Anna is an 11-year-old girl. She likes music, and she ________ sing very well. In her free time, she often sings for her friends. This term she ________ the Music Club in her school. She goes there every Friday afternoon. There are many students in the club. They think music can ________ them happy. Anna ________ thinks so, and she wants to be a great singer one day.

Frank and Cindy are Anna’s ________. Frank likes reading and storybooks are his favourite. He often ________ stories to his classmates after class. Sometimes, he also ________ stories. His stories are really interesting, ________ many of his classmates like them.

Cindy is ________ drawing and she is in the Art Club in her school. Next Friday, she will draw some pictures for the school ________ festival. She will be happy to see all the students like her ________.

These three friends are very ________. They are good with kids (小孩). Every weekend, they ________ at the kids home. Anna usually sings for ________. Frank tells them stories. And Cindy teaches them ________ to draw well. All the kids there like them very much.

Rita and Richard have lived next door to each other as long as they can remember. When they were little children, they were good friends, though they sometimes fought over toys or ___________ about what games they would play. As they grew older, they played together less. Rita preferred to be with girls and Richard preferred to play with boys. When they were about fifteen years old, they almost ___________ speaking to each other, not because they had disagreed with each other about anything, but because they belonged to different groups.

Rita had begun to study French, and she liked it. In addition, she liked television programs, and she was ___________ watching football games very much. Her mother used to say, “Rita, I’ve never heard of a girl who likes football as much as you do.” She ___________ did not approve of(赞同) her daughter’s interest. Football, she felt, was for men and boys.

While Rita was working on her French lessons or watching football games on TV, Richard was working for his father in his store after school. He liked selling things to people. His father found Richard is so ___________ that he thought about offering him a higher pay. When Richard wasn’t working at the store, he would like to be with a group of his boy friends who were organizing a sports team.

In fact, it was football that brought Rita and Richard back together. When Richard was going home one afternoon, he looked in the window of Rita’s living room and he saw that she was watching a football game on TV. He walked up and knocked at the door. Rita was ___________ to see him, but she asked him to come in, and they watched the rest of the game together. Rita and Richard are good friends again. They still have different ideas about things sometimes, but they agree with each other that football is the world’s best game.