When I was in college, a white cat often showed up on our campus. It was clear that he was a stray (流浪的) cat    1     he looked thin and weak. Students would play with him after class and feed him all kinds of food. The school didn’t say anything about the cat for    2    long time. But one day, we were    3    (tell) that one of our fellow students had an infectious (传染的) disease and that the cat was possibly the source.    4    (sudden), we were not allowed to touch any stray    5    (animal) on campus. The school started to make efforts to keep animals off campus as well.Since we were not allowed to feed the white cat, it was hard for him to find food on the street. He    6    (become) weak and skinny. But while the rest of us ignored the cat, a security guard at our school decided to take on the responsibility of    7    (care) for him. He took the cat to an animal clinic    8    the cat was given a health check. He then bought food for the cat, as well as a small bed for him to sleep in. He made sure the cat was healthy and    9    (comfort).It might seem like a small effort to some people. But this man risked    10    (he) job - the only source of income - just to feed a tiny cat   no one else cared for. It was a very heartwarming thing to see.

All the housewives who went to the new supermarket had one great wish: to be the lucky customer (顾客) who do not have to pay for     1     (she) shopping. For this was what the notice just inside the entrance promised. It said, “Remember, once a week, one of our customers gets free goods. This may     2     (be) your lucky day!” For several     3     (week), like many of her friends , Mrs. Edwards hoped to be the lucky customer. Unlike her friends, she never gave     4     hope. The cupboards in her kitchen were full     5     things, which she did not need. Her husband tried to advise her against buying things but failed. She dreamed of the day when the manager of the supermarket would come to her and say, “Madam, this is your lucky day. Everything in your basket is free.”

On Friday morning, after she had finished her shopping and taken it to her car, she found that she had forgotten     6     (buy) any tea. She ran back to the supermarket, got the tea and went towards the cash desk (收银台). As she did so, she     7     (see) the manager of the supermarket come to her. “Madam,” he     8     (glad) said, holding out his hand, “I want to say     9     (congratulate) to you! You are our lucky customer and everything     10     you have in your basket is free!”

Chang Pengfei was quite     1     (excite) when his Bluetooth microphone was voted one of the 12 most popular     2     (gift) on sale in Beijing in late December last year. The product     3     (combine) many Beijing symbols, from Peking Opera facial makeup to calligraphy(书法),can also be connected to a karaoke app and offer     4     (it) users entertainment.

The gifts include artworks, face masks, traditional Chinese liquor(酒) and cakes     5     a11 bear Beijing characteristics. The event    6     (host) by the Beijing Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau and received more than l.58 million votes.

Chang is planning to add more Beijing     7     (culture) symbols to future products. He believes the local touches applied to the Bluetooth microphone has promoted its     8     (appear), and other symbols of Beijing can be applied to more gifts in the capital.

Wang Yue, a government official, hopes more designers will join the Beijing Gifts platform. “There's still room     9     online sales, and we hope that Beijing Gifts will become     10     calling card for Chinese and Beijing culture,” Wang says.

Did you grow up in one culture, your parents came from another, and you are now living in a     1     (total) different country? If so, then you are a third-culture kid.

The term ''third-culture kid''     2     (use) in the 1960s for the first time by Dr. Ruth. She first came across this phenomenon while     3     (research) North American children living in India. In general, third-culture kids benefit from     4     (they) intercultural experience and they often reach excellent academic results.

Yet many     5     (difficulty) may arise from this phenomenon. Third-culture kids may not be able to adapt themselves completely     6     their new surroundings. Also, they often find it hard     7     (develop) new friendships. Additionally, for third-culture kids, it is often     8     (easy) to move to a new country than to return to their homeland. For example, after living in Australia for many years, Louis finally returned to Turkey as a teenager. But she felt out of place when she returned to the country     9     she was born. She didn't know anything about current TV shows     10     fashion trends. And she didn’t share the same values as other teens of her age.

Some unusual words describe how a person spends his or her time. For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or     1     (lie) down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato. A couch is a piece of furniture for people to sit on.

Couch potatoes enjoy watching television just     2     mouse potatoes enjoy working on computers. A computer mouse is the device that moves the pointer     3     a computer screen. The     4     (describe) of mouse potatoes became popular in 1993. American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who use computers a lot.

Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching television can cause someone     5     (get) cabin fever. A cabin is a simple house usually     6     (build) far away from the city. People go to a cabin to relax and enjoy quiet time.

Cabin fever is not really     7     disease. However, people can feel     8     (bore) if they spend too much time inside their homes. This is     9     (especial) true during the winter     10     it is too cold or snowy to do things outside. Often children get cabin fever if they cannot go out to play. So do their parents.

The day before he heads to a war, an undefeated     1     (command) named Qi has a dream in which he loses a battle and dies. When he wakes up, Qi gets ready to go and fight. While gaining successive victories, Qi decides to celebrate, although there is a final battle     2     (wait) for him. When he gets     3     (drink) and falls asleep in his tent, Qi’ s army     4     (attack) by the enemy and he gets killed just as his dream predicted. This is the story that has inspired the latest Kunqu Opera production.

As one of the oldest of the traditional Chinese opera     5    5    6     (form），Kunqu Opera, which is about 600 years old,     7    6    8     （combine） singing, dancing and lyrical recitation. Performed in the Suzhou dialect （方言）.UNESCO listed Kunqu Opera as an intangible heritage（非物质文化遗产）of humanity in 2001.

Earlier this year, a plan of combining Kunqu Opera and traditional Chinese idioms was developed,     9     would allow young Chinese directors and Kunqu Opera performers     10     （work） together. The young artists are working on developing original plays based on traditional Chinese idioms to keep     11     tradition alive while making it popular again    12     new ideas.

Chinese dragons（龙）are fictional creatures, a root of Chinese people who considered themselves as the descendants（后代）of dragons. Since their creation, Chinese dragons     1    （win）the deep love from Chinese people, because of     2    （they）strong power and symbolic meanings. They played     3    important role in the history of Chinese nation, politics, religion, culture and Chinese language and became a symbol of China and Chinese people.

Dragon is a belief of Chinese nation and a     4    （gold）Chinese element（元素）. When a person hears the name of dragon, China     5    （come）to his or her mind. As the strongest animal     6    （select）by Chinese people, dragon has the strongest power       7     helps it go to the Heaven and the Hell, and make cloud and rains. In ancient times, as a belief, dragon gave strong supports to the ruling of a big nation, and to people’s fragile spirits and hard life because people suffered from extreme natural disasters and lack     8     the supports from science. The     9    （important）of dragon to Chinese people is like water to creatures, and it     10    （reflect）in people’s spirit, beliefs, and ideology.

Johann Strauss was     1     Austrian composer of light   music，particularly dance   music and operettas (轻歌剧). He was born   in Vienna in 1825. Although his father didn't   want him     2     (become) a musician, Strauss studied the violin     3     (secret) when he was a child. When his father discovered his son was practicing on a violin one day, he gave him a beating,     4     (say) that he was going to beat the music out of   the boy. But that didn't prevent the boy from becoming one of the greatest     5     (composer) of all time. He wrote his first waltz at six. At the age of 19, he decided to devote himself to     6     (write) music. He formed his own orchestra and made a   successful tour to Europe and soon became   famous. The emperor of Austria was so     7     (please) with his music that he   appointed him the conductor at the court balls   of Vienna. It was for these occasions that he   wrote some of his most popular waltzes, among     8     was the well­known favorite TheBlueDanube. In all，the talented Johann Strauss   wrote more than 500 masterpieces. In his   lifetime, he was known     9     the Waltz   King, and was largely responsible for the    10     (popular) of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.

I was nine years old when I leant to ride a bike. The bike was a birthday present from my uncle. You can imagine how excited I was when I saw the bike, and I     1     (beg) my uncle to teach me how to ride it right away. However, before I got on the bike, I felt     2     (extreme) nervous and I was afraid that I would fall off and hurt myself. My uncle held onto the seat and helped me to get on the bike. While I was riding, he was running along beside me, holding the seat     3     I would not fall over. I was so grateful to him for his help.

As I was practicing, I became more and more confident. Then, I heard my uncle     4     (shout), “You are riding it by     5     (you) now!” I was both excited and scared. I was really riding by myself, but what if I fell off? Could I use the brakes     6     (stop)? As I was wondering about this, my uncle ran after me and got hold of the bike. I slowed down and came to     7     stop. My heart was still beating fast when I got off the bike.     8     (late) that day, having learnt how to get on the bike and get off it, I felt like I was walking on air! I am still     9     (thank) to my uncle for teaching me to ride a bike     10     my ninth birthday.

Once, three men got     1       (lose) in the forest. They decided they would stay in the forest until they found     2     (they) way. The next morning, one man went to find some food. Soon, the other two men were     3     (surprise) to find him back with a deer and asked how he got the deer. The man replied, “I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got a deer.” They both were     4     (slight) confused because he had no weapons. A few days     5       (late), the second guy went in search     6     food and soon came back with a deer too. The other two asked how he managed     7       (get) the deer. His reply was     8     same as the first man’s. Then it was the turn of the third guy to search for food. Many hours passed, and the third man     9       (hold) nothing in his hands came back, with blood on his face. The other two asked him     10       had happened. He looked at them and relied, “I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got hit by a train.”