My best friend, Connie, is two years older than me. We spend a lot of time together.
    Connie has long dark brown hair  and her eyes are big and round. People say she is (1) ______ and looks  like a doll. When we go out, people often(2) ______ that I am older than her because she is shorter and slimmer (苗条的).
    Connie is positive（乐观的）even when things go (3) ______ . Last week she got her examination (4) ______  , which were not very good. I thought she was goin g to be (5) ______ . Instead, she simply decided to do better the next time. Then, every day after class,  (6) ______  teachers are free in their offices, she will ask them for help.
    Connie gets on well with others. Everyone in my family(7) ______ her, even my younger brother. When you hear her laugh, you will naturally（自然地）laugh (8) ______ . When I feel unhappy, I will talk to Connie and she will make me feel (9) ______ .
    I think my(10) ______ with Connie is very valuable, and I hope we will always be best friends.

    Our new neighbours are the Browns. They have two children, a boy and a girl. The boy is Jack and the girl is Alice. Jack is 11, and he is one year older than me. Alice and my sister Nancy are 8 years old.
    At  weekends, Nancy and I like to go to play with Alice and Jack. Both Jack and I really enjoy playing computer games. Sometimes the girls join us, but the games they enjoy are diff erent from the ones we like.
    There is a big park near our house. Sometimes, when the weather is fine, the four of us will go for bike rides there. We often stop at the huge playground to have some fun. Jack and I like to play basketball, but the girls prefer to sing and dance.
    Our families often have dinner together. On some days, they come over to our house and on other days, we go over to theirs. Mr Brown and his wife cook really well.
    Nancy and I are very glad to have the Browns next door. It’s great to have friends living so near.

    Do you know that in some parts of the world, people build temporary（暂时的）hotels made of snow and blocks（大块）of ice? These are known as ice hotels.
    Unlike usual hotels, all the rooms in the ice hotels are made of ice. In some ice hotels, even the glasses for drinks are made of ice blocks. So they only serve cold drinks. Also, hot food is not served in the ice hotels, but guests can  eat hot food at places nearby.
    To keep warm, guests sleep in comfortable sleeping bags on ice blocks that are covered by mattresses（床垫）and reindeer skins（驯鹿皮）.
    There are some places in the ice hotels that are heated, such as the bathrooms. This is because, even though it is not as cold in the ice hotels as it is outdoors（在户外）, indoor temperatures are still very low.
    Perhaps the most interesting thing about the ice hotels is that they are rebuilt every year. They can be used only during the winter months. The ice hotels melt（融化）away when spring arrives. The ice blocks used to build these hotels are from nearby rivers. So, when the ice hotels melt away, they melt back into the rivers.

    Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plan. So airlines（航空公司）offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?
To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don’t want to lose customers.
    However, according to scientific res earch, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude（海拔）we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air  pressure（气压）reduces one third of the sensibility（感觉）of our taste buds（味蕾）. So our taste buds become senseless. The sad face, however, is that our noses don’t know it.
    All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy（辛辣的）food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.
    Now there are many researches on this. According  to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.
    Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.

A: Can I help you?
B:  (1) ______
A: How long  have you been like this?
B: Since two weeks ago.
A: Let me have a look.(2) ______ 
B: I work in an office.
A: Do you play computer games?
B: Y es, a lot.(3) ______ 
A: Mm, that’s it.
B:  (4) ______ 
A: Nothing serious. You spend too much time in front of the computer.
B: What can I do?
A:  (5) ______  Don’t play computer games too much.
B: OK, I’ll take your advice.  Thank you.

明天请把作业交上来。

Please _______ _______ your homework tomorrow.

他说的话不合情理。

His words didn’t ______ _______.

他旁边的那位女士是我的姑姑利兹。

The woman ______ ______ him is my aunt Liz.

电视开着，但是玛丽没注意看。

The TV was on, but Mary wasn’t _______ ______ to it.

我想大家都需要帮助动物，使它们在宁静中生存。

    Steve Jobs was born on 24th February 1955 in San Francisco, California. As a child, he often worked with his father or electronics.
    In high school, he met Bill Fernandez and Steve Wozniak(or “Woz”). Woz and Bill showed Jobs a computer board that they were building at the time. Jobs was very interested in it.
    After high school, Jobs went to one of the best colleges in Oregon. However, he dropped out only after a few months. In the meantime, Woz worked for Hewlett-Packard, but found time to build his own computer. When Jobs saw what Woz had done, he could imagine that people would need it very much.
    Together, they set up a company called Apple. Apple Computer became a big success, and this made Jobs a rich man. Unfortuantely, Jobs’s personality(性格) made him very difficult to work with. He left Apple to set up another company. Soon, Apple started to do badly. Jobs returned to Apple and helped make the company successful again.
    Back at Apple, Jobs was responsible (负责) for the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
    In 2003, Jobs got very ill and died on 5th October 2011.

    If you pay a visit to Liu Hasheng's restaurant in Harbin, you will find 18 robots there. They are ready to serve you and make sure that your dining (1) e ______ is p erfect. After the visit, you can tell others that the robots serving customers isn't a dream any more.
    It's wonderful to see (3) h ______ the 18 robots work in the restaurant. The wonder (2) s ______ when you walk in. You'll see a robot come up and say, "Earth person, hello! Welcome to the Robot Restaurant." When you have ordered your (4) m ______  , the robots in the kitchen begin to do the cooking. After the food is (5) p ______, a robot waiter will glide (滑行) out of the kitchen to serve you with the meal you've ordered. And as customers enjoy their (6) d ______ food, a robot sings lovely songs for them.
    You may ask, "Where did all these robots come from?" Liu said they were designed (设计) and (7) m ______ by the Harbin Haohai Robot Company. Liu said he invested (投资) 5 million yuan in the restaurant, with each robot costing 200,000 yuan to 300,000 yuan. And the (8) w ______ robot team is managed by the workers in the computer room.
    After a busy day, all the robots will go for a "meal", which is (9) e ______ . After 5 hours, the robots can continue their work for a day. The restaurant now provides a menu with more than 30 dishes (菜肴), and the average (平均) cost for a dinner is (10) a ______ 40 to 50 yuan. Do you want to go and have a try in  this restaurant?

    假如你所在中学的校刊近期开辟英文专栏，征集发生在大家身边的感人故事。请根据以下提示，为该专栏投稿。
   

    （1）在一个寒冷的早晨，你买早餐时看到前面的女孩买了面包和牛奶。
    （2）女孩要离开时，发现树下有一个老年乞丐，他看上去又冷又饿。
    （3）女孩走到乞丐身旁，把食物递给了他。
    （4）乞丐向女孩道谢，女孩微笑着离开。
    （5）你很感动……
    参考词汇：乞丐 beggar  感动 be moved
    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。

   On a cold morning, while I was