before; first; up; send; get; at;

plan; made; take; healthier

    Lily made some New Year's {#blank#}1{#/blank#} this year. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} , she's going to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} piano lessons and practice every day. Next, she wants to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} good grades. She's going to study harder and she's going to do all her homework {#blank#}5{#/blank#}she watches TV. Finally, she wants to learn French. She's going to buy some French CDs and practice French  {#blank#}6{#/blank#} home.

    Lily's sister Lucy  {#blank#}7{#/blank#} some New Year's plans, too. She wants to become fit, so she's going to exercise more and eat {#blank#}8{#/blank#} food. She also wants to improve her Chinese. She's going to get a pen pal in China, and she is going to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} e-mails in Chinese to her pen pal. When she grows {#blank#}10{#/blank#} , she wants to be an engineer. So she's going to work harder in her math and science classes.

    Do you remember the classic poem The Ballad of Mulan? It {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the story of Hua Mulan, a village girl who lived during the Northern Wei Dynasty. She dressed up like a man {#blank#}2{#/blank#} her father's place in the army, as he was too old to fight. In October 2016, Disney announced a live-action Mulan film would be created. Now, Chinese actress Liu Yifei {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Mulan's role in this Disney movie in 2019. Liu is quite suitable for the role, Disney said. Her English is very good, since she {#blank#}4{#/blank#}part of her childhood in New York City. Besides, she is a popular star in China. Liu also sounds excited to play the role. "I love Mulan's courage. Many thanks to Disney for {#blank#}5{#/blank#}in me, I will go all out!" said Liu.

    In China, people think being modest(谦虚的）is a virtue(美德）and being proud is bad. Once I heard an American boy say to a Chinese girl, " Your spoken English is good. "But the girl answered," No, no. My English is very poor. "The boy felt {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. He thought he might not make himself understood or the girl had not heard him  {#blank#}2{#/blank#} " Yes, you speak very well," he said again. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}the girl still kept saying " No". In the end, the boy didn't know {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to say. What's wrong with the girl's answer? She didn't {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the praise in the same way as the American people do. She {#blank#}6{#/blank#} what the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the west, people will feel {#blank#}7{#/blank#} and confident when they are praised. So if someone says the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} you have made is very delicious, you should say," "Thank you." In western countries, if you say " No" while working, people may think that you really cannot do it. If you often say "No", you'll certainly be {#blank#}9{#/blank#} upon by others. So in the west, you should be  {#blank#}10{#/blank#} to show yourself. In my opinion, being confident does not mean being proud, so sometimes you should be confident of yourself.