From an early age, Parker always said that he would be an astronaut. But no matter {#blank#}1{#/blank#}much he studied, worked, and took tests, he never passed. Finally, he {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (grow) over the maximum(最高的) age for taking the test. He would never be able to realize his dream.

    People {#blank#}3{#/blank#} ( feel )sorry for his dream. Although he{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (tell) about having to give up his dream, Parker continued training and studying, as though he was going to sit the tests next month.

    He carried this on as he got {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (old), and when he was a very old man he heard that they were doing some very important medical experiments. For those experiments they needed {#blank#}6{#/blank#} very old astronaut. Parker, who now walked with a stick, was the only old man in the whole world who was trained to fly in a rocket.

    So Parker found {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(he) flying in space at last. The experiments were very {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (succeed). The knowledge from the experiments helped doctors to cure one of the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(bad)sicknesses for old people, and Parker was celebrated as a hero. Photos of the astronaut with a walking stick and no{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (tooth) spread all over the world. It showed  that persistent effort always brings reward, even though that reward may not be in the form we had first expected.

    My name is Dave. I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a student in No. 5 Middle School. I like doing sports. I like {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (play) tennis and basketball.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (look) at my room. I have a tennis racket. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} is on the table. I have two baseballs. They are under the bed. Playing sports is very interesting, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}I like it very much. I like eating, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} fruit, I like strawberries best. But I {#blank#}7{#/blank#} like vegetables. I like French fries very much, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} I am very fat. My parents ask {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (I) to eat more vegetables. They say it's important to eat {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (good).

    Lao She is one of the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(great) Chinese writers of the 20th century. He is {#blank#}2{#/blank#}excellent writer. He is also a great modern novelist and dramatist(剧作家). He is named "the People's Artist".

    Lao She was born in a poor family in Beijing. He worked his way through college. After {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(finish) school, he started {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(work)as a teacher in primary and middle schools. He liked writing since he was a child. He didn't write his first novel until 1933. He is famous {#blank#}5{#/blank#}his novel Camel Xiangzi and one of his most famous plays {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(be) Teahouse. Teahouse {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(show) the lives of the Chinese people between 1898 and 1945. It makes people {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(think) about society. Most people like to see it.

    Like many other famous intellectuals (知识分子) in China, he experienced lots of bad things in the middle 1960s. He killed {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(he) in a lake in 1966. {#blank#}10{#/blank#}unlucky he was !