I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I remember{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(tear) across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb.“There is no Santa Claus.” She laughed. “Even dummies(傻瓜) know that!” I {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(flee) to Grandma because I knew she would be straight with me. She always told the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(true).

“No Santa Claus?” she said. “Ridiculous!Don't believe{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Put on yourcoat, and let's go.” “Go where, Grandma?” I asked.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} we walked through the doors of the general store Grandma handed me ten dollars and Said, “Buy something for someone {#blank#}6{#/blank#}needs it. I'll waitfor you in the car.”

      I was only eight years old. Never had I shoppedfor anything all by myself. For a few moments I just stood there,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (wonder) what to buy, and who{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(buy) it for. I thought of everybody Iknew. Then I thought about Bobbie Decker.

      He was my classmate with bad breath and{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(mess) hair, and he sat right behind me. He did not have a coat. I knew that because he never went out to play gamesduring the winter. I fingered the bill with growing {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(excite). I would buy Bobbie a coat.

    Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  (destroy) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged {#blank#}2{#/blank#} their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or roofs. One person was killed, several were {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (serious) hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.

    A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the morning and lasted for over an hour.

    “I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (eat) with my wife and children,” he said, “when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (climb) out but then I saw that one of my children was {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (miss). I went back inside and found him, safe {#blank#}8{#/blank#} very frightened.”

    Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (feel) that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.

    Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded area and the welfare department brought {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (they) food, clothes and shelter.

    The Chinese Lunar(月球) Exploration Program is designed to be conducted in three stages: The first is simply reaching lunar orbit(轨道), a task{#blank#}1{#/blank#}complete) by Chang'e 1 in 2007 and Chang'e 2 in 2010. The second is{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(land) on the Moon, as Chang'e 3 did in 2013 and Chang'e 4 in 2019. The third one is collecting lunar samples and sending them to Earth, a task for the future Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 missions. It{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(be) China's first sample return mission in December 2019.

    Miners have dangerous jobs because occasionally the earth sinks or falls apart. When this happens, miners are {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(trap) underground. They are buried {#blank#}2{#/blank#} they don't have air to breathe, food to eat, and water to drink, they will die. They {#blank#}3{#/blank#} not go without any of these things for long, but the first is the most important. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}is difficult to figure out where miners are and reach them in time. Trapped miners dream of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (be) free and don't give up.

    In August 2010, 33 miners{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (go) to work in a mine in Chile, All of a sudden, a wall broke apart and rocks and dirt filled {#blank#}7{#/blank#} mine's exit. At first, people thought all the miners died. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} , after working for 17 days, people at the surface learned the miners were still alive. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, people on the surface figured out where the miners were and dug a {#blank#}10{#/blank#}to send them food and water.