My motherland, China,     1     capital is Beijing, is a great country with a long history and rich culture. It     2    (locate) in the east of Asia, with an area of 9,600,000 square kilometers and     3     population of 1.4 billion. Our country     4    (consist) of 56 nationalities, among which the Han Ethnic Group is the largest,     5    (make) up 94% of the people. There are many beautiful mountains and rivers as well as rich natural     6    (resource) in China. As we all know, the Yangtze River is the third     7    (long) river in the world,     8     the Great Wall is one of the seven wonders in the world. Kung Fu is the crystallization of Chinese     9    (wise) and the embodiment of Chinese traditional culture. The Chinese people are hard-working and brave. Great changes     10    (take) place in China in the past 20 years.

At 2.54 meters, Leonid is probably the tallest man in    1    world.33-year-old Leonid suffers from a rare illness. So    2    (he)body can produce too much growth hormone(荷尔蒙).

Leonid lives with his    3    (mother) in a small house with four rooms, sleeping on two double beds pushed together. He has to    4    (walk) with his head bowed because he is so tall. Several years ago, he    5    (graduate) from university, and used to work as a doctor on a local farm, but he lost his job as he could no longer ride his bicycle.

“I don’t    6    (real) have any friends. I rely on my mother,”he says. “I don’t    7    (know) what I’ll do. I don’ t even know how    8    (buy) food. I haven’t been to the market for five years.”It’s a lonely life, but he is happy working in his garden. Luckily, nobody laughs at Leonid in the village. His neighbors are all very fond of him. “We’ re going to take him on a     9     (trip) to the mountains,”says one of them, “to show him there’s something in the world    10    (tall) than he is.”

Last weekend, I had     1     interview with eye-doctor, Professor Wang, on     2     (we) country primary and middle students’ short-sightedness.

It is said that slightly more than 50%     3    (student) are short-sighted.     4     the opinion of Professor Wang, the reason     5     people become short-sighted is complicated and there is still no cure for short-sightedness. He     6     (suggest) that we should not overuse our eyes and do more outdoor exercises. Besides, since the holding of pen has something     7    (do) with the short-sightedness, we need to pay attention to     8    (use) the pen correctly.

As far as I am concerned, it is eyes that help us see the     9    (beauty) world more clearly and they are so important for us that we should protect them well     10    being harmed.

Suddenly, old-fashioned road trips are in style again. Websites, newspapers, magazines and even     1    (book) are featuring road trips, even though they are actually     2    long-standing American tradition in pop culture, from the 1950s Beat Generation literary classic “On the Road” to the 1983 comedy movie “National Lampoon’s Vacation”. In some ways, the comeback of this 20th-century style vacation     3     (be) surprising in an age when “time has become far more     4     (value) than money”, writes Richard Ratay in his coming book, “Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip”. In other words,     5    do you spend 18 hours driving 1, 200 miles when you could get there in two hours     6     plane?

Here is why: flying is expensive, and the more people taking the trip, the     7     (cheap) it is to pile very one of your group in a car. Flying is also unpleasant. Getting to the airport, allowing time for     8     (secure) checks and dealing with delays and baggage an easily turn a two-hour flight into a trip that takes up most of your day and all of your soul. For some travelers, it is more appealing     9     (get) up early, hit the road and spend all day driving. At least you can bring more than one bag without     10     (pay) extra. And you can stop where you want and when you want.

China is scheduled to welcome the “golden decade” next year with the    1     (plan) launch of the 5G network. Around 60 percent mobile phone owners in China use 4G Internet services. Coming of 5G, most consumers    2     (adopt) high-speed mobile services, industry officials told the FICF in Shanghai.

The5G network promises to deliver 20 to 50 times more Internet speed compared to 4G. And China has unique and     3    (lead) position on 5G research and development. It will connect more devices and boost innovation and economic progress, according to China Unicom.

"High- speed mobile Internet and various     4    (apply) will create a golden decade for next generation telecommunications service, making it the     5    (big) opportunity after personal computer and smart phone, said Lu Tingjie, professor of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Shanghai based Dahan Tricom (大汉三通),    6     offers telecommunications services and platforms for carriers (电信运营商), posted an income of1,07 billion yuan(US$155million) in 2016, 12 times more     7     that in 2014.       8    (confident), cloud computing, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (loT) are expected     9    (bring) more opportunities to the industry.

China’s loT market is set to grow    10     an average of 13. 3 percent a year to 361 billion 2020.

Mid-Autumn Festival this year falls on Oct 1. In a recent survey     1     (conduct) by China Youth Daily, 92.9 percent of all the 1,018 respondents said they would go home for a family reunion     2     (celebrate) it. Since the full moon symbolizes a family staying together, the Mid-Autumn Festival is     3     (traditional) associated with family reunions. To go home to celebrate the festival is a way    4     honoring our traditional culture and observing traditions that have lasted for centuries.

To celebrate, families will usually enjoy a dinner together and eat moon-cakes,which     5     (give) as gifts to express people's best wishes for family reunions. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is special in two     6    (aspect). First, it falls on Oct 1,     7    is also the day that marks the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

As     8     result, it falls at the start of the week-long National Day holiday, so people can have     9    (much) time to go home.     10     people are far apart,the bonds of love bind families together.

Peter lived in a village. He was always upset and treated others     1     (bad). He enjoyed himself by making other     2     (villager) unhappy. So the whole village avoided     3     (he) as much as they could. On the day when he turned eighty,     4     unusual thing happened. Everyone     5     (hear) the words. “Peter looks happy today. Instead of     6     (say) something bad, he smiles to everyone he meets.” When the whole village got together, Peter     7     (ask) why. He answered, “I’d been running after my happiness     8     eighty years, but it was     9     (use). And then I decided to live without it and just enjoy life. That’s the reason     10     I’m happy now.”

Tony became ill and had to spend all day in bed. Because other     1     (child) could not come near him, he felt sad and lonely.

There wasn’t much to do, so he just looked out of the window. One day, he     2     (see) something strange outside the window. It was a penguin (企鹅)     3     (eat) a sandwich. The penguin said “good afternoon”     4     Tony and then left.

Tony was very     5     (surprise). He tried to find out what was going on. Suddenly, he saw a monkey playing with a balloon (气球) outside his window. As he saw more and more strange animals, Tony couldn’t help laughing     6     found it hard to stop.

Before long, his health improved and he went back to school, where his friends Tom, Jack and Mark were all waiting for him. He told     7     (he) friends about all the strange things outside his window. While he was talking, he saw something in Mark’s schoolbag. Tony asked what it     8     (be) and Mark showed him.

Inside the bag were a lot of clothes     9     looked like animals. His friends wore them to cheer Tony up while he was ill!

From that day on, Tony always tried his best     10     (make) sure his friends never felt sad or lonely.

One day when I was about 12, my neighbor, an elderly woman,     1    (ask) me to help out. She was too weak and sick to be living on her own. I agreed, but wasn't exactly excited, considering that I have a hard time in       2    (be) around new people for long periods of time.

On my first day, I was nervous when greeting her. She welcomed me     3     a warm hug and directed me to the living room, not seeming to notice     4     I was. First we made idle (闲聊) chat for a little bit, then she had me clean walls and dust     5    (shelf) and so on. While I was in the same room with    6    (she), she talked to me about her younger days. It was nice to learn interesting things about     7    1930s from someone directly, rather than a book.

After three hours of work, I     8    (wear) out, but learned an important quality: patience. I learned to focus on what I was doing and go slow rather than rush it.

Her house became bright and I felt     9    (pride). When offered money, I didn't take it. Instead, I gave her a big hug and thanked her.

I’m 15 now and we're good friends. She's almost like another grandmother to me.    10    (happy) I have her in my life.

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.