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My penfriend tells me something about American school students. American school students often go to school (1) the school bus, or on foot. Some students ride their bikes to school.
In the middle school, students have (2) for six hours a day. They need to study many subjects, such as (例如) English, Maths, History, Science, PE, Music, and Art.
School (3) at 8:30 in the morning from Monday to Friday. At noon, students have lunch at school. They can chat with each other at lunchtime. After lunch, they go to their classes. (4) they have two lessons in the afternoon. School is over at about 3 in the afternoon. Most students often play sport (5) do homework after school. American school students like playing basketball very much and they can play basketball very (6).
At weekends, American school students don't (7) to school. They often do the (8), visit grandparents or go to the park with parents.
American school children watch too much TV. Some even watch TV for three to five hours a day. It's bad for their eyes. Their parents worry about it. They want to (9) their kids away from TV, so (10) often play games, do sport or do some reading with kids.

(1) on
(2) classes
(3) starts
(4) Usually
(5) or
(6) well
(7) go
(8) shopping
(9) keep
(10) they

1. 结合句意和首字母，此处表示“乘坐校车”，用“on the school bus”表达，故(1)填“on”。
2. 根据后文“They need to study many subjects”可知此处表示上课，“have classes”表示上课，故(2)填“classes”。
3. 结合语境和首字母，此处表示学校开始上课，“start”表示开始，主语是“School”，谓语动词用第三人称单数形式，故(3)填“starts”。
4. 根据语境，此处表示通常下午有两节课，“usually”表示通常，故(4)填“Usually”。
5. 结合语境，此处表示选择关系，“play sport”和“do homework”是选择关系，“or”表示或者，故(5)填“or”。
6. 根据前文“American school students like playing basketball very much”可知他们打篮球很好，此处用“well”修饰动词“play”，故(6)填“well”。
7. 结合语境和首字母，此处表示周末不去学校，“go to school”表示去学校，否定形式用“don't go to school”，故(7)填“go”。
8. 根据后文“visit grandparents or go to the park with parents”可知此处表示购物，“do the shopping”表示购物，故(8)填“shopping”。
9. 结合语境和首字母，此处表示父母想让孩子远离电视，“keep...away from”表示远离，故(9)填“keep”。
10. 根据语境，此处指代“parents”，用“they”表示他们，故(10)填“they”。