thank our teachers who give us dreams. They teach us a lot of things but they ask for nothing from us. We are well-educated of them.
　　There are a lot of people that we should be grateful to in our life. We should find a way to thank them.

4．Tony's and Jane's opinions about keeping pet dogs

5．　　Searching for parking spaces has long been a headache for many office workers in many big cities of China, especially for those working in CBD (中央商务区). Parking near their companies for five days a week could cost them a lot of money. At the same time, even with prices for parking lots in residential areas (居民区) rising, most of their spaces stay idle during workdays. Now the shared parking space has appeared in China. It has become a huge market in some big cities.
　　In Qingdao, up to 10, 000 personal parking spaces have been turned into shared ones with the help of "Airparking", an online shared parking platform (平台).
　　Through a special app, users can either share or order a parking place. Owners who have idle parking spaces can share some information, including the parking position, license number and time limit (限制) on the platform. With the information, users can easily find the nearest place to park. The average (平均的) parking cost for shared parking is 4 yuan each hour, almost the same as the service cost in traditional parking spaces.
　　Qingdao is one of the Chinese cities that encourage shared parking. Some other big cites, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hefei, have also begun to try this idea. The Shanghai government, for example, has set up more than 6, 500 shared parking spaces to encourage the public to use. Shared parking will be more and more helpful to the drivers.

6．　　The Forbidden City, or the Palace Museum, has been considered a great old museum for a long time. (1)       Nowadays, such cultural and creative products have been one of the hottest topics and they are popular among Chinese people.
　　Since 2007, the Palace Museum has come up with more than 9, 600 products. The products include notebooks with embroidery (刺绣) covers and dolls of emperors and empresses. (2)       It was reported that the products have been sold for about 1 billion yuan in 2016.
　　Besides the products, the Palace Museum also created an app called A Day of an Emperor. (3)      . Users will be guided to learn about a day of life and work of an emperor of Qing Dynasty
　　A documentary (纪录片) called Masters in Forbidden City became popular online. (4)       They say that they can learn a lot about Chinese history and culture by watching the documentary. The documentary also makes them want to work at the museum.
　　(5)       For example, the National Museum of China has taken similar projects, too. China encourages more and more museums to take different measures (措施) to make young people interested in Chinese history and culture.

7．Boys usually wear s             on their feet inside their shoes.

8．Now, l            very carefully to what the teacher says.

9．—Coffee or tea?
—Coffee, please. I p            coffee to tea.

10．She always wanted to sail across the Pacific O            .

11．She has h             her diary where nobody can find it.

12．I said congratulations，walked over to him and s             his hand．

13．Your classroom is on the second floor and o             is on the third floor.

14．Most of the children in my time liked to play together under that big tree, e             during the summer holidays when they had more free time.

15．Yang Liwei was the first Chinese astronaut in s            .

16．A m             is a person who plays an instrument or writes songs．

17．　　What is the "taste" of Spring Festival? For most Chinese, it (1)             (meaning) red lanterns at the doors, lucky characters on the walls and paper-cuts on the windowpanes.
　　(2)             people in Yu County, Hebei Province, their special paper-cuts are an important tradition during the Chinese New Year. Zhang Haiquan, 56, is the (3)             (five)-generation (一代人) leader of the northern school for Yu County paper-cutting.
　　Zhang's childhood memories are (4)             (fill) with paper-cuts. "My friends and I (5)            (will) make the papercuts and sell them to buy firecrackers."
　　Now, he is happy to share his artwork (6)             families and friends, sending his best wishes for the Spring Festival.
　　Dating back to (7)             6th century, the art form is a traditional handicraft (手工艺品) that including cutting designs into paper. (8)             plays an important role in Chinese festivals and ethnic (民族的) activities. The cultural meanings have made it (9)             of the richest Chinese folk arts.
　　Opera characters, historical (10)             (story), plants and animals, lucky patterns and activities from our daily lives all become the subjects of paper-cuts that beautify window panes across China during the Spring Festival. It increases the festive atmosphere (气氛), and expresses good wishes for the next year.

18．亲爱的同学, 你喜欢阅读吗?在全民阅读活动中, 我校定于4月23日为全校读书日．请你为我校拟定一则海报宣传读书日．字数:80﹣100. 文章开头已给出, 不计入总词数．文中包含以下几点:
1. 阅读很容易, 不受时间、地点限制．
2. 阅读能给我们带来快乐．(如:能与智者为伴……)
3. 阅读非常有用．(如:能帮我们解决生活中的难题……)
4. 你有关阅读的做法和打算(1﹣2点即可)．
Dear students,
Reading is not only a good habit but an enjoyable thing.