The short story “ After Twenty Years” is set in New York on a cold, dark night. Everything was very quiet. A police officer on duty     1     (find) a man with a scar on his face outside ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s, and they started to have    2     chat. The man was waiting for his best chum and the    3    (fine)chap, Jimmy Wells. One night twenty years ago, they dined at ‘Big Joe’ Brady’s. They grew up together in New York and got    4     very well.     5    (make)his fortune, he was to start for the West while Jimmy Wells stayed in New York.       6       was on that night that they agreed to meet there again, no matter    7       their conditions might be or from what distance they might have to come. At first, they kept up a     8    (correspond)for a year or two, and then they lost track of each other. However, he believed Jimmy Wells would turn    9       as promised, and he would be waiting    10       him there.

I read this story the other day and I liked it very much. Now I’d like to share it     1    you.

A man     2     (sudden) felt very terrible one day and was taken to hospital. After he received some examinations, he     3     (tell) he was badly ill and wouldn’t live longer than one year.     4     (hear) that, the man became depressed. He was so worried about himself that he wanted to do nothing. It lasted for about a month. Then one day, he decided to make     5     change and do something that he had dreamed of     6     (do)—to travel around the world. The doctors were     7     (shock) when they learned about it. They told the man that he might die on the way, but the man insisted on doing it. So he began his journey around the world.

He made friends with the people     8     he met on ships or planes. He enjoyed good food and visited beautiful     9     (place). He was in a happy mood every day and even totally forgot his illness. He was still alive one year later. When he returned to his home country, he was happy and healthy.

We shouldn’t be worried about it when something bad     10     (happen) to us. Instead, we should overcome our anxiety. Things will not be as bad as we expect them to be.

In 2015, a reporter from Jiangsu Province went to Australia and some other    1     ( country ) with his father for a 3-month trip. His father spent most of his life     2     ( work ) in the field. The son started the     3     ( amaze) trips with his father around the world because his father had cancer---a serious illness.

The reporter wanted    4     ( take ) his father to travel, hoping that his father can find his younger self in his last days. They    5     (travel) more than 13, 000 kilometers and took over 110,000 pictures on their trips to different countries. The new experience made a deep     6     (impress) on them.Well, a miracle happened during the “rebirth” trips.     7    their surprise, his father got better from illness and became more open-hearted. He even taught himself to play     8    violin, and then     9     ( gradual )he played it very well,     10    encouraged him a lot.

Time carved (雕刻) the old man’s face but youth still flowed in his blood. Later, he even expected another trip to Africa.

For Greek photographer George Doupas, Beijing is home now. During the past decade, he has been photographing the city, capturing its beauty     1     sharing these photos online and in exhibitions.

“This     2     (true) represents Beijing — the old and the new, nicely mixing together, ” Doupas said while showing his photograph of the Zhihua Temple, a delicate Ming Dynasty building. It     3     (locate) in front of a modern office building, Galaxy SOHO, which features weaving bridges and interlocking passageways.

With rich historical heritage, Beijing     4     (be) an important center of traditional Chinese culture since the Ming Dynasty. Doupas often gets lost in     5     city’s splendid ancient architecture. Meanwhile, he is also     6     (amaze) by the modern city high-end businesses and various industries. “It is fascinating to see a rapidly-developing city that invests so much effort in preserving its past, and this is     7     I decided to pursue my career here,” he said.

Doupas is determined to continue with his career in China,     8     (hope) to serve as a bridge between China and the West. The     9     (display) that show his photos about Beijing have attracted a large audience in Greece and the Czech Republic.

“I call Beijing my home now,” he said, “I’ll keep sharing photos of China     10     the rest of the world.”

Daisy, a high school student,     1     name comes from a sort of wild flower, is concerned about wildlife.

One day, she took a magical journey to three     2     (place) on a flying carpet. In Tibet, she met an antelope looking sad. She was told that they were being hunted mercilessly for the fur, which was used     3     (make) sweaters for people, so they became an endangered species. At this, she realized protection was badly needed there. The carpet carrying Daisy     4     (fly) so fast that next minute they arrived in Zimbabwe, where she came across a happy elephant. It said, “By now, something     5    (do) to protect us from being killed by farmers while money from tourism goes to the farmers.     6     number of us is growing and the farmers are happy as well. ”After hearing that, Daisy laughed     7     relief. All of a sudden, the carpet rose again and Daisy was taken to rainforest. There she saw a monkey rubbing       8     (it) with an insect over his body, because it had a drug that could affect mosquitoes. There, Daisy appreciated how animals could live together in peace.

When they landed home, everything began to disappear, for it was     9     (actual) a dream. Anyhow, Daisy has learned that great     10    (important) should be attached to wildlife protection and she is now determined to do something as the WWF suggests.