In many countries, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the shared space. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, in the United States, this idea may still be considered strange.

    But this type of housing, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (call) co-housing, is getting its {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (popular) in the United States, too. Co-housing complexes (综合设施) appear across the country. For many people, this way of life is a good {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (choose) in the busy modern society. A co-housing community has {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (private) owned houses and shared land. There is often a “common house" with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music room. About 25 co-housing communities {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (build) in recent years, and 150 more are planned.

    A co-housing complex is a place {#blank#}8{#/blank#} citizens shop, cook, and eat together. Citizens of a co-housing complex like its sense of shared community. Children have other kids to play {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, which many families like. Other citizens like the feeling of living in a “village”. Citizens also say that they can live in co-housing for {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (little) money than they would pay for nearby apartments.

Dear professor Gary,

    I'm {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (terrible) sorry for using the mobile phone in your lecture last week.  I admit {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (make) a mistake and I deserve any {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (punish) for being such a rude student. But I didn't use the mobile phone {#blank#}4{#/blank#} design. I was trying to find a part-time job and that day, a company e-mailed me a job offer and I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (require) to present my further information without any delay. As {#blank#}6{#/blank#} result, I had to try {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (send) them a text message in class. I promise it will never happen {#blank#}8{#/blank#} me again. But I do need my phone with {#blank#}9{#/blank#} I could communicate with others. I would be grateful {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you could give it to me this time.

    Thank you.

Tom

    Everyone needs to know how to prevent a fire. It is also important to know what to do when it {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（break）out .

    Every year, over 11, 000 people {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（kill）or injured in house fires. These fires could have been avoided. Smokers who are {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（care）cause about 200 deaths and over 6,000 fires. More than half of those {#blank#}4{#/blank#} die in fires are poisoned or harmed by smoke.

    If fire happens, do not attempt to fight the fire unless it is small. Try putting out a small fire with water. If {#blank#}5{#/blank#} fire has spread or if the flames are more than 20 inches high, shut the door on it. Warn everyone else in the building and tell them to get out. You should leave and dial 119for the fire department.

    Before {#blank#}6{#/blank#}（go）into a room, check the door. If the handle or the door is hot, do not open it! Instead, put clothing or a wet towel at the bottom of it to keep smoke out. If the door is not hot, open it {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（slow）. If there's a rush of smoke or heat, close it again and shout to warn {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（other）in side.

    Now open the window and shout “Fire!”. See whether you can drop safely to the ground. Use this {#blank#}9{#/blank#} your escape course if you can. If you are not on ground level, break your fall by pushing a mat out first. Lower yourself at arm's {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（long）before dropping. Once outside, stay outside and make sure the fire department is called.

    Before the day {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the graduation ceremony was held, I took the graduation gifts into {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(consider). Early in the morning, I went to the department store {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(select) a gift for my teachers and classmates. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (choose) carefully, I decided to buy some fancy cards for them. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} modern means of communication were so popular that I {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (feel) so sorry for the separation, I put {#blank#}7{#/blank#} my sorrow and gratitude in every card. In my view, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} is better than a card to express my current feeling. During the ceremony, we share our gifts and express our deep love. Separation is {#blank#}9{#/blank#} great sorrow to everyone. In the end, my classmates and I sang the song titled "Auld Lang Syne", which is{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(suitable) song to say goodbye.

    Jane was walking round the department store. She remembered how difficult {#blank#}1{#/blank#} was to choose a suitable Christmas gift for her father. She wished that he was as easy {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (please) as her mother, who was always delighted with perfume.

    Besides, shopping at this time of the year was not {#blank#}3{#/blank#} pleasant experience：people {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（step）on your feet or pushed you with their elbows (肘部), hurrying ahead to get to a bargain.

    Jane paused in front of a counter {#blank#}5{#/blank#} some attractive ties were on display. "They are real silk," the assistant tried to attract her. "Worth double the price." But Jane knew from past experience that her {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (choose) of ties hardly ever pleased her father. Jane stopped where a small crowd of men had gathered. She found some good quality pipes {#blank#}7{#/blank#} sale. She did not hesitate for long: although her father smoked a pipe only once in a while, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please {#blank#}8{#/blank#}.

    When Jane got home, with her small but well-chosen present in her bag, her parents were already {#blank#}9{#/blank#} table having supper. Her mother was excited. "Your father has at last decided to stop smoking," Jane {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (inform).

    Sudan is the only male northern white rhino (犀牛) left in the world. That {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (mean) Sudan, 42, is the last hope for avoiding extinction. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(protect) him, officials have placed him under 24-hour armed guard at the OI Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya. Sudan lives there {#blank#}3{#/blank#} two female northern white rhinos, Fatu and Najin.

    Northern white rhinos, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} can weigh up to 5,000 pounds, were once plentiful across northern and central Africa. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (hunter) have killed thousands of rhinos because of {#blank#}6{#/blank#} high demand for the animals，horns (角). Rhino horns, believed to have medical effects, are used in {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (tradition) Asian medicines. More than 1,000 rhinos {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (kill) in 2014 in South Africa alone and fifty-four rhinos in Kenya, which has a much {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (small) population.

    Sudan, Fatu, and Najin have had their horns {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (remove) so that they will not be hunted. People hope Sudan and one of the females will be able to have a baby. Sudan is very old, but scientists will not give up hope.