In the distant past, friend relied on each other for their survival. They hunted together and defended each other against {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(danger) animals and enemies. In those days, if you didn't have a friend, you would either starve, be eaten {#blank#}2{#/blank#} killed. Nowadays, friendship isn't {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(exact) a matter of life and death. However, friendship is still of great importance and not having a friend is something to be {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(concern) about. Most people look upon friends as someone they can depend on when they are going {#blank#}5{#/blank#}times of trouble. In such times, friends provide them with emotional support and sometimes financial help. It is in these troubled times {#blank#}6{#/blank#} they find out who their true friends are. As an old saying {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(go), in times of prosperity, friends will be plenty; in times of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(suffer), not one in twenty. And there is another saying {#blank#}9{#/blank#} says you can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily upset one in an hour. So do your best to get along with and be grateful to all those {#blank#}10{#/blank#} are willing to side with you even when you are in the wrong as they are true friends and they are not easily come by.

    In Hangzhou, borrowing books from the library is now as simple as shopping online: click, pay {#blank#}1{#/blank#}wait for delivery.

    The city's public library recently launched a program on WeChat,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}popular Chinese messaging software, enabling its readers to check out books online and get them{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(deliver) to their homes at low prices.

    To enjoy the “Hangzhou enjoyable reading” service, one first needs to follow the library's official WeChat account,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}provides a list of books. After picking books, borrowers are required{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(present) the information such as their library membership cards, cell phone numbers and so on. The selected items will be delivered by express within three days after payments. Each reader can borrow up to 5 books once and 20 books at most{#blank#}6{#/blank#}total. The books can be borrowed for up to 40 days. Readers now can borrow the library's most popular books in this way. The online books will be renewed and enriched {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(gradual) according to readers' borrowing habits and{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(prefer). At the end of December, the library's old and classic books{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(put) online too, making the total number of books available and{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(bring) borrowers a lot of convenience.

    Stephen William Hawking (born on January 8, 1942) is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. As a child, he was enthusiastic about{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(design) complicated toys but {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (unfortunate), in his twenties, he suffered{#blank#}3{#/blank#}a disease that couldn't be cured,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}was a great challenge for him. As the condition {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(progress) over the years, finally he became almost entirely paralysed (瘫痪的) and could only communicate through a speech generating device. However, not only was he positive about the misfortunes, but he also eventually defeated all the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (obstacle) and became {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (absorb) in his research into the universe. In 1988, his best-seller A Brief History of Time{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(publish), in which he put forward the idea that time{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(it) has a beginning, and that it will have an end. This book stayed on the British Sunday Times best-seller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. In{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (conclude), he has made outstanding contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity.

    In northeastern Liaoning Province, winter can be very cold. For months, almost nothing grows on these frozen areas, except for one {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (surprise) product—grapes, which make something special, ice wine. Ice wine {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (make) from frozen grapes. The freezing process gives the wine a sweet flavor. It's so much {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (strong). It tastes like a raisin (葡萄干).

    Here, conditions for making ice wine are so perfect {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a third of the world's ice wine is now produced here. Strict rules mean that the temperature must be at least -8℃ for hours. While they wait, the grapes could go bad. So, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (prevent) this from happening, they need to be picked as soon as the conditions {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (be) right.

    In the early morning, the villagers are all {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (die) to help. The grapes planted here are called Vidal. As soon as the grapes are picked, they are transported to the wine company—the largest {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (produce) in China. Two years later, the wine is ready to be in the bottles, each of {#blank#}9{#/blank#} contains the juice of a 2.5 kilograms of grapes. These bottles will be{#blank#}10{#/blank#} the dinner table across China and even the world.

    One day, there was a blind man sitting at the roadside. There was a sign beside him, on{#blank#}1{#/blank#}was written, “I'm blind. Please help me." Many people walked by him,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}few of them helped him.

    A young man was going to his office. While{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(walk) by the blind man, he stopped and found that there were few coins in the man's hat. He bent down and write a new message on the sign without asking for{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(permit), and then he left, without saying a word.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(late) that afternoon, when the young man walked by the blind man again, he saw the hat{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(fill) with bills and coins. The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if{#blank#}7{#/blank#}was he that had changed his sign. He also wanted to know {#blank#}8{#/blank#}the young man had done to the sign. Then the young man told the blind man that he {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(write) something like this on the sign. “It is spring now, but I can't see it." The blind man expressed his gratitude to the young man and went home{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(happy).

    Chinese communities around the world welcomed the Year of the Pig {#blank#}1{#/blank#} February 5th. Celebrations took place across the globe, ranging from Southeast Asia's centuries-old Chinese communities to the more recently {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (establish) Chinatowns. In the streets of several European {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (city), performances of dragon dances and lion dances drew huge crowds of people. Celebrations in London are expected {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (last) a month with series of activities, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} is the biggest Chinese New Year celebration outside Asia.