Susan tries ________ English. But she often forgets ________her English book.

【小题1】It’s wet this autumn. Because there is p________ of rain this year.
【小题2】She is very w_______ because she can’t find her backpack.
【小题3】The jacket cost her two thousand dollars, her mother thought it was too e___________.
【小题4】His grandfather’s d_______ made him very sad.
【小题5】I usually read English aloud to practice my p__________.

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Maria Gomez was born in Peru. She g________(1) up in a small village. She went to school when she was six years old. She went to elementary school, but she didn’t go to high school. Her family was very p_________(2), and she had to go to work when she was thirteen years old. She worked in a shoe f__________(3).

When Maria was seventeen years old, her family m_________(4) to the United States. F________(5) they lived in Los Angeles, and then they moved to San Francisco. When Maria arrived in the United States, she was not happy.

She m_________(6) her friends in Peru, and she didn’t know a w_________(7) of English. She began to s_________(8) English at night, and worked in a factory during the day.

Maria studied very hard, and now she speaks English well. She’s still studying at night, but now she is studying typing. She wants to be in Peru. Maria still misses her friends in Peru. But she is very happy now, and she hopes she will have a good f________(9) in the new c_________(10).