2 . I was expecting to have a quiet day, but it turned out(结果是) to be just the opposite. It was Saturday morning _______ I was reading on the sofa when the phone rang. “Come quickly, Sam, I need your _______!” It was my best friend George, so I couldn't_______. “Where are you?” I asked. “I'm _______home, watching the house opposite. Come quickly, through the back garden.”

I_______there. George told me two men were stealing things from Simon's house. They were moving the TV and the computers onto their van(客货车).

“But George, it's clear,” I said impatiently(不耐烦地). “They _______ be moving house.”

“That's impossible! You know Simon's in our class, but he has said _______about it！” said George.

I realized he was right. So we phoned the_______. They soon arrived and took the two men _______. “You are so brave！” said one policeman. Later, Simon's parents learned what we had done and they were so ________. They took us out for dinner that night.

Sometimes, a small act can mean a lot to others.

Public transport is     1     important part of many people’s lives. We need it to go to work, visit family and     2    (friend), go on trips, and go about our daily business. However, in many countries, trains, buses and subways (地铁) are     3    (amazing) expensive. A new plan in Germany has been started to make     4    (get) around easier. Transport companies have got together to create the Deutschland-Ticket (D-Ticket for short). This allows people who buy it     5    (use) all local and regional (区域的) transport across the country for just €49 a month. The ticket is for all public transport in Germany except long-distance intercity trains (长途城际列车). So far, the companies     6    (sell) more than three million tickets.       

Transport bosses hope the new ticket will be good for the environment. They want more people to leave their cars at home and use more environmentally-friendly forms    7     transport. Germany’s Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, welcomed the new ticket. He said this easy     8    cheap offer would help Germany achieve     9    (it) climate (气候) goals and be carbon neutral (碳中和的) by 2050. A transport expert said more people should use trains and buses. Other     10    (Europe) countries may also start a similar ticket.

No discussion about Chinese culture is complete without mentioning of the Great Wall. It is one of the most amazing     1    (structure) in the entire world. Through more than 2,000 years from the     2    (seven) century BC to the 16th century AD, 19 Dynasties built parts of the Great Wall,     3    (add) up to over 100,000 kilometers. It prevented northern people on horseback     4     attacking people in the south.

The hardships involved in building the Great Wall are beyond     5    (imagine). A Chinese idiom     6    (vivid) expresses the Great Wall, “Efforts joined by many can build the Great Wall.”

Over the centuries, the Great Wall    7    (become) a symbol of strength for the Chinese people. For example, the national anthem, composed by Nie Er,     8    (call) on the people to “build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood.”

The well-preserved sections we see today were mainly built during the Ming Dynasty (1368