完成对话，每空格限填一词。

A: ______ ______, can you tell me the way to the post office?

B: Certainly. By the way, what ______ ______ ______ ______ for?

A: I'm going to post a letter to my brother in the United States.

B: Have you got any stamps now?

A: ______, ______ ______ ______ .

B: Well, I don't think you must go to the post office. You may

put the letter into the post-box at the gate of the school.

A: Thank you. 

　　Joan was a nurse. She ______ in a children's hospital. ______ evening there was ______ big dance at the hospital. Most of the doctors and ______ would be there, but of course, some had ______be left to look after the ______ , and Joan was not one of the______ ones who were free to go to the ______ . She liked ______very much, so when she ______ to start to work that evening while her friends were getting ______ to go to the dance, she felt very______ for herself.

在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使短文通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给出。

　　Bob works in a factory. Every day he t______ the 8:10 train to work. But last Friday everything w______ wrong. When he got to the s______, the train had gone. He was just one minute late for the train. He had to take the n______ one. Finally he was one hour late for his w______.

　　Do you know that tigers sometimes become pets（宠物）?

　　In a warm country in the east, an American had a tiger in his house.

　　One day he went out in his car. On his w______, he saw a tiger.It was l______ by the river.

　　"Oh, here is my tiger, " he said to himself. He got out of the car. The tiger stood up slowly. "Get into the back of the car, " he said to the tiger. "You are a bad boy, h______ did you get out of my room? "

　　T______ he went back to his house with the tiger, and opened the door to his room. His pet tiger was u______ his bed.

　　I live in a tall building in the city of Beijing. There are twelve floors in the building. I live ______ the ninth floor. I go up and come down ______ lift. There is a big garden in front of our building. There is a supermarket on the first floor. We can do ______ there. Near our building there is a cinema. I often go to see films there. ______ to the cinema is a post office. My school is not far ______ my home, about two kilometers away. I always go to school on foot. I don't need to catch a bus.

　　It was a hot day. An old man came out of his house and began to walk slowly in the s______. Suddenly （突然） a small girl behind him began to cry. The old man stopped and l______ at her for a few seconds. Then he went to her and said, "Why are you crying?"

　　The girl did not say a______ for half a minute, but then she stopped crying and said, "I want an ice-cream （冰淇淋）. Mother gave me sixpence （六个便士）, but now I c______ find it." She began to cry again.

　　The old man was a k______ man. He said to the girl, "Don't cry.You are going to get your ice-cream." He g______ sixpence to her.

　　She took it, looked at it for a few seconds and t______ said angrily to the old man, "You had my sixpence all the time!"

　　　　In China, spring is usually quite s______ . Summer is often hot. The h______ month is July. Autumn starts in August, and g______ on to October. The w______ can be quite warm in autumn. Winter lasts from November to January, and is very cold. The best t______ to come to China is in spring or autumn.

　　It was Saturday morning. Mr Black opened his windows and looked

o______ . He smiled and said, "W______ a beautiful day!" He woke

his son up and said to him, "Get up, Peter. We're going to the 

swimming-pool to have a s______ today. W______ your hands and face, 

and have your b______ quickly."

　　　　Tomorrow my father, my mother, my brother and I are going to visit my uncle. He lives in a village more than fifty miles from 　　h______. Last night my mother packed up a big basket of fruit and vegetables to take with us, b_____ we have more fruit and vegetables 　　than my uncle has. And I packed up my tent because my uncle's house is in a large garden. There are many trees around it. W______ I go 　　to visit him I always t______ a small tent（帐篷）. I like to sleep o______ the house in the garden.

　　 　　It was the last lesson before the holidays. The students were very happy. Their English teacher was very happy, t_______. The 　　 teacher played some nice games w_____ them. He sang some nice songs with them, and then he went to the blackboard and w_______ "SMILES"on it. "This is one of the longest words in English", he said to the 　　 class.

　　　　All the students laughed, and then one girl stood up and said,"Why is it one of the longest words in English?" The teacher said 　　n________ for a few minutes. Then he smiled and said, "Because there is a mile（英里） b______ the first letter and the last."