Coffee is the smell of childhood at my grandma's house, and the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(pleasure) smell spread the house as she told me {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(story) of being a migrant from Europe after the war — she always said she found not having real coffee {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(hard) than learning English. Coffee is my dad and mum {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(watch) ABC News after dinner every night.

    It is travelling from Adelaide to Hobart with my brother in his car, camping as we {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(run) out of money, and spending the money we just earned {#blank#}6{#/blank#}a bottle of beer at{#blank#}7{#/blank#}start of our trip. Coffee is me on a Sunday morning, as a little girl, lying {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(cosy) in bed with my kitties and reading the newspapers. And now it is me going to work in a coffee bar {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(base) in Tasmania and making people's days a bit better with my job. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} also related to coffee is a saying: First cup you are a visitor, second cup you are a friend and by the third cup you are family.

    Gymnast Shawn Johnson is my favorite athlete. Back at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I was very {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (excite) when she won the gold medal on the balance beam. Years later, Shawn wrote an autobiography, Winning Balance. I was only ten years old{#blank#}2{#/blank#}she wrote her book and I wanted to wait a few years to read {#blank#}3{#/blank#} since I had a feeling that I wouldn't understand the book then.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (release) in June 2012, the book won much popularity among her fans.

    Shawn talks about her experiences as a gymnast and her post-Olympic life in her book. One of the things that she wants her readers{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(get) from reading the book is that “behind all the glory and glitz(浮华) I am able to have a normal life”. She hopes that her reader, especially {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (girl) in middle school and high school, will get really{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(encourage) by reading her book and believe that dreams will{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(actual) come true. I believe that gymnasts around the world {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(take) a lot from this book because in some situations they experience {#blank#}10{#/blank#} same things in gymnastics.

    In 1850, an American lawyer, Bethune, bought a slave to work in his home. The slave, a woman, had a small child{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (call) Tom, who was blind.

    One day, Bethune {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (walk) around his garden when he heard music coming from the house. He went inside and found young Tom playing on the family piano. Bethune {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(immediate) realized that the boy, who was only four, had special abilities.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} he asked a band of musicians to come to the house and play in front of him. Tom reproduced perfectly the music {#blank#}5{#/blank#} he had heard. Tom was indeed an unusual boy.

    In 1857, “Blind Tom” took part {#blank#}6{#/blank#} his first public performance. The reviews were so good {#blank#}7{#/blank#} Bethune took him on a tour of the US. Three years later, Blind Tom {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (invite) to the White House to perform for the president. Over the next forty years, Tom performed {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(enjoy) shows all over the US and other countries. His concerts were {#blank#}10{#/blank#} mixture of classical music and his own compositions.

    Starbucks, an international coffee chain, is to offer its customers a discount if {#blank#}1{#/blank#} bring their own cups to have drinks at the café. This will start from April in the UK as a two-month trial and could go on if it is a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(succeed). Customers {#blank#}3{#/blank#} bring their own cups will get a discount on almost all drinks. Starbucks states on its website, “Our plan focuses on three main areas: reducing the waste paper cups, increasing recycling rates {#blank#}4{#/blank#} promoting the use of reusable cups.

    This {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(decide) comes as a major victory for the campaign {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(reduce) paper cups waste. It was revealed （透露）earlier that 7 million paper cups are used in Britain every day, which means 2.5 billion cups {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(throw) into dustbins each year. The coffee shops make false claims of the number of paper cups they actually recycle. That makes customers {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(wrong) believe that a coffee shop is environmentally friendly. But, according to a recycling service in the UK, only one in 400 cups actually gets {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(recycle). One of the coffee {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(drinker) said, “I am disappointed that cafes recycle so little. I thought they were more responsible. Now I will bring my own cup.”