When learning to drive, we're told to obey the traffic rules and not to drive our vehicles too fast. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} surprises us is that some young people just enjoy the feeling of driving cars or motorcycles at a very high speed. Jack, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} 18-year-old boy, is no exception.

    Recently, Jack's father has bought {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a car, which is quite admired by his friends. When he is out in the country, where there are a few people {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (drive) and the traffic rules are not strict, this {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (adventure) boy will drive at a top speed. In towns, however, there is a speed limit, that is, fifty kilometers an hour, but Jack often drives much {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (fast).

    One day Jack was driving through towns {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a young policeman, who was new to his work, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (stop) him and said, “I'm afraid you were driving at a more than fifty kilometers an hour, Sir. Please give me your name and address. ” {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (look) at the policeman carefully, Jack said to him, “Well, Sir, I started my journey less than an hour ago.” On hearing this, he didn't know the answer{#blank#}10{#/blank#} Jack's excuse. He thought for a few seconds and then let Jack go.

    In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear {#blank#}1{#/blank#} spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (confident) and without hesitation. Thirdly, we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (grammatical) correct.

    There is no easy way to success {#blank#}4{#/blank#} language learning. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} good memory is a great help, but it is not enough only {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of advice for those {#blank#}9{#/blank#} are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(write) the language whenever we can.

    Saint Patrick's Day is a major holiday in Ireland, but the rest of the world has influenced its celebration as much as the Irish{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (they). Most Americans think of Saint Patrick's Day as a big party{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(center) around drinking alcohol. But its {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (origin) in Ireland were religious, says Mike Cronin, a professor of Irish history with Boston College of Massachusetts.

    Saint Patrick lived in Ireland more than 2,000 years ago. He is{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (wide) considered to have established Christianity in the country. The Church decided to honor him with a holy day. March 17, the date of his death{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (choose) in the 17lh century.

    St. Patrick is believed{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(serve) in Ireland as a Catholic Bishop (主教). The average Irish person honored March 17 quietly{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(attend) church services was the main activity. In fact, most businesses that served alcohol would close in honor {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the day. In the early 1900s, Ireland's government made St. Patrick's Day{#blank#}9{#/blank#} official holiday. By the 1960s, towns across Ireland started celebrating the holiday with parades and music.

    In Ireland today, St. Patrick's Day is a four-day public celebration {#blank#}10{#/blank#} includes parades, music, food, and games.

    Directions：After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

    Smart phones were once the best thing to happen to the tech industry. In the 11 years since the iPhone made its debut, smart phones {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（include）just about every other gadget. And it is surprising that it {#blank#}2{#/blank#} alter every business.

    But {#blank#}3{#/blank#} smart phones have achieved dominance, revolution is again in the air.

    At Google's and Apple's recent developer conference, executives took the stage to show how much more irresistible they were making our phones. Then each company unveiled the software {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（help）you use your phone a lot less.

    There's reason for this seemingly contradictory engineering effort, and it's{#blank#}5{#/blank#} I call “Peak Screen”.

    For much of the last decade, a technology industry {#blank#}6{#/blank#}（rule）by smart phones has pursued a singular goal of completely {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（conquer）our eyes. Tech has now captured pretty much all visual capacity. Americans spend three to four hours a day looking at their phones, and that's the minimum estimation.

    So tech giants are to build the beginning of something new: a {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（visual）tech world, a digital landscape{#blank#}9{#/blank#} relies on voice assistants, headphones, watches and other wearables to take some pressure off our eyes.

    We may simply end up adding new devices to our screen-addled lives, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} it could change everything again. As I argued, in many ways screens have become to dominant in our lives. The sooner we find something else, the better.

    When Sandra was a child, her family was very poor, but she wanted {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (bad) to believe that her poverty was just a temporary situation, so she looked toward stories {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (escape). Her favorite book {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (check) out of the library over and over again was called The little house. Throughout Sandra's life, she had to move between cities, never {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (allow) her much time to get settled in one place. Her {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (separate) from family drove her to burying herself in books. Though reading a lot, according to Sandra, she didn't really start writing {#blank#}6{#/blank#} she attended her first creative writing class in college. She then realized that she needed to write what she knew, and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} purpose she adopted a writing style opposite to that of her classmates. Admission to Loyola University {#blank#}8{#/blank#} she earned a BA in English was a turning point for her. Sandra's writing {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (shape) by her experiences since then. She doesn't just make up {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (character), but writes about real people that she has encountered.