Visiting the city when you are six months pregnant and have a two-year-old girl can be really {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (challenge). One spring afternoon, we went to one of the grocery stores nearby to buy some food for dinner. There was no sign of rain, and the store was just around the comer, so we went there{#blank#}2{#/blank#} an umbrella. However, we were about to leave the store {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the rain came in full force. It seemed that the streets would be flooded {#blank#}4{#/blank#} water within minutes.

    I noticed a young Chinese couple staring at {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (we) when we came to a crossroads and were waiting for the light to change. I figured they were probably wondering {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a pregnant foreigner was dragging her little kid out through the rain. But as we crossed the street,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} woman offered me her umbrella. I told her I couldn't take it when it was clearly starting to storm. She insisted,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (hand) it to me and hurried off with her husband.

Though caught in the rain {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (expect), we still treasured the memory and will always recall the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (friend) and kindness of the Chinese couple.

    I want to introduce my class to you. My class {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be) very small and there {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (be) only 20 students in it. Some {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) boys and the others {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (be) girls. All of us {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (be) getting along well with each other. None of us {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (have) quarrelled with each other. Every boy and every girl {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (help) the others in every subject, so nobody {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (fail) in any exam. Our headmaster often {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (praise) us for our helping each other. Every weekend, there {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (be) a meeting and our headmaster, with five of us, {#blank#}11{#/blank#} (attend) it, discussing how to make our class better.

    Such {#blank#}12{#/blank#} (be) our class, a happy and friendly family.

    How would you feel if you woke up and found your entire computers—including your photos, your recent documents—no longer {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (access)? What if you found out that they had been wiped from your computer, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (leave) you with nothing but heartache?

    Guess what? It happens to people every single day. Every day, people across the country head into their local Apple store in {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (tear), broken computer in hand, praying as they wait in line that an expensive repair might, just might, recover the priceless, irreplaceable files. A few get lucky. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} for the rest, there's nothing anyone can do {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (help).

    Hasn't it happened to you? If your computer remains unprotected, it will, and it's only {#blank#}6{#/blank#} matter of time. But thanks {#blank#}7{#/blank#} recent breakthroughs in computer backup (备份) technology, you now have a number of options to prepare, and if you're smart, when your computer {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (crash), you shouldn't have any trouble {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (get) 100% of your files back that same day. I'm not talking about an external hard drive. I'm talking about an online backup solution that runs {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (quiet) in the background on your computer. If you have one installed (安装), when your computer crashes, you'll be just one click away from bringing your files back to life.

    Our cat was ready to give birth to her kittens. My son was curious and excited to see the birth of these new babies. The event took place yesterday. The cat {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(give) birth to one kitten by the time he arrived home from school. He was so amazed at {#blank#}2{#/blank#} he saw. When the second was on its way, the mother cat began to yell very loudly. I saw tears in my son's eyes because he learned about the pain of giving birth.