My husband and I were paying a visit {#blank#}1{#/blank#} my parents in Tucson. We went to a fast-food restaurant for dinner together. My husband went to the counter {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (order) dishes and I stood with my parents.

    My dad is 90 years old. He can hardly see very well and walks with a stick. I was scanning the restaurant, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (wait) to sit at the first table that was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (convenient) than others. A woman who was sitting with her son made eye contact with me and asked me to come to her. With a {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(puzzle) look on my face, I pointed to myself and said , “Me ?” She {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (nod) and said, “Yes, you.” I walked to the table and she said, “Bring your family here. I can finish eating at the counter. My son is in {#blank#}7{#/blank#} hurry to leave anyway.” My eyes {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (fill) with tears as she wiped down the table and guided my dad to the seat.

    I always believe that there are {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (nature) kind people in this world. This woman has set a good example to her son, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} is a really lucky guy.

    I came across an interesting story when I visited my cousin in Henan Province,China.My cousin grew up next door to a girl{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(call) Li Shichun.The "Chun" part of Li Shichun stands for spring.That's when she was born.But that's not all.She is also named{#blank#}2{#/blank#}a Sui Dynasty engineer,Li Chun.Her father thought him{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(admire) because he built bridges you can really count on.But her mother wouldn't like her daughter{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(have) that name because she thought that{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(sound)too much like a boy's name.She was worried that her daughter would have to put up with too much teasing with{#blank#}6{#/blank#}man's name.So they figured out a way to change it.They added "Shi" from her grandmother's name.Well,that was lucky because she looks like her grandmother anyway.Li Shichun{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(eventual) went to university{#blank#}8{#/blank#}she studied medicine.However,she didn't like it so she changed her studies and ended up{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (become) an engineer!She became quite famous when she invented a new way of holding up suspension{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(bridge) during the building process.

    The music industry is never short of teen pop stars with wonderful looks, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} it doesn't often find one like US singer Taylor Swift. "Beneath Taylor Swift's not-a-girl, not-yet-a-woman sweetness hides a very {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(skill)songwriting technique (技巧)," writes Leah Greenblatt with Entertainment Weekly.

    Songwriting, the country singer explains, is "how I deal with problems. I am used to {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(write) about things that really influences me most." So in her songs, there is always {#blank#}4{#/blank#} true and honest. They seem like stories from {#blank#}5{#/blank#} diary and that certainly helps Swift attract her audience.

    She {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(sell) more than 13 million copies worldwide of her first two albums, 2006's self-titled debut (首张专辑) and 2008's Fearless. She's the youngest artist ever to {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(name) Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards. Not surprisingly, there were great expectations for her third album, Speak Now, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} came out late last month, where she again returned {#blank#}9{#/blank#} her own life for material. "The 14 songs are all about the last two years... when life was a little bit bigger and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(crazy)," says Swift. "So I've written about the lessons and confusion and heartbreak and all the different things that go along with being 18, 19 and 20."

    If you're on a dark countryside hill some night, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (look) up at the sky. A band (束) of light may appear that looks like milk spilled (洒落) across the sky. The ancient Romans called the band via lacteal which means "milky road" {#blank#}2{#/blank#} "milky way."

    The band of light that you see isn't actually milk, of course—it's a galaxy (星系). A galaxy can contain many millions of stars held together by the force of gravity. Our solar system, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} includes the sun. Earth, and other planets, is part of this galaxy called the Milky Way.

    The Milky Way {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (make) up of hundreds of billions of stars like our sun. And like our sun, most of these {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (star) have at least one planet moving around {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they). Earth is located about halfway between the center of the Milky Way and its outer edge.

    At the center of the Milky Way is one of the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (strange) and deadliest things in the universe: a black hole. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (scientist) believe a black hole lies at the center of most galaxies. The Milky Way's black hole is called Sagittarius A*. Its gravity is {#blank#}9{#/blank#} strong that it pulls in anything that gets too close including stars. So we're {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (luck) that Earth is located far away from the center!