I have some great friends at summer camp. They can all do different {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (thing). This is Helen. She's good at {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (musical). She can sing, and she can play {#blank#}3{#/blank#} piano. Oh, she's a {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (greatly) dancer, too. But she can't cook. And she can't play the guitar. Tom is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (real) cool. He is from America. He can speak Chinese well, and he can ride a motorbike. He can't play the piano {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the guitar, but he can sing·

    Then this is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (I) sister Alice. She can run really fast, and she can {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (player) basketball and soccer. She can ride a bike. But she can't ride a motorbike.

    Charles {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (do) well in sports. He can swim, and play tennis and basketball. He can run fast, too. {#blank#}10{#/blank#} he can't cook. Julie can speak Chinese, and she can cook, too.  

    It was in autumn. A woman was ill. She stayed in the hospital {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. She had no daughters or sons. Her husband died ten years ago. So nobody {#blank#}2{#/blank#} her. She felt  {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. There was a tree outside her room. She{#blank#}4{#/blank#} the leaves(叶子) fall down. Day after day, there were fewer and fewer leaves on the tree. The woman was very sad. She didn't want to eat or drink. She became worse day by day. She got a strong {#blank#}5{#/blank#} of death. One day she said, "When the last leaf falls down. I will die. "

when a(n) {#blank#}6{#/blank#}artist heard that, he {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a good idea. He{#blank#}8{#/blank#} to paint a green and yellow leaf and put it in the tree when all yellow leaves fell down on a cold night. The next morning, when the woman looked out of the window, she{#blank#}9{#/blank#}the last leaf still there. You could {#blank#}10{#/blank#} how happy the woman was. After that, she gradually(逐渐地) got better.

    Known as "paper paintings" and "painted pictures", New Year paintings are also a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (specially) art form in Chinese folk culture. The paintings are {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (call) "New Year paintings" because they are mostly put up {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the New Year holiday for decoration.

    New Year paintings appeared around the Tang, Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, New ear paintings {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (create) on a small scale(规模). Year after year, there are more {#blank#}5{#/blank#}more New Year paintings.

    New Year paintings show people's best{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(wish) for the future.  Every Spring Festival, almost all Chinese families put up two New Year paintings on {#blank#}7{#/blank#} front door. New Year paintings show the changes in the history of China.

    Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings,{#blank#}8{#/blank#}ancient town in Tianjin, have a history of over 400 years. They show the characteristics(特征) of both wood {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (cut)  and Chinese painting. They are about {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(day) life and old stories. In the 2010 World Expo, Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings were shown to the whole world.