Once there lived a rich man{#blank#}1{#/blank#}wanted to do something for the people of his town.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help.

    In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed {#blank#}3{#/blank#} very large stone. Then he {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(hide ) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.

    "Who put this stone in the centre of the road?" said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}man came along and did the same thing; then another came ,and another. All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(say) to himself: "The night {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone."

    Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(strong) to move it. How great was his surprise at last! {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the stone, he found a bag of money.

    When the modern Olympic Games {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (start) in 1896 in Athens, Greece, there was no such thing as the Winter Olympics. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(player) completed only in the Summer Games. However, there were the Nordic Games. There was a(n) {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(compete) of winter sports that took place every few years starting in 1901. But the Nordic Games were only to athletes {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

    The winter sports were popular, so in 1924 an International Winter Sports Week {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (hold) in Chamonix, France. About 250 athletes from 16 countries competed in nine sports and there were 11 female athletes, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} competed in figure skating.

    Still, the Winter Olympics were under way, adding more sports to the games and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (especial) more sports for women. Women got the chance {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(take) part in skiing, ice hockey(冰球）{#blank#}9{#/blank#} other sports. Now the Games have such {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(interest) events as snowboarding and skeleton(俯式冰橇）.

    In the closing ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018  China put on {#blank#}1{#/blank#} eight-minute performance "See You in Beijing in 2022", {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (direct) by Zhang Yimou. The show centered on the talents of a team of 24 roller-skating {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (perform) from Beijing Sport University. Two of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (they) dressed up as "Panda Captains" led the performance. It reviewed China's ancient times, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (show) the country's rich cultural heritage (遗产) and singing the present as well as the future. In addition to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (tradition) symbols including the Great Wall, the Chinese Dragon and the Chinese phoenix(凤凰), the performance also showed the recent achievements in science and technology {#blank#}7{#/blank#}has been made in China . Towards the end of the performance, the Olympic rings {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (appear) on the stage, as well as images of a global village, children's smiling faces, olive branches and plum blossoms(梅花), which represented China's promise {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (promote) global peace and build a better future for mankind. Finally, the skaters travelled a path to draw the "Winter Dream" sign of the Olympic Winter dreams Beijing 2022. The performance {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (successful) sent China's goodwill and invitations to the world for Beijing 2022.

    "How should a Nobel laureate dress?" asked Kazuo Ishiguro, who, 40 minutes earlier, had found out he {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(award) the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    To say the news was unexpected is an understatement. He literally couldn't believe it. Until that was, his phone began to ring constantly, an orderly queue of TV crews started to form outside his front door ("how do they all know where I live?"), and his publishers dispatched a top team to his house as back-up.

    This was not fake news. This was delightful, surprising news. Maybe there were others who {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (win) instead, he wondered. "But that is the nature of prizes. They are a lottery." {#blank#}3{#/blank#} chaos reigned around him, he was calm, assured and thoughtful, talking (after nipping upstairs to fetch a smart jacket for our interview) about his belief in the power of stories and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} those that he wrote would often explore wasted lives and opportunities.

    "I've always had a faith that it should be possible, if you tell stories in a certain way, to transcend barriers of race, class and ethnicity."

    For me, he is one of the great living writers working in any language. All writers can tell stories. Ishiguro tells stories on {#blank#}5{#/blank#} level.

    He places the reader in some sort of alternative reality - which might be the future, it might be the present, it might be the past. They feel like places that are whole and real, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} you don't know them.

They're weird and not necessarily happy places. But they're places that you can inhabit and relate to, and you become deeply involved with the characters. That's the writer's job—he just does it better than most.