A researcher has made a report {#blank#}1{#/blank#} says having a lot of money makes you a bad person. Professor Paul Piff spent ten years {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (look) at the personalities of rich people and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (find) that their behaviour was very different {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the behavior of poor people. Rich people are more likely to break {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (rule), not follow the law, and not care about other people. Wealthy people cheat more at games and are less likely to help other people. Professor Piff told the BBC, “Wealth makes you more {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (worry) about your own interests, your own desires, your own welfare.” He added that rich people think their own goals and needs are the most {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (importance) thing in their life.

    Professor Piff also found that poor people are more generous than rich people. The poor give a higher percentage of their money {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (help) others than the rich. The {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (wealth) you are, the less generous you are. You give significantly smaller portions away to other people. However, he said that rich people could change their behavior and become nicer {#blank#}10{#/blank#} more generous.

    As is known to us, the year 2016 has one extra day in it — February 29th. This is because it's {#blank#}1{#/blank#} we call “a leap year”. Every four years, the year has 366 days in {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  instead of 365.

    It is called a leap year because hundreds of years ago in England, the extra day wasn't{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (legal) recognized. There is a well-known tradition in the UK{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (associate) with February 29th, introduced many centuries ago. Women are allowed to break with tradition and propose(求婚) to their boyfriends on this day. This all started back in the{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (five) century, when a famous Irish saint made a{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (complain) that women had to wait too long for men to propose. According to the legend, Saint Patrick said any female dreaming of a proposal could ask her boyfriend to marry her on this additional day in February. This so-called tradition{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (write) in law in the thirteenth century. Scotland passed a law allowing women to propose to men in a leap year. It was said that if the men refused, they had to pay a fine!

    Now in 2016, there are calls{#blank#}8{#/blank#} February 29th to become a public holiday. Some people believe that it should be an{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (office) day off, because no one gets{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (many) payments for working an extra day in a leap year. For the moment though, the British still have to go to work on this day.

    Some time ago, a light passenger plane flew {#blank#}1{#/blank#} course(航线) and thus crashed in the mountains and the pilot {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(kill). The only passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt. It was the middle of winter. Snow {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(lie) thick on the ground. The woman knew that the nearest village was kilometers away and she was not strong enough {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(carry) her baby daughters there. When it grew dark, she turned the suit-case into a bed, where the children,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (cover) with all the clothes she could find, could be protected from the wind. During the night, it got {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(terrible) cold. The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself, but it was too small. Early next morning, she heard planes {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(fly) overhead and wondered how she could send a signal. Then she had an idea. She wrote the letters SOS in the snow. Luckily, a pilot saw {#blank#}8{#/blank#}signal and sent a message by radio to the nearest town. It was not long {#blank#}9{#/blank#}a helicopter arrived on the scene to save the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (survive) of the plane crash.

    William Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Tu Youyou jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine{#blank#}1{#/blank#} their work against parasitic diseases (寄生虫病). 85-year-old Tu was awarded this prize for her contribution to{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (reduce) the death rate of malaria (疟疾), minimizing patients' suffering and promoting mankind's health. This is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} science is all about.

    As a matter of fact, Tu has won some attention when she {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (get) the Lasker Award in 2011. But there is no way to compare her popularity back to the attention she is receiving today. As the first Chinese mainland Nobel Prize Winner of natural science award, Tu's winning {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (complete) surprised Chinese people, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} have long been wondering when the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in natural science would appear.

    Tu Youyou is the first Chinese scientist to win a Nobel Prize for work {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (carry) out within China. She has spent 40 years' time on scientific research. Although the Nobel Prize did not come to her until four decades later, it is definitely one of {#blank#}8{#/blank#} most privilege rewards that recognizes Tu's devotion and perseverance in discovering artemisinin (青蒿素). Her record-breaking winning  {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (be) a reminder that science is never about instant success. There is no way to measure how much you spend on scientific research and compare {#blank#}10{#/blank#} with how much reward you get.

    Lesson6: …… Yesterday a beggar {#blank#}1{#/blank#} at my door. He asked me for a meal and a glass of beer. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} return for this, the beggar stood on his head and sang songs.

    Lesson7: the plane was late and detectives were waiting at the airport all morning. They were {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a {#blank#}4{#/blank#} parcel of diamond from South Africa.

   Lesson8: …… Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables,          5     Joe's garden is more interesting. He {#blank#}6{#/blank#} neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool.

    Lesson9: On Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hall. It was the last day of the year and a large {#blank#}7{#/blank#} of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock. It would       8       twelve in twenty minutes' time.

    Lesson10: …… Recently it {#blank#}9{#/blank#} by a visitor. She tried to play jazz on it! She struck the keys too hard and two of the strings were broken. My father was {#blank#}10{#/blank#}. Now we are not allowed to touch it. It is being repaired by a friend of my father's.