Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went to Canada to visit their cousins in Halifax on the Atlantic coast. They decided     1    (fly) to Vancouver and then take the train.

During their first day, as is typical of Vancouver, it rained. Later, they took a pleasant hike in a forest just a short     2    (distant) away.

The next morning, the two girls arose early to take the train to Lake Louise,     3    (pass) through the Canadian Rockies.     4    (see) from the train window, the mountains and forests of Canada looked massive. They spent the night, and then took     5     coach bound north through the Canadian Rockies to Jasper.

From Jasper, they caught the train towards Toronto. One of the train’s     6    (one) stops was in Edmonton. From Edmonton, the train     7    (head) southeast across the great Canadian Prairie. After another day on the train,     8    (eventual) they were back in an urban area, the city of Winnipeg. Night came again, and the train turned south towards Toronto. It was not until 9: 30 a. m. that they finally reached     9     capital of Ontario, Toronto. All     10     all, their trip from Vancouver to Toronto had taken a duration of four days.

5 . Will there be a time in our lives when cars don’t crash? When we can just sit back and relax and our cars will drive themselves. Auto technology experts say “yes”. And they say that some of those advances may happen quicker than you might think.

They will require the users to input the name of the destination or the complete address of the location that they want to go and the cars’ artificial intelligence takes them there automatically without a driver. They will run on solar power in the daytime and ethanol fuel(乙醇燃料) at night. Toyota, BMW and Honda will completely control the trade of driverless car business together and will have the cheapest driverless cars. Fossil fuels(矿物燃料) will be completely incompatible(不相配的) with these cars.

Driverless cars will not require a driver’s license of any grade to operate. Anyone with basic literacy and computer skills who are at least 16 years of age will be legally allowed to operate the vehicle with absolutely no restrictions. This would give the young users permission to operate the driverless cars on major highways as well as secondary roads without needing a separate classification. In addition to all this, drunken people will be able to use their own automobiles to return home because they are not “driving” the vehicle.

What’s more, car insurance will become obsolete because there will be no more automobile accidents after the year 2025. This is because the driverless car will have all safety methods in place by the car’s artificial intelligence to prevent automobile accidents. Global positioning systems will become mandatory(强制的) in all newly-manufactured cars after 2010, and will be the most important part in the driverless car.

Two Wheels and A Heart

In the town of Whitesburg, Kentucky, Mick Polly, who lives with his teenage daughter Carolina in a white house,     1    (know) as the bike man. Over the past five years, Mick has built hundreds of bicycles for needy kids.

One day in 2011, a 13-year-old boy with a broken bike walked by Mick’s house. “I was working in my garage, and he asked     2     I could fix it,” says Mick, now 53.

The boy left his bike, which had a broken bracket, with Mick, who asked friends on Facebook if they had the missing part. The town’s former police chief saw the post and donated two used bicycles. Mick took parts from each to engineer a new set of wheels for the boy.

Soon after，Mick, who owns an inflatable-toys (充气娃娃) business，repaired a bike for the boy’s brother and assembled     3     for his sister. Word spread, and within the year, he had fixed up dozens of bikes for local kids     4     parents couldn’t afford to buy new ones.

“People were dropping off bikes day and night,” says Mick.

Mick stores the bikes and bike parts in his garage. “I take off the good tires or the handlebars or the seat and use them,” he says.

Till now, the bike man     5     (repair) hundreds of cycles and given away nearly 700 newly     6    (construct) bikes. They are free, but the kids must agree to two things: They have got to “mind whoever’s raising them” and they’ve got to try hard in school.

If a kid’s grades are low, Mick requires a teacher’s note       7     (say) that “you are doing your       8     (good),” Mick says.

Mick also hopes the bikes will get kids     9     the couch. “     10    I was growing up, we all rode our bikes,” he says. “Hopefully these kids can get some exercise.”

A ban on distracted walking

You can‘t walk down the street without passing so-called “smart-phone zombies (僵尸)”.

They are too absorbed in their screen    1    (watch) where they are going. Almost four in ten people admit having suffered a technology-related small accident     2     they pay more attention to their electronic device than to the pavement.

Now the city of Honolulu, Hawaii, has decided it’s time to take immediate action and make it illegal to cross the road while using a mobile phone. Those     3     (catch) using phones, tablets or other electronic devices at crossing points could face a fine of up to$ 100.

Honolulu is the first major U. S. city to ban     4     is called “distracted walking”. It comes after a study found there     5     (be) more than 11,000 injuries in the United States resulting from phone-related distraction while walking in the past few years.

To explain the decision, mayor Kirk Caldwell said, “We hold the unfortunate honor of being a major city     6     more pedestrians are hit in crosswalks than almost any other city in the country.”

Under the fine systems     7     breaks this law for the first time will get a fine of $15 to $35. People breaking the law for a second or third time will get a $99 fine.

The law, which is called the Distracted Walking Law, does permit an exception. Pedestrians     8     use such devices in the street to call emergency services and rescue workers, such as firefighters and police officers.

If you still want to text while walking, you could avoid     9     (fine) in Honolulu by using a voice-controlled digital assistant such as Siri or Google Assistant. Or you could just wait     10     you are again, safely, off the street.

I’d like to share with you what has happened to the transportation in our city.

Firstly, great changes have been taken place to the transportation inside the city, which makes it convenient for citizens to get around. Some narrowly streets have been broadened, but there are less traffic jams. Secondly, transportation to other cities had also improved. Several highways are now on construction. Two high-speed railways connected our city to the national high-speed railway web is close to completion. At that time, the travel time to Beijing will be reduced to three hour. What deserves to be mentioned is that a airport has been in use for several years, making your city more and more popular.

10 . From quiet paths by a stream in a forest to busy roads running through a city, people have created various forms of routes in different places. These now exist all around us, and their use is imperative for societies. These routes have enabled people to move, transport things, and send information from one place to another quickly and safely. Throughout history, they have been important in our daily lives.

Early routes were often formed naturally on land. They gradually developed over long periods of time while people traveled them on foot or horseback. A significant turning point in their history arrived when the first wheeled carts appeared in ancient times. Once this happened, people recognized the importance of well-maintained routes. Therefore, towns, cities, and entire countries improved them. As a result, life became more convenient, communities grew, economies evolved, and cultures expanded.

People have established routes on water, too. Rivers and canals have served as effective routes for people to move around and carry things. For instance, in the old, Japanese city of Edo, water routes were used for the transportation of agricultural products, seafood, and wood. People have also opened routes across the sea. The seaways were critical for the navigation of ships, particularly in the days when they moved mainly by wind power. Using these sea routes, people could travel great distances, and go to places they had not previously been able to reach.

People have gone on to open routes in the sky as well. Since the invention of the airplane, they have made it possible to travel long distances easily. Eventually, people became able to travel safely and comfortably high in the sky, and going vast distances only took a small amount of time.

Today, we have a new type of route, the Internet. By using this worldwide route, people can easily obtain information that once was available mainly from books and face-to-face communication. They can also instantly send messages to large numbers of people all at once.

As long as there have been people, there have been routes to connect them. Currently unknown routes will surely take us even further in the future.