There are three types of friends. One is like food. Without it you can’t live. One is like medicine. You need it sometimes. And another is like an illness. This you should _________   want. _________ course, every one of us _________ to make friends like food—they are very useful to us, and they can help us when we are _________ need. _________ you can make as many friends of this kind as possible. _________ the same time, however, such friends are very difficult to have. First, people are not unselfish (无私) as they _________. That is to say, there are not so many people who are willing to care _________ others and help others for _________. If you’re lucky enough to meet one of them, it’s the best for you to make him _________ your close friend.

Mike is an American boy. Now he studies in Guangzhou. He is ________ Grade Seven. He has a dog. It’s black and white. The dog’s very clever. Mike ________ it very much. ________ favorite food is the bone（骨头）. Every day when Mike ________ home, the dog meets him in front of the house.

Mike’s friend, Amy is ________ English girl. She is in Guangzhou, too. They are in the same grade, ________ in different classes. She ________ a pet（宠物）panda. It’s also a black and white one, but it ________ a real panda. It’s a toy. The panda is very clean. Amy often washes ________ in water. ________ is the panda now? Oh, it’s sleeping with Amy.

Marco looked at the basketball hoop（篮圈） and threw the ball up. “Score!” Marco shouted as the ball went _______ the basketball hoop. “You won this time, but next time I _______ better than you, Marco!” “I wish we could play at the park. But the basketball hoop in our neighborhood park _______ broken since last Friday. I guess there _______ nothing we can do.”

Marco and Kim walked past the recycling center. They saw Mr. Morse _______ plastic, paper and metal things there. Marco looked at all the old things _______ for a long time. “Well, wonderful! That gives me _______ idea!” he said. “Mr. Morse, do you have anything for us to reuse to make a basketball hoop?”

Mr. Morse picked up a plastic basket. “I think you can take it _______ you are going to make one.”

“It looks useless, old and broken. I want a new basketball hoop!” said Kim.

“ _______ things is a great way to stop waste.” said Marco. “Isn’t it also meaningful to make something on our own?”

“That sounds ________ ! I guess we can try,” said Kim, “but I still don’t believe it will be as ________ as a new one.”

They took the basket to Marco’s house and found some wood in an old garden. Together they made a post and a backboard ________ time later, when each part was ready, they took everything to the park and set up the hoop.

“Wow, I was wrong.” said Kim. “It is worth ________ it and it looks better than I thought! I’m happy that we made our ________ basketball hoop. We can play basketball here now.” The two friends played until dinner time and enjoyed ________ .