Driving to the airport in the early morning, I felt  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(excite) because I would spend the summer in Paris. While {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (look) for more interesting things to do besides sleeping and eating on the plane, I jumped at the chance to study French in this city {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (know) for its art, food and culture.

    My connecting flight (转机) was in Frankfurt, Germany, 14 hours from Denver. But when I arrived there, a feeling of anxiety {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (begin) to set in. I was very nervous {#blank#}5{#/blank#} I was in a country  {#blank#}6{#/blank#} language I could not speak. But when I found my way, I gained {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(confident). When I boarded the second plane and discovered that the flight was less than an hour, I was filled  {#blank#}8{#/blank#} excitement.

    When I stepped on foreign ground for the first time, I was {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (extreme) happy. I quickly had my first experience trying to communicate in {#blank#}10{#/blank#} language that I had only practised in school. As I left the airport, with one sharp turn, the Eiffel Tower came into view. I was fully in Paris.

    When you take a walk in any of the cities in the West, you can see a lot of people {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(walk) with dogs. It is still true that a dog is the most useful and faithful animal in the world, but the reasons why people keep a dog {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(change). In the old days people used to train dogs to protect themselves against attacks by other beasts. And {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(late) they came {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(realize) that a dog was not only useful for protection,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} willing to obey his master. For example, when people used dogs for hunting, the dogs would not eat what was caught without {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(permit). But now people in the city need not protect themselves against attacks of animals. Why do they keep dogs, then? Some people keep dogs to protect themselves from robbery. But the {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(important) reason is for companionship. For a child, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} dog is his best friend when he has no friends to play with. For young couples, a dog is {#blank#}9{#/blank#}child when they have no children. For old couples, a dog is also their child when their real children have grown up. So the main reason why people keep dogs has changed from protection {#blank#}10{#/blank#} friendship.

    Cambridge University is one of the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(old) universities in the world, and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. It is famous {#blank#}2{#/blank#} outstanding academic achievements and the high quality of research undertaken in a wide range of science and art subjects. The university pioneers work in the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (understand) of diseases, the creation of new materials, advances in telecommunications and the research into the origins of the universe. It trains doctors, veto, architects, engineers and teachers. At all levels about half of the students at Cambridge study arts and humanities, many of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} have gone on to become outstanding figures in the arts, print and broadcast {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(medium). The university's achievements in sconces can be measured by the sixty or more Nobel Prizes {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(award) to its members over the years.

    As Cambridge approached {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(it) eight hundredth anniversary in 2009, it was looking to the future. The modern university is an international center of teaching and research in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} vast range of subjects. It continues to change in response to the challenges it faces. The 1990s {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(see) a major expansion of the university accommodation for teaching and research. There are many major new buildings either underway {#blank#}10{#/blank#} already completed, including the Law Faculty Building and the Judge Institute of Management Studies.

    Whether enveloped by the thick smog from factories or unseen poisons from vehicle waste gases, many cities around the world are losing the battle against air pollution．

    Somewhere, many people died from breathing in the smoke and harmful gases {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (pour) into the air．In China and India, the damage of this poisonous air is particularly alarming, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(cause) three million deaths in those two countries．As a result, some out-of-breath citizens are turning to bottled air．

    Many companies are compressing fresh countryside air into bottles and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (sell) it online．It sounds like a joke but the idea is to raise {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(aware) and it provided people {#blank#}5{#/blank#}fresh air at a price．One such company is Vitality, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} collects air from the Canadian Rockies and compresses it into container．Vitality started the business to sell the canned air as joke gifts at first．{#blank#}7{#/blank#} the products took off in a {#blank#}8{#/blank#} ( surprise) way then．So, the manager came up with the business idea {#blank#}9{#/blank#} they can sell fresh air over the world．The manager of the company  has  made {#blank#}10{#/blank#}clear that China, India and South Korea have become its main markets．

    Few people would even think of beginning a new job at the age of 76, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} one of America's most famous artists did just that. Anna Mary Robertson, better known as "Grandma Moses"（摩西奶奶）, turned to painting {#blank#}2{#/blank#}she was too old to work on her farm. Grandma Moses was crazy about {#blank#}3{#/blank#} （paint） soon after she picked it up and worked hard at it. She painted {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(care) and her work were nice. She first painted only to please {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（her）, and then began to sell her works {#blank#}6{#/blank#} little money. In 1993, a collector（收藏家）,Louis  Caldor happened to see several of Grandma Moses' works hanging in a shop.

    He liked them, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(buy) them at once, and set out to look for {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（many）.

    Caldor held a show to introduce the works of Grandma Moses to other {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（artist）. Grandma Moses who was world-famous, died {#blank#}10{#/blank#}December 13, 1961, at the age of 101.

    The Internet is an amazing information resource. Students, teachers, and researchers use it as {#blank#}1{#/blank#} investigative tool. Journalists use it to find information for stories. Doctors use it to learn more about unfamiliar {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (disease) and the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (late) medical development. Ordinary people use it for shopping, banking, bill-paying, and communicating with family and friends. People all over the world use it to connect with individuals from {#blank#}4{#/blank#}countries and cultures. However, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}there are many positive developments {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(associate) with the Internet, there are also certain fears and concerns. One concern relates to a lack of control over{#blank#}7{#/blank#} appears on the Internet. With television and radio there are editors to check the accuracy or appropriateness of the content of programs, and with television there are {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(restrict) on what kinds of programs can  {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (broadcast) and at what times of the day. With the Internet, parents cannot check a published guide to determine what is suitable {#blank#}10{#/blank#} their children to see.