Last summer, as soon as school was over, I thought maybe I could spend the summer {#blank#}1{#/blank#}a way different from previous ones. But how? Perhaps I could take {#blank#}2{#/blank#}part-time job and make some money. I{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(offer) an interview soon after I filed my application to Kentucky Fried Chicken. The interview was three days ahead{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(prepare) for it, I went through Interview Skills, a book{#blank#}5{#/blank#} prepares readers for job interviews. My mom and dad tried to help by {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(give) me simulated (模拟的) interviews one after{#blank#}7{#/blank#}.I was all ready the day before the interview.

    I answered all of the manager's questions {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (perfect). After all, my mom and dad had expected all of them and I just needed to repeat the answers I had prepared. Besides, I had carried myself well through the interview. My facial {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (express), my voice, my...…all were excellent. I felt the job was already mine. That night I calculated how{#blank#}10{#/blank#} money I would make, and I planned the ways I would like to spend it.

    There once were a goat and a donkey {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (live) on a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (feed) it the most food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food {#blank#}3{#/blank#} it could eat. This made the goat so jealous{#blank#}4{#/blank#} it began plotting against（谋划对付）the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（get）sick so you can take a day {#blank#}6{#/blank#}?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable（畜栏）on its side with its eyes {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（close）.{#blank#}8{#/blank#} ( immediate ), the farmer called the doctor. After looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special {#blank#}9{#/blank#} ( medical ) made from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed {#blank#}10{#/blank#}goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.

    In many countries, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the shared space. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, in the United States, this idea may still be considered strange.

    But this type of housing, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (call) co-housing, is getting its {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (popular) in the United States, too. Co-housing complexes (综合设施) appear across the country. For many people, this way of life is a good {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (choose) in the busy modern society. A co-housing community has {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (private) owned houses and shared land. There is often a “common house" with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music room. About 25 co-housing communities {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (build) in recent years, and 150 more are planned.

    A co-housing complex is a place {#blank#}8{#/blank#} citizens shop, cook, and eat together. Citizens of a co-housing complex like its sense of shared community. Children have other kids to play {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, which many families like. Other citizens like the feeling of living in a “village”. Citizens also say that they can live in co-housing for {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (little) money than they would pay for nearby apartments.

    I'm not sure {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is more frightened, me or the female gorilla(大猩猩）that suddenly appears out of nowhere. I'm walking on a path in the forest in the Central African Republic. Unexpectedly, I'm face-to-face with the gorilla, who begins screaming at {#blank#}2{#/blank#} top of her lungs. That makes her baby scream, and then a 400-pound male appears. He screams the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(loud)of all. The noise shakes the trees as the male beats his chest and charges toward me. I quickly lower myself, ducking my head to avoid {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(look) directly into his eyes so he doesn't feel{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(challenge).

    My name is Mireya Mayor. I'm a {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(science)who studies animals such as apes and monkeys. I was searching {#blank#}7{#/blank#} these three western lowland gorillas I'd been observing. No one had seen them for hours, and my colleagues and I were worried.

    When the gorillas and I frightened each other, I was just glad to find {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(they) alive. True to a gorilla's unaggressive nature, the huge animal {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(mean)me no real harm. He was just saying: "I'm king of this forest, and here is your reminder!" Once his message was delivered, he allowed me {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (stay)and watch.

    A mouse, because of a(n) {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (luck) chance, made close friends with an evil frog. One day, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} frog played a trick on the mouse by {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (tie)a foot of the mouse to his own. At first, both of them joined together and the frog led his friend toward the pool {#blank#}4{#/blank#} he lived, and didn't stop until he reached the side of the water. Then the frog {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (sudden) jumped into the water and the mouse {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (pull) in with him. The frog enjoyed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (he) in the water, happily dancing and crying

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#}if he had done a great deed The unhappy mouse died soon in the water, and his dead body floated on the surface, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (fasten) to the foot of the frog. A hawk saw the dead mouse, suddenly flew down towards, caught it and flew away. The frog, still tied to the foot of the mouse, was also carried off as a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (prison), and he was eaten by the hawk.