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.

Soon, Laurent Simons, 9, of Belgium, will become one of the     1     (young) people in the world to graduate from a university. For this, his teachers and others have called him a talent.

Laurent is studying electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He entered when he was 8 and is set to complete     2     three-year program in 10 months.

If all goes well and he completes his final project-about a brain-connected electrical chip, he will walk out a graduate in March. “Then, I want to study     3     (medical), and do a PhD and make artificial     4     (organ),” he said. Laurent explained     5     he wanted to create artificial hearts in the future. The grandparents whom he lived     6     have heart conditions. “I'd like to help people like them,” he said.

While Laurent comes from a family of doctors, so far his parents     7     (receive) no explanation as to why their child is capable of leaning so quickly. Also, though Laurent is     8     (obvious) able to learn faster than most, his parents are being careful to let him enjoy     9     (him) too. He enjoys playing with his dog Sammy and     10     (chat) on the Internet, like many young people.

The hardships involved in building the Great Wall are beyond imagination. Large numbers of people had to leave their homes and families to go to the north,    1    they worked hard for years. Of the legends about the Great Wall, the story of Lady Meng Jiang is the most    2     (move). Lady Meng Jiang lived during the reign of the First Emperor of Qin. After her husband     3     ( call) up to build the Great Wall, she missed him so much    4    she traveled many miles to see him but only    5     (tell) that her husband had died and was buried under the Wall. She was    6     ( extreme) sad and cried for three days and nights until the Great Wall fell down one section after another.

Over the past centuries, the Great Wall    7     (become) a symbol of unity and    8     (strong) for Chinese people. It symbolizes that the great achievement can be made with    9    common will and joined effort. For example, the national anthem, composed during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, called on people to "build our new Great Wall    10    our flesh and blood".

I wanted to buy a pair of sports shoes for a long time. I had spent months    1    (save) up the money for them and finally I had enough. Last Sunday my friend Jake and I decided to go shopping together.

We took the bus into town and it was very    2    (crowd), so we had to stand all the way. Jake and I    3    (talk) when I suddenly noticed that my purse had gone! The bus had just stopped and there was a boy near me who was going    4    (quick) towards the door. We thought he had stolen my money so we got off the bus    5    followed him. The boy started running and then Jake ran after him, shouting “Stop! Thief”.    6    policeman saw what was going on and managed to catch the boy.

The    7    ( embarrass) thing was when the policeman searched the boy, he didn't have my purse!

The boy said we had made a mistake. His    8    ( explain) was that he had only started running because he was late    9    a meeting with friends. The policeman allowed him to go and I felt rally stupid.1 wish I hadn't been so careless and had kept an eye on    10    (I) bag!

6 . Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you get a closer look you will notice one of them is blind. Instead of     1     (abandon) him, his owner has made him a safe and comfortable barn to live in. And if you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell     2     (come) from     3     smaller horse. Attached to     4     (it) halter (缰绳) is a small, copper-colored bell assisting the blind friend to follow him.

    5     you watch them, you’ll find the horse with the bell always checking on the blind one, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to     6     the other one is, trusting he will not     7     (lead) astray (迷路地). When the horse with the bell returns to the barn each evening, he will stop     8     (frequent) to look back, making sure that the     9     isn’t too far behind to hear the bell．

Life does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges. Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of our acquaintances;     10     other times, we are the guide horse, who helps others to find their way.