Until a few years ago I was a chef, and a happy one at that, but I wanted more out of life. I wanted to travel. At that time, I     1     (find) that I took pretty good pictures. So I decided to post pictures on my blog. In less than 18 months, there were over 200,000 people     2    (read) my blog! At first, I only regarded it as a hobby, but many     3    (company) started paying me to take photos and publish them.     4     2013, I was determined to make my dream come true: I would become Australia’s first professional photo blogger. It was a challenging job, but I did it.

It seems like common sense: eating local food should be better for the environment, because it     1     (transport) short distances.    2     (Unfortunate), it is not that simple. It is the production of food, not its transport, that uses most of the energy and     3     (produce)most of the greenhouse gases. In some cases, local produce might have used more energy and produced more greenhouse gases than produce grown a long way away—even taking into account its transport.

This year I entered the Great Gorilla (大猩猩) Run in London. This is a programme run by The Gorilla Organization which raises money     1     (save) the world’s last remaining gorillas from dying out. Each runner receives a gorilla suit and off they go! It’s a bit hot and sweaty inside the suit, and my legs ache,     2    it’s a lot of fun. The funniest moment was when someone watching the race offered me a banana—a real treat for a    3     (run) gorilla! I had a great day out in London, as well as helping to save gorillas!

    1     (wear) different colors can affect how you feel and how others react to you, so it is important to consider this when deciding     2     to wear in the morning. If you want people to take you seriously, put on navy blue or black. Blue would also be helpful for an interview or oral examination because it relaxes you and makes you feel calm. Red gets you noticed by everyone and make you feel energetic,     3    be careful, as it can raise your heart rate and not everyone want this effect. So think carefully before you leave your house.

Last year my family moved to a new city. I still     1    (remember) the first day when the teacher asked me to introduce myself to the class. I was so nervous that my mind went blank.     2    (stand) in the front of the class speechless, I was close to tears. Suddenly, a girl walked up to me. She said she would go first. Her smile and words encouraged me, and I had the     3    (confident) to introduce myself to the class.

Anne was born on 12 June, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her family was Jewish. During World War II, they had to live in a secret hiding place     1    (escape) the Nazi Holocaust (纳粹大屠杀). This was a time     2     the German Nazis were killing Jews. On 4 August, 1944, the hiding place    3     (discover). Of all the people     4     had hidden there, only Otto Frank, Anne’s father, survived.

Jan was so inspired by the people she met online that she decided to start an IT club to teach older people how to use computers and the Internet. She and her friends now organize events and collect money to pay for private teachers. Many people     1    (help)by the club. A 59-year-old man learnt how to apply for work online and found a great job. Now that he works and can take care of     2    (he), his daughter has time to study at university. A 61-year-old woman     3     was living alone has started a small online company together with two friends.

Koshiba had a legendary life. When he was a kid, he dreamed of being a soldier or musician, but his dream was broken when his right hand was damaged by polio(小儿麻痹症).While in the hospital, he read Adlbert Einstein’s books and     1     (become) interested in physics. He never made it to the top of his physics class in high school, but went on to study at the University of Tokyo, then the University of Rochester,     2    he earned his PhD. “There are things in the world you can achieve despite poor academic records.” Koshiba said. What     3     (count) most is adopting an active attitude toward studying.

The virtual choir was the idea of award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre. Born in the USA on 2 January 1970, Whitacre     1    (begin) studying music at the University of Nevada in 1988. He fell in love with Mozart’s classical music when he sang for the university choir.     2    (move) by the music, he said, “It was like seeing color for the first time.” He graduated from university in 1995, and then received a master’s degree in musical composition from the Juilliard School in New York in 1997. over the next 10 years, Whitacre’s original compositions began to become quite popular among choirs     3     singers.