We may think that literature has several genres, but there are really only three — poetry, drama and prose. When     1     (read) in school, students often encounter these English literary genres. Literary genres are     2     (category) of literature that generally are determined by technique, length, tone and content. When we list literary genres from a broader perspective, we know that they can be more abstract, flexible and loosely defined by comparison. However, when we get more specific into the subcategories, the type distinctions and rules become     3     (particular) clear.

On a rainy evening, Bob saw an old lady standing on the side of the road beside her car. He could see she needed help. So he     1     (stop) and said to her,“ I’m here to help you, madam. Why don’t you wait in the car where it is wram?” With much effort, he fixed the problem. The lady asked how much she owed him. Bob never expected     2     (get) paid. He told her that the next time she saw a person     3    needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed.

Scientists in Australia have built a new battery using sodium-sulphur, a type of salt from sea water. The battery can store four times more energy than a standard lithium battery and would be cheap to make     1     sea salt is widely available. It is also better for the environment than other batteries,     2     use rare metals (such as lithium). Sea-salt batteries have been made before but this is easily the best model so far. The team will continue working on the idea before this kind of the batteries     3    (go) on sale.

Elle Gianelli wanted to put a smile on the faces of the seniors who     1    (live) in nursing homes. So she found a creative way to do that. Born out of her love for wearing silly socks on the golf course, Elle Gianelli launched Socks4Seniors,     2    (raise) money via GoFundMe. When     3    (ask) what the money was for, she explained it would be used to purchase bright, patterned socks and thoughtful notes for all seniors in assisted living facilities in the country.

When a teacher asked his students to save their water bottles, Austin was determined to not just have a role to help the environment     1     to make a huge impact. The boy set out to collect hundreds of water bottle     2     (cap), which would be recycled and used to make prosthetic limbs (假肢). “I went home and thought of a way I could collect enough to help out.” Austin said that he     3     (be) aware that it was a simple way to help out young kids in need.

Last month, I passed by a cinema in the city center. A movie poster     1     (catch) my eyes. To my amazement, the new film     2     (produce) by Sam, one of my students. Sam was born in a poor family. His parents could not afford to send him to an art school     3     he could learn performance and filmmaking. So I helped and supported him. Sam had a talent for film and kept on all the way.

Roald Amundsen,    1    (bear) in 1872 near Oslo, Norway, left his mark on the Heroic Era as one of the most successful polar explorers in the world. He became the first to travel    2    the Northwest Passage, in his ship Gjoa in 1903-1906.After this journey, plans were made to reach the North Pole, but news of Peary’s success in reaching the pole arrived,    3     caused Amundsen to make new plans for a journey to the Antarctic and the South Pole. On December 14, 1911, Amundsen and four others     4     (stand) at the South Pole, a month before Robert Scott.