Have you ever seen a painting destroy     1     (it)? This strange event happened during a recent auction (拍卖) in London.

Girl With Balloon is one of the most well-known works of British artist Banksy. It     2     (sell) for £1.04 million (about 9.49 million yuan) at the Sotheby auction house on Oct 5. However, shortly     3     the hammer (锤子) went down, the painting began to slide down its frame (画框) and half of the painting was cut into     4     (piece)!

In fact, there     5     (be) a shredder (碎纸机) in the frame. More surprisingly, the artist might have set the shredder in the frame himself years ago, Yahoo News reported.

Banksy is known     6     being mysterious and unpredictable. No one knows his real name,     7     his paintings are everywhere across the UK. He always plays hoaxes (恶作剧) on the art world.

People believe this is just another example of Banksy     8     (play) a trick. They think he is against the commercialization (商品化) of art.

However, the     9     (fun) part is that this hoax might have made the painting more valuable. “(The price is) possibly as high as being worth £2 million (about 18.2 million yuan) plus,” Joey Syer,     10     (found) of art website MyArtBroker.com, told the Guardian.

Flying cars may soon become a     1     (real). The ride-share service Uber has asked an   expert from NASA, the American space agency,    2    (help)

Uber plans to use flying vehicles in the future to avoid traffic in and around cities. The company wants to use small,    3     (total) electric aircraft which could take    4     and land like a helicopter on top of parking garages. Uber said its flying vehicles would be much     5    (quiet), cost less to operate and produce less pollution than helicopters.

One person in San Francisco wrote on Twitter, “I used to think that flying cars was a ridiculous idea.    6     I changed my mind this morning when I sat in a heavy traffic.”     7     person added from Mumbai, India: “I’m reading about Uber     8     (hire) a NASA engineer to build flying cars, while I’m     9     (trap) in traffic. There is hope.”

The expert predicts there will be several early models of cars     10     can’t fly themselves but with human pilots within one to three years.

So far, China Eastern Airlines    1    (receive) approval(批准)fiom the Ministry oflndustry and Information Technology to offer in- flight Wi-Fi service on 21 airplanes.

The carrier becomes China's first airline company    2    （provide) Wi-Fi service for both domestic and international flights. Passengers    3    (leave) for New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Beijing and Guangzhou will have access    4    me Wi-Fi service through a telecommunication satellite.

The flights will begin to provide the service in one month after operational    5    （prepare). The Wi-Fi service will be free in the 21 airplanes at the beginning,    6    a charge list is now under discussion.

The company plans to put in Wi-Fi service    7    (equip) in all airplanes by 2019-2020. Other carriers in China, such as Air China and Hainan Airlines also have been following this attempt in some oftheir flights during the past few years.

Industry experts note that    8    approval for the Wi-Fi service on 21 airplanes.is a trial for commercial in-flight Internet service operations in China. Aviation(航空)business staff say that China has the potential to become the world's     9    (large) aviation market,    10    is likely to create tens of billions of yuan in profit in the aviation Internet business.

China has once again proved its     1     (able) to change the world with the “new four great inventions”: high-speed railways, electronic payments, shared bicycles and online shopping. They’re related to China’s high-tech innovation (创新),     2     has improved the quality of people’s lives, according to a survey     3     (make) by the Belt and Road Research Institute of Beijing Foreign Studies University.

“My wallet is no longer in use. I can buy and eat whatever I want simply with a fingertip on my phone,” said     4     university student, adding that “even pancake sellers are using mobile payment”.

The bikes     5     (them) are not new, but the operating model of bike-sharing     6     (base) on satellite navigation system, mobile payment, big data and other high technologies.

China has entered a new innovative era, thanks to the large amounts of capital China has invested in     7     (encourage) innovation, said Bernhard Schwartlander, WHO Representative in China.

It is increasingly clear that China is innovating and no longer copying Western ideas. This is especially true in mobile, where China is leading     8     many ways such as…social messaging app WeChat, she said. This is partly     9     China skipped over the PC era and went directly to mobile. China has a     10     (large) mobile use than any other country in the world.

English is now the first language of about 400 million people, the mother language of 12 countries and the official language of one-fifth of the land area of the world,    1    means one    2    every seven people in the world speaks English.

More and more people have found it important    3    (learn) English well in recent years. In Italy, for example, English is a must for many technical jobs. In China, English is the    4    (important) foreign language that is learned at school.

The English language has never stopped changing. It always borrows words and phrases from other cultures to enlarge    5    (it) vocabulary.    6    (actual), modern English is quite different from what    7    (use) hundreds of years ago.

English is so widely used that it has become the standard language for    8    (communicate) internationally. About 75% of the world’s mail    9    (be) in English. About 60% of the world’s telephone calls are made in English and about 60% of the world’s radio programs are broadcast in English. What’s more, over half of the world’s books and magazines are written in English. In    10    word, English is now the world’s first language.

Prime Minister of the UK Theresa May's visit to China shows the more frequent communication between Britain and China. The cultural differences between the two countries have caused a heated     1    （discuss）.

Table manners are the important process in our daily life. We get used to using chopsticks     2     Englishmen use knives and forks. It's impolite     3    （laugh）when you are eating in Britain, which suggests you don't respect others.     4     the contrary, we laugh and talk during a meal. What's more, in Britain, people have to drive along the left side of the road, but traffic in our country     5    （keep）to the right. Besides, for Chinese students, what they have experienced in studying is     6     organized learning way. Students are asked to follow a clear plan.    7    （compare） with Chinese education, British education is     8    （flexibility） and imaginative. Students there are encouraged to discuss the subject they want to learn. Last but not least, in China, "thank you" is not frequently used between friends and family members. However, "thank you" is     9    （wide） used in Britain.

There is no sense in debating     10    is better. We owe these manners to the different history, but you should do as the Romans do.

The political leaders from eight of the world’s     1     (wealthy) nations will meet in Scotland this summer. It is going to be remembered as a historical meeting this year, as they will discuss the topic of Africa     2     detail. There are many problems for African people     3     (solve) , such as     4     (poor) , sex education and health care administration. People from all over the world have demanded that the leaders     5     (cancel) the debt of Africa’s poorest countries to help     6     escape the painful pasts.

At 12:45 UK time today, London     7     (announce) by the IOC in Singapore to be the host city for the 2012 Olympic Games. London had held the games twice     8     (success ) . Applications to host the games had also been made by the other four cities. In the end, London got the right to host the Games. It now has the distinction of being     9     first city to host the event three times. The good news made the crowds in London so     10     (delight) that they celebrated it everywhere: in pubs, homes and offices all over London.

During the     1     (twenty) century , the temperature of the earth     2     (rise) about one degree Fahrenheit. It is a rapid increase when compared    3     other natural changes .

There is no doubt    4    the earth is becoming warmer. Scientists believe     5     is human activity that has caused this global warming. The increase in the earth's temperature is due to the    6     (burn) of fossil fuels. Some byproducts of this process     7     (call) “greenhouse” gases, the most important one of    8    is carbon dioxide. Without the “greenhouse effect”, the earth would be thirty-three degree Celsius    9     (cool) than it is. So, we need those gases. The problem begins when we add huge quantities of extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, causing the global temperature     10     (go) up.