It is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (say) that in the year of 300 AD, there was a kind old man and his name was Saint Nicholas. He was always ready to help the poor and often gave {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (present) to them.

    Today, Father Christmas is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} imaginary figure, but {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (near) all young children believe in him. They think he is an {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (attract) old man with a long white beard {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a long red robe.

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the night of the twenty-fourth of December every year, Father Christmas from some cold northern land comes down the chimney of the fireplace  {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (put) presents by the beds of children or to fill their stockings. So children go to bed that night, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  (hang) up their stockings, and on Christmas morning they wake to find them full of presents. Of course, it's really  {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (they) parents who fill the stockings.

    There once lived a boy named Woo Sing, whose father {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (bring) home a mirror. Woo Sing had never seen one before. So when he saw it for the first time, he didn't understand {#blank#}2{#/blank#} it was, but though he saw another boy, which made him very happy, for he thought the boy {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (come) to play with him. He spoke to the stranger in a very {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (friend) way, but received no reply. He laughed and waved at the boy, who did exactly the same thing. Then he thought, “I'll go closer. It may be that he doesn't hear me.” But when he began to walk, the other boy imitated (模仿) him. Woo Sing stopped  {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (think) about these strange actions, saying to himself, “This boy is fooling me. He does everything that I do.” And the more he thought about it, the{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(angry) he became and soon he noticed the boy became angry too. So Woo Sing {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (strike) the boy in the glass, but he only hurt his own hand and went {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (cry) to his father, who said, “The boy you saw was{#blank#}9{#/blank#}image. This should teach you an important lesson, my son. You should never show your anger to others. Now remember that in real life when you strike{#blank#}10{#/blank#} any cause you'll hurt yourself most of all.”

    The sun was dying out, and people all around the world built giant planet thrusters (火箭助推器) to move Earth out of its orbit and to sail Earth to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} new star system. Yet the 2500 years' journey came with {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (expect) dangers, and in order to save mankind, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth came out {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (brave) and fought hard for everyone's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (survive). The Wandering Earth is a 2019 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo. It is based {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the novella of the same name by the Locus Award and Hugo Award {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (win) author Liu Cixin, and was released on February 5, 2019.

    In the past nine days, Chinese sci-fi film The Wandering Earth {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (make) $420 million at the Chinese box office alone and will soon become the second film {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (reach) three billion yuan within ten days of being released. This also makes it 2019's {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (large) grossing(总收入)film to date with some box office prophet (预言者) wondering {#blank#}10{#/blank#} it will even outperform Captain Marvel.

    One night, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} winter, a bear came into the city in Vancouver Canada. It walked through the city streets past houses, shops and offices. Then it {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (find) some food in bins outside a restaurant and started eating. In the morning, someone saw the bear and called the police. The police came with a vet (兽医) from the city zoo. They put the bear in a lorry and took it to the mountains outside the city. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (lucky), the bear was safe. But {#blank#}4{#/blank#} happens in other countries when big animals come into cities? In Vancouver it is unusual {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (see) a bear, but in some cities you can see big animals on the city streets every day.

    Big animals usually come into cities to find food. In Cape Town in South Africa baboons (狒狒) come into the city when they are {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (hunger). Human food is very bad for the baboons {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (tooth) because it has a lot of sugar. Now, there are Baboon Monitors working in Cape Town. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (they) job is to find baboons in the city and return them to the countryside.

    In Berlin in Germany, pigs sometimes come into the city for food. They eat flowers and plants in parks and gardens. Sometimes they eat vegetables from gardens {#blank#}9{#/blank#} they walk in the street, causing accidents. Some people like the pigs and they give them food and water to drink. Other people do not like the pigs and they want the government and the police to stop them {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (enter) the city.