1 . As a teenager, I didn’t get along well with my mother before. About two years ago, I had a ________ with her. I just couldn’t control my bad temper that day. I said something ________ to mum. Mum was hurt, but she went away without saying anything. I shut myself in my bedroom, feeling upset. That night I didn’t ________ well.

The next day, I got up earlier than usual. And I ________ a letter beside my bed. It was mum! In this letter, mum ________ how she loved me and how she worried about me. The ________ of mum’s love raced through my mind when I read it. I started to recall the happy time we spent together and couldn’t help crying out. I went out of the bedroom and saw mum standing there ________ me.

“I am sorry, mum. Please ________ me!” I said with a guilty conscience. Then I saw tears of ________ coming into mum’s eyes. We hugged each other ________. That moment was impressed in my memory forever.

From then on, if there is argument between us, we will ________ our feelings and thoughts to each other. Then we can ________ and soon get on well.

By telling my story, I just want ________ people to know that if you have problems with you parents, try to find the ________. Never think that you have nothing to talk with them. They are the persons who always love you and stand by you! Maybe they’ve hurt you before, probably just because they didn’t know how to ________ love.

5 . Gorman is the youngest poet in U. S. history. She became the youth poet laureate (获奖者) of Los Angeles at age 16 in 2014 and the first national youth poet laureate three years later. She has recently completed her studies at Harvard University.

Her mother, Joan Wicks, teaches middle school in Watts. Shuttling among the neighborhoods gave Gorman a window to the world. Her like for poetry dates at least back to the third grade when her teacher read Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine to the class.

Gorman is a lot better at it now, but still working on her confidence as a public speaker. “Until two or maybe three years ago, I couldn’t say the letter ‘r’. Even to this day sometimes I struggle with it. I’d want to say ‘girls can change the world’, but I can not say so many letters in that statement, so I’d say things like ‘young women can shape the globe’.”

For Gorman, writing became a cure. “I used writing as a form of self expression to get my word on the page. So the more I recited out loud, the more I was able to teach myself how to pronounce these letters which for so long had been my greatest impediment.” Gorman said she also used a song from Miranda’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical Hamilton to help with her speaking. “But I don’t look at my disability as a weakness,” said Gorman. “It’s made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be.”

In September, Gorman will release Change Sings, the first of two children’s books. The poet says she desires to publish a book “in which kids could see themselves as change-makers in history, rather than just observers”.

6 . Small seating in the economy-class (经济舱) sections of airplanes is not just uncomfortable but potentially life-threatening. Space has become so tight that passengers cannot protect themselves in the event of a crash.

A report on a long distance flight from the doctors of Vienna stated that only 10% in economy class could adopt the recommended brace position on the plane's safety tips in case of emergency. And 30% of their fellow passengers traveling in first class could adopt the position, which is internationally recognized as improving the chances of survival in the event of a crash. The authors of the report are now calling for greater space between seat rows to increase safety.

A spokesman for British Airways (BA), which is responsible for safety on all British planes, opposed the idea that small seating was a menace to passengers, "We don't think it is a safety matter," he said, "We have high safety standards and all UK aircraft meet them?" In the past month, both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic introduced sleeper seats, stressing the outstanding comfort in the front of the planes. But that space gained is space lost in economy.

Until recently, economy class was at least “bearable”— with an 86-centimeter seat Scheduled Airlines such as BA and KLM gave passengers enough leg room and comfortable eats. But the arrival of new, weight-saving seats caused economy class to take a turn for the worse. Extra rows have been put into the plane, with the result that the average seat now is 79 centimetres. Singapore Airlines has become the latest carrier to narrow down its seats. It announced free wine for economy passengers last September, but at the same time reduced leg room by 8 centimetres. Some Qatar Airways offer the chance to upgrade - at a price - to seats which, at 89-91 centimetres, are roomier than those of most Scheduled Airlines.

Dressed in a flowing long robe (袍服)    1     (decorate) with floral embroidery (花卉刺绣图案)from a past era, stylist Xiao Hang looks like she surfaced from a time machine. She walks across the noisy Beijing subway,    2    (attract) curious glances and questions.

China     3     (welcome) Western fashion and futuristic technology during the last decades,     4    a growing number of young people like Xiao are looking to our ancient tradition for their dressing choices.     5     (obvious), they prefer to put on traditional hanfu. or Han clothing.

These historic costumes of the Han ethnic majority are enjoying    6     renaissance (复兴) because the government is promoting traditional culture. Period dramas have also contributed to a     7     (great) interest in traditional Chinese clothing and a higher demand for it

Xiao, who used to work at a state-owned machine manufacturing company, now runs her own hanfu business,     8    she dresses customers for photo shoots and even plans hanfu-style weddings. However, there is some way before the style reaches wide     9     (accept) in China. Many people say their hesitation is due to the odd looks they get when wearing hanfu     10    public.

8 . It was a hot spring day. The temperatures ______more like July than May. I headed into a store to buy my son a shirt. The air conditioning there was a welcome __ from the heat outside.

After I made my _____ 1 walked back out into the heat. I got in my car but had to wait to _____ because of all the cars lined up at the red stop light. I looked out of my car window and saw something on the road. A single butterfly was ____ flapping its wings but not getting off the _____ . It was right in front of a truck's tyre too. Without thinking 1 got out of my car, held my __ up so the truck driver wouldn't move forward, and ___down to look at the butterfly. One of its legs was _____ in what looked like spilt soda. I reached down and as ____ as I could cupped the butterfly in my hands- I lifted its leg up and suddenly it was _____ . I opened my hands and up it flew towards the shining sun. My own heart felt _____ as I watched it.

Now a lot of people might wonder why I would step out into _____like that to rescue a single butterfly. All I can say is that my heart was __ me at that moment. And _____ I was done I felt more like my true self than I had all day.

9 . Grays Peak (山顶) in Colorado rises 14,278 feet above sea level, too high for trees to grow toward the top, yet there are plenty of bushes and rocks.

It was August 2018, and Wedelstedt, 56, was on her way back down the path with three friends. A storm was coming, and they were anxious to get off the mountain. When they approached a rocky drop of a couple of feet, Wedelstedt decided to jump over it. She landed on her left leg. Then she heard the snap (咔嚓声).

Every step after that was great pain. Before long, she had to stop. As one friend ran down to get help, a number of other hikers, all strangers, attempted to help Wedelstedt down the narrow path by walking on either side of her to support her weight, but that proved slow and dangerous.

Finally, one hiker, Matt, asked her, “How do you feel about a fireman’s carry?” Before she knew it, he had lifted her over his shoulder. “Now, I’m not tiny,” says Wedelstedt, a former college basketball star. Matt clearly couldn’t carry her all the way down by himself. So six hikers and one of her friends took turns carrying her while she tried to make light of a difficult situation. Three hours and two rock-strewn (遍布) miles later, this human conveyor belt finally met the doctors, who took Wedelstedt to the hospital.

She has mostly recovered from her hike, but Wedelstedt knows she’ll never shake one thing from that day: the memory of the band of strangers who came to her rescue. “I am still in awe.” says Wedelstedt.

10 . The Olympic Museum first opened to the public on June 23rd, 1993. It is a great museum set in extremely attractive grounds on the banks of Lake Geneva. In total, more than 3.5 million visitors of all ages and all walks of life have come to this museum to experience the magic of the Olympic Games. The Olympic Museum's rich collections include items from all over the world. The collections began to take shape in 1915, and have continued to grow and develop over the years.

Following almost two years of renovation work, The Olympic Museum now has an additional 1,000 square meters of exhibition space. The restaurant has been moved to the south side of the museum to offer a beautiful view over the lake and the Alps,

Opening Times:

9 am to 6 pm: from May 1 st to October 14th (Monday to Sunday)

10 am to 6 pm: from October 15th to April 30th (Tuesday to Sunday)(but open Easter Monday or for special events). Closed on December 25th and January 1st

Museum Rates:

Tickets can be bought directly at The Olympic Museum. No reservation are required. There are three ticket machines, two on the ground floor and one on the 2nd floor.

Adult: CHF 18

Children aged 6-16 (under 6 free): CHF 10

Disabled persons: CHF 12