Last Saturday, tornadoes    1     (strike) some parts of Texas, causing great damage and eight     2    (death).

    3    (fortunate), no one could predict the exact time of the disaster. Severe thunderstorms,     4    (include）unusual winter tornadoes, left damages stretching over a 64-km-long area across the city of Dallas in the    5    (north) part of Texas. Vehicles     6    (destroy) or turned upside down,    7    churches damaged, trees pulled up and debris (残骸) across neighborhoods. The tornadoes resulted in power    8    (fail) across northern Texas. It’s not known    9    power   supply can be restored by this weekend or not. In the meanwhile, the American National Weather Service has issued    10    warning that a snowstorm accompanied by uncertain temperatures will leave up to 40 cm of snow in west Texas on Sunday evening.

Hemingway is one of the greatest American writers. He was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, son of a     1     (success) doctor. Hemingway made good     2     (grade) in school; he wrote for the school paper and literary magazines; he took part in sports. And Hemingway often went hunting and     3     (fish) with his father or his friends on the lake near Charlevoix, Michigan. It provided him with materials     4     he drew on for some of his best writings. After high school, he left home for Kansas City and worked     5     a reporter.

During World War I, he served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Crops and in 1918 was     6     (bad) wounded in both legs. After the war, he went to Paris as a foreign reporter,     7     (work) for The Toronto Star. After that, he became a writer and began to attract attention. He even took     8     active part in the Spanish Civil War and World war II. In 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway’s first true novel, greatly     9     (influence) a whole generation after the First World War.

In 1961, in illness, anxiety and deep sadness, Hemingway shot     10     (he) with a hunting gun.

Toby Mott was just an ordinary person working as an artist. But then, at the age of 36, he had an idea that made him famous. It started when he wanted     1     (earn) some money for the holidays one year. His product was simple­­­ a short message of five words     2     a T­shirt.

He took the T­shirts   to a clothing store and they sold 40 in a week.     3     (immediate), he decided to start     4     (he) own business. The product was good. In the past 12 months, he has sold 60,000 T­shirts worldwide.

The     5     (phrase) for the T­shirts come from things he thinks of during the day and from conversations with friends at dinner. His customers,     6     (include) the rich and the famous, enjoy his imaginative phrases. They include things like I will spend your money, and I do things I shouldn’t.Mott says, “I’m successful,     7     it hasn’t changed my     8     (person) life. I still     work at home on the same small desk. My friends, whom I     9     (know) for more than 20 years, are still my friends. In fact, they’re as     10     (surprise) about my success as I am.”