1 . This is a story about two wise men in ancient China - Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu.

One day, Zhou Yu gave Zhuge Liang     1     impossible task--to make 100,000 arrows within ten days. “No problem,” Zhuge Liang said     2     (confident). He promised     3     (bring) Zhou Yu 100,000 arrows within 3 days.

Zhuge Liang asked his soldiers to fill 20 large boats     4     many straw men(稻草人). In the early morning of the     5     (three) day, Zhuge Liang’s soldiers sailed the boats towards the camps of Cao Cao’s army on the other side of the river. The soldiers shouted and beat their     6     (drum) loudly. When Cao Cao’s soldiers heard the sounds, they thought they were under attack.     7    , the fog is so thick on the river     8    they could not see through. Cao Cao ordered his soldiers to shoot towards the sounds. Zhuge Liang’s boats were soon full of arrows. Zhuge Liang’s soldiers then turned the boats around and shouted，“Thank you for your arrows, Cao Cao.” Zhuge Liang took all these arrows back. Zhou Yu was very amazed by     9     (he) wisdom.

Since then, Chinese people     10     (tell) the story to their children for many many years.

Earth Day, April 22, was founded in 1970     1    a day of education about environmental issues.

The holiday is now a global celebration     2    is sometimes extended into Earth Week, a full seven days of events focused on green living.

By the early 1960s, Americans were becoming aware of the effects of pollution on the environments. Rachel Carson’s 1962 bestseller Silent Spring pointed out the dangerous effects of pesticides(杀虫剂) on     3    American countryside. Later in the decade, a 1969 fire on Cleveland’s Guyahoga River threw light on the problem of chemical waste disposal. Until that time,     4     (protect) the planet’s natural resources was not part of the     5     (nation) political plan. Only a small portion of the American population was familiar with environmental issues.

Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962, Senator (参议员) Gaylord Nelson was determined     6     (convince) the federal government that the planet was at risk. In the fall of 1969, Nelson,     7     (consider) one of the leaders of the modern environmental movements, announced the Earth Day concept at a conference in Seattle and     8     (invite) the entire nation to get involved. He later recalled: “Telegrams, letters, and telephone     9     (inquire) poured in from across the country.” The American people     10     (final) had an opportunity to express their concern about what was happening to the land, rivers, lakes and air.

Abraham Lincoln’s position on slavery is one of    1    most discussed aspects of his life.     2    (start)in 1831, a growing group of abolitionists(废奴主义者) called for total, immediate abolition of slavery.

Lincoln never called for this, and focused instead     3    the less politically challenging goal of preventing the    4    (create)of new slave states. Lincoln’s activism on that issue started in reaction io the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act    5    (design) by his great rival(对手) Stephen A. Douglas. The act allowed the settlers    6    (decide) on slavery in their territory.

Lincoln, with partial compensation to owners, did end slavery in the District of Columbia in l862. During 186l-1862 Lincoln tried unsuccessfully to get Kentucky and Maryland to do likewise. He     7    (repeated) stated that his goal was the preservation of the Union, not ending slavery in the states    8    it existed. In 1862, Lincoln used his role as commander-in-chief to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. It made all     9    (slave)in Confederate areas forever free under the U.S. law as soon as the U.S. army reached and controlled them and it controlled all of them by 1865. Final abolition in the border states     10    (achieve) later that year.

The horse-head bronze statue lost from Yuanmingyuan in 1860     1     (return) to the site of the former royal resort last Tuesday.

The statue was one of 12 Chinese zodiac animals(生肖). But they     2     (rob) by the invading English and French forces in 1860. Yuanmingyuan was also destroyed at that time.

The horse-head statue is so far the first animal-head statue     3     (come ) back to Yuanmingyuan,     4     was donated by the late Macau businessman Stanley Ho to the country last year, and the National Cultural Heritage Administration recently handed it over     5     the administration of Yuanmingyuan ruins.

The statue will be     6     (regular) displayed in the Zhengjue Temple area. The temple is one of a few     7     (site) that generally remain complete to date. More than 10 million yuan ($1.52 million) was spent by the Haidian district government to improve facilities to ensure its     8     (safe).

Seven of the 12 statues     9     (include) the horse have returned to China, and the rest six are now housed in     10     National Museum of China.