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I was in a strange city and I didn?t know the city at all.And what is more，I could not speak a word of the 1.l______.After having spent my first day in the town center，I decided to lose my way on my second day，since I was sure that this was the better way of 2.g____to know the strange city.I got on the first bus in the morning，rode on it for several stops，then got off it and walked on.The first two hours 3.p_____ happily enough.Then I decided to turn back to my 4.h______for lunch.After walking about for some time，I decided I had better ask the way.The5.t_______ was that the only word I knew of the language was the name of the hotel in which I 6.l________ and even that I pronounced badly.

I stopped to ask a friendly-looking7.n______ seller.He smiled and handed me a paper.I shook my head and repeated the name of the hotel and he put the paper into my hands，I had to give him some 8.m_______and went on my way.Then I met a policeman.I asked him at once.The policeman listened to me carefully.Smiled and took me 9.b_______the arm.There was a strange look in his eyes as he pointed left and right and left10.a_____.I thanked him politely and began walking on.

About an hour passed and I found that the houses were getting fewer and fewer and green fields could be 11.s_____ on either side of me.I had come all the way into the country.The thing left for me to do was to find the nearest bus station.

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It was a r______ day. I was on my way home. I hadn’t been back for weeks.

When I got home, to my s_______, I found my mother wasn’t busy doing her housework as she u_____ to be. She was reading i______. And I saw some books on her desk . Some years ago, there were no books in my home except my textbook. I took one of the books from the desk. It was about h______ to raise chicks. At supper time, my father came home. After supper he told me he was going to learn English because he w_____ to run chicken farm. He said that he must learn something more from foreign countries. He also told me that one could do n________ without knowledge. It was late. The light in my parents’ room were still o________. I was l_______ in bed. l________ to the drops of rain outside, as if they were saying, “ You must study harder than before.