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William Caxton was born in 1422 in England. He is the first English printer and plays an important part    1    English literature.

Caxton learned how to do business at    2    age of 16 in London. Later, he moved to Bruges, Belgium, an important centre in the trade of paintings and manuscripts (手稿).     3     (actual), in Bruges, he became a     4     (success) and important member of the business community. And Caxton’s interests were also turning to literature during that time.

Although the    5     (invent) of printing with movable type had appeared in the 11th-century China, in Europe the technology was not developed until the mid-15th century. The first book that was produced with moveable type    6     (print) in the 1450s in Mainz, Germany, but Caxton had realized the need for English literature was greater. So, in the early 1470s, Caxton decided     7     (spend) some time in Cologne, Germany learning the art of printing. Toward the end of 1476 he returned to England and set up his company at Westminster. From then on he spent most of his time writing and printing.

The English language was changing fast in Caxton’s time and the works    8    were given to him to print were in different    9     (style). Caxton has won praise for     10     (make) the English language have one particular type through printing.

【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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 other.

Elon Musk Tweets an Ancient Chinese Poem. Here’s What It Means.

The world’s richest man caught up in Twitter spats (小争吵), now wants some peace. In a Monday tweet, Elon Musk wrote “humankined,” followed by the Chinese poem The Quatrain of Seven Steps, a widely known classical poem used     1    (describe) infighting between closely-related people. Here is the poem     2    (translate) into English by Moss Roberts:

Beans a simmer on a beanstalk flame

From inside the pot expressed their ire:

“Alive we sprouted on a single root — What’s your rush to cook us on the fire?”

The verses were attributed to Cao Zhi, the son of famous warlord Cao Cao,     3     lived between 192 and 232 during the Three Kingdoms period. What exactly happened in history is contested. But the popular tale goes     4     after Cao Cao’s death, his oldest son Cao Pi succeeded him to become an emperor. Cao Pi was jealous of his younger brother Cao Zhi’s literary talent and wanted to find an excuse to kill him. One day, Cao Pi ordered Cao Zhi to make a poem about their fraternal (兄弟间的) relationship within seven paces, and swore to have the younger brother executed     5     he failed.

Cao Zhi then made the bean-themed verses     6     the spot, alluding (影射) to Cao Pi’s cruel attempt to murder his own sibling.     7    (feel) ashamed, Cao Pi eventually let Cao Zhi go.

In China, the poem is taught to primary school students and is often quoted by people to describe unnecessary rivalries. Interest users, including people in China, are confused over what Musk     8    (refer) to. Musk later liked a reply to his post that translated the verses as “Humans are from the same ancestor, why are we so eager to destroy each other?” He     9     be talking bout a recent argument with the United Nations’ World Food Program. After the program’s director David Beaslety challenged the ultra-rich to provide $6 billion to help 42 million people, Musk over the weekend said he would sell his Tesla shares if the program could show on Twitter exactly     10     $6 billion could solve world hunger. Beasley invited Musk to talk, but Musk demanded open books (一目了然的事物) from the organization.