Long before Barack Obama became president of the United States, he wrote a book{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(call) Dream from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, which has since become{#blank#}2{#/blank#}bestseller. It is an{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(appeal) book that includes what he went through during{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(he) childhood. Obama has little contact with his father{#blank#}5{#/blank#}roots were in Kenya because he left home when Obama was very young. His mother got married{#blank#}6{#/blank#}a student from Indonesia shortly after the family moved to Jakarta. A few years later, Obama came back with his grandparents to Hawaii, where he{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(attend) a private high school.{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (study) at Columbia in New York City, he then entered Harvard Law School. This autobiography also touches{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(heavy) on Obama's exposure to racism. Readers will find his reflections of childhood {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(experience) which involved racial discrimination to be especially moving.

    With the College Entrance Examination {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(draw) near, I am too nervous {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(fall)asleep. My mother told me to take{#blank#}3{#/blank#}easy and not to stay{#blank#}4{#/blank#}late at night. She is very sensitive {#blank#}5{#/blank#}other people's feelings. My mother has a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (prefer) for cooking meals. She also told me it was bad to be particular{#blank#}7{#/blank#}food. What she said was{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(reason). I am always easily{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (persuade). I'll do some relaxing exercise{#blank#}10{#/blank#}may help me take the load off my mind. I'm sure I'll calm down to meet the challenge with confidence.

    We always knew our daughter Kendall was going to be a performer of some sort. She entertained people in our small town by {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (put) on shows on our front porch when she was only three or four.

    When Kendall was five, we began to notice that she was blinking a lot and clearing her throat {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(frequent). We had her {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (test) for allergies(过敏), but the doctor said she wasn't allergic to anything at all. We took her to our local children's hospital, in {#blank#}4{#/blank#} she was diagnosed {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Tourette's Syndrome.

    We took her from doctor to doctor, but all they did was give her medicine that just made it {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (bad), so we decided to go the natural route and luckily she got better. When Kendall was sixteen, we thought she was out of danger. But at a birthday party, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} accident happened and she was badly hurt. Her biggest concern wasn't whether she would walk again, but whether she would be able to sing for American Idol.

    She trained hard and willed {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (her) to move again. At last Kendall walked into the stadium to sing for American Idol. And our {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (tear) turned into shouts when she {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (give) a golden ticket to Hollywood.

    Tayeb is studying literature at Beijing Language and Culture University."{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(celebrate)the Spring Festival in China makes me love China even more, "she said.

    On Thursday, Tayeb's university organized an event {#blank#}2{#/blank#} foreign students could try their hands at making dumplings, a traditional food {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(eat)during the festival. Tayeb said she liked this aspect of the festival most.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} dumplings, Chinese New Year is also a time for temple fairs, red lanterns, paper­cuts, blessings of good fortune and ancestor worship.

    Bayomy, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Egyptian student at the same university, said she {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(plan)to visit a temple fair in Chaoyang Park on Sunday. She was {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(deep) impressed with the Spring Festival in 2014.She remembered how her classmate's father left out plates of food for their families' ancestors.

    Like Chinese, many foreigners put couplets(对联), Chinese characters wishing for good fortune on their front doors.

    Marie, a British {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(translate)in Beijing, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (send)a couplet by her Chinese friend on Thursday.She stuck them on the door of her apartment, took a photo of herself standing in front of it, and shared it with her parents in Britain." These couplets are an {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(express) of hope for the future and contain the Chinese spirit of 'harmony', "said Marie.

    Mr.Johnson lived in the woods with his wife and children. He owned {#blank#}1{#/blank#} farm, which looked almost abandoned. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (lucky), he also had a cow which produced milk every day. He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby {#blank#}3{#/blank#} other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (leave).The cow was their only means of support, in fact. One day, the cow was eating grass {#blank#}5{#/blank#} it began to rain heavily. While making great efforts to run away, she {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (fall) over the hill and died. Then the Johnsons had to make a living {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the cow. In order to support his family, Mr. Johnson began to plant herbs and vegetables. Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (sell) the wood. Thinking about his children's clothes, he started growing cotton too. When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market{#blank#}9{#/blank#} people from the towns met regularly. Now it occurred to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.