— No, she {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. (can't\isn't)

    Mr. Smith {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in a police station for 42 years and he will retire this autumn. He tried to work hard in his life but he wasn't lucky enough {#blank#}2{#/blank#}even a thief.

    Last weekend, Mr. Smith {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to buy some sugar in a shop. When he got into the shop, he suddenly saw a young man get some money from a woman's bag and walk away. He ran to the thief and at the end of a blind alley(死胡同), the young thief {#blank#}4{#/blank#}by Mr. Smith.

    “Please give me a chance, sir,” said the thief. “I'll never do that again!”

    “But who can give me a chance?” said Mr. Smith. “I{#blank#}5{#/blank#} next month and this is the first time I've caught a thief!”

    Chess is called the game of kings. People have been playing it for hundreds of years. The chess we play today is believed to first {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in Asia.

    Some people think that chess is more than a game. They think that it can make the mind stronger. Good chess {#blank#}2{#/blank#} use their brains. They take their time and think about what will happen next. These skills are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in life too.

    You don't always have lots of time to think when playing chess. There is a kind of chess with short time limits(限制). It's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} blitz chess. In blitz chess, each player gets ten minutes to play a whole game. Your clock runs during your turn(机会). You hit the time clock after your move. This {#blank#}5{#/blank#} your clock and starts the other player's clock. If you run out of {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, you lose. Games of blitz chess are fast - paced( 快节奏的)

    Chess is not {#blank#}7{#/blank#} for people. Computers have been playing chess since the 1940s. At first they did not play well. They made {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. As time went on they grew {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. In 1997, a computer beat the best player in the world for the first time. It was a computer called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, which took up a whole room. By 2006 a mobile phone could beat the best players in the world. Chess sure has come a long way.