My fiancé (未婚夫) and I were engaged in December 2019 and     1     (plan) to get married within six months. Well, in March 2020, my fiance was laid off due to COVID. Now we were down to one income,    2     (face) the fear of a virus that was taking the world by storm. Our elderly parents were in isolation, and some of our family     3     (force) to deal with the fear and uncertainty as they were considered     4     (be) “essential workers.” We made     5     decision to be the hope and hands and feet of Jesus during the toughest times that we all have faced. We posted on our social media page that we wanted to provide a meal     6     first responders and essential workers, and our friends could join us by volunteering or making donations. We were flooded with people     7     were feeling helpless and wanted to do something     8     were not sure what to do. Together, we were able to make a big difference! So many areas of life being     9     (positive) affected! Fast forward a year later, and that effort and act of     10     (kind) opened the door for us to open a restaurant!

Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea examines     1     (man) place in the world while exploring his need     2     survival.

Hemingway has much to say in The Old Man and the Sea. One of the more common themes is man vs nature, which is a main idea that     3     (specific) challenges humanity against the natural world. True to this, Santiago faces several challenges from nature, the     4     (obvious) being his battle with the giant fish. Their struggle lasts two days, before Santiago kills the fish. So, what does this struggle tell us? As for Santiago, this struggle presents the main character to     5     we should show respect.

Understanding this theme in The Old Man and the Sea helps explain why the novel is     6     classic. The importance of being determined and never giving up helps define the type of people we are. Man is always going to be faced with     7     (challenge) from nature and     8     he faces these challenges, and what type of action he takes, are areas of thought that attract readers and stay with them long after they have read the novel. These types of questions will always be important. Being capable of     9     (stand) the test of time is part of why this novel     10     (assume) as a classic.

In 1866, a terrible sea creature       1    (see) by several ships. Biologist Professor and his servant began to follow and tried to kill it,     2     at last it was found     3     submarine and they       4    (capture), taken inside it because of its secret at that time,     5     they found adventures in the new underwater world, but Ned Land tried to escape. The part is     6    (adapt) from a chapter of the book; Aronnax describes the experience of     7     (walk)on the sea bed.  

They saw many things outside the submarine    8     (be) beautiful, so words are not enough to relate such wonders! The surface of the ocean     9     (astonish) him. The solar rays are pretty. Surrounded by the sea, he felt it was another air     10     (heavy) than the Earth’s atmosphere. Above him was the calm surface of the sea. He could see as if he was in broad daylight.

Dream of the Red Chamber, written by Cao Xueqin, is one of China's four great classical novels. Long    1    (consider) a masterpiece of Chinese literature, the novel is generally acknowledged to be the peak(顶峰) of Chinese fiction.

The writer shows deep sympathy for the victims    2    feudal oppression(封建压迫). At the same time, he mercilessly exposes the true nature of the oppressors. The Jia family is a mirror     3    reflects feudal society's becoming rotten and going downhill.

The content and meaning of the novel are     4    rich and deep that a special kind of learning called"Red Studies" started    5     (short) after the novel was published, and has continued to this day, Various theories have been put forward about the, author's' family and friends, his reason for     6    (write)the novel and the true meaning of the novel. Many details of the story have been explained in     7    (differ)ways by scholars.

The novel has been translated into several other    8     (language)Perhaps no other novel, Chinese or foreign,     9     (enjoy) and discussed by so many people for so long. This fact proves the     10    (great) of the novel and the unique position it has in the long history of Chinese literature.