The Oscars are held every March in the city of Los Angeles. Many of the     1    (big) celebrities in Hollywood attend this event, hoping to win an Oscar award. Since the first ceremony in 1929, when only fifteen awards were given out, the Oscars     2    (grow) in size and popularity. Now, more than fifty of the gold-plated     3    (statue) are made every year in the city of Chicago. They then are transported to Los Angeles for the awards show.

However, on March 8,2000, someone stole the fifty-five Oscar statues that     4    (make) for that year’s ceremony. Soon after, the trucking company responsible     5     transporting the statues offered a $ 50,000 reward for them.

A few days     6    (late), Willie Fulgear was looking for some boxes in a garbage can near his home in the Koreatown district of Los Angeles. Willie was moving out of his apartment and he needed boxes to pack his things in.     7    (search) through the can, he found some white boxes. He opened one of them and found an Oscar inside. He had the other boxes     8    (tear) open and got fifty-two Oscars, all in perfect condition. He     9    (immediate) called the police.

Finally Willie Fulgear received a $ 50,000 reward and the invitation to the Oscar ceremony. He didn’t receive     10     award for his honesty but he did go from liter to glitter (闪光) in just one week.

On January 24, 1848, James Marshall, a mechanic, discovered gold in the Coloma Valley of California. Word of this finding    1    (publish)in Eastern newspapers in the fall of 1848 and was further popularized in remarks    2    (make)by James K. Polk in his farewell address. Soon, passenger-loaded ships sailed    3    the East Coast, around Cape Horn, and northward to California.

Within the first year, more than 80 000 prospectors, the Forty-Niners(淘金者), arrived. San Francisco    4    (grow) to a community of 20 000 in a few months. In 1848, the population of California was about 15000. By 1852, California's population topped 250 000. The ranks of new residents were swollen by sailors    5    jumped ship in San Francisco and headed to the gold fields,    6    (leave)their ships too short on crew to continue. California attracted many reputable people,    7    the first to go were the ones with the least to lose and the    8    (few)responsibilities. The predictable result was a rise in crime, which led to the founding of the Sari Francisco Committee of Vigilance(警戒)in 1851.The    9    (discover) of gold transformed California from an underpopulated,    10    (distance) region into an area ripe for statehood.

    1     January 23, Wuhan went into lockdown. This was done to stop a deadly virus from spreading further across the nation. It’s one day before the Chinese New Year’s Eve and a major travel day for people     2     (plan) to return home for the holidays. This documentary is dedicated to all those who’ve been battling COVID-19     3     (tireless) to keep the epidemic at bay. Their efforts in safeguarding (保卫) humanity from the virus will always     4     (remember).

An emotional reunion has been 75 years in the making. Two WWII     1     (survive) , 87-year-old Morris Sana and 85-year-old Simon Mairowitz, are cousins     2    grew up together in Romania. The boys had been the best friends until the war broke out in 1940, which led to both families     3     (flee) the country in separate directions.

Since the cousins had no way of communicating with each other after they fled their home nation, both of     4    assumed that the other had fallen victim to the war. While Sana ended up settling down in Israel, Mairowitz and his family built a new home in the UK.

Decades later, Sana’s daughter began using the Internet     5     (track) down and befriend all of her father’s long-lost cousins and family members. When she told her dad that his beloved cousin     6     (find), a meeting between the two was set up. Sana’s granddaughter Leetal Ofer recorded their reunion and published the footage to Facebook. In the video, Sana and Mairowitz are     7    (tearful) hugging each other and     8     (express) their gratitude for the meeting. Ofer later described the reunion     9    one of the most moving things she had ever seen. “The war tore so many families apart and bringing them together in Israel is so     10     (magic),” she said.

10 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Today the Statue of Liberty is a beloved landmark. It     1    (tower) above of the harbor of New York and is lovingly cared for by the National Park Service. Many thousands of visitors who visit Liberty Island each year might never suspect that getting the statue     2    (build) was a long slow struggle. More than a century ago, it     3    (be) the celebration of freedom and the commemoration of the friendship between America and France that inspired sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and finally he went forward with designing the potential statue and promoting the idea of building it. However, money was so big a problem     4    was haunting the two governments from the beginning to the end.

Donations for the building of the statue first began coming in throughout France in 1875.Numerous people gave donations. A copper company donated the copper sheets that would be used to fashion the skin of the statue. Various donations were helpful,     5     the cost of the statue kept riding.     6    (face) with a short fall of money, the French-American Union held a lottery. Merchants in Paris donated prizes, and tickets were sold. The lottery was a success, but more money was still needed. The sculptor Bartholdi eventually sold miniature versions of the statue,     7     the name of the buyer engraved on them.Finally, in July 1880 the French-American Union announced that enough money had been raised to complete the building of the statue.

While the French had announced that the funds for the statues were in place in 1880, by late 1882 the American donations, which would be needed to build the pedestal, were sadly lagging. The sculptor Bartholdi had travelled to America in 1871 top romote the idea of the statue. Despite Bartholdi’s efforts, the idea of the statue was difficult     8    (sell). some newspapers, most notably the New York Times, often criticized the statue as folly, and vehemently opposed     9    (spend) any money on it. The newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased a New York City daily, The World, in the early1880s, took us the cause of the statue’s pedestal. He mounted an energetic fund drive, promising to print the name of each donor,     10     small the donation, Pulitzer’s audacious plan worked, and millions of people around the country began donating whatever they could.

In August1885, that final $100,000 for the statue;s pedestal had been raised.Construction work on the stone structure continued, and the next year the Statue of Liberty, which had arrived from France packed in crated, was erectedon top.