I was     1     (addict) to my smartphone. The first thing I did when I woke up in the morning was reach for my phone. I always ask for Wi-Fi connections when    2     (go) to a new restaurant or coffee shop. It was     3     (stress) for me to have a dead battery in my smartphone. Sometimes I had the uncomfortable feeling that this little machine     4     (take)up too much of time. Sliding into the habit was easy, but I have difficulty    5     ( quit)the habit. Then the day came    6     I finally realized I had to make a change. Head down, eyes on my smart phone, I stepped into the road. A car    7     ( shoot) past, nearly shocked me off my feet. At that very moment, I made up my mind to spend a whole week    8     my smartphone. With eyes no longer     9     (fix) on my phone, I had a chance     10     (company) my old friends.

The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BCE.     1    , they died out around the year 393. It was in 1896, in Athens     2     the modern Olympic Games were first held. A Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin     3     dream was that the Olympics would make it possible for people to live side by side in peace brought the Olympics back to life. Since then,     4     (motivate) by the Olympic motto “Faster, Higher, Stronger”, thousands of     5     (high) trained and talented athletes     6     (devote) themselves to achieving sporting excellence and pushing the boundaries of human achievement, such as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Jessica Ennis-Hill and so on.

Chinese athletes have also made important     7     (contribute) to the Olympics. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, China returned to the Olympics after 32 years’     8     (absent) and Xu Haifeng won our country’s first-ever gold medal. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Liu Xiang became the first Asian     9     (win) the gold medal in the men’s 110-metre hurdles. In 2008, in addition to hosting the Olympic for the first time, China also ranked first in the medal table. The year 2022 will be another historic moment for China, as Beijing won     10     election to host the Winter Olympics.

Helen Keller became blind and deaf at nineteen months old. Because she was deaf, Helen was unable to talk. She didn’t know how words sounded and couldn’t read     1     (they). Despite her disabilities, Helen learned to communicate.

Her teacher, Anne Sullivan,    2     (teach) her how to communicate with others. Anne wrote words on Helen's hand. Next, Helen learned how to make sounds in her throat.

Although her words didn’t sound very clear, she had learned to say words     3     her mouth. Helen also learned to read and write by     4     (use) Braille (盲文). She could read     5     (fast) with her fingers than people could read with their eyes! Helen Keller not only overcame many difficulties in her own life, but she also helped other people try to make their lives better. She became     6     writer and wrote about the challenges of being blind and deaf.

Helen travelled to towns and cities, and even other countries. She told people to be     7     (thank) for all their senses and to look at and listen to things as if they would never see or hear them again. Helen Keller was a kind of     8     (encourage) to others. She showed     9     a Person who couldn’t see or hear could achieve. For Helen, nothing could get in the way of her strong wish     10     (live) a full life.

Many of the Chinese athletes     1     (compete) at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are benefiting     2     technological assistance from China’s space scientists and engineers. Before setting out for the Tokyo Gaines, dozens of athletes visited an area in the southwestern suburbs of Beijing that is home     3     a number of leading space technology organizations. During their stay, the athletes     4     (expose) to technologies     5     (normal) used in research and development of carrier rockets, missiles and unmanned planes, and     6     (listen) to suggestions from experts from the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics.

China won     7     gold medal in the women’s quadruple sculls (四人双奖艇) with a world-record time in Tokyo. According to the engineer, wind tunnels are the most essential hardware in aerodynamic research. During the past few years, wind tunnels     8     (become) increasingly popular in Western countries, including the United States and Canada.

The academy’s tunnels have greatly helped Chinese athletes, some of     9     have won gold in Tokyo. But their     10     (achieve) also require a great deal of intense training and careful preparation.

At the International Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Wang Ge, a paper-cutting artist, runs a market stand where impressive examples of her work are     1     display in the popular tourist destination.

    2     (grow) up in the region and influenced by diverse ethnic cultures, she is committed to telling Xinjiang stories through her paper cutting while protecting and promoting     3     traditional folk art. “Paper cutting is a     4     (combine) of folk art and daily life,” said Wang, who graduated from the art department of Xinjiang Normal University.

During her decades of paper cutting she     5    (inspire) by real-life experiences, especially those relating to ethnic culture in the region. She often travels to Kashgar, Hotan and Aksu in southern Xinjiang     6     (explore) how local ethnic people live. One of her works features 20 people     7     (dress) in traditional costumes with musical instruments in hand, singing and dancing in a grape garden. Wang saw the lively scene     8     she was traveling in Aksu.

After the COVID-19 outbreak, Wang gave online lectures on paper cutting, attracting 100, 000 viewers and teaching students     9     (able) to attend school how to cut the images of medical workers from paper. Wang said she was pleased to see pupils     10     lacked colored paper painting the white paper red and green as an exchange art form.