【推荐1】Melbourne is in Australia. It is a beautiful city    1    huge gardens, great parks and many    2    (amaze) buildings. Many people came to visit it every year.

Melbourne is also    3     ancient city in Australia. It has an interesting history of more than 170 years. The first people came in 1835,and in the 1850s,gold     4    (discover). Because of this, Melbourne became a very rich city. Many new buildings were built at that time.

And today, Melbourne is one of the world’s     5    (great) cities. It is known     6     its     7       (beautiful) and its famous universities. It is also Australia’s top city for    8     (sport).Many of them are very popular. For example, young people are mad     9     soccer here. In 1956,the Olympic Games came to this city, and for the first time they were showed live on TV around the world.

Melbourne is a nice place and you can always have great    10     here.

Sunshine Town is a modern town. Many great changes     1     (take) place over the years, including living     2     (条件), transport, environment and people.

Local people used to     3     (live) in old houses. They could only travel by bus. Now most of them have moved into new flats and there is a high-speed railway station in the     4     (south) part of town. Moreover, the government has turned part of the town centre into a beautiful park. People often go there to relax     5     (they) after a hard day’s work.

Another big change is the environment. In the past, people     6     (drop) litter everywhere. Waste from factories     7     (put) into rivers. The air was filled with     8     (pollute). Now there are laws to limit and improve it. If people drop litter     9     (满不在乎地) in public, they will be punished. In the communities, things like glass, plastic and paper     10     (separate) into different groups and then recycled.

People in the town are trying to behave     11     (polite). For example, everyone     12     (避免) pushing in before others and always queues. More people are willing to give a hand. Daniel is a middle school student. He is also a volunteer at the community centre now. He and his classmates often discuss how     13     (help) people in need. Su Ning was once a     14     (秘书) in a company in the town. But she is working for ORBIS now, and she thinks her life is much     15     (有意义的).

Many hands make light work. People in Sunshine Town believe that if they work together, they can surely make the world a better place.

【推荐1】Small man has a big dream

Ma Yun, the chairman(主席) of Alibaba Group, was born on September 10, 1964 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

He is one of the Asia’s richest businessmen. He is many     1       (people) hero. Ma Yun is small and thin, but he looks smart. He often smiles to people around. He is kind and       2     (friend) so he has many friends. He     3       (study) English well and is good at it, and he used to be an English     4     (teach). He gets up early in the morning, and he likes playing Taiji     5     (good). When he is free, he loves books, too. He reads books for more than one hour every day.

Ma Yun is the founder(创办者) of the world’s biggest online shopping mall—Taobao, which means “looking for treasure” in Chinese. People can       6       (find) almost everything they need on Taobao. People don’t have to     7       (spend) a lot of time going from one shop to another to choose things. All you need is just a mobile phone or a computer. The goods( 商 品) are usually not expensive. It’s very safe and easy     8       (shop), so shopping on Taobao is popular among both young and old people. Ma Yun is changing our shopping style.

However,    9     (shop) on Taobao also has something bad. First, we can’t see or touch the goods we will buy, and we can’t try     10       (they) on. Sometimes, the real goods may not be the same as we think. Second, we may often wait for a long time to get our goods, and we can’t use or have them at once.

Luckily, Ma Yun is dreaming to make shopping on Taobao safer and faster for the whole world.

Zhang, 32, was born in a poor family in Henan. When he was little, a fever gave him cerebral palsy. At the age of 6, he could no longer stand up. His parents tied two bamboo sticks between two trees. Day after day, he held the sticks to practice     2    . No matter heavy snow, tears or pains, he stuck to doing that.     3     could stop him. At 9, he was able to walk with the help of a walking stick. He overcame all the difficulties at school. In 2006, he became a graduate student. His dreams     4     him further. He hoped to get a doctorate degree, but most professors (教授) turned him down after hearing about his illness. Finally, Professor Fan Xiaozhong from Beijing Institute of Technology opened a door for Zhang. "I won't treat you     5    . If you can pass the exams all by     6    , you can study with me for your doctor's courses, Fan said. Zhang passed all the exams. "I’m not as strong as you think. I just work hard on what I should do and what I can do. Only great efforts can change our     7    ," Zhang said.