One of Jack’s friends loves money very much, and he never gives anything to __35__. Soon he becomes very rich.

One day, while he was walking near a river__36__ his friends, he slipped（ 滑倒）and fell into the river. His friends ran to help him, and one of __37__ kneeled（跪）on the ground, held out his hand and said, “Give me your __38__, and I will pull you out!” The rich man’s head went under the __39__ and then came up again, but he didn’t give his hand. Again another one tried, but again __40__ thing happened.

Then Jack said，“__41__ my hand and I will pull you out!” The rich man took his hand, and Jack pulled him out of the water.

“You don’t know our __42__ very well,” he said to __43__, “when you say “Give’ to him, he does nothing, but when you say ‘Take’, he does what you tell him__44__.”

8.A. friends    B. friend          C. hand         D hands

“Don’t play soccer on the street, ” ________ a policeman.

Ann is one of my  1  .She lives in a big city. She has many pets,  2 cats, goldfish and birds. Her favorite pet is a cat.  3 name is Mimi. It likes eating birds. One day,   4  father buys her a parrot(鸚鵡). Mimi sees the parrot and wants__5_  if (是否)it is a bird or not. So Mimi comes over   6  the parrot, it wants to eat   7  parrot. The poor parrot is very afraid. When Mimi    8  it, and wants to jump on it, the parrot  9  , “Hello, nice to meet you .” Mimi is afraid, and it runs away quickly. It thinks: “That thing can speak. It must   10   a man.”

--- Mike is really a polite boy.

--- Yes. He ________ “Good morning” to me every day.

        English well, one must have a lot of practice.