1 . She played the leading role in the dance show Hua Mulan. She also played Yang Guifei in Du Fu. ________ name is Hao Ruoqi, a member of China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater.

Born in 1993, Hao has become one of ________ most popular female (女性) dancers. Hao started learning dancing ________ the age of 7. She entered college in 2011 and became a professional dancer after leaving school.

In 2017, Hao played the leading role in the dance Hua Mulan. It was a great challenge for her, ________ she had much performance experience. She cried every night when returning to the hotel during rehearsals (彩排). “At that time, I thought to myself ________ again after playing the role of Mulan,” she said.

Luckily, Hao didn’t give up. She studied ________ about Mulan very carefully. She even found teachers and learnt Chinese Kung fu from them. In order to perform the action scenes well, Hao and her partners worked hard ________ the fighting movies.

The show was ________ big success. But for Hao, it was more than just playing the role of a woman in the army. “The spirit of Mulan ________ in everyone’s mind up to now. We can feel the power of women from Mulan. I’m ________ to be able to show it to more people through dance,” Hao said.

Dong Yuhui used to be an English teacher at education and technology group New Oriental (新东方教育科技集团) but now he is a 30-year-old livestreaming (直播) host for East Buy. On Dec 5 he was widely mentioned and discussed online.

East Buy, a subsidiary (子公司) of the New Oriental, said that many of the things Dong said in his livestreams _________ by the East Buy team, not by himself. The then-CEO, Sun Dongxu, was angry with Dong and the team, which made Dong’s fans upset. Surprisingly, this thing made Dong even ________. In just one week, his Douyin followers increased by over 3 million, ________ East Buy lost more than 2 million followers. Sun was no longer the CEO, and Dong became vice president of New Oriental’s cultural and tourism business.

Although his fame ________, Dong remains humble (谦逊的). “I am not good-looking or tall;   I don’t know _________ so many supporters.” At the age of consumerism (消费主义), Dong does not trick consumers into buying unnecessary   products, but encourages ________ to be calm when shopping online. He also puts more effort into educational activities and events ________ farmers. He believes that people should not wish to be the next Dong Yuhui. “I want to tell ________ young livestreamers that they do not need to be me, as each story is moving in its own way. Besides, ________ your head and you will find a way.” He went on to say that people are not products made on production lines, and that ________ is what makes people special.

6 . Long ago and far away, there lived an old man and an old woman. One day, while the woman was washing clothes in the river, she ________ a great big orange on the water moving slowly towards her. Excitedly, she caught the orange and wanted ________ it home to eat.

________ the woman began to open the orange, suddenly, jumped out a little lovely boy! The man and woman didn’t know what ________. But they felt very happy and named the boy Bobonaro, or Orange Boy. As time went by, the boy became very strong and brave.

Life was wonderful until some robbers (盗贼) moved onto a near village. The robbers were always stealing ________ things from the people. Bobonaro wanted to drive all of them away. So he put some of his mother’s delicious food into ________ box and left home with it for that village. On the way to the village, he met a dog, a monkey and a bird. Bobonaro gave food to ________ and helped them a lot. So they became good friends. When he told them about his problem, each of the three ________ said, “I will help you get the robbers away. ”

________, Bobonaro and his friends drove the robbers away. ________ the help of his three friends, Bobonaro could come back home safely. All the people in his village were so happy to see him go back and everyone called him a hero because he was so brave.

7 . Wang Manyu was born in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province in 1999. She was born ________ a poor family. Her parents set up a street stall (摆地摊) to make a living. They lived a hard life. And these hand experiences greatly ________ her. She wanted to make her family live a better life with ________ own efforts (努力).

In August,2004, when Wang’s aunt went back to visit her ________, she advised Wang to learn to play table tennis. Because of her aunt’s ________ ,Wang became interested in table tennis at the age of 5. She practiced her skills hard every day. And she never stopped ________. With great efforts, Wang made great progress.

After only a year’s training, at the beginning of 2005, Wang won ________ seventh place in the children’s table tennis competition in the city. In 2008, the little girl ________ was only 9 years old took part in the children’s competition in Heilongjiang Province and won the first place. Then she ________ by the provincial (省的) training team. In September, 2021, Wang won the singles champion and women’s doubles champion in the 14th National Games. And on 30th November, Wang won the world table tennis singles championship for the first time.

________ Wang has made great achievements (成就), she still keeps on working hard.

My son Joey was born with clubfeet (畸形足). The doctors told us that with treatment (治疗) he would _______ able to walk normally, but would never run very well. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to run as _______ as the other children. So he didn’t know. In seventh grade, he decided to try out (参加选拔) for _______ Cross-country Team in his school. Every day, he trained _______ the team members. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others. _______ the whole team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential (潜力) to score points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know it.

He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day—even on the day he _______ a high fever. I was worried, so I went to look for him after school and I wanted to know if _______. I found him running all alone. I asked him how he felt, “Okay,” he said. He had two more miles _______. The sweat (汗水) ran down his face. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. Two weeks later, the team _______ names were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was only in seventh grade. We never told _______ he couldn’t do it, so he didn’t know it. He just did it.

9 . Almost everyone likes dogs, and almost everyone likes ________ stories about dogs.

I have a friend. ________ friend has a large police dog. ________ name is Jerry. Police dogs are often very clever. Every Sunday afternoon, my friend ________ Jerry for a long walk in the park. Jerry likes these long walks very much.

One Sunday afternoon, a young man ________ to visit my friend. He stayed a long time. He talked and talked. Soon it was time for my friend to take Jerry for his walk. ________ the young man still stayed. Jerry became very worried. He walked around the room several times and then sat down in front of the young man and ________ him. But the man continued talking. Finally Jerry ________ stand (忍受) it. He went out of the room and came back a few ________ later. He sat down again in front of the young man but this time he held the man’s hat ________ his mouth.

If you go to London, you can see a lot of buses and cars on the roads. You can also see many bikes because more and more people go out by _________. Why is that in such a big city? There _________ many reasons (原因). First, it is very cheap to buy a bike. Second, people often need to wait for a bus for half an hour. Finally, when the bus _________, so many other buses and cars also go on the roads, so the bus moves very slowly.

I go to work by bus for about four years. I often _________ at work late and feel tired. One day, a friend of _________ says, “I ride a bike to work. Why don’t we go to work together?” “My bike is old. I leave it at my home for a long time. I can see many buses and cars on the roads.” I answer. “Don’t be afraid. If you _________ me and we ride slowly, you’ll be fine.” he says.

Later, I buy a new bike. We ride slowly, _________ we arrive at work early. It takes me about 40 minutes _________ to work by bus, but only half an hour by bike! Now I love _________ a bike to work every day. And I feel _________. Many people think my idea is good and maybe you can see more bikes on the roads in London.