We often hear people say “You've a greater chance {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hit) by lightning.” It is used to describe something {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(likely) to happen. However, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} truth is that lightning strikes are the second most common cause of deaths among natural disasters in the US. The first is floods. Around 400 Americans are struck by lightning each year, of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} about 70 people die. In fact, there are more deaths {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (cause) by lightning than by tornadoes and hurricanes. And in India, at least 2,000 people {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (kill) in lightning strikes since2005.

    Because lightning kills only one or two people at a time, its danger does not receive as much attention {#blank#}7{#/blank#} other disasters. The US has made June 22-28 National Lightning Safety Week, aiming to deepen the public's {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (understand) of the dangers of lightning and provide safety tips during thunderstorms.

    “If you hear thunder, you are in danger of lightning,” said Rocky Lopes, a disaster educator at the American Red Cross. “The most important thing is to seek a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (hide) place. If you are near wide, open places, move indoors as {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (quick) as possible and stay there until after the storm has ended.”

    Have you ever wondered whether where is life on Mars? The bog Red Planet is a mystery to us but {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(hope) not for much longer.

    On November 11, the Mars rover(漫步者){#blank#}2{#/blank#} (name) Curiosity started its journey into space. After eight months flying in a rocket, Curiosity covered more than 566 million kilometers and finally landed on Mars — according to BBC reports.

    The rover is there to find out {#blank#}3{#/blank#} there is, or ever was, life on the cold, desert-like planet.

    The place {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Curiosity landed is called Gale Crater, a huge hole on Mars. Scientists believe that there {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(be) once water and even life there.

    In order to do its job, Curiosity is packed with many {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(use) tools, though it is only three meters long, about the size of a small car.

    It has a robot arm that can collect soil and drill into rock. It also carries {#blank#}7{#/blank#} own laser gun. The gun can turn a small amount of rock into gas, so that Curiosity can study what the rock {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) up of.

    {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the help of these tools, Curiosity will act as a robot geologist. For the next two years, it will stay and travel inside Gale Crater,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (collect) and studying rock and soil.

    A farmer once organized a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He dug a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see {#blank#}1{#/blank#} animal would find them first.

    The {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(cheer) and optimistic rabbit threw himself into looking for the carrot, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(dig) here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog, after sniffing around for a bit, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(lie) down and began to complain about how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.

    The rabbit dug {#blank#}5{#/blank#}hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this was, even for the rabbit. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}the rabbit thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed digging. When there was no place in the whole field {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(leave) to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel right to {#blank#}8{#/blank#}the dog had been lying all the time. There he found the carrot and the bone.

    This is how the dog lost the game. He had come to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}right place at the very beginning but failed to find the bone {#blank#}10{#/blank#}he only complained and didn't try at all.

    Daisy had always longed to help endangered species of wildlife. One day she made a dream that she {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(take) to a distant land in Tibet by a flying carpet .There, the antelope told her they were killed for the wool beneath their {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(stomach). Then the carpet flew her to Zimbabwe {#blank#}3{#/blank#} she met an elephant. The elephant said they used to be {#blank#}4{#/blank#} endangered species because local farmers hunted them without mercy. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(fortunate), their number was now increasing {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the help of the government. So when learning that more attention was paid to{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(protect) wildlife, Daisy felt happy. Her final stop was a thick rainforest. A monkey was seen rubbing a millipede insect over {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(it) body.  Daisy was{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(amaze) and asked the monkey what the millipede contained. Knowing it contained a powerful drug, Daisy could hardly wait {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(share) the good news with WWF.

    Has Jackie Chan retired? Surprise! He released a new film. A repeat of his action film in {#blank#}1{#/blank#} 1970s, Police Story 2013 is about a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (devote) policeman named Zhong Wen (Jackie), {#blank#}3{#/blank#} works so hard that he doesn't have time for his family.

    As Zhong Wen is occupied {#blank#}4{#/blank#} his job, his daughter Miaomiao (played by Jing Tian) becomes rebellious (叛逆的) and gets into a relationship with the bar owner Wu Jiang (played by Liu Ye). Miaomiao asks Zhong to meet her at her boyfriend's bar, not {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (know) that she's being used by Wu Jiang to get to her father. Wu Jiang then keeps the bar's customers as hostages (人质) and asks for the freedom of Fu, a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (crime) captured by Zhong years ago.

    Jackie Chan said that {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (physical), he had a hard time with the film because he did the fight scenes with real mixed martial arts fighters. "The fights were with genuine MMA (mixed martial arts) boxers, not stunt (替身) men," Jackie Chan revealed (透露). "So, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} didn't know how to control their strength when we {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (film) the fight sequences (片段). Those were rock-hard and solid kicks.”

    Police Story 2013, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (bring) by Megavision Inc, will be on at the cinema on January 22.

After traveling through space for seven months, China's Tianwen-1 probe has reached Mars and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(success) entered its orbit on Wednesday — bringing it one step {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (close) to landing on the surface.

Tianwen-1, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}name means "Quest for Heavenly Truth", consists of an orbiter, lander and a six-wheeled rover. The spacecraft {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (launch) last July along with two other international Mars missions, is scheduled to land on the planet's surface in May or June. It is tasked with gathering information about Mars' geological structure, atmosphere, environment and soil, as well as {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (search) for signs of water.

With Tianwen-1, China is the first nation {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (attempt) to send both an orbiter and a rover on its first homegrown Mars mission. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} contrast, NASA sent multiple orbiters to Mars before ever attempting a landing, since pulling off the landing is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}far more difficult task.

The Chinese rover {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(expect) to function for about three months on the planet. It marks a milestone for China's deep-space {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (explore) of Mars, according to the CNSA. China is also planning to launch a permanent space station by 2022, and is looking at sending astronauts to the moon-possibly in the 2030s.