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Passage 1 : This is my grandfather. He is very (1) ……. . He is always kind to me. This is (2) ……. father. He is (3) …….. engineer. He is tall (4) …….. I am short. Here is my mother. She (5) …… an engineer, too. My father and my mother are (6) ….. engineers. This is my (7) …… . She is a student. My family is (8) …….. very big .

Passage 2 : There are four people in the (1) …… family . They are Mr. Baker, Mrs. Baker, Mary (2) …… Tom. The Bakers (3) ……. English. Mr. Baker is forty-five (4) ……. old. He is (5) …….engineer. Mrs. Baker is thirty-five. She is a teacher. Tom and Mary are (6) ……. son and daughter. Mary is eleven years old, and Tom is seven. They are (7) …….. pupils. What are the Bakers doing now? Mr. and (8) …… Baker are reading and their children are playing.

Passage 3 : I (1) ….. writing to tell you about my new school. (2) …… is about five kilometres from my home. Mr. Dalbani (3) ……. my teacher at school and (4) …. is very nice. His sister is (5) …… secretary at the school. (6) …….. works in the school office and types letters. There (7) …… two other secretaries, and (8) …… also work in the same office. My best friend is (9) ……. at my school . (10) …… goes to a small school near her home. Now tell me about your new school. Is (11) ……. a big school ? (12) ……. is your teacher ?

Passage 4 : I have a little sister. (1) …………. name is Daisy. She goes to school six (2) …….. a week. On (3) …….. days, she has lunch at school, but at the weekend she has lunch at home. She often has (4) ……. toast and (5) …….. cup of milk (6) ……. breakfast. She likes milk very much. She drinks it for (7) ……. meal. After dinner she often (8) …….. to music, and then she learns her lessons.

Passage 5 : On March 8th, we have Mothering Day , or Mother’s Day. This is a (1) …... for all mothers. They (2) …….. work at home on that day. They have a rest, and their children (3) …… them flowers and good wishes. Their children also do all the housework and the cooking. They want (4) ……. mothers to be happy.

Passage 6 : Herry likes fishing. He (1) ……. in the river near our house. (2) ….. Sunday afternoons, when he (3) …….. no work, he goes down to the river with a little seat and some sandwiches and fishes (4) …….. it is quite dark. There are always a few (5) ……… people there. They love fishing, (6) ……., and they all sit there quietly for hours. (7) ……… they catch some fish, sometimes they do not. I do not like that kind of sport, (8) ………. I am not very patient.

Passage 7 : Isabel and I live in a room in the hotel. Everyday I get (1) ……. at 6.00 and (2) ……. a bath. Isabel still stays in (3) ……. . I start working at 7.00 a.m but Isabel starts working at 7.00 (4) …….. . We meet at 3.00 in the afternoon (5) …….. I finish my work. We go back to (6) ……. room and Isabel makes a late lunch (7) …….us. We live very (8) ……… with each other.
Passage 8 : My name (1) ………. Nam. I am fifteen years (2) ……. . I am in grade eight. I am in class 8A. I am learning (3) ……….. now in my room. I like English (4) …… much. Everyday I learn how to listen, to (5) …….., to read, (6) ……. . to write. Our teacher of English is very (7) ……. to us. He always helps (8) ……. much in our studies.

Passage 9 : Mary usually (1) ……… up at 8 o’clock on Sundays. Then she (2)…….. breakfast. She always has bread and butter (3)………. her breakfast. After that she helps her mother to do (4)…….. housework or sometimes she goes to the zoo (5)……. her friends .(6) …….. the evening she watches TV and (7)……… her homework. She goes to