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   Do you know the boy in the picture? He is Kuang Heng. Kuang Heng lived in more than 2,000 {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (year) ago in China.

    From the picture we can see: at that time, he was in worn clothes, and sitting at {#blank#}2{#/blank#} wooden table with a pile of books on it. A little weak light came {#blank#}3{#/blank#} through a small hole in the wall. He was reading carefully.

This is the well-known story from the ancient Chinese idiom. Kuang Heng was so poor {#blank#}4{#/blank#} he couldn't even afford a candle, so he {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（dig） a hole in the wall to "steal" light from his neighbor's house {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (read) at night. The moral of the story tells us that we should try {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (we) best to learn knowledge, but never be discouraged {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (easy), no matter how difficult the situation may be.

    Of course, things {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (be) quite different today, but we should remember that hard work pays off. We should take pains to improve ourselves through learning and get {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (prepare) for our future.

—_________ 15.

    From an early age, Parker always said that he would be an astronaut. But no matter {#blank#}1{#/blank#} much he studied, worked, and took tests, he never passed. Finally, he {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(grow) over the maximum(最高的) age for taking the test. He would never be able to realize his dream.

    People {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(feel)sorry for his dream. Although he {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(tell) about having to give up his dream, Parker continued training and studying, as though he was going to sit the tests next month.

    He carried this on as he got {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(old), and when he was a very old man he heard that they were doing some very important medical experiments. For those experiments they needed {#blank#}6{#/blank#}very old astronaut. Parker, who now walked with a stick, was the only old man in the whole world who was trained to fly in a rocket.

    So Parker found {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(he) flying in space at last. The experiments were very {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (succeed). The knowledge from the experiments helped doctors to cure one of the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (bad)sicknesses for old people, and Parker was celebrated as a hero. Photos of the astronaut with a walking stick and no {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(tooth) spread all over the world. It showed that persistent effort always brings reward, even though that reward may not be in the form we had first expected.

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    There were many people on a bus. An old man {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(look) here and there. He wanted to find {#blank#}2{#/blank#} empty seat. Then he saw one and went to it. A small bag was on the seat. And a young man was beside it.

    "Is this seat empty?" asked the old man.

    "No, it's {#blank#}3{#/blank#} an old woman. She went to buy some bananas.” said the young man.

    "Well, let me sit here, please. I'll leave here when she {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(come) back, "replied the old man.

    After a few minutes, the bus started. "The old woman {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(not come), but her bag is here. Let me give her the bag. "Then the old man threw the bag out of the bus window.

    The young man jumped up and shouted, "Don't throw! It's my bag!"

—Praise too much. What she paints couldn't be ____.