July 20, 1969 was an important day. Two {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (美国) astronauts planted the first human footstep on the moon. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (他们的) names were Armstrong and Aldrin. They went into a spaceship whose name was Apollo. As Armstrong reached his left foot {#blank#}3{#/blank#} （touch） the moon's surface, he said, "That's one small step for a man, but one big leap for mankind."

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} two hours and twenty-one minutes, the man carefully at first and then {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (勇敢), walked on the moon, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} （take）photos and picking stones.

    After eight {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (day) stay in space, Apollo returned to the earth successfully. People everywhere were {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (excite) by this moon trip. "This is the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (伟大) week in the history of the world since the Creation(创世)," President Nixon told the travelers. "{#blank#}10{#/blank#}（多亏，由于）what you have done, the world has never been closer together before."

    In Hangzhou, borrowing books from the library is now as simple as shopping online: click, pay {#blank#}1{#/blank#}wait for delivery.

    The city's public library recently launched a program on WeChat,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}popular Chinese messaging software, enabling its readers to check out books online and get them{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(deliver) to their homes at low prices.

    To enjoy the “Hangzhou enjoyable reading” service, one first needs to follow the library's official WeChat account,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}provides a list of books. After picking books, borrowers are required{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(present) the information such as their library membership cards, cell phone numbers and so on. The selected items will be delivered by express within three days after payments. Each reader can borrow up to 5 books once and 20 books at most{#blank#}6{#/blank#}total. The books can be borrowed for up to 40 days. Readers now can borrow the library's most popular books in this way. The online books will be renewed and enriched {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(gradual) according to readers' borrowing habits and{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(prefer). At the end of December, the library's old and classic books{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(put) online too, making the total number of books available and{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(bring) borrowers a lot of convenience.

How can my son be a year old already?

    My son turned one last week. The day marked the end of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} has been both the longest and shortest year of my life. I haven't slept for a year and I don't really know how time works any more. From the instant he was born, it's felt {#blank#}2{#/blank#} my son has always been part of this family.

    How is he one already? First he was born, and was a sleepy ball of flesh then, and now in his place is a little boy who {#blank#}3{#/blank#} walk and has teeth and knows how to switch off the television at precisely the most important moment of anything I ever try to watch. It's not exactly {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (extraordinary) development in all of human history — child gradually gets older — but it's the first time I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (see) it close up. It's honestly quite hard to grasp. Even photos of him {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (take) last week seem like a different boy. He's leaving milestone after milestone in his tiny parts of me along with them.

    He'll never again be the tiny baby who lay in my arm, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (suck) on my little finger in the middle of the night while his mum slept, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} will he be the baby amazed by the taste of solid food. Soon enough he'll stop being the baby who rests his head on my shoulder whenever he gets tired, or laughs uncontrollably whenever I say the word 'teeth' for reasons, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} I don't think I'll ever work out.

    But I've had a year of this and it's ok. He's never going to stop changing, and I don't want him to. This sadness, this constant sense of loss, of time slipping just {#blank#}10{#/blank#} your grasp, is an important part of this process. He won't realise this, of course. He's got years of unbroken progress ahead of him, where everything will always be new. Years of his life will pass in a moment and he won't be able to understand where they've gone.

    But it's ok. You can't freeze time. You just have to make the most of what you have.

    If you visit a supermarket in the UK in March or April, you will notice a strange thing: Shelf after shelf is filled with large, brightly-colored eggs.

    Look a little {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (close) and you will discover something else. These eggs aren't real. In fact, they {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (make) of chocolate. And that can mean only one thing—it's Easter time again.

    Easter is a festival {#blank#}3{#/blank#} has been celebrated in Britain for thousands of years. These days we mark the occasion (场合) by {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (give) each other chocolate eggs, or Easter eggs. But what are the roots of this {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (tradition) event?

    For Christian people Easter is a religious festival. According {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the Bible, Jesus Christ was killed by the Romans {#blank#}7{#/blank#} came back to life three days later. That is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} Easter is seen as a time of rebirth.

    However, some people suggest that Easter has its origins in pre-Christian times. They say that the very earliest societies celebrated the end of winter and the beginning of spring—the time {#blank#}9{#/blank#} life returns to the land.

    Whatever its origins, Easter is big business. The UK's biggest retailer (零售商) of Easter eggs sold more than 20 million units last year and some Easter eggs {#blank#}10{#/blank#} cost more than £20!