On December 19th, 2010, an airbus took off from the capital airport of Saudi Arabia. After about an hour's flight, something {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (believe) happened on the plane. The air hostess was about to serve lunch {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a small mouse stole out from the bag of a young man, which frightened the young woman nearby and she shouted loudly. Then more and more mice came out of {#blank#}3{#/blank#}bag. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(catch) by surprise, the other passengers all shouted in panic. The steward managed to get in touch with the control center on the ground. With the order from the ground, the plane {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(success) landed at the nearest airport. As soon as the plane was on the ground, all the passengers got off. Then seven specialists got on the plane {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(kill) the mice. Many means had been tried but {#blank#}7{#/blank#} of them were good enough.

    At last, they tried to fill in the plane {#blank#}8{#/blank#} carbon-dioxide, which poisoned all the mice. It {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (report) that the young man wanted to carry the mice to another city and sell them as {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(pet), but he didn't expect they succeeded in escaping from the bag.

    Mr. Robinson had to travel somewhere on business. As he was{#blank#}1{#/blank#}a hurry, he decided to go by air. He liked sitting beside a window when he was flying, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}when he got onto the plane, he looked for a window seat. He found all of them already {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(take) except one. There was a soldier sitting in the seat beside {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Wondering why this one had not been taken, Mr. Robinson at once went towards it.

    When he reached it, however, Mr. Robinson saw that there was a notice stuck on the seat. It said, “This seat{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(keep) for proper load balance, thank you.” Because he had never seen such a kind of{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(usual) notice in a plane before, Mr. Robinson was a little surprised. But he thought that the plane must be carrying something {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(particular) heavy in it, so he walked on and found{#blank#}8{#/blank#}empty seat, not beside a window, to sit in.

    Two or three people tried to sit in the window seat beside the soldier, but they too read the notice and went on. When the plane was nearly full, a very pretty girl hurried into the plane. The soldier,{#blank#}9{#/blank#}was watching the passengers coming in, quickly took the notice off the seat beside his and in this way succeeded in having the company of a{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(beautiful) during the whole trip.

    Observers say Americans want more choices and fresh food when {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (choose) where and what to eat.This trend is one reason why the fast food restaurant McDonald's has struggled financially.

    McDonald's is one of the best­known {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (restaurant) in the U．S.and even around the world, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} these days the company leaders are seeing numbers they probably do not like.In the last quarter of last year, McDonald's income dropped by about $300 million.The January earnings report brought more bad news.Worldwide sales dropped for the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (eight) month in a row and even more than expected.

    McDonald's is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (work) hard to get their customers back.In January, the company ran an advertisement during the Super Bowl.The football game is the most watched TV event every year in the U.S. McDonald's has wanted {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (reach) those viewers.

    Shake Shack is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} new kind of restaurant becoming popular in the U．S.The restaurants are not “fast food”．They are known as “fast casual”．When McDonald's is struggling to get their customers back, Shake Shack is doing well {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (financial)．The New York­based burger chain had a very {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (success) IPO, or Initial Public Offerings, of shares at the end of January.{#blank#}10{#/blank#} its first day of trading, Shake Shack went from $21 a share to just under $46 a share.

    Shake Shack's a quality hamburger.It's fast food, but not “fast food” food.Being part of the “fast casual” trend has helped Shake Shack.

    It was the ambition of an eleven years old boy in Kansas City to be an engine driver. Born without arms, he had been sent to special schools {#blank#}1{#/blank#} he learned to use his {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (foot) as “hands”. He spend all his spare time {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (watch) trains and one day his dream came {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (truth). Seeing a deserted engine, the boy climbed in, he had no {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (difficult) in starting it up with his feet. Soon he was traveling along {#blank#}6{#/blank#} forty miles an hour. Signalmen could not see the young driver, so they set out {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(stop) the train. Meanwhile the boy reached Missouri, stopped the engine himself, and then {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) it go backwards. When he was near home, a railwayman caught up with the engine and stopped it. At first, he was very angry, but he smiled when the boy said {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (simple), “I like trains.” “Well, I'm glad you don't like planes!” answered {#blank#}10{#/blank#} railwayman.

    I went backpacking through Italy many {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (summer) ago. There I had the opportunity to taste some of the best cherries in my life. I remember {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (ask) the fruit farmer, “ {#blank#}3{#/blank#}are these cherries from?” And she said they were from an orchard (果园) only twelve miles away. So I {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(jump) in my car and hit the road. At the orchard, and old man named Leopoldo, whose face was  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(beautiful) lined, told the beautiful story of a beautiful life well lived. He offered me all kinds  {#blank#}6{#/blank#}cherries from the orchard and they were {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (amaze). And that's when I realized something: the world is inspiring. The fruit is inspiring, if you let {#blank#}8{#/blank#} be. As the sun began to set, I said goodbye to Leopoldo {#blank#}9{#/blank#}his lovely family. My mind {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(fill) with berries then, and I was thinking about being a fruit farmer on my way home.

    The Forbidden City in Beijing, home to the Palace Museum, houses more than 1.8 million cultural relics and is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (mark) the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City, the Palace Museum will hold a series of events throughout 2020. Over 20 exhibitions will be held, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (cover) different areas such as history, art, festivals, and so on. For the special occasion, Along the River during the Qingming Festival, one of China's most {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (wide) known masterpieces, will go on display in September 2020. For {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (it) best preservation, this treasured artwork is seldom fully exhibited. The painting {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (display) for the first time back in 2005 to celebrate the museum's 80th anniversary. Such {#blank#}6{#/blank#} rare sight is expected to draw huge crowds. In addition, the museum will also display exhibits from other {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (country).

    During the past few years, the Palace Museum has been working hard to get the public familiar {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the history and culture of the Forbidden City. And it seems that these efforts have been paying off, with its {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (popular) reaching a new height. Over 17 million people visited the museum in 2018, of {#blank#}10{#/blank#} 40 percent were under 30 years old.