Sang Lan’s story is so special. Everyone who saw her, from nurses to famous visitors like Lconardo DiCaprio from the film Titanic, who went to see her in the hospital to     1    her up , add said she was in good     2    . Sang Lan knew that for many people the secret to happiness is to have     3     for the good things in life ,and to focus on goals, Instead of crying about what she had lost and feeling hopeless, Sang Lan thought about what she could do to get better . Her teammates were competing while she was in hospital . When they visited her and told her about their     4     she was happy for them . When the doctor told her that she would never again be a gymnast , she was able to     5     her sorrow by being proud of the things she had accomplished . She felt thankful to be alive and lucky to have the rest of her life to learn new things.

Since the 1970s many new    1     have been found for me. …I have even been put into space rockets and sent to explore the Moon and Mars.     2    , my goal is to provide humans with a life   of high quality. I am now truly filled with happiness that I am a    3     friend and helper of the human race.

There are two main sets of Games---the Winter and the Summer Olympics, and both are held every four years on a    1     basis. The Winter Olympics are usually held two years before the Summer Games. Only athletes who have reached the agreed standard for their event will be    2     as competitors.

Our Greek cities used to compete against each other just for the honor of winning. No other countries could join in, nor    3     slaves or women!

4 . 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    .

Most teenagers tend to s    1     from growing pains during adolescence, during which they go through many   p    2     and psychological changes. For one thing, parents are       3    （严厉的）on their children. They cannot t    4     children’s improper behavior in daily lives.

They often c    5     that their children show too much enthusiasm for social media, which greatly reduces their concentration on study. For another thing, parents attach too much importance to a    6     performance of their children. Once children fail to live up to their expectations, they will get upset. Therefore, teenagers often feel stressed and even c    7     about their future.

To deal with the situation       8    （适当地），teenagers should communicate     9    （定期地）with their parents, which will definitely minimize their growing pains and achieve a b    10     between life and study.

John Snow was a famous doctor in London —so    1    , indeed, that he attended Queen Victoria as her personal     2    . But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people     3    to cholera.

First there was England. Wales was    4     to it in the thirteenth century.Now when people refer to England you find Wales    5    as well.Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to “Great Britain”. Happily this was accomplished without    6     when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.

At first my new surroundings were difficult to    7    . The air seemed thin, as though its combination of gases had little oxygen     8    . Hit by a    9     of fresh air, my head ached. Just as I tried to make the necessary    10    to this new situation, Wang Ping appeared.

Lesson1: …The most unusual car was a Benz which had only three     1    .

…Many of the cars broke     2     on the course and some drivers spent more time under their cars than in them! A few cars, however, completed the race. The winning car reached     3     speed of forty miles an hour—    4     faster than any of its rivals.

Lesson2: ...Though she     5     for a moment, she finally went in and asked to see a dress that was in the window. The assistant     6     served her did not like the way she was dressed. Glancing at her scornfully, he told her that the dress     7    . The woman walked out of the shop angrily and decided to punish the assistant next day. She returned the shop the following morning     8     in a fur coat, with a handbag in one hand and a long umbrella in the other.

...Not realizing who she was, the assistant was     9     to serve her this time.     10     great difficulty, he climbed into the shop window to get the dress. As soon as she saw it, the woman said she did not like it.

8 . 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!

9 . I had heard of the killers that helped whalers catch huge whales. When I worked at a whaling station, I     1     it many times. One afternoon, I heard a loud noise coming from the bay. We ran down to the shore     2     time to see an enormous animal throwing itself out of the water. George, one of the whalers, told me that it was Old Tom, the killer, who was telling us there's a whale. Another whaler     3     out to     4     a whale hunt. We immediately headed out into the bay, with Old Tom     5     us the way. Using a telescope we saw that several killers    6     there were throwing themselves on top of the whale's blow­hole to stop it     7     while others were stopping it diving or     8     out to sea. Then the man in the bow of the boat aimed at the whale and killed it. These killers     9     harmed or attacked people. Once when we were in the bay, the sea was     10     , for which James was carried away by waves. Worse still, there was a shark. Fortunately, Old Tom rescued James.

10 . John Snow was a famous doctor in London-so    1    ,indeed,that he    2    Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became    3    when he thought about helping ordinary people    4    to cholera.This was the deadly disease of its day.Neither its cause nor its    5    was understood.So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak.John Snow wanted to face the challenge and solve this problem.

First there was England.Wales was    6    to it in the thirteenth century.Now when people    7    to England you find Wales    8    as well.Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to "Great Britain".Happily this was accomplished without    9    when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.Finally the English government tried in the early twentieth century to form the United Kingdom by getting Ireland    10    in the same peaceful way.