Long ago,there was a mother and a son living in a house.She worked hard every day,{#blank#}1{#/blank#}they were always poor.

    One day,her son stole his friend's bag.“Mom,what do you think of this bag?”His mother praised her son instead of scolding him.The next time,he stole{#blank#}2{#/blank#}overcoat.She praised him again.A few years{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(late),he grew up to be a young man.He stole jewelry and brought them to his mother.This time,she did not scold her son.Then,he started{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (steal) more expensive things.

    One day,the police caught him.Before he{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(put) in prison,he begged the police to meet his mother.They took him{#blank#}6{#/blank#}his mother.As soon as he saw his mother,he suddenly bit her ear.“Ouch!What is the matter with you?”She finally scolded him.Her son answered.“If you had given me a scolding like that when I stole the first bag,I could not {#blank#}7{#/blank#}a thief.”{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (look) at her son heading to prison,“If only I{#blank#}9{#/blank#}turn back time,I would scold him severely.”She said{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(regret).

    One day a fisherman called Peter went fishing in his small boat.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} reaching a good place he knew, he{#blank#}2{#/blank#} ( lay) down his long line into the water. After a while,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} became very heavy. It seemed too heavy to be a fish. He began to draw in{#blank#}4{#/blank#}line.

    When the hooks began to come out of the water, he was quite {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(surprise), for the hooks were holding the links of a heavy gold chain.  When he pulled them into the boat, more and more links appeared. Soon his boat was full of the {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(shine) links of the gold chain.

    “I shall be rich, ” he said. “{#blank#}7{#/blank#}money I shall buy a new fishing boat with an engine. I shall buy a big house.”

    He drew in more chain{#blank#}8{#/blank#}he couldn't see the end of it. There was more and more of the heavy gold chain in the boat. He was so greedy that he didn't notice {#blank#}9{#/blank#} was happening to his boat. It was sinking{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(low) into the water than before. In the end Peter was drowned. He lost the gold, his boat and his life.

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    When in 1984 I. M. Pei, then the most sought-after architect in America, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (present) his plans for a 70-foot glass pyramid in the 18th-century courtyard of the Louvre, the general{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(react) was anger. Because Mr. Pei was Chinese-American, he{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (apparent) had no under standing of the Louvre, or Paris, or France.

    However, these remarks did not annoy him. With quick enthusiasm and wide smiles, he took them. He had been asked to design {#blank#}4{#/blank#}new entrance for the museum and{#blank#}5{#/blank#} everyone's surprise, instead of adding on some concrete block, he had created a great welcoming space: put a winding staircase underground and capped it with a ray of light {#blank#}6{#/blank#}did not hurt the old facades(外墙).

    When he was a child, his imagination {#blank#}7{#/blank#}( shape) by his family's ancient gardens at Suzhou in Jiangsu. There, he would wander winding{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(path) through fantastic rocks towards pavilions (亭子), unconsciously {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (absorb) the beauty of the surroundings.

    Mr. Pei built a hotel complex at Fragrant Hill outside Beijing, after returning to China in 1974. He regarded this as a chance{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (bring) the Chinese away from their dull eastern European blocks and back to the domestic traditions they had lost.