King Akbar was in the habit of putting riddles and puzzles to his people. He often asked 1 which were strange. His people had to use words in a 2 way to answer these questions.

    Once Akbar asked a very strange question. He looked at his people. As he looked, one by one the heads began to hang low in search of a(an) 3. It was at this moment that Bribal entered the palace. Birbal  4 the habit of the king. He understood the 5 at once and asked, “May I know the question so that I can 6 for an answer?”

    Akbar said, “How many crows(乌鸦)are there in the city?”

    Without even a moment's thought, Birbal 7, “There are fifty thousand five hundred and eighty nine crows, My Lord. "

    “How can you be so 8?” asked Akbar.

    Birbal said, “Make your men 9, My Lord. If you find more crows it means some have come to visit their relatives here. If you find 10 crows it means some have gone to visit their relatives somewhere else. "

    Akbar was pleased very much by Birbal's wise answer.

从每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。

    Jadav Payeng is a forestry worker from Jorhat, India. Over the past 38 years, he has planted trees on a sandbar (沙洲）of the Brahmaputra River and has1it into a forest.

    One day in 1979，16-year-old Payeng was walking2the bank of the Brahmaputra River. He saw many snakes on the sandbars. These snakes died in a few days' time3the heat and the absence of trees. Payeng felt very4 when he saw this. He decided to plant some trees. Single-handedly, he started planting bamboo trees, as only bamboo trees could survive (存活）in the sandbars.

    To water the trees was a difficult5for one man. With his hard work and great effort, day by day the6bamboo trees grew into a forest. His tree planting has changed the soil (土壤).Now the sandbar is a thick forest and7to thousands of plants and animals. A large group of around 100 elephants visit the forest every year and8there for a few months.

    Payeng is now in 9fifties. He has planted close to 1,400 acres (英亩)of forests and is10as the Forest Man of India. In 2015，he was honored with Padma Shri, one of the top awards in India.

    Kobe Bryant, one of1 famous basketball players in NBA of America. He was born in the USA. He is 1.98meters tall. He can speak English, Italian and 2 French. Kobe is the only son in his family. He started 3 basketball when he was only a child, because his father4 was once a basketball player influenced his life deeply. His good playing skills brought him a lucky life.

    Kobe Bryant became a professional player at the 5 of 18. Ever since then, he has been a top player in Los Angeles Lakes in the USA 6the leader of his team, he played an important7 in NBA championships. In the 2007-2008 season, he received the prize of the most valuable player-the highest honor for the basketball players. At the same time, he led his team and won the basketball gold medals in Beijing.

    Kobe is a superstar in many people's hearts. Almost every basketball lover knows him. He has a lot of fans all over the world, Kobes life is 8of success and challenges. He retired from Los Angeles Lakes in April this year. But there is no doubt that he is an excellent basketball player in history.

Last weekend, the four members of my family spent an excellent holiday at the Disneyland. And one thing made our visit seem 1 . 

We got to the front of the line at Space Mountain, only to find out that our little daughter Gloria couldn't take her 2 on the ride. It was our first time to be there, so we were too 3 to remember that ice cream was not allowed on the ride. 

Gloria started 4 and we all didn't know what to do. Then Tony, one of the staff(员工) members, came over. He bent down and told Gloria that he would 5 the ice cream for her and give it back to her when she finished the ride. Gloria said, " Really?" Then she gave Tony her ice cream, and enjoyed 6 on the ride. 

Half an hour later, we 7 . And sure enough, there was Gloria's new friend 8 " her" ice cream. And we knew what had happened, 9 we knew that an ice cream couldn't last for thirty 10 without melting on a summer afternoon in Florida. Tony knew clearly 11 we would get off the ride. He went to the nearest shop and 12 a new ice cream half a minute before we walked out of the exit(出口). Gloria said, "13 . " But I was sure she didn't know it was a 14 ice cream. 

Thanks so much for giving us 15 and making our visit pleasant!

I'm Liu Bing. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} I have three good friends. They are Linda, Gina and Frank. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} My favorite（最喜欢的） sport is ping- pong. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} I think ping- pong is fun. But Linda and Gina think it is boring. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} They play soccer at school. Frank is a nice boy. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} He plays it very well. It's relaxing for him to play basketball. 

A set of photos of a boy carrying his tennis rackets in a bamboo basket has gone popular.

 The boy, Wang Fa, 14, is a member of the Va ethnic group(佤族) from Yunnan. After winning the under-14 gold medal at the ASICS Tennis Junior Tour in Guangzhou, a fan from Yunnan gave him the bamboo basket as a gift and the photos were taken.

"We always carry bamboo baskets when we work in the field. This is a usual farming tool of the Va ethnic group. I carried my rackets in this basket to remember my hometown," Wang said after the match.

 Before tennis, Wang was just a common boy from a village. But in 2016, a local club chose him as one of the first 10 local children to learn to play tennis. "I was worried at the beginning because the outside world was so different from my home," he said, adding that tennis has helped him make more friends and get a better education.

 Over the past six years, Wang, along with other players at the Yunnan Wild Elephants Tennis Club, has trained hard to improve his skills and physical strength. The children would get up at 6:30 am and practice for more than six hours a day. Every day, they needed to swing(挥动)a racket more than 7,000 times and run 9 kilometers.

"If it were not for tennis, I would still be helping out my family with farm work back home," Wang said.

 Wang's parents didn't want him to learn tennis at first because they didn't have enough money. But the tennis club offered to teach him for free. For Wang, winning theASICS Tennis Junior Tour was the beginning of a hopeful future. "I believe I will be the top on the professional stage," he said.