One day, Daisy went to see the animals that gave fur to make her sweater in a flying carpet. It flew away to Tibet in China first, where she saw an antelope. The antelope told her that they {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(kill) for the wool taken from their  {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(stomach). Then the carpet flew away to Zimbabwe, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Daisy saw {#blank#}4{#/blank#}elephant. The elephant said they were an {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(danger) species in Zimbabwe. Farmers used to hunt them {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(merciless). Now the government allowed tourists {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(hunt) a certain number of animals if they paid the farmers. The flying carpet rose again and almost immediately they arrived at a thick rainforest. There a monkey {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(rub) a millipede insect over its body was protecting {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (it) from mosquitoes. So Daisy made a {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(decide) to produce this new drug with the help of WWF. The carpet rose and flew home.

    There are two ways to look at this question {#blank#}1{#/blank#}relating to eggs in general or to the chicken egg specifically. Either way, the answer is the same: the egg came before the chicken.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} the case of eggs in general, animals such as dinosaurs were laying eggs long before the modern chicken came into existence,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (mean) that in this sense, the egg predated (早于) the chicken by thousands of years. As for the chicken egg specifically , according to NPR's Robert Krulwich, the modern chicken{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (hatch 孵化) from an egg, meaning the egg came first.

    The key to understanding the answer, and indeed the question itself, is to understand what the question is getting at. The dilemma is to understand {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a chicken-like bird transformed into{#blank#}6{#/blank#} is known as a modern chicken after being hatched or whether two chicken-like birds {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (lay) and fertilized an egg that then hatched a fully formed chicken. In this case, the latter option is the most realistic, therefore answering the question of which came first.{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (essential), a bird that was similar to a hen and another bird that is similar to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} rooster combined their genetic material, leading to a gene mutation (突变) that resulted in the chicken that is{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(good) known and loved today.

    Last year, my brother and I went to Miami for a vacation. Some of my friends who had been there before said {#blank#}1{#/blank#}was a wonderful holiday destination. Before we went, we had planned for months. When the day came, we were ready.

    After our plane landed, we went to the hotel. We had made our reservation six months{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(early),but the man at the front desk said there had been a mistake. We{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(tell)that our rooms hadn't been reserved for that week, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}for the week after. I didn't understand {#blank#}5{#/blank#}this would happen and my credit card had already been charged {#blank#}6{#/blank#}the reservation. What's worse, the hotel had been fully booked. When we were wondering what to do, the manager came out. She was{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(surprise)helpful. She apologized for the mistake and gave us a spare VIP room on {#blank#}8{#/blank#}top floor. We had never stayed in such an amazing room, and we weren't charged extra.

    The next day, my brother and I went to the beach {#blank#}9{#/blank#}we watched some people play volleyball. We got a little{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(sunburn),but the day had been so relaxing that we didn't mind.

    Jane was walking round the department store. She remembered how difficult{#blank#}1{#/blank#} was to choose a Christmas present for her father. She wished that he was easy {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(please). Besides, shopping at this time of the year was not {#blank#}3{#/blank#}pleasant experience: people stepped on your feet or {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(push)you with their elbows, hurrying ahead to get to a bargain.

    Jane paused in front of a counter (柜台) {#blank#}5{#/blank#} some attractive ties were on display. But Jane knew from past experience that the {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(choose)of ties hardly ever pleased her father.

    Jane stopped where a small crowd of men had gathered. She found some good quality {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(pipe) on sale. She did not hesitate for long: although her father smoked a pipe only once {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a while, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please him.

    When Jane got home, her parents were already at table having supper. Her mother was {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(excite). "Your father has decided to stop smoking," Jane {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(inform).