Before she could even talk, Ellie Heath spent hours    1    (draw) pictures. When she grew    2    (old), the 15-year-old discovered the joy of sewing (缝纫). She found    3    creative and calming.

She started out making small objects like soft playthings. Over time, she began making clothing. Her love of the work led    4    her opening a business. Three Blue Bunnies is the name of her company, which makes    5    she calls “wearable art”.

Her definition of wearable art is something that makes one feel special. It’s one of a kind, often handmade. She sells her creations in markets. All the pieces Ellie creates    6    (make) of used or donated cloth material.

There are 21 billion tons of cloth material in waste landfills in America. Ellie Heath expects    7    (reduce) that amount through her work. She works with jean jackets, renewing them with artistic additions. The process starts with finding cloth material looking good with the jackets. Then, she    8    (find) out the proper design through trial and error (反复尝试).

Ellie is thankful to her mother for pushing her children to develop their artistic skills. Her mom has always been a huge supporter of the arts. She thinks    9    (create) feeds kids’ brains and that it’s    10    (definite) important for kids to be inspired by as many objects and people as possible.

Videos of 77-year-old Xu Xiuzhen,     1     speaks different languages with foreigners while working at a scenic spot selling water, postcards and headdress flowers, have brought her instant fame.

To support her family, Xu, who dopped out of junior school in the third grade, began to learn different languages     2     (attract) more foreign customers. Xu said she would change words in any language into Chinese characters     3     (base) on their pronunciation and then memorize them. Repeating the words in her head before going to bed and immediately after waking up has given her     4     (fluent) in basic conversations with foreigners, she said.

Over the past two decades, Xu     5    (teach) herself 11 foreign languages,     6     (include) English, Spanish, Japanese and Korean, which has made her     7       (incredible) popular and made it easier for her to communicate with foreign tourists. As a result, Xu has also become one of the     8     (busy) tour guides in Yangshuo. Her reputation draws     9     large crowd of tourists every day, especially foreign visitors, who come to meet the multilingual guide out of admiration.

“More and more foreign tourists are coming to Yangshuo, and I hope they will feel at home here     10     my help,” she said.

Wang Peng felt     1    (frustrate) in his empty restaurant because no customers have come to his restaurant ever     2     he got up early in the morning. He wanted to find out why. He hurried out and     3    (follow) Li Chang into a newly-opened restaurant. He found that the owner     4    (name) Yong Hui was serving slimming food to make people thin. Driven by     5    (curious), Wang Peng came forward to take a close look at the menu. He could not even believe his eyes. He was amazed     6     what he saw. He hurried outside and went to the library to do some research.    7     a lot of reading, he realized that Yong Hui’s food made people become tired     8    (quick) because it was not energy-giving food.    9    (arrive) home，Wang Peng rewrote his own sign. The    10    (compete) between the two restaurants was on!