If you want to improve your English {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(rapid), you'd better listen to BBC English {#blank#}2{#/blank#} is part of the BBC World Service. It broadcasts all kinds of programmes, such {#blank#}3{#/blank#} difficult grammar {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(point), life in Britain, differences between written and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(speak) English and so on. So far BBC English {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(become) a popular learning course. If you want to know some information about the programmes, you just need to write to BBC English {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(ask) for it. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} , {#blank#}9{#/blank#} is easy for you to find out the information and follow the programmes.

    In China there are English programmes like Follow Me on the radio. They are usually easy to receive and understand and they are very {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(use) to you.

                           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.

    Of the three major drinks of the world—tea, coffee and cocoa—tea is consumed by the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(large) number of people.

    China is the homeland of tea. Human cultivation of tea plants dates back to two thousand years ago. Tea from China, along {#blank#}2{#/blank#} her silk and porcelain, began to be known to the world more than a thousand years ago and since then it {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) an important Chinese export.

    At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries，{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (produce) 90% of the world's total output. All tea trees in other countries have their origin directly or indirectly in China. The word for tea leaves or tea as {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  drink in many countries are derivatives(衍生物)from the Chinese character “cha”. The Russians call it “cha'i”, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} sounds like “chaye”(tea leaves) as it is pronounced in northern China, and the English word “tea” sounds similar to the pronunciation of {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(it) counterpart（对应物） in Xiamen. The Japanese character for tea is written {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(exact) the same as it is in Chinese, though {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (pronounce) with a slight difference. The habit of tea drinking spread to Japan in the 6th century, but it was not introduced to Europe and America till the 17th and 18th centuries. Now the number of tea {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  （drink） in the world is still on the increase.

    One night, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} winter, a bear came into the city in Vancouver Canada. It walked through the city streets past houses, shops and offices. Then it {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (find) some food in bins outside a restaurant and started eating. In the morning, someone saw the bear and called the police. The police came with a vet (兽医) from the city zoo. They put the bear in a lorry and took it to the mountains outside the city. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (lucky), the bear was safe. But {#blank#}4{#/blank#} happens in other countries when big animals come into cities? In Vancouver it is unusual {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (see) a bear, but in some cities you can see big animals on the city streets every day.

    Big animals usually come into cities to find food. In Cape Town in South Africa baboons (狒狒) come into the city when they are {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (hunger). Human food is very bad for the baboons {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (tooth) because it has a lot of sugar. Now, there are Baboon Monitors working in Cape Town. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (they) job is to find baboons in the city and return them to the countryside.

    In Berlin in Germany, pigs sometimes come into the city for food. They eat flowers and plants in parks and gardens. Sometimes they eat vegetables from gardens {#blank#}9{#/blank#} they walk in the street, causing accidents. Some people like the pigs and they give them food and water to drink. Other people do not like the pigs and they want the government and the police to stop them {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (enter) the city.

    The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic (残奥会)Games brought the world's attention to sport like never before. It was admirable {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(see) a small nation like the UK organize the Olympic for {#blank#}2{#/blank#} third time in modern history.

    Britain probably {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(invent) quite a few modern sports. One is cricket (板球), {#blank#}4{#/blank#} is now played at international level in a dozen countries. Tennis also first became popular here and Wimbledon is one of the four big tournaments every year. Golf{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (suppose) to be Scottish in origin (起源)from a school of the same name.

    Every town in Britain has football, rugby or cricket club (sometimes all three) and at least one swimming pool. Schools have a gymnasium and playing fields with a running track. As British is an island, there are lots of opportunities for practising water sports {#blank#}6{#/blank#} well.

    "Fair play" in British society is as important as {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (win) or losing. Teamwork is also necessary in many areas of professional life. Even so, individualism (个性)and competitiveness make sporting champions. Steve Redgrave, winner of five gold {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(medal) at five Olympic Games, says: "Being {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (confidence)in yourself is the most important in sporting success. {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(personal), it is the iron in the mind not the supplements (增补物）that wins medals."