Dear Sir or Madam,

    I've learned that an art exhibition is {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(hold) and that you're collecting suggestions on its location. I'm writing this letter to share{#blank#}2{#/blank#} you my opinions.

    In my opinion,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} is more advisable to hold the art exhibition in Shanghai Museum than in community libraries. My reasons are as follows.

    On one hand, it is {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(convenient) for people to get to Shanghai Museum{#blank#}5{#/blank#}is located in the center of the city. Besides, the museum is much larger than commuity libraries, which {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(provide)visitors with more comfortable environment for{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(appreciate) art.

    On the other hand, as a well-known museum, Shanghai Museum is more professional and {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(experience)in holding art exhibitions. Its professional security guards and advanced facilities can better protect those famous {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(paint)from being damaged {#blank#}10{#/blank#}stolen.

    Therefore, I suggest the exhibition should be held in Shanghai Museum.

Wang Min

    Chinese are the first people to have tea. One thousand and two hundred years ago，Lu Yu wrote a book called “The Classic of Tea”{#blank#}1{#/blank#} is honored as “The Bible of Tea”. The book gives a detailed {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(explain) of the origin, the processing skills and the classification of tea.

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    Talking about adding water to the tea cup, there is{#blank#}10{#/blank#}saying: wine full, full cup. Tea half, half cup. For wine, the full cup symbolizes whole heartiness. For tea, the half cup means modesty.

    A young officer was at a railway station. On his way home, he wanted to telephone his mother to tell her the time of his train, so that she could meet him at the station in her car. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(look) in all his pockets, he found that he did not have the coins for the telephone call, so he {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(go) outside in hope for someone to help.

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    “No, sir,” the old soldier answered quickly.

    We high school students do have some growing pains, but we can get rid of them correctly and wisely.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}, some of us are upset {#blank#}2{#/blank#} their body styles and looks. It's unnecessary and it's not important at all. We needn't care about it. It is one's inner beauty {#blank#}3{#/blank#} matters. Second, we sometimes seem to be misunderstood {#blank#}4{#/blank#} our teachers, parents and classmates.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (face) with this, we can find a proper time to have a heart-to-heart talk with them, trying to remove the{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (understand). Some of us have fewer friends. I think being open-minded and{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (friend) will do you good .Third, we may fall behind others, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} makes us stressed. Actually we can encourage {#blank#}9{#/blank#} to work efficiently, full of determination. At last, some of us don't have much pocket money, so they feel unhappy. Isn't it strange? So long as we have some, that's enough. And we can learn {#blank#}10{#/blank#} to spend money!

    The heat wave that broke high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (cause) the surface of the islands vast ice sheet to melt at near-record levels and a huge {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (lose) of ice in the Arctic. On Wednesday alone, more than 10 billion tons of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt, which is equal {#blank#}3{#/blank#} about 4,000,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, said Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute.

    Melting {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (increase) in recent decades because of climate change and has been decreasing accumulation from snow. Previously, during the 1970s and the 1980s, Greenland lost {#blank#}5{#/blank#} average of 50 billion tons of ice each year. From 2010 to 2018, that figure shot up to 290 billion tons {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (annual). This summer, the extent of the melt could surpass (超过) the record set in 2012, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} about 97% of the ice sheets surface began to melt. NASA-JPL Caltech reported at the time.

Greenland, the worlds largest island, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (lie) between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, with 82 per cent of its surface {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (cover) in ice. A June 2019 study by scientists in the U. S. and Denmark said melting ice in Greenland alone will add between 5 and 33 centimeters to the rising {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (globe) sea levels by the year 2100. If all the ice in Greenland melted, which would take centuries, the world's oceans would rise by 7.2 meters.