—    I use your eraser, Rose?

— Sure. Here you are.

Sam and Bill are brothers. But Sam is _than Bill.

A new cinema _ in our city last year.

Please pick up the ____. Don’t keep it on the floor.

Bruce often asks me ______ him to play the guitar.

We shouldn’t ____ our hopes. Everything will be better.

–Do you know the boy ___ is standing under the tree?

-Yes, he is my friend, Peter.

They hardly watch TV on school nights, _____?

– I don’t know if Mr. Li ____ to the party this evening.

- I think he will come if he ____ free.

The bell for class rang. All the students took out their  1  , waiting for the teacher. Our Chinese teacher, Miss Liu, had told us before that we were going to write a composition 2  class.

A minute passed, and another,   3  the teacher didn't appear. We began to wonder what the matter with her was. Was she ill? Or had she forgotten about the class?    4  could tell. Soon some students began to study other subjects, some students began to talk and even made  5  .

About ten minutes later, the door opened and Miss Liu   6  came in, smiling. She didn't say sorry to the class. We felt   7  angry. The teacher often told us never to be late for class and said it was   8  manners to be late. She also said that if we were late, we should make an apology (道歉)   9  at once or after class. But now she was late and had kept the whole class waiting for such a long time and didn't even tell us the reason. It was unfair. At this moment, Miss Liu picked up a piece of chalk(粉筆) and     10     "Teacher IsLate" on the blackboard and said that was the topic of our composition today. All of us smiled and understood what the teacher meant.