Jan Tchamani suddenly got a serious illness and had to give up her job. At     1     age of 50, she found     2    (she) out of work and stuck at home with only her computer to keep her company.     3     she did on the Internet made her feel less lonely and     4     (bore). She realized that the Internet had the ability     5     (remove) the distance that usually exists between people.

    6     (inspire) by the people she met online, she started an IT club, which was to teach older people how to use computers and the Internet. Many people     7     (help) by the club since it was started.

Jane has started taking online classes to learn more about how to use the Internet. She believes that it is     8    (high) important to bridge the digital divide and make sure that everyone has access     9     the Internet and knows how to use new technology. Her next goal is to start a charity website to raise money for children in poor     10    (country).

Shijing, also The Book of Songs or Shih Ching, is the     1     (early) collection of Chinese poetry. It     2     (make) up of 311 poems dating from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle stage of the Spring and Autumn Period. Nowadays, Confucius is generally believed to be the     3     (edit) of the book.

Shijing is rich in content,     4     (describe) love and labour, war and slavery, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and special events. It is called a mirror of social life.

Poems included in Shijing fall into three sections-poems that come from villages belong to Feng; those written to persuade or praise the rulers belong to Ya; those used at religious     5     (ceremony) belong to Song. Ya and Song are flowery and serious in language.     6    , Feng is relatively inspiring and full of passion.

The opening poem of Shijing, “Cooing and Wooing” (《关雌》), is about love,     7     reads:

By riverside are cooing, a pair of turtledoves;

A good young man is wooing, a fair maiden he loves.

It is vivid that the man is longing     8     (win) over the girl.

Shijing enables people to have a better understanding of Chinese civilization and is also     9     beginning of ancient Chinese poetry. Additionally, it is also frequently quoted in other Chinese texts and has always been referred to     10     moral truth and lessons.

What on earth does happiness mean? I can’t give you its exact definition, but I’m sure if you love and help others you’ll get it.

I’ll never forget an old lady. She lives in    1    small house alone. It is said that her husband and her son    2    (die) in a road accident years ago. Her life is bitter, but she often helps others     3    a smile. Whenever it snows, she is always the first    4    (clean) the paths. She looks after several children living nearby. I am one of them. I often remember the stories she told us and her kind smile. Perhaps she is unlucky, but I think she is a happy person. Her life is full of    5       (laugh) and love.

But I’m sad to see some people getting their happiness in bad ways. They talk    6    (noisy) in cinemas and meeting rooms; they destroy trees to enjoy themselves and they laugh at others shortcomings. Perhaps they feel happy at that time,    7     they will never get true happiness because they    8    (lose) their personality already.

Now I know what happiness is.    9    means kindness, love and unselfishness. Above all, I have come to understand that    10    (bring) happiness to others is getting ourselves happiness.

The Internet is an     1     (amaze) information resource. Students, teachers     2     researchers use it as     3     important tool. Journalists use it to find information for stories. Doctors use it to learn more about unfamiliar diseases and the     4     (late) medical development. Ordinary people use it for shopping, banking, bill-paying, and communicating with family and friends. People all over the world use it     5     (connect) with individuals from other countries and cultures. However, while there are many positive developments associated with the Internet, there are also certain fears and     6     (concern). One concern is a lack of control over what     7     (appear) on the Internet. With television and radio the editors will check the accuracy of the contents of programs, and with television there are limits on what kinds of programs can     8     (broadcast) and at what time of the day. However,     9     the help of the Internet, parents can check a published guide to determine what     10     (suit) for their children to see.

“Traveling to China seems like traveling to another world. Its many famous scenic attractions impressed me    1    (great),” an American said. The following is    2    he wrote on his website.

My friends and I had a family visit in Xi’an,     3    old city with a long history in China. The hosts were retired or stayed at home without a job, and they were friendly to    4    (visitor) from different countries coming their homes.

We    5     (taste) the true home-cooked dishes in the home of the family that we visited. For in-homing dinner, the host would prepare a list of menus in advance (提前) .Our tour guide asked     6     (we) for advice about the food, so the host would try to cook what we wanted to eat at his home, We just enjoyed the locally cooked dishes. It was quite a different and exciting experience.

Many foreigners enjoy    7    (learn) how to make Chinese dumplings. We    8     (offer) a general cooking class in the local family. The host taught us to make dumplings step by step with lots of    9    (patient). And we didn’t need to pay any money    10    this. Travel China Guide offers this kind of service free of charge.

The family visit in X in was a good chance for us to get to know Chinese people’s daily life.

Food is life; it gives us the nourishment(营养)    1    (need) to stay alive and be healthy. Usually, we eat because we are hungry or need energy. Brian Wansink, a professor at the University of Illinois,     2     (say) we also eat certain foods    3    they make us feel good, and remind us of happy memories. Wansink calls this kind of food comfort food. For some people, ice cream is a comfort food.     4    others, a bowl of noodles makes them feel good.

How does a food become comfort food?     5    is believed by Professor Wansink that we connect food with important times, feelings, and people in our lives. “When I was a child, my mother made a delicious soup; I loved it.” Now, I often have this soup when I am tired or     6     (worry). And it helps me feel better,” says one of Wansink’ s friends.

Do men and women choose different comfort foods? Wansink’s research (研究) at the University of Illinois says “yes”. In his study, the favorite comfort for both men and women was ice cream. After this, men usually preferred hot, delicious foods like soup or noodles,     7    women liked sweet things such as chocolate and candies. Men and women like to eat comfort foods when they are happy, but women eat these foods     8    ( much) when they are sad or worried.

    9     (general) speaking, not all comfort foods are junk foods. About 40 percent of the comfort foods in Wansink’s study were healthy dishes, soups and vegetables. It shows that a comfort food can be     10    (benefit) and good to you.

October 27 is National Black Cat Day! In honor of that, here’s how we can protect our pets on    1     most frightening day of the year, Halloween! Understanding what can be dangerous for our pets     2    (be) especially important during the holidays.

Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS) is here for us again! They have recommendations on how    3    (live) our best lives on Halloween, while still keeping our pets safe.

Candy is for kids, not dogs and cats. Chocolate can be very     4    (harm) to our furry friends. Candy containing xylitol (artificial sweetener) can also be dangerous. Keep any candy out     5     pets’ reach.

Wires and cords that light up your holiday decorations can be deadly if they are bitten by pets. Please make sure pets don’t get close     6     them.

We should keep Jack-o-lanterns with lighting candles,     7     might be accidentally knocked over and potentially start a fire, away from pets.

Pets should     8    (keep) inside during Halloween if trick-or-treating is happening in your community. Take care when     9    (answer) the door so your cat doesn’t nun outside. If the extra door knocking or doorbell ringing troubles out your pets, put     10    (they) in a quiet room away from the noise.

There’s just a 1-in-3,700,000 chance that a person will be killed by     1     shark, but the fear is still enough to have swimmers worrying about     2     (be) seen as prey (捕获物). Now, new research supports the long-standing theory     3     when great whites go in for a bite, it’s a case of “mistaken identity”.

A team of biologists     4     (compare) videos of seals swimming with those of humans swimming. They then edited the clips to simulate a great white’s vision and found that from the ocean inhabitant’s point     5     view, humans do indeed have a strong resemblance to seals.

“Usually, great white sharks     6     (regard) as ‘mindless killers’ and fond of human flesh. However, this does not seem to be the case; we just look like     7     (they) food,” Laura Ryan, lead author of the study, told Live Science.

“They eat seals every day and bites on people are     8     (extreme) rare,” said Catherine MacDonald, a marine scientist at the University of Miami. “So if they’re not solving the problem visually, then how do we think they’re solving it?     9     (hit) the right targets, sharks could be relying on other senses, like the scent. If that’s the case,     10     (addition) studies on how great whites use those senses could help prevent further attacks.”

In Canada, high school grades    1    (use) as the main standards for admission (准许进入) to college or university. However, a research    2    (do) by scientists shows that nearly 75% of student success is decided by other factors (因素). These factors are often described    3    21^st-century skills.

The important things that lead to    4    (successful) finishing post-secondary education at the student level are good study habits and stress management. While a good mix (结合，融合) of all the factors    5    (seem) to be the best factor of student success,    6    is likely that strengths in one area can make up for disadvantages (不足) in other areas. For example, a student    7    has lower grades in high school can be good in university if he has clear goals about    8    (he) future.

Although high school grades will be used to decide if a student is admitted into an academic (学业的，学术的) program, the student’s ability    9    (deal) with challenges of the post-secondary world will decide their success. Good high school grades do not guarantee (确保) success; secondary schools and parents can be key players in    10    (help) to support the development of Independent-thinking students who will be able to succeed at the post-secondary level.