There is     1     lovely panda. She lives with her parents and they lead a happy life in the forest. One day the panda     2     (pick) a huge pumpkin and wanted to take it home. But the pumpkin was too big for her     3     (take) it home on her own. She could do nothing but sit beside the pumpkin. She thought     4     if she waited there, she might turn to a passer­by for help.

Suddenly, she saw a bear     5     (ride) a bike towards her. She watched the bike and suddenly, she jumped and shouted     6     (happy), “I know! I have a good idea—I can roll (滚动) the pumpkin. It’s just like a wheel!” Therefore, she rolled the pumpkin to     7     (she)   house. When her mother saw the big pumpkin, which was     8     (big) than her little daughter, she was     9     (surprise), “Oh, my God! How can you get it home?” The little panda answered proudly, “I can’t lift it, but I can roll it.” Her mother smiled and said, “    10     a clever girl you are!”

Shijing, also The Book of Songs or Shih Ching, is the     1     (early) collection of Chinese poetry. It     2     (make) up of 311 poems dating from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle stage of the Spring and Autumn Period. Nowadays, Confucius is generally believed to be the     3     (edit) of the book.

Shijing is rich in content,     4     (describe) love and labour, war and slavery, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and special events. It is called a mirror of social life.

Poems included in Shijing fall into three sections-poems that come from villages belong to Feng; those written to persuade or praise the rulers belong to Ya; those used at religious     5     (ceremony) belong to Song. Ya and Song are flowery and serious in language.     6    , Feng is relatively inspiring and full of passion.

The opening poem of Shijing, “Cooing and Wooing” (《关雌》), is about love,     7     reads:

By riverside are cooing, a pair of turtledoves;

A good young man is wooing, a fair maiden he loves.

It is vivid that the man is longing     8     (win) over the girl.

Shijing enables people to have a better understanding of Chinese civilization and is also     9     beginning of ancient Chinese poetry. Additionally, it is also frequently quoted in other Chinese texts and has always been referred to     10     moral truth and lessons.

3 . Mark Twain, born in Florida     1     November 30th, 1835,     2    (bring) up in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River. He is best known for his     3    (novel) set in his boyhood world on the river, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. So much     4     he love the river that even his pen name was about the river. The phrase “mark twain” means that the water is two fathoms in     5    (deep). The play in this unit is adapted from The Million Pound Bank Note     6    (write) by Mark Twin. It was the summer of 1903,     7    two wealthy brothers made a bet. One of them doubted     8     a man could survive a month in London with a million pound bank note. At this moment, they saw a penniless man     9    (wander)on the pavement. It was Henry,     10     American businessman, who was lost in London.