In 1910, Chairman Mao had his first contact with English when he entered     1     new-style school. By 1913, when he enrolled in Hunan First Normal School, formal English courses     2     (be) already in place.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chairman Mao seized opportunities to practice spoken English when interacting with foreign journalists. Despite inaccurate pronunciation, he had managed     3     (grasp) some simple English expressions.

In the Liberation War period, Chairman Mao’s English communication skills improved to con duct basic daily dialogues. He also     4     (create) translated “paper tiger” into English.

After the establishment of New China, in 1954, Mao began to systematically self-study English     5     the aim of directly reading original works. He insisted in reading English newspapers and magazines, learning vocabulary, as well as making comments while reading the     6     (origin).

In his later years of illness, Chairman Mao persisted in learning English and used simple English vocabulary to express     7     (he) when meeting foreign guests. Throughout his life, Chairman Mao never ceased     8     (learn) English, which witnessed different stages of his revolutionary career.     9     (drive) by determination and practical needs, Chairman Mao’s progress in English demonstrated the spirit of struggle     10     defines a visionary leader.

When 35-year-old Chinese pianist WangYujia finished her last note on Tuesday, she received a standing applause from the audience. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, commonly     1     (know)as Yannick, the conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, even went down on his knees after watching her four-hour     2     (perform)at the Carnegie Music Hall.

She was considered as a superstar for her once-in-a-lifetime show. Yannick even compared the level of her excellence to     3     (climb)Mount Qomolangma. Despite the difficulty, however, it seemed she managed     4     (play)all the musical pieces with ease right to the last movement. Yannick noted that Wang was     5     ideal pianist because of her forceful and relaxed style. And he said that she was born for this kind of music. Wang showed a special interest     6     Rachmaninoff’s music when she was young. She began to play the piano when she was 6. At the age of 14, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music in the US and began to study it     7     (carefully)than before. She     8     (attract)by this Russian composer’s noble and pure music deeply at that time.

After graduation, she became one of the world’s most famous     9     (star)in classical music. Wang’s success also shows that her parents’ years of efforts have paid off,     10     will be very encouraging for other parents in China.

One day, a baby girl called Helen felt uncomfortable and she nearly died. Luckily her life     1    (save), but she could no longer see or hear. Because of that, she also found it very difficult to speak.

Before her     2    (eight) birthday, the family found her a private teacher-Anne Sullivan. Anne was always     3    (patient) teaching Helen, especially those     4     she was interested in. As a result, Helen soon learned to read and write in Braille which is a special language for the blind. She also learned to read people’s mouths by     5    (put) her fingers on them. This is a skill that very few people can have. She has the     6    (able) to express herself     7    (exact) and communicate with others well.

Helen became     8     successful scholar (学者) . While she was still at college, she wrote The Story of My Life. It soon became such a success that she got enough money to buy her own house.

After she     9    (die) in 1968, an organization was set up in her name to help the blind in the developing world. Today, Helen Keller International organization has become one of the     10    (big) organizations working with blind people overseas.

Yang Yucheng     1    (practical) lives in his hosiery factory (袜厂) these days, inspecting the production and quality of products,     2    communicating with oversea customers about their orders. The machines in his factory in Datang,    3     town in the city of Zhuji, Zhejiang province,     4     (run) at full capacity since early spring, which is usually the off-season.“We bought new equipment at the start of this year     5    (increase) production and keep up with incoming orders,”said Yang, the owner of Haina Textile Technology Co.

Haina specializes     6    athletic socks, the favorite of his international customers, with the biggest export markets being Europe and North America. In the first three months of the year more than 10 million pairs of socks           7     (export), nearly 55% more than in the corresponding period last year.

At the end of 2013, Yang bought 60 hosiery machines and started his company in Datang. Last year the value of     8     (it) exports was more than $23 million.

Yang’s company is one of more than 6,000 companies in Datang,     9     the hosiery industry produces as many as 27 billion pairs of socks each year, worth 75 billion yuan ($11.2 billion),     10     (account)for 70% of the national market and 35% of the global market.

David, now a 54-year-old former animator from Toulouse, France,    1     (be) homeless since he lost his apartment two years ago. With nowhere else to stay, he built his own castle out of the recycled.

Using his experience as an animator, he    2     (steady) built himself a fairytale castle out of recycled and painted blocks of foam (泡沫) found in dustbins. Before long, his home gained    3     (popular) among both children and adults.

Apart from constantly improving his foam castle by adding    4     (variety) of accessories, David also hosted creative workshops for children    5     a voluntary basis every Sunday. He never bothered anyone and locals seemed to love his beautiful castle. Some were shocked to learn he used it as a home,    6     (assume) that it was an artistic installation paid by the local council.

    7     everyone seemed to be in awe of David’s talent, local authorities weren’t impressed. On Christmas Eve, they sent    8     homeless person a rather inappropriate gift, a letter urging that he    9     (remove) his castle as soon as possible.

“It is made of foam, so if it caught fire, the person inside could die and the fire could spread,” a spokesperson for the Toumefeuille town hall said. He added that it was the mayor’s responsibility    10     (ensure) the safety of the town’s citizens.

The Little Prince has arrived in Paris, nearly eight decades after it was written.

The well-known novel     1     (pen) by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in New York during World War II, and now 30 pages of the manuscript (手稿) are    2     display at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. The manuscript sits alongside hundreds of other items that celebrate the author’s life and work. They include watercolors,     3     (drawing), photographs, poems, newspapers and letters.

Born in the French city of Lyon in 1900, Saint-Exupéry was a writer, pilot and journalist     4     joined the French air force. He finished writing the novel in the United States, which was published in New York in 1943 in both English and French.

The simple tale, which    5     (sell) well worldwide, is about     6    child who travels the universe gaining wisdom.     7     its publication, it has been translated into nearly 500 languages, making it one of the most translated works in the world. Saint-Exupéry, however, did not live to see that reach. He went    8    (miss) while flying a mission in 1944 and was reported dead in 1945.

Saint-Exupéry wrote and drew on    9     (extreme) thin paper, which made the task of transporting the pages of the manuscript even more challenging.     10     (ensure) safe transportation, the pages were carefully framed (镶框) by the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

Young Chinese are increasingly making their voices    1     (hear) and influencing world opinion as they take on more important roles in international organizations and     2    (globe) projects.

At a ceremony in Beijing in April, 2018, singer and actor Wang Junkai     3    (make) the national goodwill ambassador (大使) for the United Nations Environment Programme.

“We young people have a responsibility to protect the environment and secure our future, and I am looking forward to learning from     4     working with the UN family on key environmental issues,” Wang said in    5    (he) speech after the appointment.

“The youth are no longer merely onlookers     6     it comes to environmental action, nor should they be. I will spare no effort in doing everything I can     7    (take) care of our Earth, and I invite everyone to join me in generating a wave of positive action,” he said.

Wang Junkai, or Karry Wang, best known     8    one of the TF Boys group, is one of the leaders on environmental protection and other public welfare topics among the Chinese youth. In 2016, Wang widely shared the online Wild for Life campaign,    9     gained 400 million views. A year later, he publicly spoke out on the urgent need to protect endangered wildlife, calling the animals the “superstars of the planet.” He stresses that young generation’s     10    (participate) will help achieve the sustainable development goals.

At     1     Tokyo Olympic Games, Chinese Olympic athletes made great     2     (achievement) . However, tired     3     some Chinese Olympic athletes are, they have to go on     4     (work). They take another profession — teaching at university.

A photo of the course schedule     5     (discuss) on the Internet said that Lang Ping would become a college teacher after she resigned as the head coach of the Chinese women’s volleyball team. Recently the incident     6     (confirm) by Beijing Normal University where Lang Ping was once a student. She once said: “I wish I     7     (give) back to my Alma Mater (母校) as a teacher”, which makes people feel     8     (extreme) heartwarming. Some people joked that Lang Ping,     9     title, iron hammer, was not just a casual call, would be the     10     (fierce) teacher.

On May 22, a large crowd stood outside the hospital just     1     (say) farewell to the man and they began to cry out, “Grandpa Yuan, rest in peace!” It was the setting of an unusual scene.

Yuan Longping, famous     2     growing super hybrid rice in China, died of organ failure on May 22 at the age of 91. But the legacy he left behind will continue to improve food     3     (secure) and research around the world and inspire generations of agro-scientists. His research helped feed 1.4 billion Chinese, nearly one fifth of the world’s population, by growing high-yield hybrid rice     4     China has only less than 9 per cent of the arable (可耕的) land in the world.

When a memorial service     5     (hold) in Changsha two days later, thousands of people     6     (jam) into the funeral home, laying flowers or bunches of rice, along with messages of grief and admiration, and pictures they had drawn for him. Thousands     7     (many) attended the online memorial, and many of     8     had been in other parts of China.

On social media, people posted images of their empty plates,     9     (write) they would miss Yuan when they ate and promising not to waste rice and other food. “It was     10     (extreme) rare to see so many people come unaffectedly to mourn someone,” a worker at the funeral home told China News Service.

Yuan Longping,     1     (wide) known as “the Father of Hybrid Rice”, died of illness in Changsha at 1:07 pm on May 22     2     the age of 91, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

Yuan,     3     (bear) in September 1930, had helped China work a great wonder—feeding nearly one-fifth of the world’s population with less than 9 percent of the world’s total land. Yuan has set multiple world records in hybrid rice yields,     4     (make) great contributions to the food security of China and the world. On September 17, 2019, Yuan     5     (award) the “Medal of the Republic” by President Xi Jinping.

Although he was one of China’s most famous scientists, Yuan Longping considered himself as     6     farmer, for he worked the land to do his     7     (agriculture) research. Indeed, his sunburnt face     8     his slim, strong body were just like those of millions of Chinese farmers, for whom he struggled till his     9     (die).

Yuan had two dreams: the first dream is that people can enjoy the cool from the shade of the rice     10     is strong and tall enough. The second dream is that the whole world can plant the rice he developed   all the people in the world are not hungry.

Let’s remember the great man.