There were some strange things happening in Tangshan {#blank#}1{#/blank#} July 28, 1976. For three days , water in the wells rose and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (fall). The wells had deep cracks and a smelly gas came out of them. Pigs, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (chicken) and even mice became too nervous {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (live) as usual. At 3:42 am, everything began to shake. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} seemed that the world was at an end. One-third of the nation felt it. 

    A terribly huge crack cut across the city. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (immediate) the city lay in ruins. Two-thirds of the people died or were injured. Then {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (late) that afternoon, another big quake {#blank#}8{#/blank#} was almost as strong as the first one shook Tangshan. People began to wonder how long the disaster would last, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} not all hope was lost. Soldiers came to help those survivors. Slowly, the city began to {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（breath) again.

    As less people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is committed to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

    Li worked as {#blank#}3{#/blank#}miner for more than ten years. After the mine closed down, Li turned {#blank#}4{#/blank#}housing decoration, until he {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(force) to give that up due to a finger {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(injure). Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.

    Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. He soon mastered the skill and could make a variety of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup（糖浆）. When the sugar cools down,{#blank#}10{#/blank#}appears is a piece of sugar craft.

    In Canada and the United States, people enjoy entertaining(请客) at home. They often invite friends over{#blank#}1{#/blank#} a meal, a party, or just for coffee and conversation.

    Here are the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (kind) of things people say when they invite someone to their home: "Would you like to come over for dinner Saturday night?” "Hey, we{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(have) a party on Friday. Can you come?"

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(reply) to an invitation, either say thank you and accept, or say you're sorry and give an excuse: "Thanks, I'd love to. What time would you like me to come?" {#blank#}5{#/blank#}"Oh, sorry. I've tickets for a movie."

    Sometimes, {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, people use expressions that sound like invitations(邀请) but which are not real invitations. For example: "Please come over for a drink sometime." "Why not get together for a party sometime?" "Why don't you come over and see{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(we) sometime soon?"

    They are really just polite ways of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(end) a conversation. They are not real invitations because they don't mention a specific(确定的) time or date. They just show that the person is trying to be{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(friend). To reply to expressions like these, people just say "Sure, that would be great!" or "OK. Yes, thanks."

    So next time when you hear what sounds like an invitation, listen {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(careful). Is it a real invitation or not?

    How do learning habits influence learning results? It's useful and necessary to discuss learning habits. There is a famous {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (say) “Good habits lead to good endings”, which shows the importance of habits.

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” also {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (show) a healthy everyday habit helps to build up our body. Thus, good learning habits can help us gain great learning results, high scores and abundant knowledge {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (include). At first, learning habits form our ways of thinking and attitude {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the content of our learning. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (obvious), a good habit can help us to speed up to reach our destinations. As we can see, developing a good habit is so important that I would like to introduce one kind of good learning habits — keeping {#blank#}6{#/blank#} learning diary every day. We can start the habit by {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (write) a learning summary and remember to record something impressive and meaningful. Keep it in mind, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} gradually we can gain this good learning habit and benefit from it.

What's {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (much), I find out that I still have some bad learning habits {#blank#}10{#/blank#} well. I can only concentrate on reading for a short time, and I will conquer this problem by spending more efforts on concentration practice.

    I believe that through my efforts, I can gain good learning results by having good habits.