Lily is an American schoolgirl. She is now in Beijing with her p    1    . She doesn’t know Chinese, but she is trying to study and speak it. She often tries to speak Chinese to her Chinese friends. Sometimes they don’t understand her,because she can’t speak Chinese w    2    

It’s Saturday morning. Lily goes out. She is on her way to the park. She is going there to see a flower show. But she doesn’t know h    3     to get there. She asks a Chinese boy. The boy can’t understand her. Then she takes out a pen and some paper. She d    4     flowers on it, gives the picture to the boy and says something about it. The boy smiles and then shows Lily the way to the p    5    .

【推荐2】Leo and his father didn’t talk for 8 years. 8 years ago, Leo’s mother d    1    . He thought it was his father who caused his mother’s illness. He hated his father.

Now they were sitting in a nice c    2     shop. Suddenly his father asked the waiter to put some salt in his coffee. Leo was surprised. His father smiled and said, “Before you were born, your mother and I often had f    3     playing in the sea. We could taste the sea, just l    4     the taste of the salty coffee. Every time I have salty coffee, I always think of your mother. I m    5     her so much.”

Leo was deeply moved . He never knew his father had such deep l    6     for his mother. One month later, he moved to live w    7     his father. Every time he made coffee for him, he put some salt in the coffee.

After 10 years, his father died. Leo received a l    8     which said, “Dear Leo, please forgive my life's lie — the salty coffee. Actually at that t    9     I wanted some sugar, but I said salt. It was hard for me to change, so I just went ahead. Now let me t    10     you the truth. I don't like salty coffee, but I drink salty coffee for 10 years! Having you with me is the biggest happiness of my whole life.”

【推荐3】A young woman was waiting at the airport. She bought a packet of cookies. She sat down and started     1     (read) the book. Later, a man sat down next to her. When the woman took the     2     (one) cookie, the man took one, too. She was really surprised but said    3    (something). “Why is he eating my cookies?” She thought.

Every time she took a cookie, the man took one, too. Then there was only one cookie left in the packet. The man picked the last one up, divided (分) it in half,     4    (give) her a half and left the waiting room. She got very angry.

When she got on the plane, she found that there     5     (be) a packet of cookies in her handbag. It was never opened.

Beth Jones was only eight years old when she first tried playing the drums. This was during a lunchtime music club at school, which she only went to because it was snowing     1     (heavy). Of all the musical instruments, the drums were     2     (interesting) to Beth. She thought, it was cool that there were many different shapes and sizes of drums, and she wanted to hit     3     (they), to see what they sounded like.

Now, Beth is thirteen and gives concerts around the country. She also has her own YouTube channel and     4     (get) over a million hit a year. What’s amazing is that Beth has never been to     5     drum lesson. “You can learn anything on the Internet,     6     I’ve never felt it was important for me to take classes,” explains Beth.

Giving concerts was not easy for Beth in the beginning because usually she only played drums alone in her bedroom when she came home     7     school. At her first concert, she played in a band with many     8     (adult). She could feel hundreds of pairs of eyes looking at her, and that made her feel afraid.

So, does Beth enjoy being famous now? “I didn’t plan     9     (be) famous,” she says. “All I want is to show others     10     I enjoy doing. I don’t think I’m someone special. I just want everyone to have a great time at my concerts.”