3 . It was a dark and cold night. The taxi driver didn’t have even one passenger all day. When he went by the railway station, he saw a young man coming out with two bags in his hands. So he quickly opened the door of the car and asked, “ Where do you want to go, sir?”

“To the Star Hotel,” the young man answered. When the taxi driver heard that, he didn’t feel happy any more. The young man would give him only three dollars because the hotel was not far from the railway station. But suddenly he had an idea. He took the passenger through many streets of the big city.

After a long time, the car arrived at the hotel at last. “You should pay me fifteen dollars,” the car driver said to the young man. “What? Fifteen dollars! Do you think I’m a fool? Only last week, I took a taxi from the railway station to this same hotel and I only gave the driver thirteen dollars. I know how much I have to pay for the trip. I won’t pay you one dollar more than I paid to the other driver last week.

5 . Below is a list of popular movies, which are not only fun to watch, but they give us a lesson.

Booksmart

Booksmart stars (由……主演) Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as two high school seniors who feel they haven’t experienced the typical (典型的) high school experience. So they attend different parties held by their classmates, but get into more trouble than they’ve experienced in their lives.

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Mean Girls

Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey, is regarded as one of the best teenage movies ever. The film stars Lindsay Lohan as Cady, a student from Africa. On her first day of school, Cady gets to know Regina George, the most popular girl in school. While she’s happy to be in the cool crowd at first, Cady realizes that popularity isn’t what she imagines.

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She’s All That

She’s All That is taken from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. It was considered one of the best teenage movies in the 1990s and reached number one at the box office in its first week. The film stars Freddie Prize Jr. as Zach, a popular student who becomes unpopular when his cheerleader friend leaves him for a reality TV star.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, based on Steven Chbosky’s novel of the same name, is a coming-of-age film about a teenager named Charlie and his struggle with anxiety. The film, which is considered one of the best teenage movies ever, follows Charlie throughout his first year of high school.

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Crew members of the Shenzhou XII mission returned to Earth on Friday afternoon,     1     (conclude) a historic journey in China's Tiangong space station.

Nie Haisheng and his crew spent 92 days in space since the Shenzhou XII spacecraft     2    (launch) at the Jiuquan center on June 17. They were the first inhabitants of China's permanent space station     3    (name) Tiangong, or Heavenly Palace.

During    4    (them) stay in Tiangong, the astronauts carried out two extravehicular activities, or spacewalks, using a large robotic arm and other     5    (equip) to install and adjust devices outside the station. They also performed a number of scientific experiments and technological tests, and had video calls with President Xi Jinping and hundreds of researchers, teachers and students in Hong Kong.

It is a     6     (fruit) trip by any measure,     7     proves China's ability to provide a long-term living environment in space. Their work also prepares China for the next steps in its construction. “So far China's manned space programs     8     (contribute) greatly to mankind's peaceful development of outer space     9     the country will continue broadening and deepening its cooperation and communication with the international community to build the Chinese space station     10     a shared laboratory to bring benefits to all people on the globe.” Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, told reporters.

7 . I used to watch her play basketball and laugh. The boys always tried to stop her but _________. No one could. At other times she would practice dribbling and shooting   _________ until dark. She desired to go to college and the only way was to get a(an) _________ by being one of the best players. _________, one day in her senior year, the coach told her that she would probably _________ get to play for a top ranked team for being too short----_________ less offered a scholarship.

She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat _________ as I sensed her disappointment. Her father encouraged that those coaches were _________. They just did not understand the _________ of a dream.“ If you really wished to achieve something, nothing could stop you except one thing---your own __________ . If the dream is big enough, the facts don't __________. Keep dreaming!" Then she smiled and ran towards the court to continue the __________ .

The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college __________ who was there looking at the opposing team. She was indeed __________ a scholarship. She was going to get the college education that she had __________ and worked toward for all those years. And that little girl had more playing time as a freshman and sophomore than any other woman did in the history of that university. All the teachers were __________ with her diligence and rapid progress.

Every time she wanted to __________ , she remembered her father’s words and she will continue to __________ her dream. After work she can still be found sometimes as the sun is __________, bouncing a basketball. And often I hear her tell others, "If the dream is big enough, the __________ don’t count.”

8 . Hollywood is looking East. And not just for ticket buyers. It is putting more and more Chinese elements into its productions. Chinese elements are playing an important role in Western films. Here, we list just a few of these elements.

The Chinese people

Hollywood has a history of casting Caucasian (白种人) actors for films where the race of the character is anything but white. Now, things are changing bit by bit. Kung fu superstar Bruce Lee was perhaps the first Chinese face Hollywood got familiar with. Action stars Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat and Jet Lee followed his footsteps. More and more ethnically Chinese faces were introduced to the silver screen around the world.

Symbols of China

Kung fu seems to be an element immediately associated with China.This also shows in films. The Karate Kid, starring Jackie Chan and actor Will Smiths son Jaden Smith, tells the story of how a boy, who was bullied at school, changed the course of his life after learning martial arts from a car mechanic (played by Chan). The film earned more than 1.6 billion yuan in ticket sales in China.

The Chinese language

Actor Bruce Willis showed his language skills in the film Red, where he said “A few years ago, I lived in Wuhan” in Chinese. This caused quite a stir in the theatres for Chinese audiences. Willis is not the only one who has spoken Chinese on the big screen. In Pearl Harbour, Alec Baldwin taught American soldiers how to say "I am an American " in Chinese. Nicolas Cage also delivered one of his most recognized lines “I prefer to shoot"in Chinese in Lord of War.