根据句意，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。

1. Li Lei often practises _________(read) English. So his English is better than any other student in our class.

2. It was raining hard, so it _________(take) them three hours to get to the picnic.                              

3. —What are you going to be when you grow up?                                                                    

    —I want to be a _________(write).                                                                             

4. Look! There _________(be) a pen and two books on the desk.                                                     

5. The people in the north of China usually eat some _________(dumpling) on New Year's Eve.