The mooncake features on every Mid-Autumn Festival dining table, and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (traditional) comes with fillings like five kernels (a mixture of five different nuts) and red bean paste. These mooncake flavors represent the tastes of various {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(area) in China,  with favorite fillings varying from province to province.

    However, traditions change with the times, and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} do mooncake flavors.

    Today, many people love Hong Kong-style mooncakes, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (go) crazy for that unbeatable melt-in-the-mouth feeling {#blank#}5{#/blank#} comes from sinking your teeth into these mouth-watering cakes.

    Another popular style is the mooncake with a crayfish (小龙虾) flavor. The crayfish {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (select) for mooncakes should be fresh and alive.  Because of limited ingredients, only a small number of crayfish mooncakes {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(put) on sale each day, forcing many to queue up for hours.

    The thoroughly modern mooncake is not only about new flavors, but {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(involve) designing distinct patterns. Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan Province that is famous {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the masks and sculptures from China's Bronze Age (铜器时代) has introduced a special range of mooncakes with bronze statue patterns,  a creative design that is sure {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (please) mooncake lovers.

    Your class starts in 10 minutes, but you find yourself {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (stick) in traffic. Don't panic. With just a press of a button, your car will lift off the ground and fly to school. What's your {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (impress)? It seems like science fiction, but it isn't. Engineers have taken {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the research of flying cars, and they have already found {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (solve) to many of the big challenges. They predict that we'll all be using these {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (amaze) vehicles one day. According to Car Trends Magazine, one model, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} is part car and part plane, is going to be on the market in the not-so-distant future. It will look like a regular car when it's on the road, but its wings will unfold when the driver {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (decide) to take to the sky. And {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (operate) by a computer, all controls will be automatic (自动的). Imagine this: You'll be doing your homework while your car is getting you to school {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (safe). And what does this future dream car cost? Well, at first it will be about a million dollars, but after a few years, you'll be able to buy {#blank#}10{#/blank#} for "only" $60,000. Don't throw away your old driver's license just yet!

    I had hardly sat down on the train and opened a bar of chocolate {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a really old man with huge bags sat down across from me. I said hello {#blank#}2{#/blank#} him, smiling sweetly and then I suddenly thought, "Why not offer him a piece of chocolate？" So I did. He was quite {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (surprise), but accepted and thanked me. He said that people didn't usually do things like this for {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (strange) and at least that was what I understood, because he was speaking a really {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (usual) dialect.

    Then he opened one of his bags and gave me {#blank#}6{#/blank#} handful of freshly picked cherries, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (explain) that he had just taken them from his orchard. The cherries were really lovely, better than those in the shops, and I enjoyed them very much. It had been just an impulse (冲动) to offer him a piece of chocolate, but if I {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (not do) so, I would never have tasted those lovely cherries, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} I didn't even know he had at the time. Life is about giving and taking, and it's {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (general) true that if you give, you will receive.

    Frederick William Ⅰ, the King of Prussia, could never have imagined {#blank#}1{#/blank#} his greatest gift to the Russian people would have such an {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(amaze) history. This gift was the Amber Room, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(select) had a beautiful yellow­brown color like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(decorate) with gold and jewels, which took the country's best artists about ten years {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(make).

    In fact, the room was not made to be a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick Ⅰ. {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the amber room belonged, decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar's winter palace in St Petersburg. About four meters long, the room served as a small reception hall for important {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(visit).