W: What {#blank#}1{#/blank#} wonderful place!

M: I wanted the best restaurant {#blank#}2{#/blank#} your birthday. And I know you like French food. Let's begin with a cocktail(鸡尾酒) and then look at the menu.

W: I don't want to look at it because {#blank#}3{#/blank#} always takes me a year to make up my mind. Any suggestions?

M: I've never been here before, but everything {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (suppose) to be excellent.

W: They have snails(蜗牛)! But I wouldn't dare eat them. They might make me sick.

M: I feel the same way about snails. I think I'll have roast duck(烤鸭). It comes with vegetables and potatoes.

W: {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (sound) good. But {#blank#}6{#/blank#} I like seafood, I'd like {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (begin) with some seafood. And let's have the salad after the main course.

M: Fine. We should have white wine with dinner and champagne(香槟)with dessert since this is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}celebration.

W: Oh, don't forget the cheese. There's nothing like real French cheese.

M: I can see already this {#blank#}9{#/blank#} going to be an {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (enjoy) and delicious dinner.     

    On December 19th, 2010, an airbus took off from the capital airport of Saudi Arabia. After about an hour's flight, something {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (believe) happened on the plane. The air hostess was about to serve lunch {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a small mouse stole out from the bag of a young man, which frightened the young woman nearby and she shouted loudly. Then more and more mice came out of {#blank#}3{#/blank#}bag. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(catch) by surprise, the other passengers all shouted in panic. The steward managed to get in touch with the control center on the ground. With the order from the ground, the plane {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(success) landed at the nearest airport. As soon as the plane was on the ground, all the passengers got off. Then seven specialists got on the plane {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(kill) the mice. Many means had been tried but {#blank#}7{#/blank#} of them were good enough.

    At last, they tried to fill in the plane {#blank#}8{#/blank#} carbon-dioxide, which poisoned all the mice. It {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (report) that the young man wanted to carry the mice to another city and sell them as {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(pet), but he didn't expect they succeeded in escaping from the bag.

    When kids in parts of the world want to play, they often make soccer balls out of trash tied together with string. “{#blank#}1{#/blank#} the areas used for playing fields are often rough and rocky, millions of real balls go flat (变瘪){#blank#}2{#/blank#} 24 hours,” says Tim Jahnigen, a California businessman. Determined to solve this problem,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} created an indestructible ball called the One World Futbol.

    The ball is made of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} special material, ethylene-vinyl acetate foam. It's lightweight, it's flexible, and—{#blank#}5{#/blank#} important—it holds its shape.

    The One World Futbol needs no pump {#blank#}6{#/blank#} won't wear out, even on rough surfaces. When tested,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} withstood (经受住) being crushed by a car, and even being chewed on by a lion.

    Although it costs more to produce {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a typical soccer ball, Jahnigen estimates the One World Futbol can last 30 years. So far, it's been given to kids in 143 countries. 

    Hutong is a kind of ancient typical city 5lrccl in Beijing.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (surround) the Forbidden City, many were built during the Yuan, Ming and Qing {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (dynasty). In order to establish the strongest power for emperors, the royal family planned the city and arranged the residential areas (住宅区). The Forbidden City- {#blank#}3{#/blank#} center of the Beijing city, was the royal palace.

    At the end of the Qing dynasty, after {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (close) China came under the influence from abroad, many old hutongs lost{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (they) former neat (灵巧的) arrangement.

    After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the conditions of hutong {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (improve). But in recent years, the houses in many hutongs have been pulled {#blank#}7{#/blank#} and then replaced by modem buildings. And the hutong today is fading into the shade for both tourists{#blank#}8{#/blank#} local people.

    However, in the urban district of Beijing, hutongs still occupy one {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (three) of the total area, providing housing for half population, so many hutongs {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (survive) these years. In this respect, we see Beijing as an ancient yet modem city.

    People have all turned to sad music to make themselves feel better at some point in their lives, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}why does the music with double or even triple sadness help drag people out of low spirits?

    A new study throws light on what's going on inside people's brains when they match their music to their feelings, and it looks as if sad music can be enjoyable, rather than{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(simple) depressing. Music of this sort can arouse positive memories in people's life , thus {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(lift)their mood.

Psychologist Adrian North from Curtin University in Australia says there{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(existence) two groups of possible explanations for why people enjoy listening to sad music like this—one from social psychology, and the other from cognitive neuroscience(神经学).

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}terms of social psychology, one idea about this is that people will feel{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(good) about themselves if they focus on someone who's doing even worse. Everything's going to be okay, because this person is having {#blank#}7{#/blank#}even worse day than they are.

    Another idea from social psychology is that people like to listen to the very music{#blank#}8{#/blank#}shows their present life circumstances, because this kind of music makes them feel they are understood. With their emotions{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(share), they definitely get a certain amount of comfort.

    So, the{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(conclude) again—sad music does cheer people up, and it works far better than happy music, in most cases.

    Cloning is a way of {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(make) an exact copy of another animal and plant{#blank#}2{#/blank#} has two major uses. One is{#blank#}3{#/blank#} gardeners use it to produce commercial quantities of plants. The {#blank#}4{#/blank#}is that it is valuable for research on new species and for medical research on animals. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, the process of cloning is difficult to undertake.

    Many attempts to clone mammals failed. The first successful clone, Dolly the sheep, made the whole {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(science) world follow its process, though it had {#blank#}7{#/blank#} problems than the normal sheep. On the other hand, Dolly's appearance {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(raise) a storm of objections and had a great impact {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the media and public imagination. Different people have different opinions of it. However, scientists still wonder whether cloning will help {#blank#}10{#/blank#} harm us and where it is leading us.