Venice Film Festival is considered to be the oldest film festival in the world. The first Venice Film Festival was  1  in Italy in 1932. It was 14 years earlier than the first Cannes Film Festival in France.

    At the first Venice Film Festival, there were no judges（裁判） and no 2 at all. Only a list of good films was chosen by the public. At the 3festival, prizes started to be given. The prize of the festival was the Golden 4 . The lion is a symbol of the ancient republic of Venice.

5the Venice Film Festival was first held, the government has wanted to hold it every year. But from 1938 to 1942 the festival was destroyed 6 special reasons. Also, from 1940 to 1942, the festival was not held in Venice, so it was considered to have been 7 during that time. In 1946, the festival became active again. Now the festival becomes more and more 8 . Each of the editors in the world wants to have a seat in this festival.

      Venice Film has  9  a great opportunity for people around the world. They can learn about other countries' culture by watching films. Many movie makers send their  10 to the festival and some of them hope to win the Lion Award.

    Do you have any interests in your childhood? In my seventh grade, I developed a/an 1 in solving a Rubik's Cube. I started by asking my brother to teach me and he asked me to solve a blue cross on a cube by myself.

    I spent around 20 minutes mixing the cube and finally got that little blue cross on the top. 2, I jumped up from the chair and raced into my brother's bedroom. After handing the cube to him, to my surprise, he mixed the perfect blue cross up. Making my work completely disappear.

    "Do it again," he 3 it back to me.

    "No, I won't." I was angry stepping out of his room.

    A few weeks later, my brother wasn't at home. "I'm going to 4 how to do this without him!" I promised myself. I spent the rest of my night watching a guy on YouTube teach me to solve the first few steps. I mastered those steps.

    The next day, I spent the whole school day secretly5 what I had learned the night before. When I made my way to my music class, I tried to find some spare time taking out the cube again and solving what I knew. Noah, my classmate, and also one of my best friends later, laughed at me.

    "Do you know how?" I sneered（讥笑）.

    "Actually yeah, let me see it. My fastest solving 6 is 15 seconds," he noted as he began solving the cube. It took him about 25 seconds to finish it.

    "Okay, that was cool." I started solving the cube again. I didn't know at that time this boy would be my inspiration for cube solving. He taught me each step, each day, and when I 7, he'd remind(提醒) me how to do it. He was the best friend I'd ever had.

    Sadly he's no longer with us now, but the memories of solving cubes together will be there forever. It was this boy who helped me with cube solving. It takes me around a minute to solve a Rubik's Cube. I am 8 that I can do something not many people can. Thank you, Noah.

    I first went to hear a live rock concert when I was eight years old. My brother and his friends were all1of a heavy metal group called Black Wednesday. When they 2that Black Wednesday were going to perform at our local theatre, they all bought 3for the performance. However, at the last minute, one of the friends couldn't go, so my brother4me the ticket. I was really5!

    I remember the buzz(嘈杂声)of excitement inside the theatre as we all found our 6. After a few minutes, the lights went down and everybody became7. I could barely make out the stage in the8. We waited. Then there was a roar from the crowd, like an explosion, as the first members of the band9the stage. My brother learned over and shouted something in my ear, but I couldn't10what he was saying. The first song was already starting and the music was as11as a Jet engine. I could12the drum beats and the bass notes in my stomach.

    I can't recall any of the songs that the band played. I just13that I really enjoyed the show and didn't want it to14. But in the end, after three encores(加演), the show finished. We left the15and walked unsteadily out onto the pavement. I felt a little dizzy, as if I had just16from a long sleep. My ears were still17with the beat of the last song.

    After the18, I became a Black Wednesday fan too for a few years before getting into other kinds of music. Once in a while, 19, I listen to one of their songs and20I'm back at that first show.

    There was once a young man in a town. He liked puppets (木偶) so much that he became an apprentice (学徒) to a great puppet-maker. Sadly, the young man was not so clever, and people around him always said he had no 1 for making puppets.

However, he enjoyed it so much that he worked day after day to 2his skills. Though he was hard-working, they would always find something wrong with his puppets. The young man was 3 but he wasn't going to give up. After thinking for a few days, he 4 to spend all his time making just one kind of puppet. As long as he found a fault (缺陷) in his puppet, he would throw it away and start again. Years passed, he was much 5 at making puppets than any other apprentice, but he kept making improvements. Living 6 that, the man wasn't making any money. Many people laughed at how poor he was.

    By the time he was an old man, his puppet was 7 wonderful. Finally, after so many years of work, he finished his puppet, and said, "8 wrong with it this time. It's perfect (完美的)". And for the first time in all those years, he didn't throw his puppet and felt so happy.

    The man's name was Geppetto. 9 he made the perfect puppet, he got more happiness than any other famous puppet-maker. His 10 tells us how important it is to keep on something.

    So never give up the things you really enjoy.

    A kindergarten teacher decided to have her class play a game. The teacher told each student to bring a plastic bag with a few potatoes in it to school. Each student would "name" their potatoes after people they did not like.1 the number of potatoes would be2depending on how many people each student hated.

    The next day, with their potatoes, all the students went to school 3 the game. Some kids had just one or two potatoes, while others had as many as five or six. The teacher then told the children that they would have to carry their potatoes with 4wherever they went for one week.

    Several days 5. Some of the students started to complain(抱怨), as their potatoes began to rot(腐烂)and6bad. The students who carried 7potatoes began to get unsatisfied with the heavy bags.

    One week later, the game 8. The teacher asked, "How did you9carrying around your potatoes for a week?"

    The students complained once again. The teacher simply smiled and said, "This is what it's like to carry hatred(仇恨 )in your heart. You have to carry it with you wherever you go. If you can′t tolerate (容忍) carrying rotten potatoes for one week, how can you imagine having 10in your heart for a whole lifetime? Forgive others and move on with your life."

    The story goes that two friends were walking across the desert.

    During the journey they had a1, and one friend hit the other in the face. The one who got hit was hurt, but2saying anything, he wrote in the sand, "Today my3 friend hit me in the face." They kept on walking until they found green fields and a beautiful river where they decided to4.The one who had been hit fell into the river and started5, but the friend saved him. After he was out of 6, he wrote on a stone, "Today my best friend saved my life."

    The friend who7and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone. Why? "The other8, "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in the sand where wind of forgiveness(宽容)can blow it away.9when someone does something good for us, we must carve(雕刻)it in the stone where no wind can ever blow it away."

    Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in the stone. Send this phrase to people you will10forget. It's a short message to let them know that you will never forget them.