1. Their school is giving a concert to r______ money for people in Wenchuan earthquake.      
2. Our English teacher often e______ us to speak more English in and out of class.      
3. If you want to post a letter, you should buy a s______ first.      
4. Finally I wasn't a______ with my son any more.     
5. Jack is very lazy, but to my s______ he passed the exam easily this time.      
6. He doesn't like the computer. I don't like it , e______.     
7. She has been living here s______ twenty years ago.      
8. Do you think people will have ______ in the future?     
9. My parents often a______ I don't know what to do.
10. Tom has been c______ stamps for five years.

   English is difficult to learn because it is so d  1   from our mother tongue (母语). On the other hand,
we haven't got enough chance to h_2_  English spoken and speak English to foreigners.
   So the first important thing for us to do, I think, is to p_3_ speaking English more both in and out of
class. In class, I l_4_ to the teacher very attentively and try my b_5_ to answer the teacher's questions.
After class, I listen to the tape of the texts again and again until I can u_6_ every word of it. I often retell(复述) the text in my own words. I always work h_7_ at English and never give it up.
   Of course, this is not e_ 8_. In the evening I do my homework very c_ 9__. When I find something
interesting, I write it d_10_ in English. At first, I couldn't write well, but with the help of my teacher I
have made great progress.