1 . Erjiu

A video of a 66-year-old man ______ Erjiu has gone viral (走红、火了) on Chinese social media after his nephew Tang Hao shared the man’s brief but ______ life story on short-video platform Bilibili on Monday.

In the video, Erjiu is shown as a “young ______” who always performed well academically at school during childhood. ______, while he was a teenager, a high fever was misdiagnosed (误诊的) and he ______the wrong medicine, _____ resulted in Erjiu losing the use of his left leg. Erjiu, who _____ in bed in low____ for one year afterward, then learned carpentry by watching a carpenter (木工、木匠) going about woodworking tasks _______ three days, and he later did woodworking in the village and the town.

According to Tang, it would be inaccurate to merely define Erjiu _____ a carpenter, since he demonstrated his _____ skills by fixing an electrical socket patch panel (插座接线板), a gas stove and a toy car during the three days the video was shot in the village. He also _____ erhu — a traditional Chinese musical instrument-with wood, using fishing line for strings _______ snakeskin as covering.

Erjiu, who said that he _____ felt sorry for himself despite his difficulties, now _____ his 88-year-old mother. At the end of the video, Tang shares a sentence that Erjiu found in a book decades ago: “Be _____ and not afraid of sacrifice to _____ all difficulties and win the final success.”

The man, who uses a cane (拐杖) due to a longtime ______, is portrayed as a common hero ______never bows to life’s difficulties, but struggles instead ______ a full and meaningful village life.

2 . Farming and Gardening

Agriculture has a long history in China. Much of the wisdom _________ by early Chinese scientists is still useful for farmers and gardeners today. One of China’ s early agricultural scientists was Jia Sixie, who lived in the sixth century AD. He spent his time doing _______ into agriculture. He collected information, did experiments and learnt from the _______ of farmers.

Around 540 AD, he wrote a book called Qimin Yaoshu.The book is about both farming and _________ It includes advice on the following _________ growing green vegetables and fruit trees, and keeping animals. Jia Sixie’ s book is a practical guide for farming. Firstly, as a farmer you should do things at the right time of the year. If you sow seeds and _______ young plants in the fields at the correct time of the year, your work will be less and _______ will be better. The _______ of the soil is also very important. Examine the soil on your farm _______. If the condition of your soil is not good, you should improve it. Before sowing or planting crops, you must clean rough ground and ________ weeds. The best harvest is reached when farmers ________ the crops in their fields. For example, do not-plant rice __________ in the same field. But if you plant rice in a field one year and wheat in the field the next year, you will ________ good crops.

Other scientists said that wheat should be planted with ________ between the plants, but Jia did experiments and ________ that planting wheat close together was better.

4 . My father often works very hard. And he has __________to see a film. Here I’ll tell you __________about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work and __________ go home, he found a film ticket under the __________on his desk. He thought he __________to have not much work to do that day and __________ was quite wonderful to pass the __________at the cinema. So he came back home and __________finished his supper. Then he said __________ to us and left.

But to our ____________, he came back about half an hour later, I ____________ him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about ____________funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a ____________came to my father’s and said that the seat was ____________. My father was surprised. He took out the ticket ____________ looked at it carefully. It was Row17, ____________. And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her ____________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3. ____________? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The ____________of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, ____________, I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

5 . When I was 15 years old, I was a straight-A student. I was always _______ with a great group of friends, and I would hang out with them every weekend. Then I moved to a new place just before high school and everything _______ overnight.

While trying to _______ to my new surroundings, I also started the tenth grade. Going to a public school in a big city, _______, was harder than before.

I didn’t _______ well in class. Although I tried hard, my mind would go _______ the moment I attended the exam. All my _______ didn’t pay off, and I failed somehow. As a result, I became _______ and turned to video games.

My English teacher noticed what I was _______. He suggested I should go to the after-school classes for the kids who needed help. ________ to get a passing grade, I went. And that’s where I met Oliver. ________, he became my best friend and I was back on ________. And little by little, my ________ improved. It seemed that reshaping myself in a new environment wasn’t that terrible as ________.

As the year progressed, I made many friends and won many awards as well. Looking back, I see that my depression (沮丧) slowly disappeared. Having a friend really ________, even more than video games.

6 . Once there was a little boy who became very ill. He had to spend all day in bed, unable to_________.

Because other children weren’t_________to come near him, he_________greatly, and spent his days feeling sad.

There wasn’t much he could do except look out of the_________.Time passed, and his feeling of_________just grew. Until one day he saw a_________shape in the window. It was a penguin eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin got in through the_________window, said “good afternoon” to the boy, turned around, and_________.

The boy was very_________.He was still trying to work out what had happened, when outside his window he saw a monkey, busy blowing up a balloon(气球).__________, the boy asked himself what that could possibly be, but after a while, as more and more crazy looking__________appeared out the window, he began to laugh suddenly and found it hard to__________.The boy didn’t tell anyone about this because who would have__________him? Even so, those strange characters put joy back in his heart, and in his body. Soon, his__________had improved so much that he was able to go back to__________again. There he got to talk to his best friend all the strange things he had__________. He saw something sticking out of his friend’s school bag. The boy asked his friend what it was.__________his friend had to show him what was in the__________: There, inside, were all the fancy-dress suits that his friends had been using to try to__________the little boy!

From that day on, the little boy always did his best to__________that no one felt sad and alone.