Thando Gowon，a 16­year­old Grade 10 student at South Hill High School，comes from South Africa. He is good­looking,thinks fast,and    1    (play) hard.While     2    (study),he always holds a book or a pen.Apart from being in class，he will be either in the library     3     in the computer lab.At the weekends,he     4     (usual) plays computer games if he is not busy studying.His dream is     5     (set) up his own IT company. .

I won’t call myself the most accomplished person when it comes to     1     (hold) chopsticks. In fact, I’m pretty sure that my technique looks clumsy at times. I tend to hold     2     (I) in the middle, more like beginner than expert.

Still, since I eat almost every meal with the eating utensil (器皿) of choice in China, it’s not uncommon for a new friend or acquaintance to come to a simple     3     (conclude) after observing me that my Chinese husband, Jun, must have shown me     4     to use them before.

They are wrong. I’ve used chopsticks ever since I was a teenager, a time when my sister and mother were both fond of Chinese cuisine and introduced me     5     many new dishes, along with the     6     (prefer) utensils in China. We always kept bamboo chopsticks along with our     7     (knife), forks and spoons, ready for whenever we happened to have Chinese food for dinner. It was my closest family     8     observed my first mistakes I made in using chopsticks.

Plus, I lived over two years in China before Jun and I started dating and I     9     (expect) to use chopsticks in almost every restaurant, stand and bar. Trust me, when you’re hungry you figure out pretty fast what it takes to down (咽下)     10     meal with these utensils.

Harry is an American businessman. His job     1     (require) him to do a lot of traveling In the past six months he has made nine trips,     2     purpose is to attend meetings and make presentations. Harry loves to travel and feels each country has a charm of its own. After graduation, Harry decided to make travel part of his career. He wanted to experience different cultures of other     3     (country). He was dreaming of working for an international company. Then his dream came true.

Carry is a fellow student of mine. He suffers from cerebral palsy（ 大脑性麻痹）， which makes it almost impossible for him to control his movements. As a result, he spends his life in a wheelchair and cannot write     1     means of a pen or pencil. And he speaks so slowly and strangely     2    it takes patience to understand what he is saying. This, together with his thin, twisted body and awkward    3     (face) expressions, can often cause people to treat him as if he were a backward child.

However, behind his physical     4     (appear), Carry is a warm, fun-loving, intelligent person. His muscles     5     (affect), not his mind or personality. He enjoys the same thing any student does---    6    (listen) to music, meeting friends and so on---and he not is the best student in our class, but also has    7     excellent sense of humour and a genuine interest in other people. Unable to express himself     8     (easy) in conversation, he uses a special typewriter to write letters to his friends, and beautiful     9     (poem). He lives a very regular life, studying every day and never allowing     10     (he) to fall behind in his schoolwork.

For forty years Jane Goodall has been outspoken about    1    ( make) the rest of the world under-tand and respect the life of these animals. She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for    2    (entertain) or advertisements. She has helped to set up special places    3    they can live safely.

Today I went to eat at a local restaurant. The table I was supposed     1     (sit) at had two old ladies seated next to it. One of them took     2     look at my dog, Tara, and said, “sorry, I’m allergic to dogs.”     3     (hear) it. I politely apologized     4     her immediately. Then I moved to another table.

It was just after moving to another table     5     I met a mother and her 27-year-old son who moved to Phoenix two years ago. I started talking to the guy because I noticed he had a pretty big hearing aid. I know     6     (exact) what he was going through because I was wearing one, too. Apart from it, I also had Tara, my hearing dog. Tara     7     (give) to me free of charge by Canine Companions for Independence eight years ago. With the help of Tara, my life became much     8     (easy). After I talked with them about the     9     (benefit) of a hearing dog nonstop for 15 minutes, the guy showed a lot of interest in it.

The universe works perfectly. By moving to another table, I came across the guy,     10     had the same hearing problem. I do believe our conversation can change this young man’s life forever. Pretty cool.