Hello, my name is Mark. I’m fourteen old. My birthday is _______ September 18th. I’m a middle school student in Jilin, China. I have a good friend at school. His name is Liu Hua. He’s _________, too. His birthday is on March 28th.

We go to school from Monday to Friday. And we have eight subjects this term. What’s my favorite subject? It’s English for sure. Why do I like it best? Because it’s easy for me and the English teacher Mr. Zhang is great fun. His lessons are very _________.

_________ about Li Xiang? He likes English, too. But his favorite subject is P.E. Mr. Smith is our P.E. teacher. He is good at _______ basketball. He always teaches us how to play basketball well. We all like him very much.

I’m a student of No.8 Junior High School. Twenty-two classes are in it. I’m _____ Class Three, Grade Seven. In our _____, we have 24 boys and 20 girls. Our classroom isn’t _____, but it looks nice.

Alice is my _____. She comes from the USA. She is twelve. She _____ two big eyes. I like _____ very much. Alice’s brother is Bill. He is _____, but he is not tall. I’m not good at English. They often (经常) _____ me. This morning Alice is in a new _____. She looks happy. I have a new friend in this school, but she is in different _____. We have different teachers, but we can play after class.

Mrs. Black has had a special scarf for many years. One day she decided to give it ________ her granddaughter, Ann, to wear to her first job interview (面试) for good luck. Mrs. Black was afraid Ann would lose the scarf, but the granddaughter promised, “Don’t worry, Grandma. ________ will happen to your scarf. It can bring both of us good luck today.”

That afternoon, after Ann finished the interview, she felt sure that she could get the job. So she decided to ________ by going to a restaurant. As she was sitting at a table, she felt someone looking at her. Sitting next to her was an old woman, who could not take her ________ away from her.

“Excuse me, do I know you?” Ann asked. “I’m sorry, dear, but you make me ________ my best friend,” the old woman replied. “She looked like you and used to wear a scarf just like the one you’re wearing around your neck.” Ann listened ________, with her eyes and mouth wide open. She heard about some stories of her grandmother’s best friend and knew how ________ the scarf was. Could she be Monica, her grandmother’s childhood friend?

Then she heard the woman ________ herself. “My name is Monica,” she said. “I used to live in Canada as a child, ________ my family had to leave when I was 14. I’ve lived in America ever since.” What a(n) ________! Ann could not believe her ears.