As a player, Lang Ping brought     1     and glory to her country. As a coach, she led the China women’s volleyball team to     2     at world championships and the Olympics. As a person, Lang Ping is loved by fans at home and     3    . When the Chinese team was     4     for the 2015 World Cup, her determination was tested. The team that Lang Ping had built was falling     5    . One of the best players had been     6    , and the team captain had to leave because of heart problems. Losing two important players was a big challenge,     7     Lang Ping did not lose heart. She had faced difficulties     8    , and she knew that her young players could win if they     9     together as a team. Two weeks later, they were world     10     ! Then in 2016, Lang Ping led her volleyball team to Olympic gold in Brazil.

Put simply,     1     is your natural ability that can be developed when you try hard enough. Who knows what beautiful works of art you will create, what medical     2     you will make or what     3     technologies you will develop! The     4     are endless, and I have     5     in your ability to make a     6     to your family, to your community and to our country.

You need to make a     7     effort to train your mind and develop your     8    . Senior high school will help you learn and grow, yet you alone are    9     for     10     your great potential.

What is your attitude(态度) towards making mistakes? What have you learned from some of your past mistakes?

Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds of the last century. During his lifetime, Einstein t     1     about the universe and solved many problems in physics. Einstein is most f    2     for his Theory of Relativity(相对论).

Einstein’s early years

Einstein was b    3     in Germany in 1879. After he finished school, he went on to study physics in Switzerland. In 1905, Einstein began to write articles and became a pioneer in the f    4     of modern physics. For one of those articles, he received the Nobel Prize in 1921.

Einstein, the t    5    

Einstein taught at universities in Switzerland and Germany. He left Germany in 1933 and went to teach a    6     Princeton University in the United States.

Einstein died in 1955. He signed his last letter b    7     he passed away(去世).The letter asked people to give u    8     nuclear weapons(核武器).

Einstein’s sayings

“The important thing is not to stop q    9    .”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion(结论) is false. The h    10     time I am right.”

Parents, especially those of teenagers, care about their children’s education more than anything     1     (别的). They would do everything for their children. Many of them spend most of their     2     (多余的) time helping their children with studies. If they have no time or can’t do it themselves, they would hire family teachers or     3     (送) their children to after-class schools. It seems as if a better education is all that parents       4     (期待) for children.

How can we explain the present situation? First of all, many parents have     5     (意识到) that future success     6     (取决于) more and more on skills and education. Secondly, in a competitive (竞争的)     7     (社会) there are both losers and     8     (胜利者). Those who have better skills and more knowledge will enjoy more opportunities.

Certainly, it is     9     (重要的) to learn to succeed, but the first thing to learn is how to survive (生存), how to be a qualified citizen (合格的公民). If this is     10     (包括) in good education, the children will surely have a bright future and be healthy in body and mind.

So don’t feel sorry for the     1     or make fun of them, and don’t ignore them either. Just accept them for who they are, and give them     2     to live as rich and full a life as you do.

He had opened the curtains that night so that the other woman would see him and Claire,     3     that there was no risk to Claire’s marriage. But even though Tony had been so clever, he would have to be rebuilt-you cannot have women     4     in love with machines.

Being badly wounded, the whale soon died. Within a moment or two, its body was     5     swiftly by the killers down into the     6     of the sea.

Sometimes I wonder how     7     chemistry is to these students, most of     8     will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway.

Xie lei, who is 21 years old, has come to our university to study for a business     9    .   She is halfway through the     10     year, which most foreign students complete before applying for a degree course.

A footballer was     1     of taking money for deliberately not scoring goals so as to let the other team win We went to interview him. He     2     taking money but we were skeptical... It was a dilemma because the footballer could     3     demanded damages if we were wrong.

Remove clothing using scissors if necessary unless it is    4     to the burn… It is best to place burns under gently     5     water for about 10 minutes. (The cool water stops the burning process, prevents the pain becoming unbearable and reduces     6     .

During the Renaissance, new ideas and values gradually replaced     7     held in the Middle Ages. People began to concentrate     8     on religious themes and     9     a more humanistic attitude to life. …    10     coincidence, oil paints were also developed at this time, which made the colors used in paintings look richer and deeper.

Writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 11rh, 2012. The Swedish Academy, which gives out the annual prizes, d    1    Mo’s works as a mixture of fantasy and reality, history and the contemporary.

Mo, 57, whose r    2    name is Guan Moye, is the first Chinese writer to win the h    3    . It also came with a financial award of $ 1.2 million. “I grew up in an environment immersed in Chinese folk culture, which inevitably (不可避免地 ) come i    4    my novels when I pick up a pen to write. This has definitely affected -even d    5    - my novels’ artistic style.”Mo told the reporters s    6    after he won the award.

“Mo Yan d    7    the prize for what he has achieved.” said Eric Abrahamsent, a critic and founder of Paper Republic, and English-language website on Chinese literature. “Throughout his l    8    he has done much to develop the language and style of contemporary Chinese literature.”

A    9    China is proud of a tradition of literature and scholarship, few writers have won international r    10    . And for that reason, the Noble Prize for literature has always been an aspiration for Chinese writer. Mo’s win will shift the focus to more previously unknown Chinese works.

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.

10 . 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!