Marty is a disabled but     1     (fair) positive person who never feels sorry for     2     and has learned to adapt to his disability. Marty always     3     (consider) he has a good life. He is realistic     4     his disability but he never stops doing as much as he     5     . He keeps himself busy     6     (do) things like writing and computer programming     7     do not require physical strength. He has friends with     8     he can go to movies and football matches and he has lots of pets. He also studies hard. He is a     9     (mental) strong and independent boy. Marty is able to live as rich and full     10     life as everyone else.

Not For Jazz

We have     1     old musical instrument. It is called a clavichord. It was made in Germany     2     1681. Our clavichord is kept in the living-room. It     3    (belong) to our family for a long time. The instrument     4    (buy) by my grandfather many years ago.     5    (recent) it was damaged by a visitor. She tried to play jazz on     6    ! She     7    (strike) the keys too hard and two of the     8    (string) were broken. My father was shocked. Now we     9     (not allow) to touch it. It is being repaired by a friend of my     10    (father).

Many college students are seeking help for mental health issues. In fact,     1     number of college students, struggling with anxiety, depression or other mental health issues, has risen a lot over the years.

David Reetz, a famous psychologist, has ideas about     2     young people are having such a hard time. Reetz says the current generation of people in their 20s — often called “millennials”, are faced     3     the pressure of succeeding and worrying about what they would do after     4     (graduate). Many of them cannot cope with problems in the way that former generations     5     (do). They often lack the ability to solve interpersonal conflicts.

“Millennials are not     6     (blame),” Reetz says. “Parents of millennials spend more time supervising (监督) their children than other parents did. As a result, these young people have fewer chances to learn how to take risks or solve conflicts by     7     (they).”

Experts say they are     8     (please) that more young people are seeking help for mental health issues. “Once     9     (realize) they might have a problem, they ought to know there is nothing wrong with asking for help. The earlier they seek help, the     10     (soon) their problems will be solved,” said Reetz.

The skyscraper (摩天大楼) became the standard design of a modern, global city in the 20th century. So much so that by the end of last century, centers of many big cities around the world began     1     (look) alike.

As we entered the 21st century, many designers began to ask     2     (they): Is this     3     we want our cities to look? Must our cities give up their individual identities to become modern? Some     4     (architect) have responded to these questions by incorporating traditional design elements into their skyscrapers. Others are returning     5     local traditions and, often, local materials.

In China, internationally famous architect Wang Shu wants to bring a breath of fresh air to modern design. He is creating designs in which modern concrete and Chinese traditional building practices coexist. Traditional Chinese buildings,     6     (include) homes, often have green spaces on the inside. Wang says that the most important thing for Chinese people is “living in some     7     (peace) place with trees, water, and your family together.” He keeps this idea in mind and reuses old materials in his new buildings. Some buildings contain     8     (recycle) bricks and tiles from constructions that     9     (build) hundreds of years ago. Wang believes this is what gives     10     building its spirit and makes it feel alive.

Somewhere between the bookstore and the car, I left my favorite winter hat. I like to think someone in need will find it, maybe along with those    1    (glove ) which were gone a week or so ago.

Since 2015, I    2    (lose) a lot of things. Some have reappeared later, some have not, and that’s all right I am thankful that I have enjoyed them for    3    while and also thankful that they were shared through the wisdom of the Universe later.

Now and then, I “lose” something    4    purpose, lake the $20 bill to a little boy,    5    was buying holiday gifts in the store for his family. And the boy, judging from the way he was calculating the cost, was    6    (obvious) short of cash.

“I think you might have dropped this?” I asked him,    7    (hand) him the money, but I    8    (refuse) politely. He said that he didn’t think so. With a big smile, I told him that I really thought it was    9    (he). He unwillingly accepted it and looked thankful.

Haven’t you ever received something just when you needed it? In our daily life, sometimes we    10    (be) the receiver, and sometimes the giver. Nothing is ever truly missing anyway. It’s just all sort of going to whoever needs it.

When talking about the China women’ s national volleyball team, we have to talk about one person —Lang Ping. She uses her strong will (意志) and great ability     1     (help) the China women’ s national volleyball team go to the world.

In 2013, it was so hard for Lang to make her decision of     2    (keep) on her volleyball career. At that time, there was something wrong     3     her body. But later, when she thought about the     4     (true) that we lost in the 2012 London Olympics and the future of the China women’s national volleyball team, he agreed to be the coach (教练) of the China women’s national volleyball team.

Then she started her hard     5     busy life again. It was really difficult to make the women volleyball players better trained. She had to correct many     6    (mistake) when improving     7    (they) skills of playing. But she never said that something was not possible.

All her hard work     8     (certain) had a good result. In 2016, the China women’s national volleyball team     9    (win) the gold medal in the Rio Olympics. Since then, the spirit (精神) of the China women’s national volleyball team has made     10     deep impression on the whole world.

An e-payment system(系统)is a way of     1    (pay)for goods and services through an electronic medium(媒介), without the use of cash(现金). It’s also     2    (call)an online payment system or electronic payment system.

The electronic payment system has grown     3    (rapid)over the last 10 years because of the     4    (grow)spread of Internet-based banking and shopping. As the world progresses more with the help of technology, we can see the rise of electronic payment systems     5     leads to fewer check and cash transactions(交易). One of the most popular payment     6    (method)online is Alipay. Besides it, there are also other forms of payment, such     7     electronic wallets, smart cards and WeChat Pay.

E-payment systems allow people     8    (make)electronic payments for online transactions. With the great popularity of online shopping, e-payment systems have become     9     must for online customers, making shopping and banking much     10    (easy).

The US national farm-to-school movement     1    (grow) so fast recently that it is challenging traditional notions (概念) of city planning, and a preschool in the state of Georgia is at ground zero in the conflict.

The Little Ones Learning Center in the city of Forest Park has a nationally     2    (recognize) garden-based education program.

The primary goal was to influence food     3     (prefer) of children and their parents, but the preschool also wanted to give residents in the surrounding neighborhood access     4     eat many fruits and vegetables. In2018, Little Ones started farm stand to sell produce to parents and neighbors. The produce grown in the school’s garden     5     (bring) in from nearby farms.

    6     in August 2019, City Hall shut the program down.     7    turns out that Little Ones is in a residential area and is not zoned for farm stands.

Little Ones owner Wande Okunoren-Meadows believes the law needs     8     (change). She went to a city council meeting in early September last year to say so. The city refused to change it.

She isn’t worried just about her school. She wants a law     9     allows other preschools to follow her lead and expose     10    (many) residents to the taste of organic kale, sweet peas and watermelon.

“As Chinese consumers become more willing to upgrade their handsets, 5G smartphones    1       (expect) to take up more than 80 percent of overall smartphone shipments in China in the second half of this year”, a senior official from the nation’s top industry regulator said on Monday.

Liu Liehong, vice-minister of Industry and Information Technology, said in March that 5G smartphones already accounted     2     more than 76 percent of overall smarthhone shipments in China. According to Liu, China     3     (build) the world’s largest 5G network so far, with 260 million 5G mobile connections.

China’s phone market boomed in the first quarter of this year     4     (compare) with the big setback     5     was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic at the same period last year, with phone shipments reaching 97.97 million     6     (unit), up 100.1 percent from the same period last year, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology,     7     Beijing-based think tank.

In March, a total of 36.09 million phones were shipped, increasing 65.9 percent year-on-year, with 41 newly-released models, up 32.3 percent from a year    8     (early).

The ministry also is working hard to reduce the digital divide between urban and rural areas by    9     (encourage) telecom companies to build base stations and optical networks for     10     (relative) impoverished areas.

The Big Bang theory is science’s best explanation of how the universe began. The theory insists that our universe     1     (create) when a tiny and super-hot mass exploded and began expanding very rapidly. It     2     (final) cooled and formed into the stars and galaxies (银河系) with     3    we are familiar. It is said     4     the event happened approximately 15 billion years ago. The event of the Big Bang was space itself expanding — perhaps at speed     5     (great) than light.

Since the late 1960s, the Big Bang theory     6    (be) the main explanation for the birth of our universe. Because     7     (physics) have not yet found a convincing theory that explains how gravity operates, they are unable     8     (find) theories as to what happened after the Big Bang. At the very beginning, our universe may have been an object with nearly-infinite density,     9    perhaps something else. Our instruments and     10     (science) methods may need to be fully improved before any further progress is made.