My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister and I     1     (dream) about     2     (take) a great bike trip. When we graduated     3     college, we finally got the chance to do it. It was     4     (I) sister who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong River from where it begins to     5     it ends. The Dai live near the Lancang River,     6     Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other     7     (country). Wang Wei soon got them     8     (interest) in cycling too. She insisted that we should find the source of the river. She gave me a determined look. Once she has made     9     her mind, nothing can change it.     10     (final), I had to give in.

Glen James was a homeless man. One day last year, he found     1     bag in the door of a shop while he was walking around a shopping centre     2     the city of Boston.

At first, he didn’t know     3     to do, but when he opened the bag, he saw there     4    (be) a wallet with $40,000 in it. So then he took it to the police. Many people thought that Mr James did a     5    (wonder) thing. Later, a website     6    (decide) to raise money to help Mr. James because he had no home or job.     7    (Final), they raised over $140, 000 from people of different     8    (area) all over the world. Mr James said, “I’m     9    (surprise) and so happy. This is going to change     10    (I) life.”

Alice Thompson is a girl from Sydney, Australia. She had her first long     1     (distant) train ride at the age of 18. Together with a friend, she got     2     the famous Ghan train in Sydney and got off in Alice Springs. During the two days and nights, they ate meals     3     (cook) by experts and saw fields, desert and     4     (abandon) farms. In the daytime, Alice talked to other passengers and read some books. At night, she watched the stars in the sky     5     shone like diamonds.

Why is the train     6     (call) the Ghan? It is short for Afghanistan. A long time ago, Australians wanted to travel to the middle of their country, so they brought some     7     (train) camels from Afghanistan    8     (carry) food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other     9     (produce). They did that until     10     1920s, when the government built a new railway line and took the place of camels.

My friend Tony and I always walk hoe together after school. Last Monday, however, something happened     1     our way back.

We were walking that day when we heard     2     loud cry behind us. Looking around, we were     3     (surprise) to see a woman lying on the ground. It seemed that she was     4     (injure) badly. We hurried to her,    5     a man came over to stop us from     6     (help) the woman. Some     7     (girl) walking by even laughed at us. We got very angry with the people     8     were cold to the woman. Then the man     9     (ask) us to turn around to see a man carrying a video camera on     10     (he) shoulder. They were just making a film!

Chinese astronauts in Tiangong space station opened     1     science lecture on December 9th, 2021     2     they travelled around the Earth.

There     3     (be) a lecture and some inspiring activities     4     that exciting day. First, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, all members of the Shenzhou Ⅷ mission crew, greeted students, teachers and so on as the lecture began.     5     (them) then showed viewers the place where they live and work. The astronauts carried out experiments     6     (show) interesting     7     (physics) phenomena in space, including “disappearing buoyancy (浮力)” and a “water ball”. At last, before the end of the live streamed activities, they     8     (happy) answered questions from students.     9     (million) of students across China watched the 60-minute televised (电视转播的) event, which was the first lecture of the Tiangong Class. China’s     10     (one) extraterrestrial (地球大气圈外的) lecture series to make students interested in space science.

An old woman had     1     cat. The cat was very old. She could not run     2    (quick), and she could not bite,     3    she was so old. One day, the old cat saw a mouse. She jumped and     4    (catch) the mouse. But she could not bite     5    , so the mouse got out     6    her mouth and ran away.

Then the old woman became very     7    (anger) because the cat did not kill the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said: “Do not hit your old servant (仆人). I     8    (work) for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I’m too old. Do not be     9    (kind) to the old, but remember     10     good work the old did when they were young.”

Expressing wishes to elderly people has been    1    important part of Chinese traditions. It is an opportunity to practice this tradition during the Chong yang Festival, which    2    (celebrate) on the ninth day of the ninth lunar(农历) month. A    3    (various) of events to cheer up the elderly group will be held to help them prepare     4    the coming winter.

This year, the Chong yang Festival    5    (fall) on October 4 during the National Day. China Traditional Cultural Museum held a series of public programs    6    (fill) people’s holiday. Artists showed lots of traditional skills    7    (relate) to the lives of old people. They performed the process of making cloth shoes in the old style,    8    remained a favorite for walking among the elderly. And a lecture was also given on how Tai Chi benefited     9    (they) health. The museum hoped these     10    (activity) not only lit up the life of old people but also passed on the positive beliefs to the younger generations.