Living and dealing with kids can be a tough job these days, but living and dealing with parents can be even tougher.

    If I have learned anything in my 16 years, it is that communication is very important, both when you disagree and when you get along. With any relationship, you need to let other person know how you are feeling. If you are not able to communicate, you drift apart. When you are mad at your parents, or anyone else, not talking to them doesn't solve anything.

    Communication begins with the concerns (关心) of another. It means that you can't just come home from school, go up to your room and ignore (不理睬) everyone. Even if you just say "Hi", and see how their day was for five minutes, it is better than nothing.

    If you looked up the word "communication" in a dictionary, it would say "the exchange of ideas, the conveyance (表达) of information, correspondence (通信), means of communication: a letter or a message". To maintain (保持) a good relationship, you must keep communication strong. Let people know how you feel, even if it's just by writing a note.

    When dealing with parents, you always have to make them feel good about how they are doing as a parent. If you are trying to make them see something as you see it, tell them that you'll listen to what they have to say, but ask them politely to listen to you. Yelling or walking away only makes the situation worse.

    This is an example: one night, Sophie went to a street party with her friends. She knew she had to be home by midnight after the fireworks, but she didn't feel she could just ask to go home. That would be rude. After all, they had been nice enough to take her along with them. Needless to say, she was late getting home. Her parents were mad at first, not when Sophie explained why she was late, they weren't as mad and let the incident go. Communication is the key factor here. If Sophie's parents had not been willing to listen, Sophie would have been in a lot of trouble.

    Communication isn't a one-way deal: it goes both ways. Just remember: if you get into a situation like Sophie's, telling the other person how you feel-listening is the key factor to communication.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：①每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

②只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

    Mrs Brown was walking near a playground. She was a hurry to visit her four grandchildren. She missed him very much, because she had seen them for quite a long time. She was walking while suddenly she saw a ball coming in her direction. She was already in her seventy. Should she kick the hall to send it back and should she just go past leaving the ball where it was? Finally with greatly care she gave it a kick. The hall went straight out the goal. How wonderful it was! And she happened to have helped won the match. And all her four grandchildren were on team of the winners.

提示：①于丹在中央电视台的电视讲座让人们了解了博大精深的中国古代文化；

②她的语言风趣、幽默，深受很多人的喜欢；

③受父亲的影响，她从小就很喜欢中国文学；

④她不仅讲课生动、有趣，而且还是一名出版了许多书的作家。

注意：①可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

②词数：100左右。

The World's Largest Insect

    This giant insect can be used as a toy.

    A child ties one end of a string to a stick and the other end around the "neck" of an insect. Holding the stick, the child lets the insect go. With a loud whirring sound, the insect takes off, pulling the string in a large curve over the child's head. The child laughs as the stick jumps around.

    The child is African, and the toy is the African Goliath beetle, the largest insect in the world.

    The Goliath is a true insect because it has six legs and a body that is divided into three parts. Like all beetles, it has two pairs of wings. The front pair are thick and stiff and protect the back pair, which are soft. It is these soft back wings that make the beetle fly forward. They also cause the loud whirring sound the beetle makes when it flies. To steer, the beetle twists and turns its legs the same way you steer a bike by turning its front wheel.

    African children often use the Goliath beetle as a toy. Although it is over 15 centimeters long, it is quite harmless.

    One day Mary was busy working in her office in London she received an E-mail from her friend Joan .In Joan's e-mail, she persuaded Mary (look) for a flat in London for her. As she had (little) money at her command than before, the flat had to be cheap, but it had to be modern, with elevators, gas lines. It had to be in the (east) part of London, with petrol and subway stations nearby. Though Mary found difficult to find such a flat, she still went from one block to another, looking for a flat would meet Joan's requirements. Having tried too many times, Mary met her boss and politely asked him advice. It was the first time that she (talk) with his boss about her personal problems. It happened that the boss just had such a flat for rent, so they quickly reached agreement. But to her surprise, when she e-mailed Joan, telling her the good news, Joan said that she had changed mind—she was not returning to London.