One day in 1998, I went to visit my 90­year­old grandma in a nursing home. She had lived there for 15 years. But it was becoming a little bit sad, partly because the place was full of people who     1    (be) at the last stage of their life. What’s     2    (bad), it was taking her longer and longer     3    (recognize) me.

She was really excited that day because they were having a dance party. I was not a big fan of dancing,     4     I was a big fan of Grandma, so I accepted her     5    (invite). During the party, an old lady     6    (sit) next to me chatted with me, saying how much she loved music and dancing. Not knowing     7     to say, I stood up and invited her for a dance.

I danced with all the ladies,     8    (particular) with Grandma, which was awesome. However, I felt discomfort throughout     9     party. I didn’t know the reason at that moment. But now, I realize it was my fear of watching Grandma grow older, my powerlessness to do anything about it and the thought of losing     10    (she) that made me uncomfortable.

URUMQI-As morning sunlight shines brightly over the snowy mountain, Daliu, an experienced ski     1     (instruct), gets his equipment and sets     2     for work.

Nanshan Mountain in Urumqi is extraordinarily beautiful     3     it has several popular pistes (滑雪道), attracting crowds of tourists across the country every year. Looking up from the valley, we can see the pistes     4     (neat) lay on the long slope and skiers     5     (slide) fast down, their figure floating like a feather on the snowy mountain.

Located in the     6     (gold) latitudes (纬度) of ice and snow, Xinjiang is rich in ice-and-snow resources. There are more than 18,600 large and small glaciers (冰川) covering over 24,000 square kilometers,     7     account for 42 percent of the glacier area in China. The region has become an     8     (intend) destination for ice-and-snow sports, due to a large amount of thick powder snow, a good climate, low wind speeds, bright sunshine and high mountains with moderate slopes.

The boom in ice-and-snow tourism is bringing more business opportunities to local equipment factories. Dozens of machines in the factory of Xinjiang Huatong Taike Play Equipment Co     9     (run) day and night     10     (produce) a range of skiing equipment.

Soccer, or better known to the rest of the world     1     football, is one of the     2    (old) sports in history. Dating back to 206 B.C., there are accounts of Chinese     3    (soldier) who played Tsu’ chu, “kicking the ball”, during the Han Dynasty. While many other ancient cultures played games involving a ball, Tsu’ chu was the first to not allow hands. The goal was a net     4    (attach) to two bamboo poles and elevated 30 feet in the air. This is quite the contrast to modern goals     5     sit on the ground and extend 8 feet high and 24 feet wide.

During the medieval period in Europe,     6    (particular) in England, games called Folkball were played in towns.     7    (score) a point, the players had to place the ball into an designated area, usually the captain’s house. This would often involve a     8    (distant) of a few miles between scoring destinations. Without any set rules the game would cause much trouble throughout the towns in which it was held, leading to its ban in     9     14th century.

In 1863, official rules for football     10    (draw) up to create an organized game in England. These rules formally differentiated between rugby football and association football. Therefore, modern football was born.