Henry used to travel by train. Nowadays there are few

1．________

trains than before. Henry, like most people, prefer to

2．________

travelling by car. Henry's wife, however, still likes

3．________

taking trains. She wants to relax, but she doesn't need

4．________

to worry about gas, repairs or parking when travel by

5．________

train. Henry's cousin Susan and her parents live in

6．________

New York. They take the train to their job every day.

7．________

They travel by train because that they don't like to

8．________

travel in city traffic. Now Susan paying a visit to

9．________

Henry's family in Seattle. She is still exciting, for

10．________

this time she took a plane on her trip here.

　　It turned out that my steamboat sailing to Albany and back

(1) ________

is more better than I expected. The distance from New York

(2) ________

to Albany is 150 miles. I run it up within 32 hours and

(3) ________

down in 30. I had a light wind blown against me the whole

(4) ________

way both going or coming, and the sail (帆) had been carried

(5) ________

out by the engine. I caught up many boats beating against

(6) ________

the wind and leaving them as if they had been stopped .

(7)________

The power of boats run by steam engine is now full proved.

(8) ________

The moning I left for New York there were not, perhaps.

(9) ________

thirty person in the city who believed that the boat would

(10) ________

ever move one mile per hour or be of the least use.

　　It was fine in April 8, 1994．That day all the

(1)________

students in our class went to suburb of our city to

(2)________

plant trees.

　　On arrive at the planting place at 8 o'clock the

(3)________

teacher asked every of us to plant 5 trees at least.

(4)________

Then we set out digging, planting and watering.

(5)________

All of us were going all out to finish our task, afraid

(6)________

of being fallen behind . Between us. our monitor set

(7)________

a good example for us . In spite of his illness, he

(8)________

accepted his task and finished it ahead of the time.

(9)________

Then he went on to help others without a few rest.

(10)________

After work, he was wet all over, but looked at the

lines of the young trees, we smiled pleasantly .

　　One evening, Rob was driving along the road and looking

for a hotel while he saw an old man at the roadside. He

(1)________

stopped his car and asking him if he knew where the Sun

(2)________

Hotel was. “Of course,”answered the old man. “I'll show

(3)________

you the way. ”Then they get into the car. They drove for

(4)________

about twenty miles and reached at a small house. The old

(5)________

man said, “OK. Now stop here.”

　　Rob looked at the house in surprises.

(6)________

“Therefore it doesn't look like a hotel,”he said to the

(7)________

old man. “Yes,”replied the old man. “This is my house.

(8)________

And now let me show you the way on the Sun Hotel . Turn

(9)________

round and go. back nine miles, then you'll see on you left.”

(10)________

One day a man was walking across a forest .

(1)________

He had few caps in his hand. It was such

(2)________

a hot weather that he decided to have a rest

(3)________

under a big tree. He put one cap on his head

and lay down to sleep. The other caps were

on the ground besides him.

(4)________

An hour after he woke up. To his surprise,

(5)________

he found the caps on the ground missed. And he

(6)________

couldn' t search them anywhere. “Where are

(7)________

my caps?”he said to himself. At this moment

noises from the tree attracted him. He looked up

(8)________

and saw some monkeys in the tree. Every had

(9)________

a cap on its head.“Give me my caps !” cried he.

But monkeys couldn' t understand him. They only

(10)________

jumped and laughed .

　　Every summer many peoples, girls and women, as well as

(1)________

boys and men, try to swim from England to France or

(2)________

from France to England. The distant at the nearest

(3)________

points is only about miles, but because the strong

(4)________

tides(潮) , they usual have to swim more than twice as

(5)________

far. The first man to succeed in swim the English

(6)________

Channel was a captain, a Englishman. This was in

(7)________

August 1985. Since then on there have been many

(8)________

successful swimmers. In 1960 a Canadian across the

(9)________

Channel in 10 hours and 23 minutes．Because sea

(10)________

is quite cold, swimmers cover their bodies with grease(油脂).

We have to learn to say “sorry” too.

When we hurled someone's feelings , we'll

have to go up and say we're sorry . When

we have said a lie and feel sorry,

(2)________

we will have to use same word . When we

(3)________

have forgotten something or broke a promise,

(4)________

we will have to explain to that word, too.

(5)________

“Sorry” is a healing(平息争吵的)word. We can make

(6)________

people to forget wrongs by using it sincerely.

(7)________

This word is simple and important .

(8)________

Man has to use it long ago. We have to use

(9)________

it now. Our children have to use it again.

(10)________