10. The TV news says the old man _______ the bridge for over ten years.

11. —Where is your sales manager, Jessica?

—She’s not here. She _______ to Beijing to attend a meeting. She left this morning.

Who can help you? Maybe you think parents, teachers or others can help you. But     16     all these people only help you to help yourself.

There have been many great men in history. They had few people to help them. They could not get good     17    , either. But they tried their best to learn and never gave up. One famous teacher in England     18     told his students, “I cannot make you great men, but I can help you make men of yourselves.”

However, some young people don’t do anything and they depend on others. If these young people can see their weak points and change their ways, they can be     19    . They won’t be anything in the future unless they take the advice of their parents and teachers, and most importantly, depend on themselves.

A lot of new sports appear nowadays. Skin-diving is one of them. This sport     20     you into a wonderful new world. It is     21     a visit to the Moon. When you are under water, it is easy for you climb rocks, because you are no longer heavy.

Here, under water, everything is blue and green. During the day, there is plenty of light. When fish swim nearby, you can catch them with your hands.

To catch fish is one of the most interesting parts of this sport. Besides, there are more     22     for skin-diving. You can clean ships     23     taking them out of water. You can get many things from the deep sea.

Since skin-diving is not only interesting but also useful, more and more people want to take part in it.

Mr. Black loved his daughter Helen very much. Every day he spent all of his free time playing with her. One night, he had much work to do, ________ couldn’t play with his daughter. In order to keep her ________, he found a map of the world in a magazine and cut it into pieces. When he ________, Helen came running to him and was ready to play. Mr. Black said he had ________ time to play right now. He told the girl to put the pieces of paper back together to a map of the world, and then they could both play.

About half an hour later, Helen came to her father and said, “Okey, it’s finished. Can we play now?” Mr. Black was surprised, saying, “That’s ________. Let’s go and see.” And sure enough, there was the picture of the world; all put together, every piece in its place.

Mr. Black said, “That’s surprising! How did you do that?” Helen said, “It was ________. On the back of the page was a picture of a man. When I put the man together, the whole world fell into place.”

Canada Geese are large blue and white birds. When autumn arrives, they have to fly south where the weather is warmer. The winters are so cold in Canada that the birds die if they stay there.

Last spring, Bill Lishman found sixteen young Canada Geese on his farm. They had lost their parents. Bill thought, “These young birds won’t know what to do in the autumn.”

Bill had a small plane and he decided to teach the birds to follow him. All through the summer, he went on short trips in his plane and the young geese flew after him.

When the cold weather arrived in autumn, Bill flew to Virginia in the United States, 600 miles south from his home in Canada. The geese followed him all the way. Bill left the geese in Virginia and he returmed home.

This spring, Bill was waiting for the birds to come back. They didn’t arrive, so Bill flew to Virginia to get them. He looked for them for two weeks but he couldn’t find them.

When he arrived back home, Bill found the geese waiting for him. They had found their way home without him!