阅读短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

Reading is an activity people enjoy a lot in their free time.

Some like reading newspapers and (71) o__________ enjoy novels or comic(喜剧的) books. My (72) f__________ books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always gives me a lot of ideas on how to make my (73) o___________ life better.

Great people are remembered not because they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up (74) w__________ their lives were difficult. They tried to use (75) e________ chance to change their lives and make the world better.

One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers (76) w_______ invented the airplane. The plane has (77) m________ the world into a small village. Hard work, not good luck, is the (78) r________ why the Wright Brothers could invent this convenient(方便的) machine and become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes (79) i________ the sky.

Whenever I read (80) s_________ about great people, I always learn a lot from them and they encourage me to march on.

This is why I enjoy reading about great people’s lives.

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母，在答题卷上按题号写出各单词的完全形式（每空限填一词）。

71. I can’t p       any words when I learn English.

72. The cat’s d       made the girl cry for a long time.

73. We must pay a      to that report because it is very important.

74. The young boy was so s      that he had to go to bed early yesterday.

75. The doctors always do some m      research with animals to help people.

76. My teacher reads all kinds of books. I think he is very k     .

77. If you want to see a dentist, you must make an a      first.

78. The little boy p      to read books when his mother came in.

79. What kind of v      work do you think I could do?

80. We visited many beautiful places in Hangzhou , i      the West Lake.

Last night I read _____book.

请根据下面Linda信中提出的困惑，以读者Mei的名义为她写一封80词左右的回信，帮她解决问题。

Dear Editor,

I had my ears pierced without asking for permission from my mother, and she is angry with me now. She can’t accept the fact that teenagers get their ears pierced. I think it isn’t a big deal for me to do this. I argued with my mother and we were both unhappy. Can you tell me how to solve this problem?

Linda

Dear Linda,

I read your problem from the Newsletter. In my opinion，

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Good luck to you!

Mei