A 63-year-old Chinese grandpa's     1     (tradition) carpentry (木工) skills attract tens of millions of viewers online as he creates woodwork without glue, screws or nails. The Chinese master carpenter, Wang Dewen,     2     (know) as “Grandpa Amu” on YouTube, has been considered as the modern-day Lu Ban. His most popular video,     3     shows him making a fantastic wooden arch bridge, rose to fame on the platform,     4     (gain) more than 42 million views.

Grandpa Amu follows an ancient Chinese mortise and tenon (榫卯) technique, which means no nails or glue are applied     5     the building of the arch bridge.

For     6     (year), Wang worked as a farmer and a carpenter, making furniture for local building project. Several years ago, Wang left Shandong     7     (live) with his children in Mengshan county. It was a natural step to turn his skills into an opportunity to make all kinds of toys for his young grandson, and it was not long     8     his son and daughter-in-law decided to video Wang's efforts. The master carpenter     9     (attract) over 1.18 million viewers on YouTube so far. Grandpa Amu insists that he isn't an Internet celebrity (名人)     10     just an ordinary farmer.

Twice-crowned beauty queen Michele Reis, may be of 18 years old, but she is still her mummy’s little girl. Mrs. Reis described her     1    (mix) feeling the night when her daughter won the Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant(选美大赛). “I felt as if I suffered from the     2    (lose) of something important when they crowned her. Not that I was not happy for her,     3     I knew that my daughter no longer belonged to me alone and I would have to share her with everyone else.”

However, Mom should have seen it coming. With her Portuguese-Chinese heritage(遗传因素), Michele was quite good-looking as a young girl. There was something special about her even as a child.

    4    (consider) her recent fame, the beauty queen said, “Sometimes, I have the feeling     5     I am no longer     6    (I) now. My schedule is full. I’m not getting enough sleep, and I am always hurrying from one place to another. There are times     7     I am so tired that I just want to sit and sleep.”

“Being a famous person has another price. People no longer regard me as     8     ordinary person. It’s becoming     9    (difficult) for me to make friends, and I’ve learned to treasure old friends because they still treat me as Michele instead     10     Miss Hong Kong.”

I was walking along the main street of a small seaside town in the north of England looking for somewhere to make a phone call one early winter morning.My car had broken down outside       1    town and I wanted to contact the repair company.

There was no sign    2    a call box, nor was there anyone at that early hour whom I could ask.I had thought I might find a shop open    3    a milkman doing his rounds, but the town was    4     (complete) dead.The only living thing I saw was a thin frightened cat outside a small restaurant.

Then suddenly I found    5    I was looking for.There was a small post office, and almost hidden from sight in a dark narrow street.Nest to it was the town’s only public call box.I hurried forward, but stopped in    6     (astonish) when I saw through the dirty glass that there was a man inside.He was fat, and was wearing a cheap blue plastic raincoat.I could not see    7    face and he didn’t not even raise his head at the sound of my footsteps.

Carefully, I remained    8     (stand) a few feet away and    9     (light) a cigarette to wait my turn.It was when I threw the dead match on the ground    10    I noticed something bright red running from under the call box door.

Sally Gook     1     (wake) up every morning to a deep blue sky and bright sun. For the last two years she has been living on the tiny Greek island of Lipsi,     2     is only 16 square kilometres in size and has a population of just 650.

But until a few years ago she lived in London. “I was working for American Express and I had     3     good social life and earned a lot of money. But I had to get up early every morning, often in horrible weather, and take the tube (地铁)     4     (work).”

Then one day she and a friend decided they needed a     5     (relax) holiday, and they came to Lipsi. “I loved it — the people, the mountains, the sun, and the delicious food.     6     (sudden) I knew there was a different life     7     (wait) for me here.” A few months later she applied    8     a job at the travel company which had organised her holiday.

Since then she has been living on Lipsi and working as a tourist guide. Her boyfriend, who is Greek, is an     9     (engine). Sally said, “I    10     (be) back to London only once, and I can’t imagine ever living there.”

On Sunday, a tragedy struck in Chongqing, after a bus crashed into oncoming traffic before falling into the Yangtze River. The accident     1     (cause) by a fight between an angry passenger and the bus driver left 15 people dead.

A woman passenger failed     2     (get) off at her drop-off station. She demanded the driver an immediate stop, but the driver refused.     3     was unexpected was that she later struck the driver on the head with her mobile phone, and the driver took his right hand off the wheel to fight back. Then, he lost control of the bus and crashed into a red car before breaking through the bridge guardrail and tumbling into the river. People witnessed the disastrous scene,    4     (hope) looking on as the tragedy occurred. One of the rescue workers said the bus     5     (sink) to a depth of 68 meters.

    6     is very basic common sense that the lives and     7     (safe) of the whole bus depend upon the driver. As the one     8     (responsibility) for the whole bus, he should have stopped the bus     9     the roadside to ensure that it was safe while under attack. On the other hand, the woman attacked the driver simply on account of her own fault.

Feeling terribly sorry for the tragedy, many netizens blamed the woman for the crash,    10     others criticized the driver for his reaction.