Our world has seen     1     increasing number of students pressuring their parents into buying luxuries (奢侈品) just to look good before their peers. Problem is     2     is to blame, parents, students or society? Now, some schools have taken action.

To avoid     3     (show) off superiority among wealthy students, Woodchurch High School in northwestern England has recently made an     4     (announce) to refuse quality designer coats, including Canada Goose, often worth hundreds of dollars. Such coats make poor students feel bad since these items lead to inequality. “They feel left out and inadequate,”     5     (say) The Independent in its last issue.

The ban has aroused nationwide debate. Some argue that we shouldn’t take away parents’ right to buy anything     6     (value) they like for their kids. However, most parents applaud, believing it decreases their worries on lower incomes.

Just as Libby Purves, a UK reporter, put it, how you feel at school largely affects your whole life. Columnist Michelle Singletary wrote on The Washington Post that now comes the     7     (big) chance so far to teach students     8     (understand) clothing in fact measures nothing.

Not just this. In May St. Wilfrid’s Primary School banned students     9     using designer pencils in case poor students would feel     10     (look) down upon.

【推荐2】Nowadays, we can find advertisements almost wherever we go. We are so used to them       1     we often do not even realize how many we see and hear in     2    day. An advertisement uses words and pictures     3    (persuade) people to buy a product or service, or to believe     4     an idea. There are two main types of advertisements—commercial advertisements     5    public service advertisements (PSAs). A commercial advertisement is     6    someone has paid for to advertise a product or service. PSAs are often run for free, and     7     (mean) to educate people about health,     8     (safe), or any other problem that affects public welfare. When     9    comes to advertisements, we must all use our     10    (intelligent) and not be a slave to them.

Two rare volumes of an ancient Chinese encyclopedia sold for more than €8 million ($9 million) at auction Tuesday, more than 1,000 times the     1     (estimate) price. The encyclopedia, known as the Yongle Dadian, was    2     (original) commissioned by the Yongle Emperor, the third ruler of the Ming Dynasty, who reigned (统治) from 1402 to 1424. More than 2,000 scholars worked     3     the encyclopedia between 1404 and 1408, according to a press release from Beaussant Lefèvre, the Paris-based auction house that made the sale.

The Yongle Dadian is the largest encyclopedia in the world, and originally consisted of 22,877     4     (chapter). In 1562, the Jiajing Emperor, the 11th Ming ruler,     5     (order) two copies of the encyclopedia to be made, but the original     6     (lose) due to the many wars, thefts and fires that occurred under the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the auction house said.     7     the two volumes sold Tuesday are copies, they are extremely rare, with only 400 known volumes, or 4% of the original encyclopedia, left in     8     (exist),   according to Beaussant Lefèvre.

The books,     9    measure 20 inches by 12 inches, were written in red and black ink on paper. While     10     (print) techniques had been developed at the time, the encyclopedia was written by hand due to its length.

Visitors to Britain are sometimes surprised to learn that newspapers there have such a large circulation(发行量), of     1    the “Daily Mirror” and the “Daily Express” sell about four million copies every day. British families     2     (general) buy a newspaper every morning and two or three on Sundays.

Besides the     3     (nation) papers, there is, however, another branch of the British press which     4     (sell) almost as many copies. Local newspapers have     5     weekly circulation of 13 million. Almost every town and country area has one. Nearly all of them hold their own financially     6     many of them are very profitable (赚钱的).

These papers are written almost entirely for readers     7     (interest) in local events — births, weddings, deaths, council (地方议会) meetings and sports.    8     (edit) prefer to depend on people     9     know the district well. A great deal of local news is regularly supplied     10     clubs and churches in the neighbourhood and it does not get out of date as quickly as national news.