W: Hello! May I speak to Mr. White, please?

M: Mike White speaking.

W: Hello. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is Alice Green, Tom's neighbor.

M: Hello. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} can I do for you?

W: Well, Tom said he's been taking piano lessons from you for two years, and I wonder if I can learn from you, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}.

M: I don't think that's a problem. Have you had any musical {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (experience) before?

W: Well, when I was a college student, I spent about half a year {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (learn) to play the guitar. But that was almost ten years ago.

M: Good. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} that case we don't have to start from the very {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (begin).

W: Then can I go with Tom to your next class?

M: I don't think {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. All the people in that class {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (study) with us for about two years, and they come on Sunday mornings. But you can come to another class, on Saturday evening {#blank#}10{#/blank#} Sunday afternoon.

W: Saturday evening is better for me. See you then.

    Young people {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (bear) in 1995 or later have another name in English — Generation Z.

    Now entering adulthood and soon to join the workforce, Generation Z grew up in a special period of time when technology developed fast and the Internet became {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (universe).

    It {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (believe) that Generation Z is the generation that is going to shape our future, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} is why policy makers are trying {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (they) best to understand these young people. Most people agree that the biggest difference between Generation Z and other generations is how connected they are. This is a group of people who have been familiar {#blank#}6{#/blank#} social media as soon as they came to the world. It may be true that Generation Z-ers have a shorter attention span（持续时间）{#blank#}7{#/blank#} a goldfish does, but since they grew up among social changes, they are more active in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (political).

    Generation Z-ers are also culture creators. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (grow) up with the Internet has freed this generation from traditional cultural expression. These young people never {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (willing) let their creativity be limited by their parents or traditional rules.

    As a saying goes, he who doesn't reach the Great Wall is not a true man. The Great Wall in China {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(impress) everyone who sees for the first time {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the general tourists to scholars. The vastness of the structure helps children grasp the great {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(achieve) in human history and can help inspire them {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (learn) more about human success over one thousand years.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (construct) over a period of 2,000 years, the stone solider {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(actual) consists of many great walls, some of{#blank#}7{#/blank#}date back to the fifth century B.C. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (order) these earlier long wall sections linked and extended with watchtowers to protect the new empire from northern tribes. Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction.{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (spread) westward into the Gobi desert to guard{#blank#}10{#/blank#}Silk Road. All together, the walls may have stretched more than 30,000 miles.

Many cities have live music in their parks during the summer. But there's a park in Denmark

{#blank#}1{#/blank#} people can hear music all year round — not on a stage but among the trees.

As part of {#blank#}2{#/blank#}art project for public in Aalborg, trees in the Park of Music host the music once  {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(perform) by musicians at the nearby cultural center. It all started in the 1980s when the city asked visiting musicians to plant a tree {#blank#}4{#/blank#}a memorial (纪念物) of their excellent and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(forget) performances.

Since then, over 80 trees {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(plant) by musicians worldwide. In 2012, some of the trees became playable! It works like this. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (simple) press the button (按钮）on the plaque (匾牌)bearing a musician's name next to the tree, and people  {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(hear)a piece of the musician's music.

All kinds of music from  {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(artist) like Sting can be heard. The trees are "played" about 300,000 times a year, {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(show) the popularity of the art project.

Photographers Turn Their Cameras on Pets

In 2019 photographers Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks visited 14 countries on assignment. When the couple described the adventures {#blank#}1{#/blank#}they had experienced when photographing, people invariably asked, "But who takes care of your four cats and dogs?" They joked that the pet siter made a lot of money.

But 2020 couldn't have been {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(different). Due to COVID-19, Brinson and Banks never left the United States. Often, they didn't even leave their Los Angeles neighborhood. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} {#blank#}4{#/blank#}spending long hours in airport security lines and waiting-for the perfect lighting, the pair stayed along with dogs Tux and Tia and cats Rex and Kudzu. "Our pets became emotional therapy animals, and our only friends we could safely hug in a world {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(strike) by a deadly pandemic," Banks said.

As COVID-19 lockdowns swept across the world in March of 2020, the change made an especially great impact on photographers, who are accustomed to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(spend) long periods abroad. And so many cameras {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(turn) on a domestic subject: the pet.

Research suggests that pets have offered emotional support during the pandemic, helping {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) the long days of isolation more bearable, says Emily MeCobb, a clinical associate professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. In fact, the pandemic has sped up a trend, according to McCobb's and other scientists' observation, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the pet is becoming a member of the family. "In the past 20 to 30 years, the role of the pet in the family {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(take) on a whole new role," says MeCobb." It really hasn't been that long {#blank#}11{#/blank#}these furry child substitutes gained this kind of importance in American society."