One afternoon     1    Charlie Chaplin was sitting together with his friends talking, a fly flew into the room and kept     2     (fly) around the great actor’s head. Charlie Chaplin waved his hands     3    (drive) it away, but the fly soon came back again.For once it even rested on     4    (he) nose! The great actor got very     5    (anger). He took up a fly swatter (苍蝇拍) and swung at it,     6    the fly got away in time. Then the offender (冒犯者) stayed on the table before him. Chaplin     7    (lift) the swatter for the death blow — he was sure this time he would kill it. But after he looked at it     8    (careful), Chaplin put down the swatter.

“Why didn’t you kill it?” asked one of his friends.

Chaplin shrugged his     9    (shoulder). “It wasn’t     10    same fly,” he said.

When I was    1    kid, if my dad threatened to take off his belt it only meant one thing: One of     2    (we) was going to be punished. That’s     3    I remember it and it has been years since I heard anyone use the phrase.

Until last weekend, I dined out at a restaurant with a few good     4    (friend) and our children. Since my daughter was leaving the table     5    (wander) around, her little friend, Ariana, was getting up to do the same. But     6    (Ariana) father wanted her to sit and eat. When she refused, her father threatened to take off his belt. Naturally, I thought he was joking. To my surprise, he got up from the table and    7    (actual) slid his belt off with an angry look on his face.

“Right, that’ sit,” he said,    8    (fold) his belt over.

He went over and picked up his daughter, who burst into tears, and put her back into the chair. I was really worried that the kid was going to receive an unpleasant     9    (punish) and wanted to protect the poor child. However, her father just used his belt to tie his daughter to these at. It was     10    funny that all of us laughed. After that, my daughter and her friend managed to sit quietly—at least for a little while.

Peter lived in a village. He was always upset and treated others     1     (bad). He enjoyed himself by making other     2     (villager) unhappy. So the whole village avoided     3     (he) as much as they could. On the day when he turned eighty,     4     unusual thing happened. Everyone     5     (hear) the words. “Peter looks happy today. Instead of     6     (say) something bad, he smiles to everyone he meets.” When the whole village got together, Peter     7     (ask) why. He answered, “I’d been running after my happiness     8     eighty years, but it was     9     (use). And then I decided to live without it and just enjoy life. That’s the reason     10     I’m happy now.”

A video of a 66-year-old man called Erjiu, has gone viral on Chinese social media after his nephew Tang Hao shared the man’s brief but heartwarming life story on short-video platform Bilibili on Monday.

In the video, Erjiu is shown as a “young genius” who always performed well     1    (academic) at school during childhood. However, while he was a teenager, a high fever was misdiagnosed (误诊) and he     2     (give) the wrong medicine,     3     resulted in Erjiu losing the use of his left leg.

Erjiu, who     4     (lie) in bed in low spirits afterward, then learned carpentry by watching a carpenter     5    (go) about woodworking tasks for three days, and he later did woodworking in the village and the town.

According to Tang, it would be inaccurate to merely define Erjiu     6    a carpenter, since he demonstrated his broader     7     (skill) by fixing an electrical socket patch panel, a gas stove and a toy car. He also makes erhu — a traditional Chinese musical instrument — with wood, using fishing line as strings     8     snakeskin as covering.

The man, who uses a cane due to a longtime     9     (disable), is portrayed as a common hero who never bows to life’s difficulties, but struggles instead     10    (lead) a full and meaningful village life.

When Jane was nine, she had a big accident. She gets scared even now     1     she thinks about it.

There were many people     2    (skate) in the lake near her house, and seeing her skate so wonderfully, she couldn’t wait to have a try. “ Just a piece of cake,” she thought.

Then she went with     3     classmate who was very experienced. He spent much time teaching her how to skate, but she still didn’t learn much, which made    4     very angry. Finally, he left her and skated all around. She had to skate alone and soon got bored because she kept falling down, so she took off her skates and just walked around     5    the ice. It was cold and her feet    6    (freeze).

Suddenly, she stepped on something     7     wasn’t hard. Actually it was the     8    (weak) place. When she stepped there, she     9    (sink) under the ice. Thinking she was going to die, she tried to grab the edge of the ice, and cried out.

Fortunately, her classmate     10    (hurry) by and helped her out!

Chinese calligraphy has always fascinated me. My grandpa has been deeply invested in his calligraphy practice: getting up early in the morning to bike to     1     (class) and staying up late watching videos     2     (perfect) his skills. When he visited America, his four essential tools for calligraphy     3     (put) neatly in his suitcase. With just these instruments, the dining room tables would be covered with sheets upon sheets of his writing in just a few days. He would always make a small space on the table for me to put my book so we could be together despite     4     (do) separate deeds. As he wrote, I read— often peeking (偷看) over the book pages to watch him fill up the paper inch     5     inch.

One day, I     6     (curious) asked him to teach me. My grandpa was always so happy to teacher me because he wanted me to learn     7     many things as possible about my motherland’s culture.

When I was fifteen, my grandpa     8     (give) me one of my most     9     (treasure) gifts. He gifted me an incredible Chinese calligraphy scroll (卷轴): it was long and beautiful. Each morning I wake up to     10     scroll hung up in my bedroom: a symbol of my grandpa’s love and passion for life.

Disha Florence never thought she would become a web novel writer. The lady from Bangladesh, was trying to find a way to free herself from the restrictions faced by a woman,     1     wish she has had since she was 8. It was then that she observed that being a girl     2     (mean) she couldn’t play in the park like boys, and that she needed to learn to do housework.

As she grew up, she realized that     3     experience and knowledge, it’s impossible to be free. Therefore, while     4     (continue) her study, Florence worked as a volunteer, going to places and meeting people with or without her parents’     5     (permit).” Her father told her, “You need to make your own money to do as you wish.” Florence found this advice     6     (logic), but didn’t know what to do.

At 22, she noticed on the Chinese reading app Webnovel that the website was hiring authors who     7     (say) to be able to make much money.

Without thinking     8     (far), Florence started writing and became a professional web novelist.     9     (inspire) by popular Chinese “CEO novels” on the app, Florence wrote her first book. This story about self-respect and self-love,     10     characters are Chinese, is set in Europe.

Now Florence has about 164,200 readers on Webnovel and is working on another two books.

There are people who say love can move     1     (mountain). This might not be     2    (physical)possible, but Dashrath Manjhi, also known as the ‘Mountain Man’, came quite close. Dashrath Manjhi and his wife lived in a small village. One day, his wife fell while     3     (climb) over a nearby hill and hurt herself seriously. She needed quick medical assistance, but that wasn’t possible due to the hill that     4    (separate) their small village from the nearby town. To his great sadness, his wife died from the serious injuries before Dashrath could do anything about it. It was on that very night     5     Dashrath Manjhi decided to carve a small path through the mountain in order to give his village easier access     6     medical assistance.

It was an     7     (ambition) plan and he was laughed at by the villagers for it. But after working for 22 years with the greatest determination and willpower, a path     8     (carve) into the hill. Even though people initially laughed at him, he finally managed     9     (give) his hometown a path available to the nearby town. His life’s work helped to reduce     10     distance between his village and the nearby town from 55 km to only 15 km so that such a thing as his wife’s incident would never happen again.

Paul Grisham returned home from his 13-month assignment in Antarctica in 1968,     1     his wallet didn’t. Grisham, 91, joined the Navy in 1948 as a weather technician before being shipped to the frozen continent    2     (work) as a meteorologist.

After five decades, Grisham was reunited with his wallet — which he forgot all about. Inside the wallet    3     (be) Grisham’s navy ID, driving license, a recipe, a tax with holding statement, and receipts for money orders sent to his wife. He was surprised by    4     young he looked at his old ID card that was put inside. “It brought back    5     (memory). Oh yeah, I had dark brown hair at that time,” the 91-year-old said    6     a laugh.

The recovered wallet    7     (find) by Stephen. Stephen saw the wallet in a shop and bought it. With the help of McKee’s organization, he saw    8     online post to help find the owner.     9     (lucky), Grisham and his wallet were together again. Grisham said that his time in Antarctica was “    10     (usual) and memorable.”   The temperature in the winter months would drop as low as -65 degrees.