Simon worked at a bookstore for four months _________ not a short time, he felt like it had been only one month. Working of a bookstore was a dream job for him. So he felt _________ to be hired on the day of his interview. He loved to brag(吹嘘）all about his job to his friends and family.

Simon loved reading books _________ his spare time. His favourite author was Mark Twain. Simon’s favourite book was The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. Working at a bookstore not only gave him _________ chance to read books, but also allowed him to interact with _________ fellow book worms（爱书的人）. Simon often recommended（推荐）books to customers, and they would do the same for him. He enjoyed the job every day. Every now and then, he _________ come across a classic book to read. Simon _________ to borrow one book for free once a week. However, it was difficult _________ which book to take sometimes.

Simon was getting paid $300 every two weeks. Sometimes, he would make more _________ he worked overtime. After a couple of months, Simon had saved up enough money to finally buy his first car finally. Buying a car was the main reason that Simon wanted to start working. __________, both of his dreams came true.

Perhaps most people know the Chinese famous boxer Zou Shiming, but how many people are familiar with the exciting sport-boxing or Thai boxing?

Boxing is popular in many countries. Two fighters wear boxing gloves on their _________. A bell rings. The boxers hit each other _________ one knocks the other out. Each part of the fight is three _________ long. It is called a round. Thai boxing is different. The boxing match _________ music from drums and flutes. Then the two fighters kneel(跪) and pray to God. Next, they do a slow dance that copies the movements of Thai boxing. During this dance, each fighter tries to _________ the other that he is the best. Then the fight begins. In Thai boxing, the fighters can _________ with their feet and hit each other with their elbows and knees. Of course they hit with their hands, too. Most boxers can fight only five rounds because this kind of fighting is too _________. Thai boxing began over 500 years ago. If a soldier _________ his weapons(武器) in a battle, he needed to fight with just his body. The soldiers learnt how to use all the parts of _________ body. In 1560, the Burmese(缅甸的) army captured(俘获) the king of Thailand in a war. He was a very good boxer. He __________ the freedom from Burma by defeating all the best Burmese fighters. When he returned to Thailand, his people were very proud of him. So Thai boxing became a popular sport.

Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about the food taste. Do you agree? To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don’t want to lose customers.

However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude（海拔）we cannot taste things as well as we do on the ground.

Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off.

As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces one third of the sensibility（感觉）of our taste buds（味蕾）. So our taste buds become senseless. The sad fact, however, is that our noses don’t know it.

All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy（辛辣的）food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.

Now there are many studies on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.

Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can’t deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.