Mark Twain was born in Florida on November 30^th, 1835.He     1    （bring）up in Hannibal, Missouri, along the Mississippi River, where he got great     2     （beneficial）for his later writing career. He is best known for his     3     （novel）which were set in his boyhood world on the river, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He loved the river so much that even his pen name was     4     （concern）with the river. The phrase "mark twain" means that the water is two fathoms in depth.

The play The Million Pound Bank Note has attracted the attention of a great number of readers. It was the summer of 1903, when two     5     （wealth）brothers made a bet. One of them doubted    6     a man could survive a month in London     7     a million pound bank note. At this moment, they saw a penniless man     8     （wander）on the pavement. It was Henry,     9    American businessman, who was lost in London.

    10     （obvious）, the play is very attractive to readers. If you are interested, you can give it a try.

A reporter from Jiangsu Province went to Australia and some other countries with his father for a 3-month trip,     1     turned out to be a miracle (奇迹).

The reporter’s father spent most of his life    2     (work) on the farm. The son started these    3     (amaze) trips with his father because the father got cancer-----a serious    4     (ill). The reporter wanted    5     (take) his father to travel in the hope that his father can find his younger self in his last days. They    6     (travel) more than 13,000 kilometers and took over 110,000    7     (picture) on their trips to different countries. Well, a miracle happened during the “rebirth” trips.     8     their surprise, his father got    9     (good) and became more open-hearted.

He even taught himself to play    10     violin, and then he played it very well after practice. After that miracle trip, now he is expecting another trip to Africa. He is the most stylish dad ever. Time carves (雕刻) the old father’s face but youth flows in his blood. This is the real style.

If you visit a supermarket in the UK in March or April, you will notice a strange thing: Shelf after shelf is filled with large, brightly-colored eggs.

Look a little     1     (close) and you will discover something else. These eggs aren’t real. In fact, they     2     (make) of chocolate. And that can mean only one thing — it’s Easter time again.

Easter is a festival     3     has been celebrated in Britain for thousands of years. These days we mark the occasion (场合) by     4     (give) each other chocolate eggs, or Easter eggs. But what are the roots of this     5     (tradition) event?

For Christian people Easter is a religious festival. According     6     the Bible, Jesus Christ was killed by the Romans     7     came back to life three days later. That is     8     Easter is seen as a time of rebirth.

However, some people suggest that Easter has its origins in pre-Christian times. They say that the very earliest societies celebrated the end of winter and the beginning of spring — the time     9     life returns to the land.

Whatever its origins, Easter is big business. The UK’s biggest retailer (零售商) of Easter eggs sold more than 20 million units last year and some Easter eggs     10     cost more than £20!

There is a gigantic study that’s been done in 38 cultures.     1    turns out that in every culture, both males and females desire their potential mates to be bright. But we don’t have our IQs     2     (print) on our forehead. How do we know that someone’s     3    (intelligence)? In Western cultures, at least, it’s often by the person’s sense of humor. Because creating and appreciating jokes both require us to make     4     (connect) between many separate pieces of information,     5     (have) a sense of humor shows that we possess a wide knowledge and     6     we know how to think about things in novel and creative ways.

Take a cartoon     7     example: a mouse is standing outside his house, having just pulled a gun on a cat, who pretends to give in by raising one paw (爪). “Six rounds. Nine lives. You do the math,” the cat says. In order to appreciate this joke, you need to know that mice are     8     (usual) the victims of cats, many guns have six bullets (子弹), and cats     9     (say) to have nine lives because of their ability to always land on their feet. You also need to be able to do some math     10     (understand) that the cat has the advantage in this scene after all.

The Burj A1 Arab is a luxury hotel in Dubai. It stands on a man-made island     1    (locate) just off Dubai’s coast, and is connected to the mainland by means of a private bridge. The amazing building is one of the tallest hotels in the world. It was designed to look like the sail of a “dhow”，     2     type of Arabian boat. Tom Wright, the designer of the hotel, said he wanted the Burj A1 Arab to be a symbolic     3     (construct) for Dubai like the Eiffel Tower is for Paris.

The Burj A1 Arab has 202 rooms as well as six award-winning restaurants. One of these restaurants, the A1 Muntaha,     4     (offer) fantastic views of Dubai, because it is 200 metres above sea level.

Guests     5     decide to stay at the Burj A1 Arab can look forward to     6     (receive) extremely good service. From the moment you check in to the moment you are dropped off at the airport, the hotel’s staff take care of everything.

    7    (fortunate), entry into the Burj A1 Arab is not allowed unless you are a hotel guest. But don’t worry; views of the outside of the hotel are as     8     (impress) as views of its inside. So, if you ever visit Dubai, be sure     9     (take) a photograph of the Burj A1 Arab. It is     10    a doubt one of the most beautiful hotels in the world!

The World Expo 2020 will be held in Dubai,in the United Arab Emirates (UAE),between October next year and the following April,     1     the design of the China Pavilion （展馆） has been made public in the city.

The blueprint for the China Pavilion     2     (present) at a ceremony last Wednesday.With the design presented,the next step is to speed up construction.         3    (occupy) an area of more than 4,600 square meters,it will be one of the largest at the expo.Its     4    (inspire) was drawn from a Chinese lantern,    5    symbolizes hope and a bright future.It combines Chinese elements with modern technologies and shows China’s latest achievements    6    science and information communication.The China Pavilion will be built with the theme “Building a community with a    7     (share) future for mankind--Innovation and Opportunity.”

The Dubai World Expo is a platform to display the economic and social development of the participating     8    (country).It also showcases the bilateral     9    (friend) exchange between the UAE and other countries.

The UAE plays a big role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative and says it hopes the World Expo will help to improve ties with China . The World Expo has been     10    (irregular) held once every few years since 1851 and each Expo lasts for six months or so.