【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ther stations in 60 countries can receive satellite pictures. When they receive the new pictures, they pare them with the e_______ ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have changed d_____ the last few hours. This may m______ that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather forecast, they can tell people about it.So the weather satellites are of great h______ to the scientists at the station. In the past they could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours. Now they can make good forecast for 3 or 5 days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather for a week or m_______ ahead.Keys: space, change, nearly, earlier, during, mean, help, more.10.Most parents always think that they have offered the best things they can to make their children live in a c________ world. They buy their children pretty clothes, cool shoes, strange but e______ school things, and a thousandyuancost bike. They think that they have done e they can for their dear little children. In _______, they only want their children to give them good results in the examinations.But their little children still can39。t understand them. Why? Does it m_______ that they still want more material things? No! As a matter of fact, what they want is a true family. What does a true family mean? I think it means a place where we can hide o_____ from the outside cold world. From here, we can get warmth. We can get consolation(安慰), and we can get h______. And one important thing is that we should be stronger and more confident in the outside world because we know that we have a family.Keys: fortable, expensive, everything, return, mean, ourselves, help, 11.In Spain there once l ______ a king and he was very fond of joke. I will give a bag full of gold. he said, to the person who can tell me the best story. There is only one r____, it must be a story which I can not believe. If I can believe it. then I won39。t give away the bag of gold.People came to the king from all parts of the c_______. They brought strange and w________ stories. The king sat in his palace and listen to all the stories. He e_______ them very much, but to each person he said. I can believe that story. It could h________ and it may be true. So I won39。tgive you the bag of gold.At last a poor old man came to the palace. He was carrying a huge stone jar. The old man went into the king39。s room and said. Oh, King, your good father was once a poor man and my father was rich. They were very good friends. My father gave your father a large bag like this one.and it was full of gold. Your father p________ to give back the gold when he became rich. But he didn39。t give it back. Now I am poor and you are rich. And I want the gold. The king didn39。t believe the story and he had to give the poor old man the bag of gold.Keys: lived, joke, country, wonderful, enjoyed, happen, promised. 12Dear Smith,Thank you very much for your letter. I am glad that you enjoyed your h________ with me. We enjoyed having you and your sister here. We hope that you will b______ be able to e again next year. Perhaps you39。ll be able to s______ longer next time you e. A week is not really long e________, is it? If your school has five weeks holiday next year, perhaps you will be able to stay with us for two or three weeks.We have been long b________ at school for three weeks. It feels like three months! I know that you are working very hard now that you are in Grade One. I shall have to work hard next year when I am in Grade One.Tom and Ann went for a piic yesterday but I did not go with them b________ I cut my foot and I couldn39。t walk very well. They went to an island and enjoyed themselves there. Do you still remember the island? That is where all five of us s________ the last day of our holiday.We send our best wishes to Betty and you. We hope to see you soon.Yours sincerely. MichaelKEYS: holiday, both, stay, enough, back, because, spent13.We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 k______ of them. No one 1________the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide what she loves. She? Yes, she. It is true that male mosquito doesn39。t bite and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay e______. She is always looking for things or p________ she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn39。t like your blood, she will turn to someone e________ for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you just remember you are c_______. You are different from the others.If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body w________ letting you know. She bites you so quickly and q________ that you may not feel anything different.Keys: kind, likes, eggs, people, else, chosen, without, quietly14.My grandfather was a teacher. He was the headmaster of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know that he was a kind man when I was young (and he was old), he gave me presents, and sat me on his k______ and told me s_______. But I believe the boys at his school were a_______ of him. At school, when he walked into a room full of naughty boys, they stopped t______ at once. When he looked at a boy with a certain look in his eyes, that boy was red in the face, and looked down at his s_______. If a boy brought him p______ homework, my grandfather would pick up the boy39。s book and throw it across the room, shouting.Do it again, and bring it back first thing in the morning! If the boy was late, or if he f______ to bring his work, he had to do it again, and again, and yet again.Keys: knees, stories, afraid, talking, shoes, poor, forgot15.No one knows why we sleep, but it is certain that we need to. People who are prevented from sleeping begin to suffer obvious effects after a few daysthey think l_____ clearly, and they fall asleep d_____ the working hours. There are no rules about sleep. Generally speaking, grownups sleep