W: What {#blank#}1{#/blank#} wonderful place!

M: I wanted the best restaurant {#blank#}2{#/blank#} your birthday. And I know you like French food. Let's begin with a cocktail(鸡尾酒) and then look at the menu.

W: I don't want to look at it because {#blank#}3{#/blank#} always takes me a year to make up my mind. Any suggestions?

M: I've never been here before, but everything {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (suppose) to be excellent.

W: They have snails(蜗牛)! But I wouldn't dare eat them. They might make me sick.

M: I feel the same way about snails. I think I'll have roast duck(烤鸭). It comes with vegetables and potatoes.

W: {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (sound) good. But {#blank#}6{#/blank#} I like seafood, I'd like {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (begin) with some seafood. And let's have the salad after the main course.

M: Fine. We should have white wine with dinner and champagne(香槟)with dessert since this is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}celebration.

W: Oh, don't forget the cheese. There's nothing like real French cheese.

M: I can see already this {#blank#}9{#/blank#} going to be an {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (enjoy) and delicious dinner.     

    In 1977, a dead author of detective stories saved the life of a 19-month-old baby in a most {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(usual) way. The author was Agatha Christie, one of the most successful writers of detective stories in the world.

    In June that year, a baby girl became {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(serious) ill in Qatar, near Saudi Arabia. Doctors were unable to find out the cause of her illness with {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(confident), so she was sent to big hospital in London {#blank#}4{#/blank#}specialist help was available. A team of doctors hurried to examine the baby only {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(discover) that they, too, were confused by the very unusual disease. Just then, a nurse asked to speak to them.

     "Excuse me," said the nurse, "{#blank#}6{#/blank#} I think the baby is suffering from thallium(铊) poisoning. "

    "What makes you think that?" Dr. Brown asked. "Thallium poisoning is extremely rare."

"I read a detective novel {#blank#}7{#/blank#} Agatha Christie a few days ago,” the nurse explained, "and in the book, somebody suffers from thallium poisoning, and all the symptoms {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(describe). They're exactly {#blank#}9{#/blank#} same as the baby's."

    The tests showed that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium, a rare metallic substance{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (use) in making special glass. Once they knew the cause of the illness, the doctors were able to give the baby the correct treatment. She soon recovered and was sent back home.

    Take a book; leave a book. When you walk on the streets of Germany, you feel you {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(surround) by books. In Germany, public bookshelves are lined across {#blank#}2{#/blank#} nation on street corners, city squares and supermarkets.

    In the free-for-all {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(library), people can take whatever they want to read, and leave behind anything they want for {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(other). There's no need to register, no due date, and you can take or give as many as you want. This project is aimed at everyone who likes to read—without regard to age or education. It is open for {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Each shelf holds around 200 books and it takes about six weeks for a complete turnover, with all the old titles {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(replace) by new ones. The public book shelves are usually cared for by local volunteer groups.

    Germans think they should make {#blank#}7{#/blank#} easy for everyone to enjoy {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(read) in this “reading culture on the street”—from old readers to kids. While most of the shelves have so far been put up in rich neighbourhoods, they are {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(plan) to put up future shelves in poor neighbourhoods, {#blank#}10{#/blank#}people often don't have easy access to literature.

Up to 82 percent of children with healthy mothers are not easy to be obese(肥胖的), according to research. A mother, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} has a healthy weight, exercises regularly, eats a healthy diet, doesn't smoke and only {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(drink) wine in moderation, is significantly less likely {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(have)a fat child, scientists say.

And research suggests it could be more to do with nurture(养育){#blank#}4{#/blank#} nature, as a mother's lifestyle appears {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(direct) linked to the health of her child. When both mother and child follow a healthy lifestyle, the risk of obesity {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(reduce)even more, the study of more than 24,000 children found.

The study examined the medical history and lifestyles of more than 24,000 children aged nine {#blank#}7{#/blank#} fourteen, born to almost 17,000 women in the US. Researchers looked at the link between overall mother health and likelihood of a child {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(be) obese.

The mother's health was judged on her height-to-weight ratio(比例), her diet, amount of physical {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(active), smoking status and how much alcohol she drank. A healthy weight and diet, regular exercise, no smoking and moderate drinking all reduce the chance of a woman having {#blank#}10{#/blank#} obese child.