The day that I will always remember is when I ran my first 10 km. While putting my toe on the starting _______, I felt my heart drop to my stomach. However, I would need my heart, because in running, when you run out of your _______, you just run with your heart.

That day the _______ was cool and fresh, and my courage had arrived. The race was about to start. Bang! The _______ of the starting gun ran into the air. I took off running, fast like the wind. I knew it would be a really great _______ for me. In the first four miles, I felt like a cheetah(猎豹). I felt _______ and forceful in my pace.

Then came the fifth mile. My legs _______ like jelly(果冻), and I could feel fire burning in my lungs, “keep _______!” the thought ran through my head. Now was the time I had to run with my _______. I had to win although I didn’t know whether I would _______ it. My body really wanted to _______, but my heart told me not to. I think it’s the important thing about running. The real run starts when you want to _______.

I saw the finishing line and I felt like an Olympic runner who was about to win the race. I had _______ been happier, and felt proud too when I had my _______ put around my neck. Running is one of the most challenging things for life, _______ I believe nothing is impossible as long as you put your heart into it.

House fires often happened. So it appears necessary to learn something useful to protect family from them. The following poster in the neighbourhood will tell you how to do it.

What surprises us most? It is that there are still couples who keep doing things to show each other love. A Japanese farmer is famous for his act of love. He has spent nearly two years planting flowers for his blind wife.

Mr. And Mrs. Kuroki live in a large flower garden. The garden has turned into a tourist attraction (旅游胜地) recently. Around 7,000 visitors come here each year, not only for the beautiful scenery (景色), but also for the special story behind the two old farmers.

In 1956, the newly married couple first moved into the house. The house would be their home for the rest of their lives. They had two children and lived happily for years. However, as years passed, Mrs. Kuroki’s health began to decline. Her vision (视力) problems were so serious that she became blind in the end. She hid herself in her home for a long time, refusing to leave unless it was necessary.

Mr. Kuroki got an idea. He wanted to give her gifts—flowers. So he got to work on his big surprise. Mr. Kuroki took advantage of the hills around their house and he began to plant a kind of flowers with strong fragrance (芳香). He wanted to see if the fragrance would make her come outside. When he realized that his idea was going to work, he worked for nearly two years to completely cover his garden with the flowers.

Now Mrs. Kuroki goes out every day with her husband to enjoy the fragrance of the the flowers and the fresh air of a new day.

Published in 1877, Black Beauty is one of the literature’s best-loved classics and is the only book Anna Sewell ever wrote.

In the book, Black Beauty, a horse, tells the story of his life in his own words. It is a story of how he was treated with kindness and love when he was young, but now his treatment changed at the hands of different owners. Black Beauty spent his young life with his mother on Farmer Grey’s farm. Farmer Grey is a good, kind man and the horses had a good life. His mother told him to be good and work hard. Black Beauty tried to follow this advice all his life.

First, he goes to live with Mr. Gordon and his family, who treat their horses well. He is cared for by a kind groom (马夫) called John, who never uses a whip (鞭子). Black Beauty saves Mrs. Gordon’s life when he runs fast to bring the doctor to her. The Gordons move abroad and Black Beauty was sold to Lord Westland. Things became totally different. Lady Westland made the horses wear reins (缰绳) so that they hold their heads up high. One day, a groom called Smith is left to look after the horses. He is drunk and rides Black Beauty very hard and uses a whip. Black Beauty loses a shoe and in the end falls. Smith is killed in the accident and Black Beauty stays alive but his legs are left a bad scar (伤疤) and Lord Westland decides to sell him.

Black Beauty’s next home is with a London cab driver Jerry Barker. Jerry and his family treat Black Beauty very well, but the work is hard and the hours are long. Jerry becomes ill and has to sell Black Beauty to a farmer. The farmer takes him to some women at Rose Hall. There, Black Beauty comes together again with a young groom who used to look after him at Mr. Gordon’s home. The women want to keep Black Beauty, so once again he has a kind and happy home.

Getting a pie from the sky is becoming a reality in the city as online delivery platform Meituan has been allowed to start drone delivery service(无人机送餐服务), Shenzhen Evening News reported.

At Galaxy World in Longgang District, a reporter from the newspaper watched how a meal has been delivered by the drone on Thursday. The drone slowly landed and a door above the Meituan Intelligent Dining Cabinet(储藏柜) opened slowly, where the drone put the meal box inside the cabinet.

“It takes about 15 minutes to place the order and receive the meal. A lot of people have tried the drone delivery service here,” said a woman who just took her meal box out from the cabinet.

During the year 2022, food and drinks such as noodles, fruits, coffee and milk tea and even flowers have been delivered through Meituan’s drone delivery system, the report said.

The company said that as of last year, it had completed over 100,000 drone deliveries. Meituan started to explore drone delivery service in 2017 and started the try in early 2021. The service has an average delivery time of 12 minutes, which is less than traditional delivery methods, according to the company.

There are only a few cities in the world with the advantages of drone delivery service, and Shenzhen is taking the lead in China, according to the report. However, there are still some problems with this kind of service.

In the past ten years, great progress has been made in technology. It seems that many things have been     67     (great) improved. But there was one thing unlike them. I’m talking about a blind walking stick.

Many blind people have used the walking stick for a long time. However, it hadn’t been improved until a man named Kursat decided to make a     68     (different). He invented a smart stick called the WeWalk. The smart stick provides the warning of the possible danger     69     the blind. It also helps blind people by     70     (guide) them around their environment. In this way, it makes their travel much     71     (easy). The stick is priced at around $500. Most people can afford it.     72     invention is going to change life a lot for the blind.

Kursat understands the difficulties of the blind well. That’s because he is blind     73     (he). So he tried his best to invent something     74     would not only change his life,     75     also the life of many others. “As a blind person, when I am at the metro station, I don’t know which is my exit. I don’t know which bus is coming or which stores are around me. Now, that kind of information can     76     (give) by the WeWalk,” he said. “I believe life of the blind will be more convenient and safer.”

77. 假如你是Li Hua，你的英国笔友Tom将会作为交换生来中国游学一周。请认真阅读他的信件并根据内容回复。

I’m happy to hear that you are coming to China as an exhange student. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

If you have any further questions, please write to me as soon as possible.

Li Hua