Around twenty years ago, I was going through hard times. I couldn’t find a    1    (satisfy) job. To my shame, I had to drive a school bus    2    (make) ends meet. One afternoon, while    3    (drive) through a suburban neighborhood, I was so sad that I kept asking    4    (I), “Why has my life become so hard?

What’s wrong with the world?” Then I pulled over the bus to drop off a little girl. As she passed, she    5    (hand) me a pretty earring, saying she found it on the floor and I should keep it in case the owner came to look for it. In the evening, the owner did come to look for her earring.

When I gave it to her, she got excited and said    6    (excited), “Thanks, you are a real gentleman.” I told her that she should thank the little girl    7    had found it. She said, “Yes, and you are a good driver, too. What a lovely world    8    is!” Then she left with satisfaction. I    9    (touch) by her words. I had thought something was wrong with the world just because of my poor condition. In fact, nothing was wrong with the world. I should change my attitude    10    life.

Because of Richard Sears' enthusiasm for    1     (tradition) Chinese culture, he began learning Chinese in 1972.     2     (attract) by the ancient language, Sears often went back and forth between China and America. In 1994, after his recovery from a severe heart attack, he made a    3     ( decide) to make the ancient Chinese characters, Jiaguwen, available online.

From then on, Sears started programming and building a database （数据库）of Jiaguwen.     4     took him seven years to scan the characters in Chinese ancient books. In 2002, the Jiaguwen enthusiast's website    5    （create) though with only a few page views per day in the beginning. It    6     (rise) to 600 , 000 per day in 2011 after a blogger recommended the site on Chinese social media platform. "I became famous    7     ( instant) and was given a nickname “Uncle Hanzi”， Sears said with a smile. Up till now, the website has been continuously updated，    8     gives lovers of the ancient language from all over the world free access to browsing (浏览) in their free time.

At present, the70-year-old American has made his home in China.   Apart from    9     (take)part in some social    10     (activity),Sears devotes all his efforts to the study of Chinese characters.

4 . One Sunday morning in August I went to local music festival. I left it early because I had an appointment     1    (late) that day. My friends walked me to the bus stop and waited with me     2     the bus arrived. I got on the bus and found a seat near the back, and then I noticed a man     3    (sit) at the front. He     4    (pretend) that a tiger toy was real and giving it a voice. He must be     5    (mental) disabled.

Behind him were other people to     6     he was trying to talk, but after some minutes     7     walked away and sat near me, looking annoyed.

I didn’t want to be laughed at for talking to him but I didn’t like leaving him     8     his own either.

After a while I rose from my seat and walked to the front of the bus. I sat next to the man and introduced myself. We had      9     amazing conversation. He got off the bus before me and I felt very happy the rest of the way home.

I’m glad I made a choice. It made      10     of us feel good.

There was     1     story about a high school cross-country race in Texas in 2016.

Cross-country     2     (be) actually the name of an event where the runners compete on the ground instead     3     running in a circle on a flat surface. Some cross-country courses send runners around a waterway, through the woods or up and down hills.

The high school cross-country race     4     (take) place in Texas. It     5     (name) the Gingerbread Jamboree (姜饼聚会) at that time. About 20 high schools sent runners there. The course was five kilometers long.

A camera set up next to a wide mud pit (泥坑) recorded some     6     (amaze) scenes. The slow-motion video showed one runner taking off like a high-jumper, taking hold of his knees and then landing on the mud pit. But that was not all. Just seconds     7     (late), while other runners managed     8     (stay) clean and dry, another runner jumped and dived chest-first into the water.

About 1 million people have watched the video since it came out on Facebook. One thousand people left     9     (comment) on the Facebook post (帖子)，    10     is called "Dear Cross Country. . . Welcome Back".

A wonderful experience happened to me this Saturday on my way to a mall. Two children ran towards me     1     bottles in their hands, asking if I wanted to have bottled water. It was so     2     (surprise) that I was unsure whether this was for real. I wondered if they     3     (do) fund-raising. I asked them where     4     (they) parents were and how much a bottle of water was. Then two adult women came to me and explained     5     the children were doing, “We are teaching the children     6     (give) without getting anything in return.” What a great idea!

An exchange of ideas opened up between me, the mothers and the children. We were no longer strangers to each other. We were having such a great time     7     (chat) and I ended up helping them give away the rest of the bottled water.

One young lady was so     8     (thank) that she said it was the best thing     9     happened to her all day since she had a “bad” day at work. A couple accepted the water     10     (happy) and kept on thanking us. After all was done, the children and I gave each other a high-five. I really had great fun that day.

Once there lived a rich man     1    wanted to do something for the people of his town.    2     first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help.

In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed    3    very large stone. Then he     4    (hide ) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.

“Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way.    5    man came along and did the same thing; then another came,and another. All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove     6    . Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone,    7    (say) to himself: “The night    8    (be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.”

Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his         9    (strong) to move it. How great was his surprise at last!    10     the stone, he found a bag of money.

Mr.Johnson lived in the woods with his wife and children.He owned     1     farm，which looked almost abandoned.     2     (lucky)，he also had a cow which produced milk every day.He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby     3     other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what     4     (leave)．The cow was their only means of support，in fact.One day，the cow was eating grass     5     it began to rain heavily.While making great efforts to run away，she     6     (fall) over the hill and died.Then the Johnsons had to make a living     7     the cow.In order to support his family，Mr.Johnson began to plant herbs and vegetables.Since the plants took a while to grow，he started cutting down trees     8     (sell) the wood.Thinking about his children's clothes，he started growing cotton too.When harvest came around，he was already selling herbs，vegetables and cotton in the market    9     people from the towns met regularly.Now it occurred to     10     that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.