My Stay in New York

    After graduation from university, I had been unable to secure a permanent job in my small town. So I decided to leave home for New York,{#blank#}1{#/blank#}I might have a better chance to find a good job. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (earn) some money to pay the daily expenses, I started work in a local café as a waiter. I believe that30．{#blank#}3{#/blank#} I was offered a good position, I would resign at once.

    Over time, the high cost of living became a little burden on my already  {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (exhaust) shoulder. On the other hand, my search for a respectable job had not met with much success. As I had studied literature at university, I found it quite difficult to secure a suitable job in big companies. Mother had just said that {#blank#}5{#/blank#} I want to have a better career advancement, I had to find work in the city. Perhaps {#blank#}6{#/blank#}my mother had told me was deeply rooted in my mind. I just did as she had expected.

    Soon I had lived in the city for over six months but I still did not like it. Apparently, I had difficulty{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (adapt) myself to life in the city, let alone finding a job to my delight. After nine months of frustration, I eventually decided to go back to my small town. Not until I returned {#blank#}8{#/blank#}I realize that a quiet town life was the best for me.

    On May 18, it was announced that China had achieved success in drilling fire ice, a frozen {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(mix) of water and natural gas, from the South China Sea. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(official) known as methane hydrates(甲烷水合物), fire ice produces a high amount of energy when {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(burn) and its chemical reaction produces nothing but dioxide and water.

    Fire ice, both clean and energy-intensive, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(consider) the fuel of the future. Many countries, including the United States and Japan, have long been conducting research on fire ice, but extracting（提取）it from the bottom of the sea has been a common problem {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(trouble) all of them. But, the Chinese team succeeded in drilling fire ice for nearly eight successive days, {#blank#}6{#/blank#}is a big breakthrough.

    However, it is too early {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(say) a new energy source has been found. The world's total fire ice reserve is about 21,000 trillion cubic meters, which, if extracted, could meet the world's energy need

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#}1,000 years. But the successful test drilling of fire ice does not mean it can be extracted for {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(industry) use. China has to solve many problems before it can use fire ice as a source of energy.

    It's thought that only by 2025 at{#blank#}10{#/blank#} earliest might people be able to look at realistic commercial options.

    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!