I was nine years old when I learnt to ride a bike. The bike was a birthday present from my uncle. You can imagine how{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (excite) I was when I saw the bike, and I begged my uncle to teach me how {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (ride) it right away. However, before I got on the bike, I felt {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (extreme)  nervous and l  was  afraid  that l  would  fall  off and hurt {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (me).My uncle held onto the seat and helped me to get {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the bike. While l was riding, he was running along beside me, holding the seat so I would not fall over. I was so{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (grate) to him for his help.

    As I was practicing, I became more and more confident. Then, I heard my uncle shouting, "You are riding it by yourself now!" I was both excited and scared. I was really riding by myself, but{#blank#}7{#/blank#} if I fell off? Could I use the brakes to stop? As I was wondering about this, my uncle ran after me and got hold of the bike. I{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (slow) down and came to a stop. My heart was still beating fast when I got off the bike. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (late) that day, having learnt how to get on the bike and get off it, I felt like l was walking on air! I am still thankful to my uncle for teaching me to ride a bike on my {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (nine) birthday.

    Most students do an IQ test early in their school career. Even if they never see their results, they feel that their IQ is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} determines how well they are going to do in life. When they see other students doing {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (good)than them, they usually believe that those students have {#blank#}3{#/blank#} higher IQ and that there is nothing they can do {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(change) facts. However, new research into EQ suggests that success is not {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(simple) the result of a high IQ.

    While your IQ tells you how {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(intelligence) you are, your EQ tells you how well you use your intelligence. Professor Salovery, who {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(invent) the term EQ, gives the following description: At work, it is IQ {#blank#}8{#/blank#}gets you promoted. Supported by his academic research, Professor Salovery suggests that when {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(predict) someone's future success, their character, {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  is measured by EQ tests, might actually matter more than their IQ.

    Wang Peng felt very {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(frustrate) when he saw that there were few customers in his restaurant, because by then his restaurant {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to be full of people. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}his friend didn't come to eat in his restaurant. Wang Peng wanted to find out why, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} he followed Li Chang into a new restaurant. There he saw a sign.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (curious) drove him to enter the restaurant, where the hostess gave him a menu, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} showed that the restaurant only served rice, raw vegetables, fruit, and water. Wang Peng thought Yong Hui {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(tell) lies and he couldn't have her {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (get) away with it. He also thought with a discount he could win customers{#blank#}9{#/blank#}. So he wrote a sign, too. And the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}between the two restaurants was on!

    Young sunflowers face the sun as it rises in the east and follow it across the sky until it sets in the west. Why does this happen? A team of scientists has finally been able to figure{#blank#}1{#/blank#} how and why young sunflowers move.

    Older sunflowers always face east. However, as it{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(turn) out, an internal（内部的）clock helps young sunflowers track the sun so that they can grow better. US biologist Stacey Harmer and her colleagues had it{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(explain) in a recent paper published in the journal Science on Aug. 5.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(depend) on the time of day, certain growth genes seem to work to different degrees on different{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(side) of young sunflowers' stems（茎）. The east side of their stems grows faster during{#blank#}6{#/blank#}day, causing the stems to {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(gradual) bend from east to west. The west side grows faster at night, preparing them for the next morning.

    All this move is highly{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(benefit) to sunflowers. The team found that flowers kept away from the sun had leaves{#blank#}9{#/blank#}were 10 percent smaller on average. According to Harmer, sunflowers which{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (face) with the sun receive more bees and other insects because they like warm flowers.

    When Jennifer Lawrence tripped on her way to accept her best actress Oscar one year, her pink princess-like Dior dress {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (capture) in all its glory. The unscripted moment became hot topic throughout social media.

    That bonus air-time for a single dress at one of the world's global events is priceless for the likes of Dior, one of the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (influential) fashion houses in the luxury marketplace.

    Success on the red carpet can earn exposure and profits for luxury brands for years {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (come). The red carpet, which will be televised live before Academy Award ceremony, presents a great opportunity for a designer to reach an audience that expands {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the fashion setting. The Lawrence dress received about 40 million mentions on various social media.

    One way of estimating the monetary benefits of having a standout dress on the red carpet is to compare how much a brand would otherwise spend on commercial advertising during the same time. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Lawrence had only 75 seconds of solo camera time for her Oscar acceptance speech, Dior had to pay more than $4 million for a commercial spot of the same duration on similar occasions. And this didn't include the time {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (devote) to Lawrence and her dress on the pre-show televised red carpet. Lawrence, 23, had an advertising contract with Dior. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the group's deal with Lawrence affected its sales was clearly stated in its annual financial report. That year, the group clothing section's profits {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (total)165 million euros, up 26 percent from the previous year.

    Heston, the founder of a publicity firm, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} success stories include introducing Jimmy Choo shoes and designer Saab to Hollywood, believes that the Oscar red carpet is today dominated by established luxury brands. Finding it much more difficult to compete with big brand names to dress super stars on big events, many young designers turn to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (bet) on promising rising stars, expecting an overnight success if the young stars rise to sudden fame.

    A hotel chain is employing human bed warmers to help guests get a good night's sleep. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (dress) in special all-in-one sleeping suits, the walking electric blankets are sent to warm the beds of guests staying at the Holiday Inn {#blank#}2{#/blank#} they get under the covers.

    Dr Chris Idzikowski, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (direct) of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, said the idea could help people get off to sleep. He {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (explain) that "There's plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the beginning of the night {#blank#}5{#/blank#} body temperature starts to drop. The drop occurs partly because the blood vessels (血管) {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the hands, face and feet open up and release heat." "A warm bed –approximately 20 to 24 degrees Celsuis –is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} good way to start this process while a cold bed isn't. It helps people sleep well especially as it's taking much {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (long) for them to warm up when they come in from the snow."

    Dr Chris Idzikowski and {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (he) colleague Jane Bednall said the idea was like "having a giant hot water bottle in your bed". The five-minute free bed warming sessions will be tried out in London and Manchester {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the end of next month.