Toby remembers

My name is Toby. I'm eighty-three years old this spring. My house is right in the middle of Stratford-upon-Avon, and I can watch the street market_______my window. But I live very quietly now. I'm just a(n)_______man, sitting in a chair.

I once knew the greatest man in England. For thirty years I was his friend. I worked with_______in the theatre, through the good times and the bad times. He was a good friend to me. He was also the best playwright （剧作家）and poet that ever lived in England. William Shakespeare was his_______.

I saw all his plays in the theatre. People_______them. They shouted, laughed and cried, ate oranges, and called for more. William Shakespeare could please all kinds of_______including Kings, Queens, Princes, great lords and ladies, poor people, the boys who held the horses...everyone.

He put me in a play once. Well, he used my name—Toby. Twelfth Night was the play. I remember, in the play, Sir Toby Belch was a big fat man, who liked drinking_______and having a good time. Queen Elizabeth the First watched that_______—Twelfth Night, on the 6th of January, 1601. She liked it, too.

William's dead now,of course. He's been dead for more than thirty years, and no one sees his plays now. The Puritans (清教徒)have_______ all the theatres. There's no singing, no dancing, no plays. It isn't like that in my young days. We had a good time in London, William and I...

I've no teeth now, and my hair has all fallen out, ________I can still think—and remember. I remember when William and I were young, just boys really.

Although he has lost one arm, Zhang Jiacheng hopes never to lose his love for basketball or willingness to improve his skills of playing it.

The 13-year-old boy recently got wide attention from netizens (people who use the Internet) in China when a video of his excellent dribbling(带球) skills in a one-on-one situation was posted online. “It's so inspirational. How can you easily give up your efforts after watching his video?” One netizen wrote on Sina Weibo.

Born in Guangdong Province, Zhang lost his right arm in an accident at just five years old which was a terrible event for such a young kid. Zhang, however, decided to face up to the hardship, and not let the fate(命运) control his life. Because he has a dream: to be a basketball player.

Other children around always wondered how he could play basketball with just one arm. “Hard work” is the only thing that Zhang can do. Be it rainy or windy, Zhang never stops playing basketball, and has achieved huge improvement in his skills.

In the video, Zhang showed his dribbling skills in front of a defense made up of several professional basketball players, and received a loud cheer from people watching on site. “Your right hand has been taken away in a terrible way, but you have the best left hand. You are the real star in this game,” former CBA player Wang Jing said after watching Zhang's performance.

Zhang has posted 13 videos of his basketball skills on Douyin, and earned almost one million likes. “Give it a try, or give it up,” Zhang once wrote in one of his videos. Of course, he chose the former（前者）.

Air pollution is a big problem for cities in most countries. Many people are dying from it. But how can we tell the air quality is good or bad?

On a tree next to a river in Amsterdam, a tiny birdhouse glows (发光) bright green when the air is clean. If you're standing nearby, the birdhouse will also give you a free Wi-Fi connection—but only if pollution level is low enough. The designer is Joris Lam. His birdhouse tells you about the air quality.

Joris’ birdhouse is called TreeWifi. It can be put on a tree around your house to test the air quality. People can see a screen with information about the local air quality and how to improve it. TreeWifi is a simple way for people to know about the air pollution around them. If the birdhouse does not glow, people should care more about the environment. It reminds them to change their lifestyles. For example, to protect the air, they can ride bikes or just walk instead of driving cars.

“Imagine if trees gave free Wi-Fi, people would plant more trees like crazy. It's a pity that they only give us the oxygen(氧气) we breathe,” Joris said.

The birdhouse doesn't work as a home for birds now. Joris and his team are trying to make some changes to it. In the future, they hope birds will live in the birdhouse and the heat of its green light will be used to keep birds warm in winter.

CHANGSHA—Eight pandas moved to their new home in the ancient town of Fenghuang in Central China's Hunan Province on Friday.

This is the first time the ancient town, also a popular place of interest,has welcomed giant pandas. The animals will make Fenghuang their new home.

With the average temperature ranging from 12. 6℃to 16.7℃, Fenghuang County takes pride in its over 3,333 hectares of bamboo forest, providing a good living place for giant pandas.

To provide a good living environment for the new arrivals, Fenghuang has built a panda theme park.

Two of the eight pandas, named Long Sheng and Qing Feng, were born in 2000 and 2007 respectively(分别). The other six pandas were born in 2017. They were transported from southwest China's Sichuan Province to Fenghuang by special trucks.

Before the transportation, the eight pandas were placed under observation in the giant panda protection center, and they are now in good health.

Teng Qiong, director of Fenghuang County Forestry Bureau, said that the pandas were transported in refrigerator trucks for their safety and comfort. Several trucks were rented（租用)，with four trucks carrying two giant pandas each, while one truck carried enough bamboo and bamboo shoots for five days, and another empty truck was kept on standby.

“During the transportation, we rested at the high-speed service areas for 30 minutes every three hours. The keepers provided food and water for the pandas and carefully observed their health condition,”Teng said.

Construction of the panda theme park in Fenghuang started at the end of 2018. It includes a panda house, a panda hospital, a feed processing room, a tourist service center, a science museum and other supporting projects. There will be 16 professional keepers to take care of the pandas in the park.

The movie Ne Zha came back to the big screen last year. And lots of people watched it.

For many years, the character Ne Zha has been familiar to many children of China. Most Chinese children came to know Ne Zha from the TV series Journey to the West. Of course, Ne Zha in that TV series is not as great as Sun Wukong. But still, Ne Zha is popular in Chinese children's hearts.

Now, the relationships among the characters in the 3D movie Ne Zha are given modern meanings. New Ne Zha in the 3D movie is more than a child. He is very happy when he feels the warmth of the family. And he does not hide his anger when he meets bad men. He lives as he wants to live.

It was hard to believe that a panda-eyed, buck-toothed(龅牙) child could be a hero in hearts of millions of people. But it made it and the movie was a big success. The film's director and screenwriter is Yang Yu. It took him three years to write this play and two more years to make the cartoon. It is one of the most successful cartoons made in China. You can enjoy the beauty created by high technology when watching it.

During the Warring States Period, there was a musician called Gongming Yi, who played musical instrument—qixianqin very well. He loved it so much    41    he played it at home almost every day. A great number of people would like    42    to him, and admired him very much. They all said that the man was such a great musician. When they    43    free, they often went to Gongming Yi's house and listened to his music.

One day, Gongming Yi saw a    44    when he was having fun in the countryside. Suddenly, he had a strange idea. “Since everybody loves my music,why don't I play some music for this cow?” Then he moved his qixianqin    45    front of the cow. And he began to play it. He played the qixianqin very well and the music was beautiful, but the cow showed no reaction at all. It just kept eating    46    with its head down. He thought the music he played might be too    47    for the cow. So he tried to play some easy music. However, after playing for a long time, Gongming Yi was disappointed. He began to question his musical ability. He said to    48    , “The cow didn't understand my music. ”Then he shook his head and went away.

This is a funny story, but it is educational. We can learn    49    lessons from the story. First, don't say anything to the people who don't understand you at all. Second,     50     you talk to a wrong listener, you are silly and wasting time.

What is 5G? It is the fifth generation of mobile network technology. In the past, 1G let us talk with each other. 2G let us send messages. 3G gave us the Internet. And 4G made all of these things faster. What's special about 5G?

5G + entertainment

5G networks are about 10 times faster than 4G. This means you can download a movie in seconds using 5G. Also, VR games will become more popular with 5G.   5G will make the VR games even more real.

5G + smart home

5G also makes the Internet of Things（物联网）possible. Smart home is part of it. For example, your bread maker could make breakfast by itself after your alarm rings. And if the air in your room is too dry, a smart sprinkler could water your plants by itself when you are not at home.

So you just need to buy a new mobile phone to use 5G. But a 5G phone costs about 8,000 yuan right now. It is said that about one year from now, the price could go down to around 2,000 yuan.

56. 假如你是李华，你的英国笔友Lisa来信说她对中国民歌很感兴趣，想请你推荐你最喜欢的歌曲。请根据图片信息，用英语写封回信，简要介绍你最喜欢的民歌《好一朵美丽的茉莉花》（What a Beautiful Jasmine），并谈谈你对这首歌曲的感受。

要求：

1.语言规范，语句通顺,可适当发挥；

2.字数：100词左右，开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

I’m glad to hear from you. Now let me tell you something about my favorite song.

Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Hua