The day is like any other day in his life. Tom walks past the shop at the street corner. He stops to look at the front row of shoes, and he feels happy to see that pair of shoes he wants very much is still there. But he feels sorry for himself. He really wants to have them for his birthday.
He sadly walks away and thinks how to tell his mother about it. He knows she will give him anything he likes if she can. He also knows very well that she has little money. He decides not to go home so quickly, because he looks worried and his mother will see it. So he goes to the park and sits on the grass. Then he sees a boy in a wheel chair. He notices that the boy moves the wheel chair with his hands. Tom looks at him carefully and is surprised to see the boy has no feet. He looks at his own feet. "It's much better to be without shoes than without feet," he thinks. There is no reason for him to feel so sorry and sad. He smiles and he is happier.
【小題1】Tom passes the shop______.

Peter is thirteen. He is   1  Grade Two this year. He likes to play football and watch football matches. And he often   2  newspapers. He does his best to know where and when a football match will be.

Now Peter is having lunch. He is   3  the radio, too.  He is very happy   4  there will be a nice football match on TV at four   5  this afternoon. He wants   6  it very much. But he is going to have English and Chinese lessons. It’s   7  for him to find a way.

“Hello, Mrs. Black,” Peter says to his teacher   8  the phone. “Peter is ill in bed. He wants to ask for half a day’s leave(請(qǐng)假).”

“Oh, I’m   9  to hear that,” says Mrs. Black. “But   10  is that?”

“It’s my father, Mrs. Black.”

Mr. Smith works in a middle school. There he teaches English. He works hard and he is busy every day. After supper, he always reads some newspapers ___1____ his room. His son, John, often comes in and asks him to tell him a ___2___. He likes his son and does all that the boy wants.

    One Sunday Mrs. Smith was doing some housework and Mr. Smith was ___3___ a newspaper. John came in but he didn’t say anything. About ten minutes later the boy showed a newspaper to Mr. Smith and called out, “There is going to be a baseball match tonight, Dad!”

    Mr. Smith was surprised. He said to ___4___, “The boy is only three years old. How can he read the newspaper?”

    He began to look for the news. __5__ he couldn’t find it. At last the boy showed him an exclamation mark （感嘆號(hào)）in the newspaper.