A man got lost while driving through a country. As he tried to read a map, he drove off the road into a ditch(沟渠) {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (luckily). Though he wasn't injured, his car was stuck deep in the mud(泥). So the man had got to walk to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} nearby farm to ask for help.

  “Warwick can get your car out of that ditch,” said the farmer, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  (point) to an old mule(骡). The man looked at the weak mu le and the farmer {#blank#}4{#/blank#} just stood there repeating, “Yep, old Warwick can do the job.” The man thought he had nothing to lose. Therefore, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} took the old man and Warwick to the ditch.

    The farmer hitched(套住) the mule to the car and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (shout), “Pull, Fred! Pull, Jack! Pull, Ted! Pull, Warwick!” And the mule pulled the car from the ditch {#blank#}7{#/blank#} very little effort.

The man was {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (amaze). He thanked the farmer and asked, “Why did you call out all of those other names {#blank#}9{#/blank#} you called Warwick?” The farmer smiled and said, “Old Warwick is just about blind. Once he believes he's part of a team, he won't min d {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (pull).”

    Alexander Graham Bell was an influential scientist, engineer and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(invent). He was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is widely credited with the invention of the first telephone. Bell's mother and wife{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(be)both deaf, which had an effect{#blank#}3{#/blank#}his work.

    When he was 23, Bell and his parents moved to Canada. Bell studied the human voice and worked with different schools for{#blank#}4{#/blank#}deaf. He experimented with sound, working with sound, working with equipment used to send different{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(message)and record sound. He worked on acoustic telegraphy(声报机)with an electrical designer {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(name)Thomas Watson.

    On February 14, 1876, Bell and Elisha Gray, an American electrical engineer, both filed patents(申请专利)covering the transmission (传送)of sounds telegraphically. Finally, Bel{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(give)the patent. A few days{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(late), he succeeded in{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(get)his telephone to work.

    Bell improved the design and by 1886 more than 150,000 people owned telephones in the United States. He once said, “The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to {#blank#}10{#/blank#}he is speaking.”

    No one could say that Katy Perry is an ordinary artist. Her songs are not just about sweet love and heartbreaks,{#blank#}1{#/blank#}usually have bigger themes. Take the songs Firework (2010) and Roar(2013) for example,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Perry sings about being our own master and{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(discover) our true value. Earlier this year, she {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (announce) her new album (专辑) Witness, together with a new idea for W music Perry calls her new style “purpose pop”, meaning a{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(society) and political message. It seems that Perry has become tired{#blank#}6{#/blank#} simply encouraging people. Now, she wants to educate them politically as well. The best example of Perry's purposeful pop is{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (probable) the song Chained to the Rhythm, in which Perry criticizes the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (behave) that people are unwilling to think more critically (批判的) about the world.

    But when it comes to the concept (概念) of purposeful pop, it is, in fact, something a lot of pop stars have been doing for a while. For example, Beyonce's 2016 song Formation deals with various problems such as an {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (argue) between white policemen and black citizens (公民) in the US,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (hope) to create change through music.

    French artist Dufresne has turned to Chinese characters to explore art.

    His ongoing show at Yishu 8, a nonprofit and art space in Beijing, has installations (装置) on which some characters{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (paint) and visitors can play word games by moving them around to make new characters. Each Chinese character has different parts. Separating or {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (combine) these parts creates new things. For example ,the character of lin (forest), when put on the top of xi (dusk) becomes meng (dream).

    He {#blank#}3{#/blank#} ( produce) them by first asking Chinese people he met in the streets, at parks and tourist spots,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(write) different characters with ink brushes on paper, and then painted them onto large wooden boards, trying to make the characters look {#blank#}5{#/blank#} close to their original handwritten forms as possible.

    “Each character{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (vivid) reminds me of the person who wrote it. To me, the writer and the character seem to share the same personality,” says Dufresne. He sees the characters as the human body in motion. An ancient character {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (photograph) by himself at a Chinese museum appears to him like “a person walking”.

    Christine Cayol,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} is the founder of Yishu 8, says the young artist has provided “poetic viewpoint” his work by trying to create a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} ( connect) between Chinese characters {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the human body.

    When Mr. Wang, a Chinese calligraphy(书法)master and painter, invited me to his studio, I got extremely{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (delight) . What a treat!

    His apartment doubles as his studio, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} he creates calligraphy works and paintings as well. The living room has a long desk with a collection of{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (brush) of varying sizes, two big ink pots and a pair of paper weights.

    Mr. Wang showed his latest work, a scroll(卷轴)of the Great Wall at Badaling {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (wind) its way along the steep hills, which {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (recognize) as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations in 1987. The beauty of the seven-meter-long scroll painting was beyond {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (describe).

    He told me someone had offered a large amount of money for the painting, but he refused {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(part) with it as he wanted to donate to the National Museum.

After that, Mr. Wang invited me to practice calligraphy, and it was the first time that I had {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(true) experienced the beauty of the line. It was then{#blank#}9{#/blank#} I noticed Mr. Wang appeared to have a healthy body. I wondered if practicing calligraphy kept him so fit. Whether that is true, one thing is certain; as Mr. Wang put{#blank#}10{#/blank#}, "Only do one thing and do it well—that's the secret to success"