Jack is a schoolboy. He1. c______ from England. This year, he is thirteen years old. He 2.l_______ in a small town near London(伦敦). He lives with his grandmother. His parents 3.w________ in London. They come back home to visit Jack at 4.w_______. Jack5.g______to school by bike every day. At school, he likes studying all the 6.l_______. He is good 7.a_____ English. He listens to the teachers carefully(认真) in class. He works very hard at his lessons. After school, he does his8.h ______. He 9.w________ TV only on Sunday evening. Jack is a good boy and his parents 10.l_____him.

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Millions of people in this world can’t afford to buy a hamburger, so they are h  1   every day．January is America’s National Soup Month, a month for us to think about doing s  2   for the poor．

In the soup kitchen, people who don’t have any money can come to eat a hot meal for free(免费)．During the 1930s, lots of people didn’t have a  3    to go and anything to eat, b  4   they had lost their jobs．In o   5   to feed everyone, soup kitchens served three free meals a day．Soup is easy to cook and you can feed more people Just by adding water．And it's also easy to serve and easy to clean up! They have also used bread to feed poor families during the worst of times(时期)．

These days, church and other groups run the soup kitchens．Volunteers pick up food, make meals and serve it to people waiting in line．But soup kitchens aren’t just about soup and meals．They also o   6    food for the spirit(心灵)—there people can talk and enjoy the company of other people．

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In some parts of the United States, farming is easy. But farming has always been h_________(1) in the northeastern corner of the country, which is called New England.

  New England has many t_______ (2 ) and thin, rocky (多岩石的) soil (土壤). Anyone who has wanted to start a new f________ ( 3 ) there has to work very hard. The first job is to cut down trees. The n_________ ( 4 ) job is to dig (挖) the stumps (树桩) of the trees out of the soil. Then the farmer has the difficult job of m_________ ( 5 ) stones from his land.

  The work of removing stones never really e_________ ( 6 ), because every winter more stones appear. They come up t__________ ( 7 ) the thin soil from the rocks below. F_________ ( 8 ) have to keep removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked o______ ( 9 )for 200 years keep producing more stones. That is why stone walls are used i________ ( 10 ) of fences (篱笆) around New England fields. The stone walls are not high, a man can easily climb o_________ ( 11 ) them. But they keep the farmer’s cows from j_________ ( 12 ) his neighbour’s cows.