I prefer_______ rather than________.

--He forgot my birthday, didn’t he?

--       . He wanted to give you a big surprise.

I was _________ tired _________ I fell asleep as soon as I lay down.

_______ Lucy _______ Lily can go dancing with you, because they are not allowed to go out on school nights.

In Japan and Korea, people ________ bow when they meet for the first time.

 --I hope you don’t mind my pointing out your mistakes.

--____________ .

The children were made ______ homework first.

--Dad, why should I stop       computer games?   

--For your health, my boy, I’m afraid you      .

I ____ an expensive gift for my birthday, but I could not ____ it.

根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能正确填入相应空格的最佳答案。

Rosa likes making up(编造) stories. At first she thought it was   41 . But now she didn’t think so.

Rosa’s parents were divorced(离婚). Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer    42 , she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.

The farm was great!  rode horses and    43  with some farm work. Her father, however, was so busy that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would meet her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went  44 the city, he would always buy her a present.

   45  summer came to a close, Rosa returned to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a family trip to talk   46  .

Not long after school began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting   47 , like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was   48 . Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to   49  .

When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to  50  them all the things she could remember about her trip to England!