My friend and I took a two-hour ferry ride from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Stone Town, Zanzibar. We headed to its famous spice (香料) farms. Cloves, peppers, cinnamon and ginger     1     (be) just a few of the spices     2     grow there and we learned a lot about them. After the tour, we went to the seafood market.     3     was satisfying to pick out some crab and fish for the cooks to prepare. Then we went to bed fat and happy. The next day we went to stay at a beach     4     (call) Paje. We swam, read and danced to African music there.

Very early on the morning of the third day, we     5     (journey) to the island’s southern tip. The guide told us the dolphin came every morning to eat and play. So we rode out and waited in the boat until we saw a dolphin fin. The guide drove the boat near the dolphins and asked us     6    (jump) in. So we did! The dolphin was shy, but     7     (eventual) they swam closer. One came so close and I could have touched it!

After that, we returned to Stone Town to explore the big old houses. Hundreds of years ago, the city was a huge trading port. All shipments     8     (go) east to the Indian Ocean stopped in Stone Town. The city was rich, and     9     (wealth) people built big houses with beautiful doors. I also visited a museum there and learned how Zanzibar had been influenced by the Kingdom of Oman. That is     10     the people look like they are from North Africa.

A Taylor Swift superfan finely has the ability to shake off her financial worries thanks    1     a donation from the pop star.

Ayesha Khurram is    2     second-year accounting student at tlie University of Waterloo.Due to the province’s recent cuts in student assistant programs,Khurram had been struggling to scrape together (凑足)the money for her upcoming term. In addition to her mother suffering from a disease,both of her     3     ( parent) take low-income jobs. Khurram knew that she had to raise the money on her own.

At the    4     (suggest) of a friend,she created a Paypal account for people to contribute to her college tuition (学费）.Hours after making the account, she received a donation with a note    5     ( read), ( Ayesha,get on with your study! I love you!” The donation,     6     covered all her tuition,     7     (make) by none other than Taylor Swift.

This is not the    8     ( one) interaction (互动）that Khurram has had with the superstar. Since Khurram first     9     (fall) in love with Swift’s music as she was living in Pakistan,the two have shared multiple (多样的）social media interactions. But Khurram never thought that her musical hero would donate thousands of dollars to her education.

My parents    10     ( actual) cried when I told them the news because they couldn’t believe it. ” Khurram said.

China is a country with a vast territory. In the great historical continuum (连续体) , it has developed     1     large variety of traditional housing with distinctly     2    (region) features.

In 2005, Mao Ge,     3     specialized in architecture, started research into traditional houses. When admiring many such houses, she     4     (strike) with their respective features. Each of them is the outcome of builders selfless     5     (devote). Through that experience, she also witnessed Chinese peoples deep attachment to their own way of life.

Since the 1980s, with the quickening of urbanization, many traditional houses     6    (disappear). Meanwhile, there is the collective neglect of traditional architectural techniques,     7     (instrument) and knowledge.

Born in the 1980s and having long been used to     8     (read) cartoon books while growing up, Mao Ge, who loves traditional architecture ever so much, hit upon the idea of introducing it       9     a wider readership through cartoons. That, she hopes, will encourage people       10     (find) beauty of folk houses and start protecting them, thus arousing attention from still more people, especially the young.

Through simple, interesting cartoons with equally understandable wording to match, she has created her type of cartoons for the young.

The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize went to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday, 9 October. The agency was recognized for its efforts to fight hunger, for its contribution to     1     (improve) conditions, for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as     2     driving force to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. The efforts of WFP focus on emergency assistance, development aid and special operations, two thirds of     3     are made in conflict-affected countries. In those countries, people are three times more likely to suffer poor nutrition     4     those living in countries without conflict do.

David Beasley, WFP Executive Director, said the     5     (announce) made by the Norwegian Nobel Committee turned the global spotlight on the 690 million people     6     (expose) to severe levels of food insecurity. “Every one of them has the right to live peacefully and without hunger.”

Mr. Beasley also noted that the Nobel Peace Prize was not     7     (simple) WFP’s. He said, “WFP     8    (work) closely with governments, organizations and individuals whose love for helping hungry people equals     9     (our). We could not possibly help anyone without them. And the daily work of our members     10     (drive) by our core values of integrity and humanity.”

“China's Xuelong 2 research icebreaker set sail on Tuesday from     1     (it) home port in Shanghai on the country's 37th Antarctic expedition,” the Ministry of Natural Resources said.

China first sent an expedition team to Antarctica in 1984.Since then, the country     2     (build) four scientific research stations there.

Carrying 116 people, the Icebreaker is expected     3     (travel) over 55,560 kilometers by the time it returns to Shanghai in May , 2021.The ministry said, “The expedition will do research on Antarctica's environment and climate and monitor new pollutants such as micro-plastics and drifting garbage.” It is the second time that Xuelong 2, China's first research Icebreaker domestically built, has sailed to Antarctica. Its first polar expedition,     4     concluded in April after a 198-dayexpedition, started in late 2019.

Its     5     (construct) began at the Jiangnan Vesselyard Group in Shanghai in December, 2016.     6     (complete) last year, the icebreaker is 122.5 meters long and 22. 32 meters wide. It can sail more     7     37, 000 km without refueling.

Designers said it can break 1.5-meter-thick ice at     8     speed of up to 5.5 km/h and operate in     9     (freeze) weather as low as - 30℃. Based on state-of-the-art designs and advanced equipment, the icebreaker can operate in any ocean     10     (professional ) around the world.

The Han Dynasty ruled China from 206 B.C. to 220 A.D. It is known for     1     (it) promotion of Confucianism (儒学) as the state religion and opening the Silk Road trade route to Europe, permanently     2     (change) the course of Chinese history. The Han Dynasty art and inventions like paper still influence the world today.

Most knowledge of the Han Dynasty art comes from the tombs of ruling families. The Wu Family site in Jiaxiang is one of the most famous. The tomb features 70 carved stones and     3     (paint) ceilings and walls and various pictures     4     describe historical characters. The site contained about 3000 examples of Han Dynasty art     5     (figure), using silver, bronze, gold etc. Two suits with 2000 pieces of jade (玉) in each     6     (discover) in the tomb. The tomb survived well because the outside areas were not decorated     7     any special way, but marked only by a large pile of dirt.

Paper was invented in China during the Han Dynasty. The paper-making technique was developed by Cai Lun,     8     officer attached to the Imperial court, and he made paper a     9     (common) used writing material. Paper-making technology has promoted the spread of human culture and is a great     10     (contribute) of the Chinese nation to the world civilization.

Lake Baikal in southern Siberia is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Every winter when the lake     1    (freeze) over for half the year, 80-year-old Lyubov Morekhodova will put on the same ancient skates that     2     (use) for decades and glide across the ice wherever she needs to go. She was interested in skating at     3     early age. As a child, she often skated about 2.5 miles each way to school and back. And her passion for skating became even     4     (strong) with time. After her     5    (retire), she skates a half hour each way to the local village     6     (do) her shopping every day. With temperatures often reaching lows of minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s hard to imagine such an old woman making this journey every day! But Lyubov insists that her daily skating is the secret     7     her long lifespan.

Though she lives alone in a tiny cabin on the shores of Lake Baikal, she     8     (hard) feels lonely. She has the ice to help her feel free! Whenever you feel sorry for youself, just remember this Siberian grandmother     9     (skate) her way through her senior years! She is a perfect reminder       10     we’re never too old to do anything!

The 93rd Academy Awards Ceremony (The Oscars) is to be broadcast on Sunday. To be a member of the Academy, a person has to work in the production of movies    1    (release) in theaters. When winners receive an award, they usually begin by thanking the Academy and other moviemakers like    2    (they). There is a time limit for Oscar acceptance speeches, which are supposed to be less than 45    3    (second). However, the winner of the best actor award usually speaks for about two minutes. At that point, music usually begins to play, telling the speaker    4    (finish).

The Australian actor, Paul Hogan,    5    (give) advice to the winners at the 1987 Academy Awards Ceremony. He said when winners make the speech, it's    6    good tip to remember the three Gs: Be gracious, Be grateful» Get off.

“Be gracious” means being kind and respectful. After all, the winners are speaking to a group of people with     7    they want to continue working in the future. “Be grateful” means being    8    (thank), and “get off” means leaving the stage. Many Oscar winners use their time to speak in support of their favorite causes(事业). That can make their speeches much longer,    9    people watching on TV usually enjoy    10    (hear) shorter speeches.