At first, Lauren Bath regarded blogging     1     a hobby , but companies started paying her to take photos and publish them. In 2013, she was determined to make her dream come true: she would become Australia’s first professional photo     2     (blog). It was challenging,     3     she did it. Now she travels every month to take photos.

She first visited Western Australia     4     work in 2013. She has made over 140 work trips, but her     5     (good) work trip ever was to Broome in the Kimberley region. It is     6     (extreme) beautiful and people can experience the indigenous Australia there more than anywhere else. The Kimberley region, in particular, is unique and     7     (touch).

She tries to take every opportunity to get outside and admire the natural world. She loves to photograph the     8     (rise) sun , so she force herself     9     the natural world by waking early each day.

She uses her photography to make an impact on people, especially     10     it comes to environmental issues . She once posted a photo online to make others aware of the danger of feeding wild crocodiles.

How would you feel if moving to a new town meant     1     (lose) track of your friends? What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that     2     (take) ages to be delivered? Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed     3     (significant).

The digital age     4     (enable) us to find people who share our interests. Whatever our hobbies, the Internet can connect us with people     5     also enjoy doing them, even if they live on the other side of the world.

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago, when the Internet industry was growing     1     (rapid). I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew so fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore, one with millions of titles,     2     (excite) me. I told my wife that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing     3     probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t, and I wasn’t sure     4     to expect. She told me I should go for it.

I was working at a financial firm for a brilliant boss who     5     (lead) a bunch of very smart people. When I went to him for advice, he listened carefully to my     6     (explain), and finally said. “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be     7     even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job. “    8     (see) in that light, it really was a difficult decision, but ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot.     9     took much consideration to follow my passion, but I’m proud of that     10     (choose).

It is actually a long-held idea that sharks are     1     (danger) animals, especially after the film Jaws hit the screen. Jaws gave an account of how sharks pull swimming people underwater,     2     (attract) huge audiences and winning many awards. This film encouraged people to hunt and kill sharks. As a result,     3     number of large sharks fell     4     (quick), making it one of the endangered     5     (animal). Another     6     (contribute) factor is finning. Every time there is finning, the sea floor would be covered with dead sharks. That had an unexpected effect     7     Peter Benchley, the writer of the book on     8     Jaws was based. He came to see people as a danger to sharks, rather than the other way round. That was why he     9     (fight) to protect sharks by first admitting that his book was wrong about sharks’ behaviour. Today, as we learn more about sharks, more people than ever want to protect them from     10     (extinct).

Stephen Curry, the son of the famous basketball star Dell Curry, is also a well-known NBA basketball player in the world. He spent his childhood years     1     (practise) basketball on the     2     (mud) basketball court. However, the poor conditions helped     3     (he) develop his own playing style. He also learnt to be     4     (create) and flexible as a player. Nonetheless, for many people, it seemed unlikely that Stephen would be     5     great basketball player, because he was too short, too thin and too weak     6     follow in his father’s     7     (footstep). Despite this, Stephen never gave up, and ended up     8     (play) college ball at Davidson College, not too far from where he lived.     9     (select) for the NBA in2009, he became a member of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. In 2015, he led the Warriors to their first championship since 1975. Stephen achieved his dream through self-belief, hard work, perseverance     10    some help from an old hoop. He has proved that anything is possible as long as you try your best to do it.

The film Jaws was released in 1975, and became     1     great success. The opening of the thriller showed a swimmer being attacked by a shark. Due to the horrible scenes in the film, people became more     2     (fright) of sharks. Some people even started killing them in large numbers.

Apart from this, another factor     3     (contribution) to the falling of the number. It is a type of fishing called     4     (fin), where sharks are caught and their fins are cut off. The sharks are then thrown back into the sea and die slowly and     5     (pain). In 1980, Peter Benchley, the author of the novel Jaws,     6     the film was based on, was diving and came across an awful sight. He found the sea covered with     7     (die) sharks. Later, he admitted that he was wrong about sharks’    8     (behave) in his book.

According to experts, sharks don’t target people. They do this     9     mistake. Today, more and more people have learnt about sharks and want to protect them from    10     (extinct).

The man     1     wrote Letters from Father Christmas is one of the most famous     2     (name) in English literature – J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings. The letters were Tolkien’s way of keeping Father Christmas     3     (live) for his four children, over a period of more than twenty years.

Every Christmas, Tolkien’s children would receive     4     envelope with a North Pole stamp. The letters inside were     5     (beautiful) illustrated which told wonderful stories     6     Father Christmas’s life and adventures at the North Pole. The children were very excited     7     they read the stories. Of course, the true author of the letters was Tolkien and each letter took him a long time     8     (complete). In the letters he also told the children to remember a terrible number of poor and starving people at Christmas and to share the true spirit of     9     (give) at Christmas time. Tolkien may indeed have been the     10     Father Christmas.

My mother is a very considerate (周到的) mother. One day, my mother saw me     1    (head ) towards the front door without a jacket     2    , she eyed me     3     (anxious). “It’s raining! You     4     (catch) a bad cold. You can get your jacket,” said my mother. I went back and did     5     I was told. My mother has always made sure we     6     (eat) very healthily, and fresh     7     (fruit) and vegetables are a very important part of our diet. I’m quite heathy. I very     8     (rare) get colds, although, unusually for me, I had a bad cold last week. But that’s     9     I was stupid enough to play football in the rain. Last winter almost my classmates got flu --- but I didn’t because I     10    (take) a lot of exercise and am very fit.

The author     1     (travel) on the London Tube. It is very hot and the temperature outside will be over 30 degrees. He feels awful. It is even     2     (hot) inside the train than outside, and the author thinks he is melting and becoming one with the passenger next     3     him. Thinking that London will probably get hotter, the author feels a bit     4     (scare).     5     (prepare) for the future, he thinks he should put his flat on the     6     and buy a boat. Then speak with his manager about moving to the top floor and learn to swim so as to survive even when the tall buildings     7     (flood). In the newspaper, there are reports of     8     (nature) disasters around the world     9     (cause) by climate change,     10     makes the author feel nervous. Going outside, the author feels refreshed and realises he has been worrying too much.

    1     ( sit ) back in my seat, I can’t believe that I’m about to travel along the railway that many foreign experts claimed was “impossible”. The train has been racing along     2     ( steady ) since it left Xining.

I was one of the people     3     came from all parts of China to work on this railway. Taking years to complete the Qinghai - Tibet Railway is a record of all of our efforts to overcome     4     most difficult challenges. How     5     ( protect ) the ecosystem was among the top concerns . The first landmark     6     ( catch ) my eye is the Qingshuihe Bridge, the world’s longest bridge built over permafrost. To prevent damage to wetlands and grasslands, 675 bridges     7     ( build ) between Golmud and Lhasa.

Tanggula Station,     8     ( locate ) at over 5,000 metres above sea level, is the highest railway station in the world. To make sure we stayed healthy, several oxygen - making stations were constructed. Passing Cuona Lake, I feel a sense of pride and     9     ( achieve ). Along the lake we built a twenty - kilometre wall to protect the lake     10     construction waste.

I’m proud that we built our “impossible” railway. It truly is an extraordinary “Sky Railway”.