Like most other toddlers (初学走路的孩子), one curious 20-month-old from Brazil loves to explore and gets into trouble. The story goes like this. When the child     1     (leave) home alone with an older brother, everything was fine at first. But not long after that, the baby got angry and wandered away from home. When his parents came back, they found their baby     2     (go). The parents were so worried about their baby and his     3     (safe) that they had to turn to their families and neighbors for help. They immediately set out     4     (look) for the missing child everywhere,     5     failed to find anything.

Eventually, the family called for help from the police     6     arrived with a search and rescue dog named Luke to look     7     the child. Luke managed to catch a scent, and led rescuers into the jungle and straight to the child within twenty-five     8     (minute). Rescuers found the scared child     9     (stand) in some bushes in the jungle, so they immediately picked the toddler up and rushed back to the worried family.     10     (thankful), Luke managed to find the toddler before he suffered any serious injuries.

Videos of 77-year-old Xu Xiuzhen, who speaks different languages with foreigners while working at a scenic spot selling water, postcards and headdress flowers, have brought her instant fame.

Xu’s village     1     (locate) at the base of Moon Hill, a popular tourist destination famed for a moon-shaped hole at the summit. She has been working as a tour guide and vendor (小贩) in Yangshuo,     2     county and resort town in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region since 1998,     3     the area became famous for foreign backpackers and organized tours.

Xu, who dropped out of junior school in the third grade, began to learn different languages to attract more foreign customers. Xu said she would convert words in any language into Chinese characters     4     (base) on their pronunciation and then memorize them. Repeating the words in her head before going to bed and     5     (immediate) after waking up has given her fluency in basic conversations with foreigners.

Over the past two decades, Xu     6     (teach) herself 11 foreign languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. In addition to     7     (make) her incredibly popular, her excellent linguistic ability has made it easier for her to communicate with foreign tourists. Xu has also become one of the busiest tour     8     (guide) in Yangshuo. Her reputation draws a large crowd of tourists every day, especially foreign visitors, who come to meet the multilingual guide out of     9     (admire).

“More and more foreign tourists are coming to Yangshuo, and I hope they will feel     10     home here with my help,” she said.

I have a fifteen-year-old son. He    1     (be) a perfect boy. I love my son with all my heart.

Last summer he worked to earn money for his new bicycle instead of     2     (ask) money from me. Then he spent hours and hours on it. Later I bought him a pair    3    glasses and gloves. My son rode the bicycle with the glasses and the gloves, and he looked so cool. He dreamed of taking part in a race and winning.

On November 10, my birthday, when I went to the kitchen to start the milk and bread in the morning, I     4     (notice) a beautiful guitar on the table, beside which was a card. It said, “Happy birthday to my    5     (wonder) mother, all my love, your son.” I was very    6    (surprise) and then began to sob (抽泣). I remembered once I joked to my family that I wished    7     (learn) to play the guitar to make my life more colorful. I had forgotten it, but my son remembered. He took it    8     (serious), and bought one for me as my birthday gift. When I wondered     9     my son could buy this expensive gift, I realized that my son sold his bicycle to get me     10     guitar.

Lantern Festival marked the final day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. It has been an important festival    1    the Western Han Dynasty.

In ancient China, often marriage    2    (decide)by parents or even the government. During some periods marriage policies went to extremes.

However, extreme policies to force people to get married were rare, and young people still had certain    3    (free)to get married with people they liked, rather than being    4    (complete)manipulated by their parents or government. Ancient Chinese had milder ways to encourage people to find a spouse, such as fairs and meetings during festivals.

Lantern Festival is one of the festivals that provided ancient Chinese single young men and women a chance    5    (meet)and get to know each other. On the night of that day,     6    (marry)men and women would meet at the flower fair and lantern-decorated street.

Romance often happened,     7    not all of these stories ended happily.

Ouyang Xiu described a woman's longing for the man she met during Lantern Festival in his poem Yuan Xi. It    8    (go)like this: "Last lantern festival, the flower fair    9    (decorate)with lights was daylight bright. We met after dusk when the moon rose behind willow trees. This year the moon and lanterns are still    10    same, yet you are not here anymore. I am sad, with tears shed on the sleeves of my spring coat.”

When 5-year-old A.J. Troiano from Bedford, New Hampshire, learned about Hurricane Harvey from his parents and grandparents,     1     showed him photos of the floods and explained what people in Texas—particularly the children—were going through and everything they had lost, he knew he had to do something about it. So A.J. announced he     2     (walk) around his block five     3     (time). Accompanied by his loving grandparents, of course, he made it for a total of two miles     4     (raise) money for the American Red Cross to support those who     5     (affect) by the hurricane.

He made a poster to show his cause and couldn’t wait to get started on his walk     6     next day when he arrived home     7     kindergarten. As he walked around the block, A.J.’s neighbors friends, and family came up and asked what he was doing, and he was     8     (pleasant) surprised when they started to join in and donate to the cause. He finished the walk, running fast home, with the total of $200 he raised. “I hope it is just the     9     (begin) for him in understanding on how one person can really make a     10     (different),” said A.J. ‘s grandmother, Kathy Ladd.

Pan Shixue, a silversmith (银匠) in Maliao village in Guizhou Province, used to dream of people living     1     abundant life in his village, where nobody has to work far away from home and customers go there for beautiful silver jewellery. Now his dream has come true.

Maliao village is famous for its silver jewellery. In fact, Miao ethnic silversmith technique     2     (list) as China's national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2006. But with cheaper, machine-made trinkets (小首饰)     3     (rule) the market, they couldn't rely on the old technique to survive.

At that time, most people in the village lived under the poverty line,     4     means they could simply afford food and     5     (base) clothing, but seldom purchase things like bicycles or televisions. So many villagers left their hometown     6     (hopeless). But in 2018, the government allocated 580,000 yuan of poverty funds to set up the Silverware and Embroidery Workshop of Maliao Village, helping Maliao villagers fight poverty     7     their own crafts.

Since that year, most young craftsmen     8     (return) to their hometown and found a bright future. With the help of the government, they learned     9     (fashion) trends and how to meet clients' various     10     (request). Instead of holding on to old ideas and existing design, villagers enhanced their skills and made their products customized.

Xu Lizhen, a 74-year-old lady, has been acting as a tour guide for nearly 20 years in Yang Shuo, Gui Lin,    1    is a city known both in China and abroad for its beautiful landscape.     2     she attended only primary school when she was young, she can now speak approximately 11 foreign languages    3    (fluent).

Since 20 years ago, tourists    4    ( show )affection for Yang Shuo, including a great many foreigners, In order to make a    5    (live), Xu Lizhen began to sell water. However, she could hardly make any money at first because foreigners didn't understand her accent. She tried to imitate the    6    (pronounce) of the foreigners, take notes and learn them    7    heart. If she came across tourists who can speak both Chinese and a foreign language, she would ask them to translate their words many times so that she could remember them    8    (well). It is in this way that the old granny masters 11 languages, such as English, French, Russian, Korean. Now, she has no difficulty at all    9    (communicate) with foreign friends in simple oral English. She is also       10    (refer) to as Mother Moon for her kindness among tourists.

10 . I remember the occasion when mother sent me to the main road, about twenty yards away from our house, to invite a passing group of seasonal work-seekers for a meal. She    1    (instruct) me to take a basket along and collect dry cow dung (牛粪) for making a fire. I was then to prepare the meal for the group of work-seekers.

    2     thought of making an open fire outside at midday, and    3    (cook)in a large three-legged pot in that intense heat, was sufficient to upset even an angel. I did not manage to hide my feelings from my mother and, after serving the group, she called me to the veranda (走廊)    4     she usually sat to attend to her sewing and knitting.

    5    (look) straight into my eyes, she asked “Why did you get angry    6     I requested you to prepare a meal for those poor people?”    7     my attempt to deny her blame, using the heat of the fire and the sun as an excuse for my rude behavior, mother, she gave me a firm look,    8    (say), “You cannot detect what trouble may lie ahead of you.”

I    9     (sudden) realized that if I had refused to offer this group of people a meal,    10     would be impossible that in my travels some time in the future, I would get these individuals’ help.