1 . All hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150, 000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue the workers. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped.     1    . To the north of the city, most of the 10, 000 miners were rescued from the coal mines there.     2    . Fresh water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.

The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping our rights and progress,     3    .     4    , or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We first broke the law in a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed,     5    .

2 . As Victor Hugo once said, “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face”, and up to now nobody has been able to do this better than Charlie Chaplin. He brightened the lives of Americans and British through two world wars and the hard years in between. He made people laugh at a time     1    , so they could feel more content with their lives.

Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed and produced the films he starred in. In 1972 he was given a special Oscar for his outstanding work in films. He lived in England and the USA but spent his last years in Switzerland, where he was buried in 1977. He is loved and remembered as a great actor who could     2     .

Which theme park would you like to visit? There are     3     theme parks, with a different park for almost everything: food, culture, science, cartoons, movies or history. Some parks are famous for having the biggest or longest roller coasters, others for     4     and sounds of a culture.     5     , there is a theme park for you!

3 . Frederick William I, the King of Prussia,     1     that his greatest gift to the Russian people would have     2     . This gift was the Amber room, which was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber     3     had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was     4     popular in those days. It was also a treasure     5     , which took the country’s artists about ten years to make.