If we are honest with ourselves, most of us have dreamed of     1     (be)rich and famous. Most musicians form a band because of the same interest     2    writing and playing music. They may play anywhere     3     (earn)some extra money as well as achieve their dreams. However, the Monkees,     4     started differently,     5    (begin) as a TV show with musicians playing jokes and music in the programme. Only after a year or so       6     they become more serious and they       7    (produce) their own records and later became even     8    (popular) than the Beatles in the USA. The band once     9    (break) up and then reunited. In memory     10    their former time as a real band, they produced a new record in 1996.

It was my first day in Hangzhou, the Chinese city famous for its natural beauty and history. I didn’t have much time to spare, so I wanted to see     1     much of the city as possible in the two days before I was to return to Guangzhou. My first task was to decide where to go and     2     to get there. So I took out my guide book in which there was a lot of information about the city’s well-known tourist     3     (attract) as well as all the bus routes and started to read. At that moment an attractive young lady     4     noticed my book came up to me and introduced     5    . She said her name was Miss Bai and she     6     (kind) offered to show me     7     the city. She suggested we     8     (go) to the West Lake and walk along the Broken Bridge.     9     (think) that was definitely     10     attractive idea, I accepted her invitation and walked away with her.

Yu Rong, a famous artist, thinks of a new way to introduce the ancient story of Hua Mulan in her picture book. In the book, I Am Hua Mulan, she tells the story by    1     (combine) paper cutting with international artistic styles. She places paper-cuts over western-style pencil sketches(素描)    2    (create) a typical presentation of Chinese elements, which turns out to be a    3    (success) and impressive breakthrough.

Hua Mulan,    4    story has been told by generations in China, was a fighter from the Northern Wei Dynasty(386-534). As    5    devoted daughter, she dressed herself as a man to serve in the army    6    place of her father.Mulan's characteristics, such as courage, kindness and disinterest in fame and fortune, made    7    (she) one of the most respected historical Chinese heroines. Mulan's story has been adapted    8    (frequent) in the modern media. For example, in 1998, Disney produced a film named Mulan, which    9    (consider) a great success by critics and the public.

To better tell the story, Yu Rong draws inspiration from her several    10    (visit)to sites of ancient battles and Henan Opera.

My husband and I were paying a visit    1    my parents in Tucson. We went to a fast-food restaurant for dinner together. My husband went to the counter(柜台)    2    (order) dishes and I stood with my parents.

My dad is 90 years old. He can hardly see very well and walks with a stick. I was looking around in the restaurant,    3    (wait) to sit at the first table that was    4    (convenient) than others. A woman who was sitting with her son saw me and asked me to come to her. With a puzzled look on my face, I pointed to     5    (me)and said, “Me?” . She    6    (nod) and said, “Yes, you.” I walked to the table and she said, “Bring your family here. I can finish eating at the counter. My son is in    7    hurry to leave anyway.” My eyes    8    (fill) with tears as she wiped down the table and guided my dad to the seat.

I always believe that there are    9    (nature) kind people in this world. This woman has set a good example to her son,     10    is a really lucky guy.

My friend had a chance to make a trip to Hong Kong    1     August 15, 2015. He had dreamed about     2    (visit) it since his boyhood and it was the first time that he    3    (be) there. The following was what he had seen.

Arriving there, he was     4    (surprise) by its beautiful scenery and tall     5    (building). As we all know, Hong Kong has the most skyscrapers in the world. Wherever he     6    (go), he saw many smiling faces. People in Hong Kong were kind, generous, easy-going and ready to help others. Much to his surprise, he saw that people there always kept order in public places.     7    a great number of people were waiting for the next train at the subway station, they were talking in such     8     low voice as not to bother others.

Chinese and English are the official languages of Hong Kong. English is     9    (wide) used in governments, markets, service centers and other fields.

Staying there for a week was a good experience for him,     10     he would never forget.

Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will    1    (probable)say that they go to learn languages, history, science and some other knowledge. That is quite true, but why do they learn these things?

We send our children to school to prepare them    2    the future when they grow up and have to work for    3    (they) . Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life. But is that    4    only reason why they go to school?

There is more in education    5    just learning facts. We go to school to learn how to learn, so that when we have left school we can continue to learn. A man    6    really knows how to learn will always be successful, because when he has to do something new, he will not only be able to do it well himself, he will also be able    7    (teach) others how to do it in the best way. One    8    (educate)person, on the other hand, is either unable to do something new, or just    9    (do) it badly. The purpose of schools is not to teach languages, history, science, etc, but to teach pupils the way    10    (learn).

9 . Styrofoam is plastic     1     a bad reputation.

It cannot be recycled without releasing (释放) dangerous pollutants into the air. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency     2     (say) it is the fifth largest creator of dangerous waste.

Scientists from the U. S. and China have discovered that mealworms can digest plastic. One mealworm can digest a pill-sized amount of plastic a day.

Study co-author Wei-Min Wu says that in 24 hours, the plastic     3    (turn) into carbon dioxide.

Are the worms hurt by     4    (eat) plastic? The study found that worms eating Styrofoam were as     5     (health) as worms eating bran (糠).

Styrofoam is a lightweight material, about 95 percent air, with very good insulation properties (绝缘性), according to Earthsource.org. It is used in products from     6     (cup) that keep your drinks hot or cold to packaging materials     7     protect items during shipping.

“Solving     8     problem of plastic pollution is important. Landfill space is becoming limited,” says Wu, a Stanford University environmental engineering instructor.

About 33 million tons of plastic are thrown away in the United States every year. Plastic plates, cups and containers take     9     25 percent to 30 percent of space in America’s landfills. One Styrofoam cup takes more than 1 million years     10     (recycle) in a landfill, according to Cleveland State University.

There   are   no precise     1    (criterion) that can be used to judge what is beautiful. As the anthropologist (人类学家) Margaret Mead once put     2    , standards and ideas of beauty change across   time.   Nowadays,   some   costumes   and   actions   once       3    (regard) as beauty in the 19th-century is not considered healthy or attractive, while something   fashionable   now   had   different   functions in the past.

There is no     4    (consist) view on beauty, as beauty is influenced by culture and it is even     5    (whole) different in the eyes of beholders. In some countries, young women follow slimming diets to lose extra kilos     6    preparation for their wedding day. In other cultures, looking thin for a husband-to-be is   not     7    a woman desires at all.

    8    different, one thing is certain—it is inner beauty that requires us to truly see. That is     9    (say), beauty is accompanied by an attraction to something deeper within a person, which can     10    (find) in a wide range of personal qualities.