I was in the ninth year when I began to suffer from depression.My parents noticed but felt that since I'd always been    1    good child，this was temporary.

    2    (fortunate)，it was not to be so.I didn't have friends.Hardly could I share my problems.Deep worry began to destroy my    3    (confident)．Finally I refused to attend classes，    4    (shut) myself in my room for hours.

The examination was approaching，but I simply didn't care.My parents and teachers were surprised    5    my bad performance.One morning，after I    6    (lecture) severely by my father，I stood at the school gate，    7    (depress)．Then as the other students marched to their classrooms，our headmaster called me.The next forty－five minutes was one of the most precious moments in my life.She said she    8    (notice) a big change in me and wondered why.At first she took my hands in    9    (she) and listened patiently as I mentioned my worries.Then she hugged me as I wept.Months of frustration and loneliness disappeared in her motherly hug.

No one had tried to understand what the real problem was except the headmaster，    10    helped me out simply by listening and hugging.

Several cities in China have welcomed students back to school. Students in the final year of senior and junior high schools in Shanghai, as well as in Guangzhou and Shenzhen,     1    (return) to school on Monday, according to their     2     (govern).

In Beijing, almost 50,000 students in their final year of senior high school     3     (study) at school since this Monday, and they will participate in the college entrance examination,    4     is scheduled to be held from July 7 to 10 in Beijing. Those in    5     (they) final year at junior high school in Beijing are scheduled to return to school on May 11.

Students and teachers must have their temperatures.     6     (check) and hands sanitized upon arrival. Each person must also wear     7     mask throughout the day, except during mealtimes.

According to the MOE, schools are allowed to resume operation only when the epidemic is     8    (basic) controlled and the epidemic prevention measures are adopted     9     (protect) the health of teachers and students on campus.

The MOE also required schools to make plans to deal     10     the risk of virus transmission before resuming classes,

A science lecture 400 kilometers above Earth was delivered by Chinese astronauts on China’s Tiangong space station,       1     they displayed unique physical phenomena in the orbiting spacecraft. Although     2     (feature) interactive teaching, it was mainly targeted at youngsters.

In 2013,       3     the help of two other crew members, Wang Yaping delivered the country’s first space lecture, making China, following the United States, become the     4     (two) country to carry out a space lecture.

This year’s lecture,       5     (compare) with the class nine years ago, was greatly different. Apart from a     6     (big) “classroom”, it covered a wider range of subjects.     7     (previous) Wang showed students the laws of physics and the phenomena of weightlessness in space. But this year, biology     8     (add). The astronauts compared the growth and shape of cells in different environment to study their changing rules.

These space lectures showed various topics,     9     the aim behind never changed. According to China Daily, the space lectures aim to “spread knowledge about manned spaceflights and stir up enthusiasm for science among young people”. The astronauts sincerely invited young viewers     10       (conduct) similar experiments along with them to experience the fun of exploration.

A few months ago I left my hometown for Canada to study. I felt nervous because I was going to     1    new place and stayed with new people. What worried me at first was that I couldn’t speak English     2    (fluent), and I also couldn’t understand     3    (they) customs. Everything was different     4    my own country. I had to deal with everything alone. 

It was a sad moment     5     I had to say goodbye to my family and friends at the airport. Suddenly, I felt unwilling     6    (leave) my hometown because I grew up there and had wonderful     7    (memory) of the familiar places. However, I knew studying abroad was a     8    (decide) that I made myself. I had to accept the challenge. 

By now I     9    (get) used to the new life here already, though I’m looking forward to     10    (spend) the coming vacation with my old friends back home.

Well, it so happened that one morning I bought a newspaper and read the     1     (advertise) about the Antarctic expedition.

    2     expedition to the South Pole with the great Sir Ernest Shackleton — this is the adventure that I     3     (dream) of. And I was ready for     4     At the age of 19, I am fit and full of vigour.     5    , when I applied to join the expedition, Shackleton turned me     6     because he thought I was too young and wasn’t qualified. But I was so enthusiastic about the idea of going along with them     7     I secretly went aboard his ship, the Endurance, and hid in a small cupboard. Unfortunately, three days after we set off I     8     (discover). Shackleton did not want to turn back, so he offered me a job, but only after he promised me, “if anyone has to be eaten, then you’ll be the     9     (one)!” He assigned me to be a steward, and I now serve three meals for twenty-eight men, three times a day.

How everyone will envy me when I come back and tell them about the     10     (amaze) places I have been to.

The British must have really high standards. I was part of a student exchange programme between a university in England and my university in China. I had spent days     1     (prepare) for my first English paper. I knew I did a good job and was looking forward to getting a positive comment. When I got the paper back, I found that my teacher     2     (write) the comment “Not bad!” Not bad? But there weren’t any     3     (mistake) in my paper.