—Yes, every night.

— Yes. It rained ________.

    Do you know Baba's Day? It's a special festival in China. It's for Chinese1. It's on August 8^th. This word2like the Chinese word "Baba". It is from Shanghai. It is an interesting day in a year.

    Children in China often celebrate it with3families. It is a4chance(机会) for them to show their love to their fathers.5this day they are all very nice, helpful and happy. After they wake up, they get ready for breakfast in the6. They usually spend two hours on it. When they finish cooking breakfast, they7nice food and hot drinks to their fathers' beds. They also8their fathers some wonderful presents, such as beautiful cards, new clothes and other things. They do lots of things for their fathers.

    Boys and girls, do you love your fathers? Then don't9this day. On the morning of this day you need to10to them, " Dad, I love you and Happy Baba's Day."

    Bob Harris was a weatherman at a small TV station He worked for twenty years and in those twenty years, he thought that his life was boring. Every day, he studied the weather and tried to predict(预报) the next day's weather. Then, he stood in front of the camera and read his report. Some days it was cloudy, some days it was sunny; sometimes rainy, while sometimes snowy. The weather changed each day, but Bob still felt that his work was always the same. His boss(老板) often told him to smile(笑) more in front of the camera, but Bob seldom smiled. He thought that most people did not watch his weather report and his work did not matter much to anyone.

    One day, he arrived at work and began to study the weather. He found that something was different that day. Everything he studied told him that there was going to be a very big storm(风暴) very soon, but he was not very sure. He ran to his boss office and asked to do a special weather report. The boss agreed and Bob gave a special report that afternoon, warning(警告) people of the coming storm. Because of this report, many people were safe in the storm.

    Bob knew that his work was very important then.

    Yesterday was Mary and Joe's 23rd wedding anniversary(结婚纪念日). They went to Green Restaurant for dinner. The restaurant is a very  /'speʃl/ place for them because they went there on their first date(约会).

    Mary and Joe  (wear) beautiful clothes and sat at a  /'kwaɪət/ table in the corner. They had some water  then they ate dinner. They wanted fish, a potato salad(土豆沙拉), some  (bread) and spaghetti(意大利面条). They were their favorite food. Then they  (order) two glasses of juice. They talked  (happy) and enjoyed their dinner a lot. The potato salad was great, the spaghetti was  /dɪ'lɪʃəs/ and the juice was sweet. After dinner, Joe gave  gift to Mary.

    Mary and Joe had a  time there. They hoped to go there the next year.

—Great. But we didn't see the full moon because it was ________.