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A little boy had major burns over the lower half of his body and was taken to a nearby hospital. From his bed the little boy heard the doctor talking to his mother, saying that he 1. ___________ surely die. But the brave boy didn't want to. Somehow, 2. ___________ the doctor's amazement, he did survive.
Later the brave boy decided to learn to walk. 3. ___________ unfortunately from the waist down, he had no motor ability. Finally he was released from 4. ___________ hospital. Every day his mother would massage (按摩) his little legs, but there was no feeling. Yet his 5. ___________ (determine) that he would walk was as strong 6. ___________ ever.
When he wasn't in bed, he was limited to a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother 7. ___________ (wheel) him out into the yard. That day, instead of sitting there, the boy rose from the chair. He pulled himself across the grass, 8. ___________ (drag) his legs behind him. With great effort, he raised 9. ___________ (he) up on the fence.
At last, he developed the ability to stand up by himself, then to walk slowly—and then—to run! Later in college he made the track team. Still 10. ___________ (late) this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world's fastest mile!
Teen star Xu Shilin made Chinese sports history on Tuesday at last week's Osaka Mayor's Cup in Japan.
“I am very proud to become the first Chinese player 1. ___________ (earn) the number one world junior ranking,” said Xu, who has been Asia's top-ranked junior player during the past two years. “The 2014 season is not over yet, 2. ___________ I need to stay focused and continue to play like I did in Japan. Osaka was a 3. ___________ (real) incredible week as I played my style of tennis.”
Xu has three more tournaments to finish 4. ___________ 2014 tennis season. Xu will attempt to defend 5. ___________ (she) Asian titles in singles and doubles in Korea during November 10~16. And then she 6. ___________ (finish) the season during the first two weeks of December playing two world-class events—Eddie Herr and Orange Bowl—in Florida, USA.
As a junior player, Xu 7. ___________ (limit) to playing 12 professional tournaments in 2014. However, she has still managed to climb to number 414 in the latest WTA world rankings, one of the highest 8. ___________ (rank) for a junior player. Returning to Florida will be familiar playing conditions for Xu, 9. ___________ lived in the US state with her family while training full-time at various tennis academies 10. ___________ ages 8 to 13, before returning to China in 2012.
In December 2013, photojournalist Levison Wood set out to become the first person to walk the length of the Nile River. During his travels, he 1. ___________ (rob), moved out of a war zone and almost eaten by crocodiles. He crossed swamps (沼泽), climbed mountains, crossed the Sahara desert, and dined on some insects. Those months were the best of 2. ___________ (he) life.
Wood's journey began in Rwanda, took nine 3. ___________ (month) and covered 3,750 miles. Sometimes he traveled with a local guide. Mainly, though, he walked it alone. “The biggest difficulty was keeping up the motivation 4. ___________ (wake) up every morning, walk 20 miles, and do it over and over again,” he says.
Wood admits that his survival was often dependent 5. ___________ the hospitality of local villagers. 6. ___________, the journey wasn't without danger. Civil War in South Sudan broke out 7. ___________ (short) after his arrival. It was there 8. ___________ he was arrested and brought before an army commander, who told him he was not welcome, 9. ___________ threatened to kill him if he crossed into the rebel side. Wood's journey ended in Egypt, where the Nile 10. ___________ (meet) the Mediterranean Sea.
Traveling down the Yangtze River for 3 nights was completely the most relaxing part of our China journey. Arriving at the ferry terminal (客轮码头) early in the morning it was 1. ___________ (crowd) with people waiting to board the cruise boat. We watched the mountains go by 2. ___________ we traveled down the river. It was hot and foggy outside but was still one of the most beautiful 3. ___________ (scenery) I have ever seen!
We were the only foreigners on this cruise 4. ___________ had a great time getting to experience the Chinese culture. During the cruise the dinner was delicious. There 5. ___________ (be) lots of different dishes. I enjoyed the food although the fish was so filled with bones that it was hard 6. ___________ (eat).
One of the sweet things about the cruise was the morning alarm 7. ___________ was a beautiful Chinese tune. 8. ___________ started playing at 6:30 am and continued for a whole hour. It was a lovely way to wake 9. ___________ on this peaceful cruise.
The scenery down the Yangtze River is 10. ___________ unforgettable experience. I would do this again if I ever had the chance.
Some 91-year-olds are just grateful to be able to get out of bed in the morning and make it to the breakfast table. Then there's 91-year-old Harriette Thompson, who 1. ___________ (wake) up Sunday morning in southern California, threw on some running clothes, 2. ___________ set a record in the San Diego Rock ’n' Roll Marathon.
Despite still-healing burns on her legs and temperatures 3. ___________rose to near 80 degrees along the Pacific, Thompson finished in 7 hours, 7 minutes, 42 4. ___________ (second). Her average pace (16 minutes, 20 seconds per mile) was faster than a typical 5. ___________ (health) adult's normal walking speed. And she kept it 6. ___________ for 26.2 miles. Thompson's performance set a new record for the 7. ___________ (fast) marathon ever run by a 90- to 94-year-old woman.
Her son Brenny, 55, ran alongside her Sunday, marking the fourth time he 8. ___________ (join) her since she took up marathon running at age 76. Runner's World has reported that Thompson is 9. ___________ only 91-year-old woman to complete a marathon.
“If I'm still here next year, I think I'll probably be able 10. ___________ (train) better and be in better shape,” Thompson said. “If I'm able, I'll try again.”
Jane Foster was out shopping when some wedding photos in the window of an antique shop 1. ___________ (catch) her eyes. It took her quite a while 2. ___________ she realized that she was looking at her mom's long-lost old wedding photos.
But how did they go 3. ___________ (miss), to begin with? Along with many other 4. ___________ (belonging), the photos had been auctioned (拍卖) off in 2003 after her family missed a payment for the storage facility where they were kept. You can only imagine how upset Jane must 5. ___________ (be) at the time. She was searching for them for 14 years before she 6. ___________ (accident) found them.
She was flooded with 7. ___________ (relieve), but the owner of the store had another surprise for her. The photos weren't the only items he had purchased from that auction. He remembered that he had also bought a wedding dress from 1948, and 8. ___________ turned out that this was Jane's mother's dress!
Unfortunately, the woman passed away in 2013 and was therefore 9. ___________ (able) to be reunited with her prized possessions. But her daughter is thrilled with the treasured finding, considering it 10. ___________ a sign that her mom is still around and watching over her!
I got laid off at 53 from a senior management position in a restaurant. And I knew it was going to be hard to find another job in the 1. ___________ (competition) working market. My age put me at 2. ___________ disadvantage. But I also knew it was time for me 3. ___________ (realize) my lifelong dream of owning a restaurant. 4. ___________ was most difficult was that in order to make this happen, I needed to find an 5. ___________ (exist) café that wasn't doing well. It couldn't be better if its owner was ready to quit his or her business. With great 6. ___________ (lucky) I found just what I wanted eight blocks from home. Since I had never financially planned for this day, I had to borrow money from friends as well as 7. ___________ (relative). I, together with my wife, 8. ___________ (be) ready to start off. We changed the name to Black Dog Coffee, the menu, the recipes and the look of the cafe, and my wife did a great job of designing. Eighteen years later, we're still here and doing 9. ___________ (well) than ever. I'm grateful 10. ___________ the layoff and the opportunity to pursue my dream.
One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he 1. ___________ (find) that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much 2. ___________ too little.”
His son looked surprised. “I can understand why I shouldn't pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, 3. ___________ not save a bit of money?”
“That would be a very 4. ___________ (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Nick said.
Nick's guests, 5. ___________ had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied, “The only reason a man would sell salt 6. ___________ a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect 7. ___________ the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”
“But such a small thing couldn't 8. ___________ (possible) destroy a village.”
“In the beginning, there was only 9. ___________ very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always 10. ___________ (think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today.”
Last week, Charlotte Benjamin 1. ___________ (age) seven became a household name, and a hero to young girls everywhere, when her handwritten letter to the LEGO company 2. ___________ (go) public.
In her letter, Charlotte complained about the lack of 3. ___________ (diverse) in Lego characters. Here's what she wrote:
“Dear Lego company,My name is Charlotte.
Today I went to 4. ___________ store and saw Legos in two sections—the girls' pink and the boys' blue. 5. ___________ all the girls did was to sit at home, go to the beach, and shop, and they had no jobs but the boys went on adventures, worked, and even swam with sharks.
I want you to make 6. ___________ (many) Lego girl people and let them go on adventures and have fun, OK?
Thank you.
From Charlotte”
Charlotte's dad loved her well-written letter 7. ___________ much that he had it sent to the website, Sociological Images, which posted it to their Twitter account. The letter 8. ___________ (post) almost 2,500 times and shared over 5,000 times on Facebook.
Yesterday, LEGO responded to Charlotte 9. ___________ (state) that they would include more female characters and themes, and that they have added new characters to the LEGO world 10. ___________ (balance) the appeal of their themes.
Traditionally, we Chinese attach great importance to our hometown and are often 1. ___________ (willing) to migrate to other places. However, in present times, in particular after the reform and opening-up policy was introduced, more and more people fancy 2. ___________ (settle) down in more developed cities just as my family members did.
My parents were both born in Sichuan. In 1963, a time when 3. ___________ (graduate) were assigned (分配) jobs by the government, my father received a job in Beijing. After I was born in 1969, my parents went to work in Xinjiang.
In the 1980s, Chinese society 4. ___________ (fill) with hope, and people worked hard to achieve their dreams. So did my family. In 1988, admitted 5. ___________ Renmin University of China, I went to Beijing. It took me 72 hours by train 6. ___________ (travel) from Xinjiang to Beijing, with 7. ___________ distance of over 3,770 kilometers. In 1990, my brother also passed the entrance examination and was enrolled in a university in Guangzhou, 8. ___________ he now lives and works.
Recalling the changes over the past four decades, I think 9. ___________ (improve) transportation is very important to our family. The long distance kept us apart most of the time. Today, the speed and methods of transportation have been improved a lot, which has 10. ___________ (entire) transformed our life and can bring us together easily.
I stopped to watch my little girl busy playing in her room: in one hand was 1. ___________ plastic phone; in the other a toy broom. And I'll never forget the words she said, 2. ___________ it was pretend.
She said, “Suzie's in the corner because she's not been very good. She didn't listen 3. ___________ a word I said or do the things she should.” In the corner I saw her baby doll 4. ___________ (good) dressed. It was obvious that she'd been put there 5. ___________ (sit) alone and think.
My daughter continued 6. ___________ “conversation”, as I sat down on the floor. She said, “I'm all fed 7. ___________, I just don't know what to do with her anymore. She never lets me do the things 8. ___________ I just have to do. I have a lot of work to do and a big house to keep clean. I don't have the time to sit and play—see what I mean?”
And that day I thought a lot about making some changes in my life. Now my attitude 9. ___________ (change), because, in my heart, I realize I've seen the world in a different light through my little darling's eyes. I'm going to fill the house with 10. ___________ (memorize) of a child and her mother... For we have only one childhood, and we will never get another.
The pain I experienced, one Sunday, was certainly the worst a person could ever feel. It was early morning 1. ___________ my cell phone suddenly awakened me. As usual, I expected to read morning messages from friends. However, as I read one message, I was shocked 2. ___________ horrified. The messages contained one same thing: My friend was dying.
My friend told me that our dear friend was hit by a jeep last night 3. ___________ her way home from a party. 4. ___________ (hear) those dreadful words, I became very angry. I was angry with the careless driver. I was mad at her friends who 5. ___________ (persuade) her to go to the party.
Everything seemed very distant to me. I didn't want to face the 6. ___________ (real). I was scared of the things to come. The truth then finally hit me. Moments later, I 7. ___________ (inform) that my dear friend didn't survive. The pain I felt was unbearable. It's just so difficult 8. ___________ (let) go of someone who means so much to you. But then I know that in time I have to let go, and need to forgive 9. ___________ (me). Forgiving others is 10. ___________ (easy) than forgiving ourselves.
If you live in the Northern hemisphere (半球), autumn is probably drawing to a close in your country. In the South of France, where I 1. ___________ (work) for my year abroad, we have been extremely lucky with the weather this year. As the days get shorter and colder and winter creeps up on us, I'd like to remind 2. ___________ (me) of the best things about my favourite season.
In September, October and November, the weather is 3. ___________ (cold) than usual, but I find it refreshing and crisp (凉爽的). I love running around outside to warm up, 4. ___________ by going for an afternoon jog or climbing all over piles of leaves like a child! These months are the last chance 5. ___________ (spend) a lot of time outside before winter comes, so I try to make the 6. ___________ of it.
I love the dishes that accompany cold weather: they are warming, filling and comforting. Autumn is 7. ___________ (pack) with the best holidays of the whole year! Most people know about Halloween, 8. ___________ is popular worldwide, but in England there are even more 9. ___________ (celebrate)!
Although I'm looking forward to winter, autumn is 10. ___________ a doubt my favourite season of all, so I'm already counting down the months to next September!
One night my daughter, Elizabeth, showed me a large container full of tadpoles (蝌蚪). She 1. ___________ (purchase) them for my grandchildren to watch them growing from tadpoles into frogs. Then I noticed there was a big rock in the container. When I asked 2. ___________ she put a rock right in the middle of the tadpoles' environment, Elizabeth told me 3. ___________ interesting story.
Elizabeth said when she went to the pet store 4. ___________ (buy) the tadpoles, the gentleman told her to be sure to put a big rock right in the container. This obstacle could give them the 5. ___________ (motivate) to climb up and thus split their little tails so that their legs can begin to develop. If they have no rock to climb up on, they 6. ___________ not learn how to hop. As a result, they will never turn into frogs.
I was 7. ___________ (amaze) and delighted to hear that story. 8. ___________ helped me begin to consider why there are obstacles and barriers in front of us. If we realize the obstacle we are facing is really a gift 9. ___________ is on our way to help us grow and mature, we will be more likely to face it 10. ___________ a positive manner.
Born into a poor family in India, Kalpana Saroj was treated badly at school. She was not even allowed 1. ___________ (take) part in some school activities. What was 2. ___________ (bad), she was forced into marriage at the age of 12. She was treated very badly by her husband's elder brother and his wife. When her father visited 3. ___________ in Mumbai, he was shocked. As 4. ___________ result he took her back home. Many villagers were suspicious (表示怀疑的) of her return, viewing Kalpana as a 5. ___________ (fail).
She tried to ignore the judgmental comments 6. ___________ (throw) at her, focusing instead on getting a job. She learnt tailoring 7. ___________ a way to make money. She began by earning less than 0.5 dollar a month. She took a government loan to open a furniture business 8. ___________ expand her tailoring work. Her reputation led to her being asked to take over a metal engineering company, Kamani Tubes. Now, Kamani Tubes is a growing business, 9. ___________ is worth more than $100m. Kalpana Saroj 10. ___________ (award) by the government in 2013. If you give your heart and soul to your job and never give up, things can happen for you.
Alibaba Group's communication app DingTalk or DingDing 1. ___________ (original) designed for China's white collar workers adapted to the virus outbreak by offering the service to help educate primary and middle school 2. ___________ (teenager). More than 12 million students from around 20,000 schools across China are now taking online courses via DingTalk. The sudden increase in demand last Monday even led 3. ___________ a temporary destruction of the software, 4. ___________ service was restored to its full by noon.
Last Sunday, in the Apple store for Chinese mainland users the average rating for DingTalk was 2.5 stars out of 5 stars, before that its rating 5. ___________ (drop) to as low as 1.3.
The primary reason was unexpected: Pupils. For some pupils they could have enjoyed an 6. ___________ (extend) holiday but have now narrowly missed that. DingTalk, as well as Tencent Meeting, 7. ___________ (be) among the apps used in live-streaming classes and that's why they got the low ratings.
“Thank you DingTalk. You made me see teachers on holiday again.” was one comment along with 8. ___________ 1-star rating.
“I'll give you a five-star rating. Here is the 9. ___________ (one) of the five.” is another.
Recently, a funny 10. ___________ (apologize) cartoon video has been released by DingTalk to re-win its clients' support. Here it comes!
Simon Wakefield travelled round Yunnan after leaving university. While in Yunnan, he was astonished by how 1. ___________ (vary) the landscape is. Down in the south, it's very tropical, but in the northwest, Lijiang, a half new and half old town is on the side of a mountain, its peak 2. ___________ (cover) with snow. Seen from above, the old town is a maze in which the 3. ___________ (tourist) get lost.
He went to the village where the Naxi ethnic group live. He found that it is the women 4. ___________ run Naxi society. They have the custom of playing cards in the middle of the street. He also found the Naxi language is the only hieroglyphic language still 5. ___________ use and that Naxi culture is 6. ___________ (particular) famous for its music. Passed from father to son, the music hasn't changed for centuries. He went to watch 7. ___________ performance in an old wooden hall, which 8. ___________ (play) by Naxi men, some of whom looked as if they were well over 100 years old.
At last he understood that it is the 9. ___________ (diverse) that makes Yunnan attractive. However different people may appear 10. ___________ (be) at first, we are all the same, all equal.
Passenger pigeons once 1. ___________ (fly) over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written 2. ___________ (account) from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (群) so large that they darkened the sky for hours.
It 3. ___________ (calculate) that when its population reached its 4. ___________ (high) point, there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeons—a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of 5. ___________ total bird population in the United States, making it 6. ___________ (true) the most abundant bird in the world. However, the population decreased because of 7. ___________ (commerce) hunters who killed them by the thousands. Americans' need for wood scattered the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, 8. ___________ cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline.
In 1897, the state of Michigan tried to pass a law prohibiting the killing of passenger pigeons, only 9. ___________ (find) that by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last of them, known affectionately 10. ___________ Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1, 1914.
“Nothing entertains us better than reading a book.” Bing Xin expressed this 1. ___________ (believe) in 1987. “Entertainment news has increased, which is fine, but I 2. ___________ (firm) believe the most pleasant thing about life is to read books,” she told Cao Zhengwen, editor of the Xinmin Evening News .
Cao's interview with Bing Xin 3. ___________ (take) place about two years after the book Amusing Ourselves to Death was published. It criticized televisions for 4. ___________ (weaken) rational thinking that was typical of books.
To encourage more people to read, Cao launched 5. ___________ “Joy of Reading” section in the Xinmin Evening News in 1986. During the 22 years 6. ___________ it survived and thrived (繁荣), he interviewed quite a few cultural figures and invited them 7. ___________ (write) for the newspaper. Cao later selected and edited the stories of their life into the book A Record of Interviews with Cultural Icons .
Thanks to Cao's effort, today's readers can have a rare glimpse into the 8. ___________ (spirit) world of typical Chinese intellectuals, a world of simplicity, sacrifice and selflessness.
The book tells us not only how joyful they were in reading, but also how just they were 9. ___________ difficult conditions. In other words, the book teaches us how to bring out the better part of 10. ___________ (we) as well as how and what to read.
Long, long ago, the King of the Skies had a lovely daughter, to whom he 1. _________ (make) many careful plans for her future. However, the pretty princess fell in love 2. _________ dancing. She would put on her shiny dress and dance her way into the night. While 3. _________ (watch) her beauty, many a star fell for her.
As the princess grew up, the King got more 4. _________ (worry) because he could not bear to see a princess dance for the common people. Finally, he asked the princess to make a 5. _________ (choose): either marry the Rainbow Prince, settle down and give up dancing, 6. _________ be put into prison for life at the North Pole of the earth.
The princess decided to dance. To this day, we can still catch her dancing in the northern hemisphere and see 7. _________ (star) falling. Not many people have experienced her beauty, but those who have are changed forever.
Those amazing light shows in 8. _________ sky of the arctic regions occur 9. _________ (frequent) between September and October and then occur again between March and April. They can also 10. _________ (see) sometimes in winter.
This weekend I took a trip to Copenhagen with my friends, and had 1. ___________ happy time. As with many 2. ___________ (Europe) cities, Copenhagen is not the cheapest place to go. My first 3. ___________ (recommend) for any city break is a walking tour. Walking gives you a much more practical geographical knowledge of the city, 4. ___________ helps later in your stay.
Another thing to do before you go somewhere is to check the museums. 5. ___________ (luck), the National Museum in Copenhagen is always free, as are many of the others in the city. I recently visited Bremen too, where we 6. ___________ (take) a trip to the Universum—the science museum. Not only was this lots of fun, 7. ___________ it only cost us €5. As we arrived 90 minutes before closing time, the only downside (不利) was that we 8. ___________ (limit) to an hour and a half of fun.
Internet research is important in finding these great deals. So if you plan a trip, do your research 9. ___________ advance. Search the Internet for free things 10. ___________ (do), cheap deals for attractions, offers for young people… Remember: a city break does not have to cost the earth!
I recently had the opportunity to go to my first music festival. We Love Green was held over a weekend in Paris. Like most music 1. ___________ (festival), it had an impressive musical line-up (阵容). But there was something special about this one. This 2. ___________ (be) a green festival!
Everything was as environmentally friendly as possible. Not only was the majority of the furniture hand-made from wood, the festival 3. ___________ (power) by solar energy. Fresh water was made available freely 4. ___________ everyone so that visitors didn't buy drinks in plastic bottles.
I found 5. ___________ experience fun. Having never been to a music festival before, I was unsure of what to expect. 6. ___________, I was glad to find myself 7. ___________ (sit) in a field eating healthy home-made fruit cakes. There were many stalls, art decorations, 8. ___________ different areas meaning there was something there for everyone, from small children to the elderly.
This seems like such a great idea that does not cause damage to the environment. 9. ___________ (hope), by raising awareness of environmentally friendly practices, while showing how fun being green can be, more people may be encouraged 10. ___________ (consider) the effects they have on the environment.
Recently I moved into a new neighborhood. It is a “retirement” neighborhood and those 1. ___________ choose to live here are the aged people of 55 and over. The day I moved here, my neighbor, an old woman, said hello 2. ___________ me as if we were old friends.
“I've found my friend,” the gray-haired lady 3. ___________ (stand) by the fence and shouted, “Cordie! Where are you? Come out 4. ___________ talk to me, Cordie.” I came to realize that she 5. ___________ (talk) to me. So I went to the fence and we talked. “Don't you recognize 6. ___________, Cordie?” she said as if I'd hurt her feelings. “I'm Elizabeth. Don't you remember? You were my best friend when we lived in Terrell.”“Of course, I know you,” I said.
Now I am 65, but I'm still 7. ___________ (energy). I exercise, work, cook, hang out with my friends, and write books. As we are getting older, I believe sometimes we lose our ability 8. ___________ (remember) things. However, it is unnecessary for me to make it clear 9. ___________ I didn't know her. Anyway, making friends 10. ___________ (be) a good thing. And I've become her best friend since then.
When I was young, I had always wanted a baby sister. My mother 1. ___________ (promise)! But she didn't keep her word. From the time I was three until I was ten, she did nothing but deliver baby brothers. 2. ___________ (final), when she'd delivered her fifth son, my mother stopped making promises. “Paul, that's all,” she declared 3. ___________ my father.
The boys broke the quietness of our days, 4. ___________ made loud noises. However, having brothers wasn't all bad. I grew up on the same planet with men, 5. ___________ (know) that their habits and hearts were different from my own. My brothers are funny and competitive. 6. ___________ took me a long time to know the true blessing of brothers: sisters-in-law!
For many years now, my brothers' wives have provided the support I always dreamed of —visiting frequently 7. ___________ (cheer) me up when I was in hospital, sharing their children as my own hope for motherhood became less and less likely.
I can always appreciate the 8. ___________ (diet) we've tried, the stories we've shared, the meals we've cooked and the babies we've chased. Both my brothers and my sisters-in-law 9. ___________ (become) the most important part of my life, showing me 10. ___________ blessing of belonging.
I am a teenage girl, and I am fat. It's too bad. I have to do something to make 1. ___________ thinner than what I am now! Besides, I was sad and angry for my friends think I am A BOY! I 2. ___________ (yell) into their face and said: “Are you crazy? I am a girl! I am just simply like my dad!” What's worse, my mom and my dad have “cold war” just because my mom 3. ___________ (come) home late from work! I know my dad never has 4. ___________ (patient) as long as 10 minutes waiting for something!
I don't know what to do about it. 5. ___________ every member in my house goes to sleep, I just close my eyes 6. ___________ think. I know what to do in future. If I am fat, I have to find 7. ___________ solution, make it to be true, and hope I will be slim. My friends say I am a boy, because they want me angry, want me lose control 8. ___________ myself. Dad and mom will be okay. They always do that.
I was just considering everything to be bad 9. ___________ (previous). Now I know, I just see the glass from one side, not the other. So always look two 10. ___________ (side). The problem will end!
Thanksgiving was drawing near and I was feeling sad about being separated from my family in Indiana. Would I have to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving dinner by 1. ___________ (I)?
That night at Dubya's Restaurant, which was my favorite place to dine, I chatted with Dubya, the 2. ___________ (own) of the restaurant. “It's too bad that this place won't be open 3. ___________ Thanksgiving, or I could just come here.” I said.
“Why not join my family for the holiday?” he said in a warm voice. I knew Dubya and his wife well, but I didn't think we were close enough 4. ___________ (share) Thanksgiving dinner. I was sure he was joking. But Dubya soon handed me a note on which directions to their house and their phone number 5. ___________ (write).
And two days later, I reached Dubya's house. As 6. ___________ (expect), the food was great but the company was even 7. ___________ (good). I truly felt I belonged there.
Of course, I wrote them 8. ___________ thank-you letter the next week, but I couldn't really put into words 9. ___________ that Thanksgiving dinner invitation had meant to me. I've never forgotten their 10. ___________ (kind) and that very special Thanksgiving.
I was nine years old when I learnt to ride a bike. The bike was a birthday present from my uncle. You can imagine how excited I was when I saw the bike, and I 1. ___________ (beg) my uncle to teach me how to ride it right away. However, before I got on the bike, I felt 2. ___________ (extreme) nervous and I was afraid that I would fall off and hurt myself. My uncle held onto the seat and helped me to get on the bike. While I was riding, he was running along beside me, holding the seat 3. ___________ I would not fall over. I was so grateful to him for his help.
As I was practicing, I became more and more confident. Then, I heard my uncle 4. ___________ (shout), “You are riding it by 5. ___________ (you) now!” I was both excited and scared. I was really riding by myself, but what if I fell off? Could I use the brakes 6. ___________ (stop)? As I was wondering about this, my uncle ran after me and got hold of the bike. I slowed down and came to 7. ___________ stop. My heart was still beating fast when I got off the bike. 8. ___________ (late) that day, having learnt how to get on the bike and get off it, I felt like I was walking on air! I am still 9. ___________ (thank) to my uncle for teaching me to ride a bike 10. ___________ my ninth birthday.
For Nigel Portman, a love of travelling began with what's called a “gap year”. In common with many other British teenagers, he chose 1. ___________ (take) a year out before settling down to study for his degree. After doing various 2. ___________ (job) to raise some money, he left home to gain some experience of life in different cultures, visiting America and Asia. The more adventurous a young person, the 3. ___________ (great) challenge they are likely to set 4. ___________ (them) for the gap year, and for some, like Nigel, it can result in a thirst for adventure.
Now that his university course 5. ___________ (come) to an end, Nigel is just about to leave on a three-year trip that will take him right around the world. What's more, he plans to make the whole journey 6. ___________ (use) only means of transport which are powered by natural energy. In other words, he'll be relying 7. ___________ (main) on bicycles and his own legs; and when there's an ocean to cross, he won't be taking a shortcut (捷径) 8. ___________ flying aboard—he'll be joining the crew of a sailing ship, instead.
As well as doing some mountain climbing along 9. ___________ way, Nigel hopes to pass on to the people he meets the environmental message 10. ___________ lies behind the whole idea.
In 1991, Beijing musician Wang Wei went on a tour, when he became fascinated by the shakuhachi, a kind of Japanese bamboo flute (笛子). Later, he found out that the shakuhachi, 1. ___________ was called chi ba in Chinese, was introduced to Japan during the Tang Dynasty (618—907).
2. ___________ (astonish) and ashamed of how he was ignorant of the country's rich musical tradition as a professional musician, Wang started learning and researching on Chinese musical instruments made of bamboo. He has found that among the 90 wind instruments 3. ___________ (identify) by the Chinese Music Dictionary , 47 are made of bamboo.
During the past three 4. ___________ (decade), the talented musician traveled around the country 5. ___________ (find) the finest materials for making bamboo instruments. The small balcony at his home in Beijing has become his studio 6. ___________ instrument making.
He also gathered a group of musicians to form the country's first bamboo orchestra. While 7. ___________ (realize) his expectation, Wang is also proud that the orchestra's birth and 8. ___________ (develop) are also an effort of protecting the environment. Bamboo is among 9. ___________ fastest growing plants on earth, gaining 1.2 meters every day under appropriate conditions. Since 2002, the State Forestry Administration 10. ___________ (try) to replace the use of wood with bamboo to protect the environment.
China launched a large robotic spacecraft early Tuesday morning at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan province, 1. ___________ (task) it with landing on the moon and bringing back lunar samples, 44 years after such extraterrestrial substances (外星物质) 2. ___________ (bring) back to earth the last time.
The 3. ___________ (heavy) and largest in the nation's lunar fleet Chang'e 5 would fly in the trajectory within the next several days and make some correction operations before conducting a key braking maneuver (刹车操作) to avoid 4. ___________ (accident) flying past the moon.
The return capsule of 5. ___________ (China) Chang'e 5 probe touched down on its preset landing site in Siziwang banner of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region at 1:59 am on Thursday, bringing back the country's first samples 6. ___________ (collect) from the moon, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Zhang Kejian, head of CNSA, declared the Chang'e 5 mission a success.
It marked the successful 7. ___________ (conclude) of China's current three-step lunar exploration program of orbiting and landing, and bringing back samples, 8. ___________ began in 2004.
The recovery team would do 9. ___________ initial processing of the capsule and then use a plane to transport it 10. ___________ Beijing, where it would be opened for technicians to remove the container holding lunar samples, then administration said.
I am a movie lover, but I don't want to go out to the movies. The followings are all reasons why I often wait for a movie 1. ___________ (show) up on TV.
First of all, just getting to the theater presents difficulties. Leaving a 2. ___________ (comfort) home isn't an attractive idea on a cold or rainy night. 3. ___________ the weather is fine, there is still a thirty-minute drive to the theater.
Once you have gotten your tickets, you 4. ___________ (face) with the problems of the theater 5. ___________. If you are in one of the older theaters, you must adjust to the musty (发霉的) smell of seldom-cleaned 6. ___________ (carpet). Even though you are sitting in a newer theater, you often have to tolerate the sound of the movie next door.
After arriving home 7. ___________ the movies one night, I decided that I was not going to be a moviegoer anymore. The next day I 8. ___________ (arrange) to have cable TV service installed (安装) in my home. I may now see movies a bit 9. ___________ (late) than other people, but I'll be more relaxed 10. ___________ (watch) box-office hits in the comfort of my own living room.
People often lose their driving license because of driving after drinking. I have always promised 1. ___________ (me) that I will never drive if I have drunk alcohol previously, no matter the quantity.
Still, half a year ago I made this mistake of driving after having drunk two beers at my friend's. Then I drove home. I 2. ___________ (think) that there would be no policeman, because it was very late at night. 3. ___________, to my surprise, I 4. ___________ (stop) and left without my driving license for three months.
Those three months seemed to pass very slowly for me, because I had got into 5. ___________ habit of driving almost daily 6. ___________ I really needed my car quite often. It was, indeed, a punishment for me not 7. ___________ (have) my driving license and I told myself never to repeat this mistake.
Apart from this, being drunk while driving represents a real danger not only to the driver, but also to passers-by. Car 8. ___________ (accident) caused by alcoholism (酗酒) are very frequent nowadays. Teenagers especially use alcohol while 9. ___________ (go) out with friends and then return home driving their cars. They are very irresponsible as they put their lives and health 10. ___________ danger and, therefore, I advise people to avoid drinking alcohol before driving.
Jinesh was around 7 or 8 years old when I first met him. He wore that simple smile; a smile that tried to hide some pain. Everyone 1. ___________ (carry) some load; Jinesh too had one. First time I smiled and said a “Hi” and Jinesh gently responded back. He had just taken a course of chemotherapy (化疗) in a hospital 2. ___________ was preparing to leave for his home town.
A few months later he was again in 3. ___________ hospital. I met him at the restaurant. He was having breakfast. We exchanged phone numbers. I promised I would visit 4. ___________ later and carried on. As I entered his room, he was beaming with a smile and I felt small before his ability 5. ___________ (take) life as it comes. I re-learnt that the most important things in life are not things. He started showing me the drawings and crafts he 6. ___________ (do). I learnt a lesson.
Jinesh came to the hospital again this year 7. ___________ his check up and his blood counts were 8. ___________ (low) than ever. On July 7, 2012 Jinesh breathed last after his battle.
I still find 9. ___________ hard to think that it all happened. And one thing I know for sure: Jinesh is one of the real-life 10. ___________ (hero).
Two weeks before Christmas, two little girls were walking down the street. They stopped 1. ___________ (talk) to Harry, who was on his knees pulling weeds (杂草) from around a tree.
Harry told 2. ___________ he was getting the yard in shape as a Christmas gift for his mother, 3. ___________ had died several years before. His eyes were watery with tears. “My mother 4. ___________ (love) her yard and trees, so I do this for her every Christmas.”
His words touched the girls and soon they were down on their 5. ___________ (knee) helping him pull weeds. When they were finished, Harry pressed a coin into each of their hands.
As they walked on, the coin in one little girl's hand seemed to burn a hole of guilt. The next day she called her friend 6. ___________ they agreed to put their coins in a jar 7. ___________ (mark) “Harry's Christmas Present.” Then they began to seek out small jobs to earn 8. ___________ (much). Every coin they earned went into the jar.
Finally, they had enough to buy new gloves and presented the gloves to Harry. With 9. ___________ (tremble) hands he held the gloves and wept. No doubt he once again felt the love of others as the girls reached out 10. ___________ him.
It took three evenings for 21-year-old college student Chen Xing 1. ___________ (make) a delicate red Chinese Knot (中国结) as a special gift 2. ___________ her mother's 50th birthday, which fell during the Spring Festival. Wang, a Chinese Knot lover, hangs 3. ___________ new one in her house every Spring Festival.
“It's an auspicious (吉利的) symbol for a new year,” Wang explained.
As a traditional craft 4. ___________ dates from at least 1,000 years, the Chinese Knot 5. ___________ (start) to gain wide popularity in urban areas in recent years. Like Christmas trees in the West, the Chinese Knot is the most favoured for most Chinese families during the Lunar New Year 6. ___________ (celebrate). Almost every shopping mall in Beijing has a special counter to sell Chinese Knots of 7. ___________ (variety) sizes, shapes and colours. The two largest Chinese Knots for 2004 were on display at the Zhejiang Exhibition Hall in Hangzhou. It 8. ___________ (take) about 30 craft people from across the country a full month to complete the knots. 9. ___________ (how) different the knots are, the messages the ancient craft delivers are similar, offering blessings of happiness, prosperity (繁荣), love 10. ___________ good luck.
Li Ziqi was born in 1990, a vlogger 1. ___________ enjoys a fan base of more than 21 million people on Sina Weibo and 7 million strong followers on YouTube. She 2. ___________ (make) a name for herself in her videos that highlight a traditional Chinese way of life in the rural areas of Sichuan province in recent years. Her videos cover 3. ___________ wide variety of crafts 4. ___________ (relate) to traditional Chinese culture. From making paper and ink to 5. ___________ (weave) cloth, nothing seems impossible with Li's crafty hands as they work their magic to bring these things into existence.
But Li's most eye-catching, and mouth-watering craft is cooking. Scenes of her picking seasonal ingredients from her own garden and sometimes in the mountains nearby and turning them 6. ___________ inviting dishes on her wood-fired wok can often 7. ___________ (see) in her videos. Li emphasizes the seasons in her cooking, as China's 8. ___________ (tradition) 24 Solar Terms also do, and makes food suitable for the particular climate.
All this is done against a natural background of the four seasons beautiful enough to be featured in films.
Watching her videos, it is difficult not 9. ___________ (appreciate) their beauty and hold back that sense of nostalgia and longing for home. But it is even 10. ___________ (hard) to resist the temptation to take a bite of her carefully cooked dishes.
Whenever anyone asks me where my favorite place in China is, I say Dali without hesitation. Dali, 1. ___________ (surround) by mountains for hiking and lakes for bicycling around, is the kind of place that everyone likes.
Last year I met a couple of young students I'd known 2. ___________ I travelled to Dali, and we agreed 3. ___________ (cycle) along the lake in a small town outside of Dali. The lake 4. ___________ (it) was pretty easy to cycle around, 5. ___________ flat paths passing through a lot of little villages. While cycling, a woman recommended an hour-long boat ride for about 40 RMB each—a bit expensive but 6. ___________ adventure we felt like having, so we paid for it.
In about 20 minutes we witnessed in 7. ___________ (excite) how a fisherman fished with his fishing birds. A string was tied around each bird's neck so that when it dived for fish, it was unable to swallow them. The birds 8. ___________ (give) a fish as payment for their service after the fisherman had a satisfactory catch. I'd 9. ___________ (previous) read about this fishing method, but it was pretty exciting to see first-hand.
The day finished with a brilliant sunset, 10. ___________ I climbed onto a roof to get a photo of.
In ancient times, a king had a huge stone placed on a roadway. He then 1. ___________ (hide) himself and watched 2. ___________ (see) if anyone would move the stone out of the way. Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers (侍臣) came by and 3. ___________ (simple) walked around it.
Many people loudly blamed the king 4. ___________ not keeping the roads clear, 5. ___________ none of them did anything about getting the stone out of the way.
A peasant then came along 6. ___________ (carry) a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the stone, 7. ___________ peasant laid down his burden and tried to push the stone out of the road. After much pushing and struggling, he was finally 8. ___________ (succeed).
After the peasant went back to pick up 9. ___________ (he) vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the stone had been. The purse contained many gold 10. ___________ (coin) and a note from the king explaining that the gold was for the person who removed the stone from the roadway.
Kobe Bryant is a famous basketball player. His talent can 1. ___________ (see) not only on the court, but also in his writing. 2. ___________ (he) book The Wizenard Series: Training Camp came out in March.
The story is 3. ___________ the West Bottom Badgers, a youth basketball team. It's made up of five books, with each 4. ___________ (focus) on the story of one character: Rain, Twig, Cash, Peno and Lab. All of the kids on this team come from a poor neighborhood. No one 5. ___________ (have) faith in the kids to succeed, 6. ___________ things change after a new coach joins the team.
After reading the book, we got to interview Bryant. He said he didn't think he was going to be an author, but that he often tells stories to his daughters. This is one of the 7. ___________ (reason) he wrote his own book. The book is based on parts of Bryant's real-life experience, 8. ___________ (especial) when he played for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Bryant had two different jersey numbers—8 and 24—during his career. 9. ___________ number 24 means you need to work hard 24 hours a day 10. ___________ (succeed).
Our final thoughts on Bryant—he is cool and very funny.
Li Hang had an experience that lit up his life. The PhD graduate from Wuhan University saw the light in the South Pole, the aurora australis (南极光). “I was amazed. It seemed to move like a swimming whale. But it comforted me 1. ___________ (emotion), relieving my 2. ___________ (lonely) and dullness. I thought it was a gift from heaven.” He photographed the natural phenomenon. Colorful lights 3. ___________ (produce) when the outer sphere of the atmosphere is disturbed by solar wind. He has more than 100,000 photos of the scenes 4. ___________ he witnessed during the approximately 500 days he spent at the bottom of the world.
Li was not 5. ___________ a pleasure trip. He was working hard as part of China's 31st and 32nd polar expeditions to the South Pole. In his spare time, Li took pictures to pass the time. “6. ___________ (stand) under the aurora, I was shocked by the power of nature. We left our motherland and family, 7. ___________ we could see amazing views. The scene touched my heart deeply and only seeing it with your own eyes can make you feel the same way.”
According to Li, his experience in the South Pole enabled him 8. ___________ (feel) nature. “When you see the stars and auroras in the night sky, you have a feeling that the universe 9. ___________ (talk) to you. The South Pole shaped me and it has become more than the name of a place for me. It is a 10. ___________ (distance) home.”