The British like DIY. A lot of people always spend their holidays    1    (make) their homes more beautiful. If there is anything     2    needs repairing or decorating around their homes, such as painting walls and putting in a new shower, they will do the jobs     3    (they). They share DIY experience     4    their friends. DIY can save money. So, it is not surprising that DIY is very popular.

DIY can be difficult. People often find it not easy     5    (build) a piece of furniture because they can’t understand the     6    (instruct) well. What’s more, DIY can also be     7    (danger). For example, anything electrical should be done by a professional worker.     8    (unlucky), many people don’t care about this warning and put themselves in danger. It is reported that thousands of people    9    (injury) while doing DIY in the UK last year.

All in all, DIY can bring us fun and help us save money,     10    it is not always as easy as it is thought to be.

Zhou Liang is the     1     (good) friend of mine. He is sixteen. He is not very tall, but he is smart. He has many different     2     (hobby).     3     (listen) to music is his favorite. He is     4     (interest) in sports very much. He is     5     member of our school football team.

Zhou Liang also likes     6     (play) the piano. He works hard at his lessons so he does well     7     all the subjects. He can work out the math problems so     8     (easy). He is kind and ready     9     (help) others. He is the person     10     has helped me make progress. I hope our friendship will last forever.

Do you know the UK government has     1     (successful) passed a law banning branding on packs of cigarettes? That means tobacco makers will be forced to pack     2    (they) cigarettes in plain packets.

The motivation behind this     3     (decide) is to make smoking less appealing to people, especially children.

A similar law     4     was passed in Australia in 2012 has resulted     5     a fall in smoking rates from 15.1% to 12.8% for people aged 14.

As of January 2015, 22% of adult men and 17% of adult women smoke in Great Britain. The possibility of smoking in the UK increases with age so that by 15 years of age 8% of school children     6    (be) regular smokers. Children, it is thought, will be less attracted to cigarettes     7     (sell) in unbranded boxes.

Smoking is one of     8     biggest causes of preventable deaths in England. Every year about 80,000 die and over 450,000 people     9     (send) to hospital due to smoking. This places a large stress on the health service and is also a factor in why the government would like to prevent people     10     (take) up smoking or help them quit.

A father was worried about his son,     1     was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So his father decided to call on a Buddhist monk（禅师）to train his boy.

The Buddhist monk said     2     the boy's father, "You should leave your son alone here. I'll make him into a real man within three months.     3     , you can't come to see him during this period. "

Three months later, the boy's father returned. The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an     4     （experience）boxer（拳击手）. Each time the fighter struck the boy, he fell down, but at once the boy stood up then he     5     （knock）down and the boy stood up again. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked, "What do you think of your child? " "What     6     shame! " the boy's father said, "I never thought he would be so     7     （easy）knocked down. I needn't have him left her     8     longer. "

"I am sorry that is all you see. Don't you see that each time he falls down, he stands up again instead of     9     （cry）? That's the kind of courage you wanted him     10     （have）. "

It is clear that April Fools' Day is one of the most widely recognized    1    (holiday) in the Western world. Children play tricks    2    parents and many people are fooled. But why? How did April Fools' Day begin, and how did it become an    3    (globe)phenomenon? Nobody    4    (real)knows. April Fools' Day is apparently an ancient enough tradition    5    the earliest recorded mentions.

One likely explanation is the Roman tradition of Hilaria, a spring festival    6    (hold) around March 25 in honor of the first day of the year    7    (long) than the night. It's hard    8    (say) whether this ancient revel's(狂欢)similarity to modern April Fools' Day are by accident or not, as the first recorded mentions of the holiday didn't appear until several hundred years later. The first mention of April Fools' Day in Britain    9    (come) in 1686, when John Aubrey described April first as a "Fools' holy day".

    10    is clear that the habit of sending springtime rubes(乡巴佬)on a "fool's day" was popular in Europe by the late 1600s. On April Fools' Day, 1698, so many people were tricked into coming to the Tower of London to watch the "washing of the lions" that a local newspaper had to explain it.

Cloning is a way of making an exact copy of another animal or plant.    1    has two major uses. One is that gardeners use it to produce commercial    2    （quantity）of plants. The other is that it is    3    （value）for research on new plant species and for medical research on animals. However, the procedure of cloning is difficult    4    （undertake）.

On the one hand, the first successful clone, Dolly the sheep,    5    （make）the whole scientific world follow its progress, though it had    6    （many）problems than the normal sheep. On the other hand, Dolly's    7    （appear）raised a storm of objections and had a great impact    8       the media and public imagination. Different people have different opinions on it.    9    , scientists still wonder whether cloning will help or ham us and    10    it is leading us.