While driving 80 miles per hour along the road on Wednesday, I knew I was going too fast. My dog, Jett, was dying in the backseat. I thought to myself, “Jett must be suffering a lot now.” Though he had had a couple of     1     (fault) , I enjoyed accompanying him and saw him     2     our family member.

About half an hour earlier, I received a call from my daughter. A ball got stuck in Jett’s throat. My instant reaction was that I shouldn’t hesitate     3     (set) out to race home to see if I could help, but I couldn’t. So my daughter and I began our race to the vet’s (兽医诊所) .

About halfway there, we got caught in the traffic jams due to the construction. There I met with Cavaja Holt and his workmates. I told them what had happened to my dog. Holt stuck his hand down the dog’s throat and pulled out the ball, but Jett still wasn’t breathing.

And the guy behind Holt shouted out, “Breathe into his mouth!” Amazingly, it worked     4     (effective) ! After the dog might be saved, I continued my trip to the vet’s to make sure Jett was OK. The staff there checked the dog over and said, “     5     (save) timely, Jett is in good health now.” Then I took     6     deep breath.”

I thought I ought to     7     (show) my gratitude to the man. My daughter posted the story on the Internet, asking to locate him. The story was an     8     (inspire) for the society. Meanwhile, Holt posted the story too, hoping to find out how the dog was doing. Within minutes, someone     9     (contact) the two and they got in touch with each other. On Thursday morning, I drove back to the construction site     10     Holt and his colleagues worked and thanked Holt in person.

On a particular sunny day, little Mykel was determined to learn to ride his bike without the help of training wheels. When the neighborhood kids     1     (spot) Mykel shakily controlling his bike, they raced over     2     (help). Some held the bike steady while others offered encouragement. Mykel was not alone as he tried to reach his goal of learning to ride his bike! Some things are     3     (easy) said than done. However, with a little help from friends, things go better!

Jianbing is one of China’s most popular street breakfasts.    1    Chinese dumplings have spread well beyond the country’s borders, Jianbing might be China’s best-kept culinary secret. Every neighborhood has its own Jianbing vendor(摊贩) serving breakfast from dawn through mid-morning, satisfying hungry    2    (local) on their way to work.

Contrary    3    what you might think, Jianbing is no grab-and-go street breakfast.    4    (preserve)the crispness(酥脆) of the pancake, Jianbing is never cooked ahead of time, so waiting in a line is part of the culture. But     5    (basic), Jianbing is a breakfast worth waiting for.

Jianbing has a longer history than almost any other Chinese street food. Thought to have originated in Shandong Province during the Three Kingdoms Period, military strategist Zhuge Liang had his soldiers cook food on shields(盾)    6    (hold) over the fire.

Of course, if Jianbing were that easy to make, it would have taken the world by storm long before now. Part of     7    challenge in copying the dish is that the recipe for a Jianbing differs by region, and even by vendor. Many consider it     8    (possible) to make your own Jianbing without months of practice and tuition from a master. Yet a few committed foreigners have made it, who     9    (inspire) to bring Jianbing to a hungry audience after their first taste in China back in the 1980s. In the UK, twins Melissa and Oliver Fu, owners of Mei Mei’s Street Cart are bringing the joys of jianbing first to London and now Manchester despite all the difficulty they have in    10    (perfect) their technique.

Century eggs, known as pidan in China, are a well-known food. The key    1    their popularity lies in their flavor (风味). To boost the deep flavour even further, they’re usually made from duck eggs.

The    2    (old) known record of people making century eggs comes from the Ming Dynasty, most likely originating in Hunan Province,    3    (rough) 500 years ago. The traditional curing process, still used by some modern factories,    4    (be) to create a mixture of black tea, lime, salt, and wood ash. This makes a thick paste (糊) in    5    fresh eggs are wrapped and left for around five months. The    6    (coat) eggs are then wrapped in rice husk (稻壳) before    7    (sell) in markets. On sale, they have a coating around a quarter-inch thick, giving them an         8    (appear) a little like preserved dinosaur eggs. It’s easy to see how they earned their English name, though the Chinese name of pidan just translates as “preserved egg”.

Like many other foods in the world, this unusual approach    9    (create) as a way to preserve food in the days before household refrigerators. The result is that century eggs have an extremely long shelf life though they probably won’t last for    10    actual century.