One day a rich man took his son on a trip to the country so he could have his son see how poor country people were.

    They stayed one day and one night in the farm-house of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} very poor farm. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the way back home at the end of the trip the father asked the son, “{#blank#}3{#/blank#} did you think of the trip?”

    The son  {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (reply), “Very nice, Dad.”

    The father then asked, “Did you notice how poor they were?”

    The son said, “Yes, I guess so.”

    The father then added, “What did you learn?”

    To {#blank#}5{#/blank#} question, the son thought for a moment and answered {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (slow), “I learned that we have one dog and they have four. We have a fountain in the garden and they have a small river{#blank#}7{#/blank#} has no end. We have brightly colored {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (lantern) in our garden, while they have the stars. Our garden {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (go) to the edge of our yard, but for their back yard they have the whole horizon.”

    At the son's reply, the rich father was speechless (无语的). His son then said, “Thanks, Dad, for{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (show) me how poor we really are.”

    English is a language{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(speak) all around the world. There are more than 40 countries{#blank#}2{#/blank#}most of the people speak English. What's more, the number of people who learn English {#blank#}3{#/blank#}more than 750 million. Everywhere in the world children go to school{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(learn) English. Most people learn English for five or six years at high school. In China, most students learn English at school {#blank#}5{#/blank#}a foreign language.

    In only fifty years, English{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(develop) into the language most{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(wide) used in the world. English is the working language of most international organizations, international trade and tourism. Businessmen and tourists often come to China without{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(be) able to speak Chinese. Chinese businessmen, taxi drivers and students talk with them using English. You can listen to English songs through the Internet. With so many people {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(communicate) in English every day, it will become more and more important to have{#blank#}10{#/blank#}good knowledge of English.

    The Palace Museum, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (know)as the Forbidden City, welcomed {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (it)17 millionth visitor on December 13, becoming the museum with the most visitors in the world. The number of visitors has continued growing since it {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (reach)the milestone with 10 million in 2009. There is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} increase of 6.25％from last year in the number of visitors. Although the Palace Museum has limited daily visitors {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (protect)the ancient architecture, the number of off-season visitors has grown {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (steady)this year. Over the last decade, the museum has produced more than 10, 000 cultural items {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (range) from notebooks to lipsticks.

    The official Weibo account of the Palace Museum, with more than 6 million followers, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} keeps showing the palace's charm of four seasons by posting beautiful {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (photo) regularly, plays all important role in interacting with the young people and promoting the museum. The fundamental reason why the Palace Museum has become so popular among young people is that it strikes the right balance between preserving history {#blank#}10{#/blank#} providing many interesting interactive displays.

    During World War II, I lived in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. My family was Jewish,{#blank#}1{#/blank#}we had been hidden away for a year and a half. During that time I hadn't been able to be outdoors for so long{#blank#}2{#/blank#} I had grown so crazy {#blank#}3{#/blank#}everything to do with nature. Once, I decided to look at the moon at midnight. But I didn't dare{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (open) the window to see the night face to face {#blank#}5{#/blank#} I was afraid of{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(discover) by the Nazis. I felt very lonely {#blank#}7{#/blank#}seeing my old friends. So I had to make a new true friend, my diary Kitty,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} I could tell everything to.{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (fortune), at last my family were discovered and{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(catch) by the German Nazis half a year later.

Photographers Turn Their Cameras on Pets

In 2019 photographers Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks visited 14 countries on assignment. When the couple described the adventures {#blank#}1{#/blank#}they had experienced when photographing, people invariably asked, "But who takes care of your four cats and dogs?" They joked that the pet siter made a lot of money.

But 2020 couldn't have been {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(different). Due to COVID-19, Brinson and Banks never left the United States. Often, they didn't even leave their Los Angeles neighborhood. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} {#blank#}4{#/blank#}spending long hours in airport security lines and waiting-for the perfect lighting, the pair stayed along with dogs Tux and Tia and cats Rex and Kudzu. "Our pets became emotional therapy animals, and our only friends we could safely hug in a world {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(strike) by a deadly pandemic," Banks said.

As COVID-19 lockdowns swept across the world in March of 2020, the change made an especially great impact on photographers, who are accustomed to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(spend) long periods abroad. And so many cameras {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(turn) on a domestic subject: the pet.

Research suggests that pets have offered emotional support during the pandemic, helping {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) the long days of isolation more bearable, says Emily MeCobb, a clinical associate professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. In fact, the pandemic has sped up a trend, according to McCobb's and other scientists' observation, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the pet is becoming a member of the family. "In the past 20 to 30 years, the role of the pet in the family {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(take) on a whole new role," says MeCobb." It really hasn't been that long {#blank#}11{#/blank#}these furry child substitutes gained this kind of importance in American society."