In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear {#blank#}1{#/blank#} spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (confident) and without hesitation. Thirdly, we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (grammatical) correct.

    There is no easy way to success {#blank#}4{#/blank#} language learning. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} good memory is a great help, but it is not enough only {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of advice for those {#blank#}9{#/blank#} are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(write) the language whenever we can.

    One day a fisherman called Peter went fishing in his small boat.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} reaching a good place he knew, he{#blank#}2{#/blank#} ( lay) down his long line into the water. After a while,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} became very heavy. It seemed too heavy to be a fish. He began to draw in{#blank#}4{#/blank#}line.

    When the hooks began to come out of the water, he was quite {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(surprise), for the hooks were holding the links of a heavy gold chain.  When he pulled them into the boat, more and more links appeared. Soon his boat was full of the {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(shine) links of the gold chain.

    “I shall be rich, ” he said. “{#blank#}7{#/blank#}money I shall buy a new fishing boat with an engine. I shall buy a big house.”

    He drew in more chain{#blank#}8{#/blank#}he couldn't see the end of it. There was more and more of the heavy gold chain in the boat. He was so greedy that he didn't notice {#blank#}9{#/blank#} was happening to his boat. It was sinking{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(low) into the water than before. In the end Peter was drowned. He lost the gold, his boat and his life.

    Everyone{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(love) snow. But when school stays open despite the snow, it can be really annoying. However, there is one upside of going to school{#blank#}2{#/blank#}a cold winter day: you might be smarter. So far, researchers who study the brain{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(find) that cold temperatures make us think more quickly since messages travel faster among our brain cells. So the scientists say{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(hang) out on a cold morning may boost the result of any test that day.

    Qian Zhongshu was a Chinese scholar and writer, known for his wit and erudition(博学). Despite failing in mathematics, Qian {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (success) entered the Department of Foreign Languages under Tsinghua University in 1929 because of his {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (excellence) performance in Chinese and English languages. In Tsinghua, he met his wife Yang Jiang, who was to become a successful playwright and translator, and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (marry) her in 1935. In the same year, Qian received government sponsorship {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (promote) his studies abroad. Together with his wife, Qian headed for the University of Oxford in Britain. After {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (spend) two years at Exeter College, he received a bachelor of literature. He studied for one more year in the University of Paris in France, and he didn't return to China {#blank#}6{#/blank#} 1938.

    Qian lived in Shanghai from 1941 to 1945, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} was then under Japanese occupation. At that time he devoted {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (he) to writing and many of his works were written or published then. A collection of short {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (essay), Writing in the Margins of Life, was published in 1941. His most celebrated work Fortress Besieged appeared in 1947. On the Art of Poetry, written {#blank#}10{#/blank#} classical Chinese was issued in 1948.

    More and more public schools in America make it a rule that students must finish a certain amount of community service {#blank#}1{#/blank#} they are allowed to graduate from high school. They work on projects like making the environment better or {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (feed) homeless people.

    Many school systems in the United States now ask students {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (do) some kinds of community service as part of their studies. Students involved in service projects help {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (they) as well as their communities. They learn about the needs of people and aid {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (organize).For this reason, holidays {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (become) the prime period for volunteer work so far. Volunteers get no pay, but experts point out that it is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} excellent opportunity to learn and practice new skills.

    According to the statistics, more than 60% of young Americans have participated {#blank#}8{#/blank#} different kinds of community service, such as cooking for homeless people, or painting old buildings, etc. Some students like to do their volunteer work in {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (centre) parts of America, but the majority of teens prefer to do it in their hometowns. Tom, a 16-year-old middle school student in California, often {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (do) community service in a local hospital. He works 16 hours every week either receiving calls at the information desk, or helping push patients back to their wards (病房).