“What's the matter, Mum?”

    As soon as I entered the door, I found that my mother was not{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (please). It was unusual — she usually{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (open) the door and welcomes me with a smile!

    “She's dying,” Mum said{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (sad). I knew what she said. The tulip (郁金香), my mother's favorite, is dying.

    A month ago, we moved into our new house and Mum{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (buy) a very beautiful tulip in a flower shop. Mum liked it very much. Whenever she was free, she would sit in her armchair beside the tulip and enjoy {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (it) beautiful colour and nice smell.

    She regarded the tulip as a baby and looked after it carefully. She put the tulip by the window and moved it from one place to another{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(give) enough sunshine to it. The first thing she did{#blank#}7{#/blank#} she got up every morning was to water the tulip. Mum also fertilized it many times.

    She hoped that{#blank#}8{#/blank#} great care, the tulip would become more and more beautiful{#blank#}9{#/blank#} the tulip was dying because of too much sunshine, water and fertilizer.

    It's true that mother loved the tulip. But this kind of love must be {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(harm).

    Too much love can sometimes kill what you love.

    There's no such thing as living alone. Never mind if you're {#blank#}1{#/blank#} only person in your house and have no dog, no cat, not even fish. You still have got several billion {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (roommate) — and so do we all. Some of them are harmless, some are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (actual) helpful and some could even kill you. They are, of course, bacteria, fungi(菌类) and viruses, and like it or not, they're on you, around you, and deeply within you. The fact that bacteria life is everywhere is not{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (surprise). It's something you {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (learn) from your childhood when your mother told you not to drink water from someone else's glass. There are lots of bacteria {#blank#}6{#/blank#} are living in your tea kettle. There are bacteria {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (sleep) with you on your bed. Scientists are beginning {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (realize) the richness of the microbiome (微生物群系) — which is as complex as the ones {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (find) in oceans, rainforests, deserts and woodlands. Your house has a microbiome and {#blank#}10{#/blank#} do you.

    The Amber Room was made of several tons of amber. The amber which{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(select) had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure decorated with gold and jewels, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}took the country's best artists about ten years {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (make).

    The Amber Room was designed for the palace of Frederick I. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, the next King of Prussia Frederick William I, to whom the Amber Room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave {#blank#}5{#/blank#} to Peter the Great. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czars winter palace in St Petersburg.

    Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(move)to a palace outside St Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to it. In 1770 the room was completed the way she wanted. Almost six hundred candles lit the room and its mirrors and pictures shone like gold.{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(lucky), although the Amber Room was considered one of the{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (wonder)of the world, it is now{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(miss).

    Jane felt sweet in the drive－through line at Heav'nly Donuts. Just the day before, a stranger ahead of her in line had {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (generous) paid for her coffee. "The gesture made such a big difference in my day," says Eileen. She had recently lost her job as a doctor's {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (assist), and money was tight. But Eileen {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (inspire) to pay the $12 bill of the family in the car behind hers. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} she didn't know was that her kindness would set off a chain reaction. In two and a half hours, fifty-five drivers paid for the order of the person behind {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (they). The doughnut shop's employees {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (see) this before. This Heav'nly Donuts, in fact, is known as a special place, the customers of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} are considered as the "best in the world". But, even so, the workers were {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (amaze) that the shop had more than doubled its previous record by the end of the day.

    Now {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (work) as a chemist, Jane visits Heav'nly Donuts every Saturday morning, picking up a coffee and paying for the order of the customer behind her. "Actually, I wish I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (start) this deed much earlier." She said.

    One day, Daily dreamed {#blank#}1{#/blank#} dream. She flew in a wonderful carpet and talked with an antelope in Tibet. The antelope told her they {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (hunt) because of their fur {#blank#}3{#/blank#} can be used to make sweaters for people like hers. In the future they may all may die {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Later, she flew to Zimbabwe {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, she talked with an elephant and got {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (know) the farmers there no longer hunted them. That's {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the government decided to help and the farmers {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (final) made a lot of money from the tourism , At last she arrived at the thick rain forest where a monkey told her "No rain forest , no animals {#blank#}9{#/blank#} no drugs." Although everything had gone, she had learned {#blank#}10{#/blank#} much!