填空题Ellen's mother was a nurse. When Ellen young, she 76. ______wanted to be nurse, too, but tuition for nursing school was too 77. ______expensive, so she works first as a maid in a hotel. She had no 78. ______skills and experience, but that was not required. The pay was low, 79. ______and the work was bored. 80. ______ Luckily, her plan to earn money for tuition success. But 81. ______now Ellen has changed his mind. She wants to be a lawyer because 82. ______she respect lawyers. She has been accepted at college for September 83. ______this year. It is certain that she will study hardly. 84. ______ With help of her teachers, she will get good marks. In a few 85. ______years she will have a new job.

填空题On Thursday I will have to decide what I want myself to (76) do over a weekend. I am thinking of making a trip (77) to London, and visit the British Museum and some (78) parks. But I have spent most my money, so I cannot (79) even go out of town. I may go to a film, or a concert. (80) Yes, a concert can be very excited. You can watch your (81) stars while enjoying your favorite music. So then, a (82) concert cost so much. I may just listen to music. I have (83) some records giving to me as birthday gifts. If I listen (84) to my own records, there are no need to spend money. (85) All right. That's what I'm going to do.

填空题Susan: I"m so glad to see you, David. 1 has been such a long time. How are you? David: I"m fine, and you? Susan: I"m just wonderful. God, time goes by so quickly! Are you going to the air quality conference in London? David: I am. And I"m really glad to see you. Just last night I found your name in the conference materials, but it didn"t come to my 2 that we would meet on the plane. Susan: I"m afraid I haven t bad time to look at 3 conference materials very carefully. I had no idea you were coming, but I am certainly glad to see you. I was feeling very nervous about going there 4 friends. David: I can imagine. My English has gotten not so fluent since I returned from the United States, 5 I"m rather nervous myself. But I saw that you were 6 (give) the most important talk at the conference. Susan: 7 (frank) speaking, I"m scared to death about it. David: I"m just giving a talk in one of the workshop sections, and I hope I won"t make all of you 8 (disappoint). Susan: But your English is much 9 (good) than mine. David: But you"re now the Director of the Air Quality Institute, so you 10 know the technical terms. Susan: Maybe. But I still can"t understand totally a lot of technical terms in my field.

填空题We came to live in American last year. When I just came here, 76. ______I can't understand any English. I studied hard, and now I can 77. ______speak English pretty good. But now I have a problem. That 78. ______is my family. No one else in my family are learning English. 79. ______They depend me to translate all the time. At first I liked the 80. ______practice and I liked to be such important. Now I am spending 81. ______too many time doing my brothers' English homework and 82. ______translate for the rest of my family at the doctor's office, the 83. ______supermarket, and the bank. What can I do? I must refuse to doing 84. ______my brothers' homework and force them learn English. But I have 85. ______to help my parents.

填空题Dear Diary, Sorry I didn"t get to write last night! It was such a busy day, and I was 1 tired to write anything. I was right about Sarah not being okay. Yesterday, she 2 (bare) spoke to me, and anything she did say was a "yes" or "no" answer. I 3 (try) so hard to get her to cheer up, but of course she just kept saying, "I"m fine, I"m fine." Uggh! I wish she 4 honest with me! I"m always honest with her! It"s not fair! Jane also seemed mad all day 5 she could tell that Sarah was not really being nice to her. I hate 6 (be) in the middle of all of this. What am I 7 (suppose) to do? Sarah"s been my friend since forever, and Jane is my new friend, and I don"t want to hurt 8 (anyone) feelings! But I think that Jane is fight about Sarah. I"m worried she was saying mean (刻薄的) things 9 Sarah to our other friends when she didn"t know the truth, but I don"t want to tell her that to her face. I wish 10 (thing) were simple like they were in elementary school.

填空题Christmas is no fun when you"re poor. Twenty years ago, I was a young, 1 (struggle) substitute teacher (代课教师) whose calls into work had been few. Money was tight, bills were due 2 my wife and I couldn"t even afford to get Christmas gifts for each other. The only gifts we could get for our children were a few soft toys that I had found 3 (sell) at half price in the supermarket. I opened the door and 4 (bring) in the gifts I had hidden in our old car"s trunk. Then I handed 5 to my son and daughter. I watched with a sad smile as they did their best to tear off the wrapping (包装) paper. As they pulled out their toys, though, I noticed their 6 lit up and they jumped up and down. My daughter 7 (happy) hugged her toy and then hugged her mom and me as well. I laughed as I watched my children play with their toys 8 hours, and I thanked God for the 9 (great) gift I had ever been given. Till today I still treasure 10 gift of pure love that my son and daughter gave me that day.