On many campuses, it has become a trend for a host of students to participate in various {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(activity). Involved in some positive ones, students find them quite {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(benefit) and rewarding.

     A case in point is the English club {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the activity of learning benefits me most. In contemporary world, English learning has gained great popularity and it is {#blank#}4{#/blank#}great importance for students to learn English well. However, I {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(meet) a variety of difficulties in study so far. For instance, I have trouble {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(memorize) words. Sometimes, it is also difficult for me to understand the rules of grammar. Although I can read and write, I cannot express myself freely in English.

     Then, how to get a good command of his language for me? I{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(convince) that practice makes perfect and that joining the English club is worthwhile. In the English club, daily practice enables me {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(speak) and write fluently. It is also through constant practice {#blank#}9{#/blank#} I can master the rules of grammar and remember words. I will bear in mind that {#blank#}10{#/blank#} I try my best to practice every day, the future of my English learning will be promising.

    Broadway theater, commonly {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (know) as Broadway, refers to the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Along {#blank#}2{#/blank#} London's West End theatres, Broadway theaters are {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(wide) considered to represent the highest level of commercial theater in {#blank#}4{#/blank#} English-speaking world.

    The Theater District is a popular tourist {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(attract) in New York City. According to The Broadway League, for the 2015-2016 season,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} ended May 22, 2016, total attendance was 13,317,980 and Broadway performances had $ 1,373,253,725 in grosses (总收入), with attendance up 1.6%, grosses tip 0.6%, and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (play) time up 1.4%.

    The great majority of Broadway {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (show) are musicals. Historian Martin Shelter argues, “Broadway musicals, with the productions of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (become) big influential forms of American popular culture, and helped make New York City the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(culture) capital of the nation.”

    Thanksgiving was drawing near and I was feeling sad about being separated from my family in Indiana.

    Would I have to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving dinner by {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(my)?

That night at Dubya's Restaurant, which was my favorite place to dine, I chatted with Dubya, the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (own) of the restaurant. “It's too bad that this place won't be open {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Thanksgiving, or I could just come here.” I said.

    “Why not join my family for the holiday?” he said in a warm voice. I knew Dubya and his wife well, but I didn't think we were close enough {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (share) Thanksgiving dinner. I was sure he was joking. But Dubya soon handed me a note on which directions to their house and their phone number {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (write).

    And two days later, I reached Dubya's house. As{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (expect), the food was great but the company（陪伴）was even {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (good). I truly felt I belonged there.

    Of course, I wrote them {#blank#}8{#/blank#} thank-you letter the next week, but I couldn't really put into words {#blank#}9{#/blank#}that Thanksgiving dinner invitation had meant to me. I've never forgotten their {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (kind) and that very special Thanksgiving.

    Dragon Heads-raising Day, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} falls each year on the second day of the second lunar month, is one of the Chinese traditional {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (festival) as the proverb goes: “The dragon is awake, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (raise) his head.” On this day, dragons, a prominent totem (图腾) in Chinese culture, raise {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (they) heads with the sound of thunder. Around this time, the earth is bursting with life—grass and trees are beginning to shoot up. In ancient China, people {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (pray) the dragon god beside a river or a lake for the precious spring rain to breed their crops.

{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (tradition), food eaten on this day was renamed after parts of the dragon. For instance, wontons (馄饨) were called “dragons' eyes”. The special foods usually eaten on this day include dragons' scales, popcorn and pigs' heads.

    In Shanxi, people get their hair {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (cut) in a symbolic move to remove the old and embrace the new. In {#blank#}8{#/blank#} countryside in Hebei Province, people would fetch water from a well {#blank#}9{#/blank#} dawn. It was believed {#blank#}10{#/blank#} on this day the well was full of dragon eggs which would bring the collectors good harvest.

    If you've ever heard of someone being in the right place at the right time, you've likely never heard it fit a story as well as this one. In 2014, a 17-year-old volunteer firefighter {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(call) Joseph Chambers heard {#blank#}2{#/blank#} loud crash outside of his sister's home. Joseph found two cars {#blank#}3{#/blank#}what appeared to be a fatal collision, one of {#blank#}4{#/blank#}was a police patrol car. He{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(immediate) ran up to the car of Officer Mark Kimsey{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(see)if he was okay. Officer Kimsey {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(trap), but Joseph sprung into {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(act), pulling Kimsey out through the window with another bystander as his patrol car burst into{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(flame). Maybe it was Joseph's firefighter training that allowed him to think, and act, so quickly, but it's certain that he saved a man's life that day without once{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(think)about his own well-being.