BEIJING—World－renowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China to attract top－rank postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.

    Oxford made its first {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (appear) at the China Scholarship Council's annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Oxford can offer for their academic and professional careers.

    “The students{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (come) well－prepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance,”said Sherwood,director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford,who will make {#blank#}5{#/blank#} two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.

    The University of Cambridge has attended the fair since{#blank#}6{#/blank#} first session in 2009,and stresses that it would continue to invest to train students to be problem solvers.

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#} Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for {#blank#}8{#/blank#} best and brightest,Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (usual) have more interest in cooperation {#blank#}10{#/blank#} competition,except in their traditional annual boat race.

    No one knows what would happen in the future for sure. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} we often think of the future and wonder what the world would be like {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a hundred years' time.

    Think of space. By that time perhaps {#blank#}3{#/blank#} permanent station on the moon will have been set up. Perhaps people {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(be) able to visit the moon as tourists. Cheap rockets for space travel will have been developed, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(permit) long journeys throughout the solar system. When that time comes, people will be taking holidays in space and visiting other planets, such {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the Mars Colony and the Venus Exploration outpost.

    Scientists of the future will almost certainly find other ways to make life last{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(long). They will {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(probable) find cures for most diseases. Hospitals will may have “body banks” {#blank#}9{#/blank#} can give you almost any new part you need to keep on {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (live). People in the future may live to be a lot older than 100 years.

    I am sorry to hear that you are worried about the variety of English you have been learning.

    Firstly, the differences between British and American English may surprise those{#blank#}1{#/blank#}have learned English for years.There{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(be) almost no differences in grammar and only a few differences in vocabulary.British and American people have no difficulty{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(understand) each other.They watch films and televisions from each other's countries for{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(please).

    Secondly, there isn't only one British{#blank#}5{#/blank#}American English.For example,all major cities in the UK have{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they) own dialects with different accents from each other.Sometimes these accents can be{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(hard) to understand for even a British person than some Americans.Also,there are Englishes from many other countries.People who speak these Englishes usually also manage{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(communicate) with other English speakers without any problems.

    All learners need to be able to understand English spoken and written by as many people as possible and they need to be able to speak English so that as many people as possible can understand them.You should concentrate on this goal,not on{#blank#}9{#/blank#}to speak “British” or “American” English.

    I hope this is{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(help).