Newspapers printed stories that said it was easy     1    (become) rich. All you had to do was pick up the gold from the ground. Books and magazines told how to travel to the area and the best method of finding gold.     2    , most of the information was false. It was not easy to find gold. It was     3    (extreme) hard to work under very difficult condition. The American    4    (write) Jack was among the gold seekers. He became famous     5    writing about his experiences in Alaska Canada. He wrote a short story     6    (call) “The White Silence”, which perhaps best explains the terrible conditions of gold seekers(淘金者).

In the story, Jack explained how the extreme cold made the world seem     7    (die). It causes strange thoughts. He said the cold and silence of this frozen world     8    (seem) to increase a man’s fear of death. This cruel cold could make a man afraid of his own voice.

The story also told what could happen to a person who had an accident. There     9    (be) not many doctors in the gold fields. A seriously injured person could only expect to die. Jack’s many stories truthfully explained just     10     hard it was to be a gold seeker in eighteen ninety-seven.

The best friendship to be described in Chinese literature is    1    (probable) the one between Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi. Yu was a famous master (大师) of music     2    played the qin well. Once, he took a boat trip to the state of Chu. Inspired by the beautiful view along the way, Yu took out his qin and    3    (begin) to play. After a while, he noticed a woodsman (樵夫)    4    (enjoy) his music quietly. The man was Zhong Ziqi. When Yu played music that described high mountains, Zhong said: “How wonderful it is! I seem to see Taishan Mountain.” And when he played music that described flowing water, Zhong said: “How wonderful it is! I seem to see the rushing river.” Yu was surprised by the woodsman’s     5    (word) because the man could really understand    6    （he）music. When Zhong died the following year, Yu was     7    upset that he took out his qin to play the music of the “high mountains and flowing water” one last time for Zhong. When he was done, he broke his qin     8    purpose so he could never play it again.

Now,    9    phrase “high mountains and flowing water”    10     (use) to stand for the true friendship.

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Any bird that crossed his path would be eaten by Rex, a German shepherd. Rex    1    (rescue) from his previous shelter, where he was going to be put down after a biting incident. Last year, he    2    (eventual) arrived at Puriton Horse and Animal Rescue.

Geraldine was a goose abandoned by owners who could no longer put up     3     her. She wasn’t exactly the picture of     4    (warm), either, when she arrived at the same shelter three months ago. The dog and the goose were individually given labels like cruel and dangerous. Neither seemed particularly harmonious with humans or even members of their own species.

But when the two     5    (annoy) creatures were offered a chance to hang out together, something magical happened. They chased each other when first     6    (introduce), but Geraldine stood up for herself and that was that. They just fell in love with each other.

“I’ve been doing rescue work since 1997 and seen all     7    (kind) of strange animal behavior, but I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Sheila Brislin,     8    is the founder of the shelter. “It’s so amusing to see them because they love each other to bits. They are very affectionate. She just    9     (run) around alongside him all day long and whenever we take him for     10    walk in the woods she has to come, too.”