Snakes are just about the most frightening thing in the world, according to Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr. The only thing     1     (bad) than a snake you can see is a snake you can’t see, however. And thanks     2     the photos Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers offer, you can experience the latter horror from the comfort of almost anywhere else besides the place     3     that snake is.

The snake-like animals’ removal(移动) and relocation     4     (serve) from Queensland, Australia posted a challenge to its 51,000 some-odd fans     5     (find) the snake in the photo.

Any luck? The photo shows that this particular backyard seems like     6     regular ＂I Spy＂ book for snakes, so it’s understandable if they are still looking hard. The snake is actually in the top right corner,     7     (hide) in the crook(藤条) between the two fences.

Fear of snakes     8     (call) ＂Ophidiophobia＂(蛇恐怖症) or ＂being a rational person＂. People are afraid of a lot of odd things, though.

This fun little puzzle proves to just be further evidence that Australia is a     9     (terrible) dangerous place where everything     10    (try) to eat you. We’ll just stick to trying to find turtles in flowers, thank you very much.

Feeling Left-out

After graduating from Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute ,Chen Liang     1    (success) passed his TOEFL Test and got a scholarship from a university in Boston for     2    MA programme. Soon after the programme     3     (begin) he made friends with some of the American students     4     (study) for the same course. One day after class, his American friend, Dick, asked him to go to the university cafeteria and Chen Liang was glad to go with him. On their way they happened     5     (run) across Dick's girlfriend, Lisa.    6    was on her way to a lecture. Dick and Lisa walked shoulder to shoulder and talked a lot as if they hadn't seen each other for ages. Meanwhile, Chen Liang     7     (walk)behind them,    8    (obvious) left out in the cold. When they were near the cafeteria Lisa said that she had to go to the lecture, so Dick embraced her and gave her a long kiss. Seeing that, Chen Liang turned away and then walked off towards the cafeteria. When Dick looked up, he saw Chen Liang walking into the cafeteria. Dick was     9     (puzzle), shrugged his shoulders and didn't know     10    Chen Liang didn't wait for him and went to the cafeteria alone.

【推荐3】Have you ever been to the world's     1    (small) bookstore?

The World's Smallest Bookstore,     2    official name is just these three words,     3    (sit) quietly about 100 miles northeast of Toronto.

The bookstore is about 10 feet by 10 feet, so it is easy    4    (imagine) how tiny it really is. The bookstore is open 24 hours     5    day. Inside the bookstore     6    (be) various books, especially literary books and classic author's     7    (work). So if you are looking for something less popular,you may get a bit disappointed there.

Another special feature of this bookstore is     8     each book only costs three dollars. All the expenses are paid on the honor system, which means buyers should make a note of what they’ve bought and leave their money by     9    (them). So the     10    (tool) of the trade in this bookstore are quite simple: pens, paper, light bulbs and a label-maker.

In order to catch passers-by’s attention,the billboards(广告牌) of the bookstore are several times bigger than the store itself. With these large eye-catchers,many people are willing to stop by and have a visit.

【推荐1】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Today the Statue of Liberty is a beloved landmark. It     1    (tower) above of the harbor of New York and is lovingly cared for by the National Park Service. Many thousands of visitors who visit Liberty Island each year might never suspect that getting the statue     2    (build) was a long slow struggle. More than a century ago, it     3    (be) the celebration of freedom and the commemoration of the friendship between America and France that inspired sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and finally he went forward with designing the potential statue and promoting the idea of building it. However, money was so big a problem     4    was haunting the two governments from the beginning to the end.

Donations for the building of the statue first began coming in throughout France in 1875.Numerous people gave donations. A copper company donated the copper sheets that would be used to fashion the skin of the statue. Various donations were helpful,     5     the cost of the statue kept riding.     6    (face) with a short fall of money, the French-American Union held a lottery. Merchants in Paris donated prizes, and tickets were sold. The lottery was a success, but more money was still needed. The sculptor Bartholdi eventually sold miniature versions of the statue,     7     the name of the buyer engraved on them.Finally, in July 1880 the French-American Union announced that enough money had been raised to complete the building of the statue.

While the French had announced that the funds for the statues were in place in 1880, by late 1882 the American donations, which would be needed to build the pedestal, were sadly lagging. The sculptor Bartholdi had travelled to America in 1871 top romote the idea of the statue. Despite Bartholdi’s efforts, the idea of the statue was difficult     8    (sell). some newspapers, most notably the New York Times, often criticized the statue as folly, and vehemently opposed     9    (spend) any money on it. The newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased a New York City daily, The World, in the early1880s, took us the cause of the statue’s pedestal. He mounted an energetic fund drive, promising to print the name of each donor,     10     small the donation, Pulitzer’s audacious plan worked, and millions of people around the country began donating whatever they could.

In August1885, that final $100,000 for the statue;s pedestal had been raised.Construction work on the stone structure continued, and the next year the Statue of Liberty, which had arrived from France packed in crated, was erectedon top.

A reporter from Jiangsu Province went to Australia and some other countries with his father for a 3-month trip,     1     turned out to be a miracle (奇迹).

The reporter’s father spent most of his life    2     (work) on the farm. The son started these    3     (amaze) trips with his father because the father got cancer-----a serious    4     (ill). The reporter wanted    5     (take) his father to travel in the hope that his father can find his younger self in his last days. They    6     (travel) more than 13,000 kilometers and took over 110,000    7     (picture) on their trips to different countries. Well, a miracle happened during the “rebirth” trips.     8     their surprise, his father got    9     (good) and became more open-hearted.

He even taught himself to play    10     violin, and then he played it very well after practice. After that miracle trip, now he is expecting another trip to Africa. He is the most stylish dad ever. Time carves (雕刻) the old father’s face but youth flows in his blood. This is the real style.