One day Mary was busy working in her office in London {#blank#}1{#/blank#} she received an E-mail from her friend Joan. In Joan's e-mail, she persuaded Mary {#blank#}2{#/blank#}( look) for a flat in London for her. As she had{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (little) money at her command than before, the flat had to be cheap, but it had to be modern, with elevators and gas lines. It had to be in the{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (east) part of London, with petrol and subway stations nearby. Though Mary found it difficult to find such a flat, she still went {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(care) from one block(街区) to another, looking for a flat {#blank#}6{#/blank#}would meet（满足） Joan's requirements. Having tried too many times, Mary met her boss and politely asked him {#blank#}7{#/blank#}advice. It was the first time that she{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (talk) with his boss about her personal problems. It happened that the boss just had such a flat for rent, so they quickly reached {#blank#}9{#/blank#}agreement(协议). But to her surprise, when she e-mailed Joan, telling her the good news, Joan said that she had changed{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(she) mind—she was not returning to London.

    A farmer once organized a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He dug a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see {#blank#}1{#/blank#} animal would find them first.

    The {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(cheer) and optimistic rabbit threw himself into looking for the carrot, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(dig) here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog, after sniffing around for a bit, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(lie) down and began to complain about how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.

    The rabbit dug {#blank#}5{#/blank#}hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this was, even for the rabbit. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}the rabbit thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed digging. When there was no place in the whole field {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(leave) to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel right to {#blank#}8{#/blank#}the dog had been lying all the time. There he found the carrot and the bone.

    This is how the dog lost the game. He had come to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}right place at the very beginning but failed to find the bone {#blank#}10{#/blank#}he only complained and didn't try at all.

    There were many great philosophers in ancient China. Confucius stressed the significance of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (kind), duty and order in society, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} ideas influenced Chinese society for over 2, 000 years.

    Mencius was a student of Confucius's ideas. His teachings were similar to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} of Confucius. He {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (bring) up by his mother and had an important position in the government of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} state. He believed man is good, that people would be good if government was kind, and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} people were more important than rulers. Mencius wrote a book {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (call) The Book of Mencius in his last years.

    Mozi was also an {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (influence) thinker, whose beliefs were similar to Confucius's {#blank#}9{#/blank#} some ways. Born into a poor family, he became famous for his unusual clothes and behaviour. Because he considered that government was most important, he spent many years {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (try) to find a state where people would follow his teaching. He believed all men were equal.

    The Wandering Earth is a Chinese science fiction movie, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is based on the novel of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} same name by Liu Cixin, and was released on February 5, 2019, the Chinese New Year's Day.

    After learning the sun is dying out ,people all around the world feel {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (panic), so they build giant planet thrusters(星球推进器) to move the earth out of its orbit and sail {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to a new star system. The 2500 years' journey comes with unexpected dangers, but in order to save humanity, a group of young people come out bravely and fight hard for everyone's {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  (survive).

    We {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(impress) to see the theme of this film. It does not particularly show somebody's ability to save our world {#blank#}7{#/blank#} shows all the human beings are working together,  {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (spare) no effort to save this world.

    The Wandering Earth is seen by people {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the dawn(开端) of Chinese science fiction movies. It means that China's sci-fi movies have {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (official) set sail.