This week, we're preparing for one of the newest {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(tradition) events in our country: Black Friday. It's that crazy gathering of retail (零售)-related violence, a time{#blank#}2{#/blank#}stores offer once-a-year promotional sales to set off the customers' greediness and jump-start the Christmas shopping season with a sudden activity in a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (crowd) space.

    The general feeling has been set by the Hamleys Christmas Toy Parade in London, in which 800,000 people ran into Regent Street, apparently attracted by {#blank#}4{#/blank#}possibility of a “meet-and-greet” with Peppa Pig that sadly {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(have) to be cancelled at the last moment on safety grounds. As it was, a middle-aged woman {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(report) had to be taken to hospital after {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (knock) to the ground in a fight with another woman.

    For the people who dislike shopping, such as me, any day with shopping in it is a black day, and Black Friday is the most worrying {#blank#}8{#/blank#}all. However, I can see the reasoning for retailers. Why spend a lot of money on newspaper ads, when you can offer 50 iPhone Xs at £5 each to the first fifty{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(consume)? The related media {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (cover) of the resulting disorder is, as they say, priceless.

    For those {#blank#}1{#/blank#} have seen War for the Planet of the Apes, it's easy to come to this conclusion-the movie isn't about war or the planet, and it's not {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(necessary) even about the apes. The movie is about {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(survive) and the choices we all make when one wants to survive, good or bad.

    With a story that should have been full of conflict and violence, it takes a different approach. You may find {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(you) exposed to small pockets of action. While recent sci-fi movies have become {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(know) for their action and scenes, War for the Planet of the Apes has taken science fiction {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a thoughtful and intelligent direction.

    War for the Planet of the Apes may not be the action and monster film that you had in mind, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} it's the kind of film that will make you want to sit in silence in the theater for a few minutes after it ends, taking in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} you've just witnessed.

    The few movies that have that effect {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(be) usually about humans, but this film enables people {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(feel) that way about apes. And that is what makes it a masterpiece.

    After the tsunami(海啸)hit India，many people who lived near the sea were greatly influenced. A lot of people lost their homes and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(unfortunate) some even lost their lives.

    College girls {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(ask)to collect money from their neighborhood. So we formed a group and devoted {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(we) to collecting money for the tsunami relief fund (救济金)．In our area，we showed a sign board，{#blank#}4{#/blank#} read，"Please help the sufferers, "to the people in the neighborhood and asked for their help. They donated money，dress，rice，medicine {#blank#}5{#/blank#} anything else useful.

    A small boy who was on the way to his school came running to us and asked us {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(wait) there for some time. After 5 minutes he ran to us with {#blank#}7{#/blank#} small savings box. It was a plastic box which there {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(be) many coins inside. He said he got the little box from his granny as a birthday gift {#blank#}9{#/blank#} saving coins. And he wanted it to be donated for the fund. It was the real greatest offering of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(kind) collected by us. What a lovely boy and what a big heart!

    In 1914, Thomas Edison, at the age of 67, lost his factory, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}was worth a few million dollars, to a fire. It had very little insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(go) up in smoke and said, “There is great value in disasters. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew.” In spite of disasters, three weeks later, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} invented the phonograph(留声机). What {#blank#}4{#/blank#} attitude!

    Below are more examples of successful people {#blank#}5{#/blank#} had failed before succeeding.

    Thomas Edison failed {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(approximate) 10,000 times while he worked on the light bulb. Henry Ford fired Lee Iacocca {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the age of 54. Young Beethoven {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(tell) that he had no talent for music, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} he gave some of the best music to the world.

    Setbacks(挫折) are inevitable in life. A setback can act as a driving force and also teach us humility. In grief you will find the courage and faith {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(overcome) the setback.

China's Chang'e 5 mission successfully delivered samples(样本)of moon rock and dust to Earth on December 17, 2020. It{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(mark) the first time in 4 years that moon rocks have been brought back to our planet, since the Soviet Union's I.una 24 mission in 1976.

The sample capsule landed in Inner Mongolia{#blank#}2{#/blank#}a little after 2：00 a. m. Recovery teams in trucks and helicopters located the landing site shortly after and secured the sample{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(contain).

While Apollo-era moon rocks are estimated to be about 3 to 4 billion years old, the material{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(collect) by Chang'e 5 is from a site in the northwest region of the moon's near side. This area was formed{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(late), and the rocks here are thought to be only about 1.2 billion years old. That means scientists could learn more about the evolution of the moon and test out new techniques for estimating the age of geological samples from other{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(planet)and moons(卫星).

The Chang'e lunar program, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}includes landing two lunar rovers(月球车)on the moon's surface, has been{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(remarkable)successful. Although Chang'e 5 was a short mission, it's one of{#blank#}9{#/blank#}most complex projects undertaken by the Chinese space program so far. The country is far from done with the moon—Chang'e 6, a second lunar sample return, is scheduled{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(launch) in 2023 or 2024.