A reporter from Jiangsu Province went to Australia and some other countries with his father for a 3-month trip,     1     turned out to be a miracle (奇迹).

The reporter’s father spent most of his life    2     (work) on the farm. The son started these    3     (amaze) trips with his father because the father got cancer-----a serious    4     (ill). The reporter wanted    5     (take) his father to travel in the hope that his father can find his younger self in his last days. They    6     (travel) more than 13,000 kilometers and took over 110,000    7     (picture) on their trips to different countries. Well, a miracle happened during the “rebirth” trips.     8     their surprise, his father got    9     (good) and became more open-hearted.

He even taught himself to play    10     violin, and then he played it very well after practice. After that miracle trip, now he is expecting another trip to Africa. He is the most stylish dad ever. Time carves (雕刻) the old father’s face but youth flows in his blood. This is the real style.

One Sunday morning in August, I went to a local music festival. I left it early because I had an appointment(约会)     1    (late) that day. My friends walked me to the bus stop and waited with me     2     the bus arrived. I got on the bus and found a seat near the back, and then I noticed a man     3    (sit) at the front. He     4    (pretend) that a tiger toy was real and giving it a voice. He must be mentally disabled (残疾的).

Behind him     5    (be) other people to whom he was trying to talk, but after some minutes they walked away and sat near me, looking     6    (annoy). I didn’t want to be laughed at for talking to him but I didn’t like leaving him     7     his own either.

After a while I rose from my seat and walked to the front of the bus. I sat next to the man and introduced     8    (I). We had an amazing conversation. He got off the bus before me and I felt very happy     9     rest of the way home.

I’m glad I made a     10    (choose). It made both of us feel good.

If you live in northeastern China, you expect long, cold winters. People     1    (live) in Harbin don’t just stand the cold, however, they welcome it. The city is home to the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival,    2    is considered to be the largest ice festival in the world. Even with temperatures usually close to zero, thousands of people head to city parks     3    (see) great ice sculptures, many bathed in colored lights.

The festival includes several thousand ice sculptures. Some of these works are the recreations of castles, historic landmarks and famous people, lit up at night in bright colors. There     4    (visitor) can climb ice stairways and go down ice slides (滑坡). They can also take part    5    sporting events, including skating, ice football     6    well as ice swimming.

The city started     7    (it) icy event in 1963 with the Ice Lantern Garden Party, a     8    (celebrate) of the tradition of creating lanterns out of blocks of ice. The larger festival     9    (begin) in 1985 and added sculptures, which have grown in number and size over the years. As it has gotten bigger, the festival has become popular outside the city.    10    (official), the festival starts on January 5th and lasts over one month.

Li Jiaqi, a star in live-streaming(网络直播), knows how       1    (draw)the audience's attention. Each time, he introduces a new item,he promotes (推销)it     2     (direct), “Buy it - just buy it! It looks super, super, super good!”

In the month       3    (follow)the shopping festival, Li’s promotion     4    (drive) over one billion yuan in sales on Taobao Live.

As a new way of shopping, live-streaming has proved successful,    5     has led more companies to use online influencers to promote their products . The rise of commercial live-streaming is partly based on convenience. Any product can       6    (buy) during live-streams with just a couple of taps and swipes. Without the advantage,     7     (customer) may give up an item if its description does not provide enough information.

A convincing live-streamer together with limited-time discounts or lucky draws also     8    (account) for its popularity. Those tricks help persuade people to shop through live-streaming.

For now, there is still some doubt     9     live-streamers can really take responsibility for their broadcasts or not. However, buyers are quick to make judgements. “I don’t plan to stop watching Li's live-streams. But out of     10    (curious) , I also do my own research instead of shopping immediately,” said a Mr. Li, who often does shopping online.

I'd like to share with you my favourite practical courses: racing the dragon boat and making zongzi, both of    1     are the traditional customs in    2     Dragon Boat Festival.

Now the Dragon Boat Festival    3     (celebrate) in memory of an ancient poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself into Miluo River. His poems can always remind people of his     4     (devote) to his motherland. What's more,     5     (race) together can develop our team spirit, which can help us gain success in future. Last but not least, learning to make zongzi can raise our    6     (aware) to develop traditional food. Most    7     (importance), through these courses, not only can I gather    8     (much) information about traditional culture but I can also have a better    9     (understand) of our country.

I'm looking forward to having fun    10     you in the coming Dragon Boat Festival.

Yours，

Li Hua

On a grey afternoon on 19 November 1863, Abraham Lincoln mounted a platform in a field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was there in memory of the    1    (die)soldiers. The place was the site of a recent battle     2    thousands of soldiers had died.

At that time, America was    3     (bitter) divided. For two years, its people had been deep in a civil war. The Union side won but    4    a great cost. Over 50,000 soldiers    5     (kill)or wounded, and people lost hope and purpose.

Lincoln understood the feelings of the civilian people. His speech gave them hope, belief and a reason     6     (look) to the future. He gave them    7    new vision of what the United States of America should be     8     (base)on the ideals set down by its Founding Fathers 87 years before. It was what the soldiers had died for. Now it was up to the    9     (live) to remove not only the divisions between North and South, but the boundaries between black and white, and work step by step towards the    10     (equal)of humankind.

Sarah Jayne is a twenty-year-old girl from the U. K. After she read the book Pay It Forward, she realized that our world would become a much     1     (good) place if everyone could do three favors for others. She lost her father     2     the age of eight, so she felt pity for her friend's children whose dad died     3     (recent). Sarah talked and played with the children to make their mother's life easier.

This “success” led to the second favor, which was to set up a counseling (咨询) service at her school     4     (help) improve the students' mental health. Her third favor was for a neighbor, an old woman named Anna who lost     5     (she) eyesight. It was Anna that     6     (introduce) the book Pay it Forward to Sarah two months ago. As she loved reading, it was     7    real act of kindness to spend time     8     (read) out loud for the neighbor and keeping her company every night. Sarah said, “I couldn't believe at first how three small favors could make a big     9     (different). All the people     10     were helped by me have promised to pay favors forward.”

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building     1     a hat by his feet. He held up a sign     2     said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and     3     (drop) them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone     4     (walk) by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot     5     (many) people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked," Were you     6     one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, “I only wrote the     7     (true). I said what you said, but in a different way.” I wrote: “Today is a beautiful day,     8     I cannot see it.”

Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky     9     they were not blind. Should we be     10     (surprise) that the second sign was more effective?