You might have seen this in US TV dramas. A group of girls knock on people's doors, trying to sell cookies. What are they doing? They are Amercican Scouts（女童子军）,and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (sell) cookies is a tradition of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (they).

    Selling cookies is just one activity among all the fun things that Girl Scouts do. The Girl Scouts of the USA is a group {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (found) in 1912.It offers all kinds of activities to girls and lets them learn skills.

    Boys can be scouts too. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} they join a different group called the Boy Scouts of America (RSA), {#blank#}5{#/blank#} was founded in 1910.

    Now there are 1.9 million Girl Scouts in the US, according to the group, Usually, they go {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (camp) and learn how to build fires and use a compass. Sometimes they also stay {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (indoor) doing crafts or learning arts. Every time they do an activity or pass a test, they get a badge.

    The Boy Scouts love to win the badges too. They have a ranking system. And winning enough badges is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} must to get into a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (high) rank. The highest rank is "Eagle", which {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (require) at least 21 badges. Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon, and Bill Gates, the father of Microft, were both Eagle Scouts when they were young.

    High-speed railways, electronic payments, shared bicycles and online shopping are China's four new ways of life. They are most appealing to youths from 20 countries participating{#blank#}1{#/blank#}the Belt and Road Initiative. The new four great inventions are all related to China's gigh0tech innovation,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}has improved the quality of people's lives, “my wallet is no longer in use. I can buy and eat whatever I want{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(simple) with a tap of my phone,” said Lin Jinlong, an overseas Chinese student from Cambodia,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (add) that even pancake sellers are using Alipay (mobile payment).

    In{#blank#}5{#/blank#}word, China is leading in many ways. Bike sharing, for example, is not new itself. But China has made it much more convenient and{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(enjoy) both in China and overseas. Leading Chinese bike-sharing{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(company), Mobike and Ofo are now operating in foreign countries such as Singapore and Britain. Users in the countries{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(feel) excited and posted photos of {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(they) riding the Chinese bikes on social media. A growing number of foreigners hope {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(promote) economic development in their home countries by paying more attention to the achievement of China.

    The colors red, white and blue, along {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the stars and stripes on the American flag, all represent different things. Red represents {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (strong) and bravery, white means virtue, and blue stands for hard work and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (just). There are fifty stars on the flag, one for each state,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (represent) the union of fifty states {#blank#}5{#/blank#} one country in a federal system. The thirteen stripes are {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (remind) people of the thirteen colonies that {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (join) together to fight for independence from Britain. Each year on 4 July, the USA celebrates Independence Day,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} the Stars and Stripes {#blank#}9{#/blank#} be seen all over the country,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (light) by fireworks in the night sky.

    Some students who had graduated visited their university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. To offer his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(return) with a pot of coffee and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} variety of cups—porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking, some expensive—telling them to help {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to the coffee.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} was when all the students had a cup of coffee in hand that he said, “All the nice-looking expensive cups have been taken up, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (leave) behind the plain and cheap ones. Actually, the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}all of you really want is coffee, not the cup. You consciously went for the best cups, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} then you began eyeing others' cups.”

    “Now consider this Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}  are just tools to hold and contain life. The type of cup we have does not change the quality of life. If we concentrate only {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the cups, we fail to enjoy the coffee. I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (true) hope that you will never let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead.”

    A pupil's diary describing how his mother {#blank#}1{#/blank#}was addicted to her cell phone ignored his efforts to express his gratitude for her on International Women's Day has become a hit.

    The third-grade primary school boy wrote the diary on March 8, a day when China holds various {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (activity) to promote respect and love of women. In the diary, he wrote that he first told a story to his mother, but she seemed uninterested and stared into her cell phone{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (devote). Sad but not discouraged, he then recited some blessings, yet his mother remained occupied with her handset. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (see) that, he chose to massage(按摩) her back. "My mother was still looking at her cell phone,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} a sign of a smile on her face, and I felt even{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (sad)," he wrote in the diary "Heart- broken Women's Day". His mother felt ashamed after reading the diary and{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (make) up her mind to spend more quality time with her son.

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#}interview with students found nearly 70 percent say {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (they) parents are often absorbed in the phones. Parents are urged to pay close attention to family education because it {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (be) they who are the first teachers to influence children.