—Oh, it must be my cousin Tina.

—Sorry, the alarm clock failed to _________.

    It was the third day of my camp in the forest. At midnight, I felt （渴的）so I （醒来）up to look for some water. It was so dark outside that I could （几乎不）see anything. Suddenly, I heard a strange （噪音）. I （拉）the curtain（帘子）of the tent aside and looked outside. I saw nothing but two black shadows（影子）. One was big, and the other was small. They were of strange （形状）. I watched patiently inside because I was （害怕的）to go out. In the end, I found out what they were. Two bears! A mother bear and a baby bear! They were playing in front of my tent! Half an hour later, it seemed that they were （饿的）. They walked （向四周）and found the food at the top of a tree. (I put the food there in the daytime and forgot to take it inside.) The mother bear took off the food and walked away along the （小路）in the forest happily with her baby! OMG! I'll never put the food outside!

    When you are ill, you should go to see a doctor. After the doctor looks you over, he will write you a note to take to the chemist for some medicine. Chemists are usually good at reading doctors' notes. But sometimes doctors write too badly and even the chemist can not read them.

    One day a woman wrote to a doctor to invite him to have dinner with her family in the restaurant. The doctor wrote an answer, but he wrote too badly and the woman could not read it. "What shall I do?" she asked her husband, "I don't know whether he is going to come or not. I don't want to call and say that I don't understand him."

    Her husband thought for a few minutes and then he had an idea. "Take it to the chemist," he said, "He will be able to read it for us."

    "Thank you," the woman said, "That's a good idea." She went to the chemist's shop and gave the doctor's note to him. The chemist looked at it for a long time.

    "Could you wait a moment, Miss?" he said. Then he went to the back of the shop. After a few minutes he came back, carrying a large bottle. He gave the bottle to the woman.

    "Take one spoonful(一匙) every day." He told the woman.

    An important question about eating out is who pays for the meal. If a friend of yours asks you to have lunch with him, you may say something like this, "I'm afraid it'll have to be someplace cheap, as I have little money." The other person may say, "Ok, I'll meet you at McDonald's."

    This means that the two agree to go Dutch, that is, each person pays for himself. He may also say, "Oh, no, I want to take you to lunch at Smith's," or "I want you to try the Chinese dumplings there. They are great." This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly towards the person, you can go with him and you needn't pay for the meal. You may just say, "Thank you. That would be very nice."

    American custom about who pays for dates (约会) are much the same as in other parts of the world. In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But, today, a university girl or a woman in business world will usually pay her way during the day. If a man asks her for a dance outside the working hours, it means "Come, as my guest." So as you can see, it is a polite thing to make the question clear at the very beginning.