There exist various clubs in our school, among which the one enjoy the most popularity is the Culture Heritage Protecting Club, it is committed to protecting the fascinating cultural heritage.

Set up in 2020, the club is making up of 200 members, includes teachers and students. Not only they gather together to learn about the cultural heritage by listening to lectures, but they also visit the local cultural relics regular. Sometimes, they deliver speeches to raise people's aware of preserving Chinese cultural heritage. Beside, they have even developed an APP to promote our local cultural relics.

What they have done has gained lots of praise these days. From my point of the view, they attempts really make a difference to protecting the cultural heritage.

2 . Simply saying thank you doesn't seem enough in certain situations. I was considering this while working as a _________ just a few weeks ago. And it came to me then how much easier it would be if we had a range of words that express different grades of _________.

My thoughts were soon _________. We had a woman patient who was _________ from a knee replacement operation. One afternoon, while choosing to get into bed she _________ from what was _________ discovered to be a heart attack. The collapse was disastrous, requiring the _________ medical team and good teamwork. But she recovered, though _________ and was ready for discharge（出院）after four weeks.

She was _________ for everything that the medical and nursing team had done for her. On her day of discharge, we shared in her __________ at her recovery. As she was __________ she was __________ to say goodbye to each of us in the nursing team. When she reached one nurse, she __________ to press a five-pound note into her hand. My colleague refused to __________ it, saying that we were all just doing our job. The patient looked __________, and then __________: "Oh this isn't for the __________ I had. I take that as a given. No, this is for __________ my hair yesterday."

And there you have it. To many people, saving lives is part of the job __________ styling hair is an extra and should be __________.

4 . In the mid-1990s, Tom Bissell taught English as a volunteer in Uzbekistan. He left after seven months, physically broken and having lost his mind. A few years later, still attracted to the country, he returned to Uzbekistan to write an article about the disappearance of the Aral Sea.

His visit, however, ended up involving a lot more than that. Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, talks about a road trip from Tashkent to Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea. It is the story of an American travelling to a strange land, and of the people he meets on his way: Rustam, his translator, a lovely 24-year-old who picked up his colorful English in California, Oleg and Natasha, his hosts in Tashkent, and a string of foreign aid workers.

This is a quick look at life in Uzbekistan, made of friendliness and warmth, but also its darker side of society. In Samarkand, Mr Bissell admires the architectural wonders, while on his way to Bukhara he gets a taste of police methods when suspected of drug dealing. In Ferghana, he attends a mountain funeral（葬礼）followed by a strange drinking party. And in Karakalpakstan, he is saddened by the dust storms, diseases and fishing boats stuck miles from the sea.

Mr Bissell skillfully organizes historical insights and cultural references, making his tale a well-rounded picture of Uzbekistan, seen from Western eyes. His judgment and references are decidedly American, as well as his delicate stomach. As the author explains, this is neither a travel nor a history book, or even a piece of reportage. Whatever it is, the result is a fine and vivid description of the purest of Central Asian traditions.

5 . When almost everyone has a mobile phone, why are more than half of Australian homes still paying for a landline（座机）?

These days you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in Australia over the age of 15 who doesn't own a mobile phone. In fact, plenty of younger kids have one in their pocket. Practically everyone can make and receive calls anywhere, anytime.

Still, 55 percent of Australians have a landline phone at home and only just over a quarter （29%） rely only on their smartphones, according to a survey（调查）. Of those Australians who still have a landline, a third concede that it's not really necessary and they're keeping it as a security blanket-19 percent say they never use it while a further 13 percent keep it in case of emergencies. I think my home falls into that category.

More than half of Australian homes are still choosing to stick with their home phone. Age is naturally a factor（因素）-only 58 percent of Generation Ys still use landlines now and then, compared to 84 percent of Baby Boomers who've perhaps had the same home number for 50 years. Age isn't the only factor; I'd say it's also to do with the makeup of your household.

Generation Xers with young families, like my wife and I, can still find it convenient to have a home phone rather than provide a mobile phone for every family member. That said, to be honest, the only people who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers parents, to the point where we play a game and guess who is calling before we pick up the phone （using Caller ID would take the fun out of it）.

How attached are you to your landline? How long until they go the way of gas street lamps and morning milk deliveries?

7 . At a young age, Darrius Simmons fell in love with the piano. As he watched others play, he was _________ by the joy the piano gave them. He wanted to experience that, too, but knew for him it would be a/an _________.

“I decided at age 10 that I wanted to learn how to play the piano, _________ it was going to take a little bit _________ work for me to learn,” Simmons says. “I knew most people had 10 fingers while I had four, yet I was pretty _________ I could make it work.”

The Warren, Ohio teenager was born with a genetic _________ called ectrodactyly (先天性缺指畸形). He has three fingers on his right hand and _________ finger on his left. But it didn’t _________ Simmons from following his _________. With no formal training, Simmons taught himself by ear how to play the piano. He practiced and practiced, finding a way to ____________ the keys with four fingers while mastering the pedals with his prostheses (假肢).

Simmons knew he would have to ____________ his own style of playing. “I couldn’t base it ____________ the technique of somebody who has 10 fingers. It just wouldn’t ____________.” He says. “That’s ____________ it was hard for me to take piano lessons. It’s very ____________ for somebody who has learned how to play with 10 fingers to adjust and teach me with only four.”

The now 18-year-old not only learned how to play and read music but also began composing.

His mother, Tamara Simmons, isn’t surprised by Darrius’ ____________. She knows how focused and ____________ he can be.

From mastering music to beating ____________ challenges, Darrius Simmons sets out to ____________ the world. “I like to be somebody’s ____________,” he says. “If I play in front of a whole crowd and I see one person smile, that’s a job well done.”

Online learning become an important way to study recently. As we all know it, the Internet is a useful tool what can help us a lot in our study. As for me, I often use the Internet to collecting some materials about English, such as some famous English novel. At the same time, I also make a lot of foreign friends through the Internet. We often communicate on the Internet with English. So I have my speaking English improved. And if we surf the Internet for a long time, it will be easily to do harm to our study. So we should learn what to put our time to good use.

9 . A small Alaska village has experienced a wonderful period in tourism in recent years as polar bears spend more time on land than on Arctic sea ice.

More than 2,000 people visited the northern Alaska village of Kaktovik in 2018 to see polar bears in the wild. The far north community lies in an area where increasingly higher temperature has sped up the movement of sea ice, the primary habitat （栖息地）of polar bears. As ice has gradually moved to deep water beyond the continental shelf, more bears are remaining on land to look for food.

Polar bears have always been a common sight on sea ice near Kaktovik, but villagers started noticing a change in 1995. More bears seemed to stay on land, and researchers began taking note of more female bears making homes in the snow on land instead of on the ice to raise their babies. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists began hearing reports of the increasing number of polar bears in the area in the early 2000s. As more attention was given to the plight （困境）of polar bears about ten years ago, more tourists started heading to Kaktovik.

The village had fewer than 50 visitors every year before 2011, said Jennifer Reed, of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "Today we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of visitors, many from around the world each year," Reed said. Most tourists visit in the fall, when bears are forced toward land because sea ice is farthest away from the shore. Bruce Inglangasak, a local hunter who sometimes offers wildlife-viewing tours, said they have been offering polar bear tours since 2004. Most of his clients （客户）are from China and Europe, as well as from the lower 48 U. S. states. Many tourists stay several days in the village, which has two small hotels. The villagers have benefited a lot from that. In turn, they provide more effective protection for polar bears with financial support from tourism development.

Just only fifteen years     1     (early), getting from one city to another left travelers with very few choices. And now all of that     2     (change)a lot.

Take taking a trip from Shanghai to Beijing as an example. For those under the pressures of the clock,     3     quickest and most convenient mode of travel would be the plane. New airports have sprung up in every major province,     4     (open) up ways to go to areas of China,     5     are left unexplored by previous (先前的)foreign travels.

But if the price of planes is a bit high     6     if the fear of heights gets you down, taking a bullet train (动车)is a great way. The bullet railway is just     7     (hard) longer than the plane trip and watching city and countryside views from the window is an experience in     8     (it).

And the choices don't stop there. Why not take the wheel yourself? Nowadays car rental is easy and inexpensive. The newly paved roads are welcoming and GPS systems are just as advanced (先进)     9     any international area. Take to the back-roads and explore the different     10     (part)of the countryside, which have taken a great jump in living standards.