Pam: So how are you enjoying{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (live) in the countryside?

Jane: Oh, it's very nice. The house is much bigger than the flat we had in London and one of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} best things is being able to walk out of the back door into {#blank#}3{#/blank#} own garden.

Pam: Mm, that must be lovely. So all in all, it's much better than London, isn't it?

Jane: Well, I'm not sure I would say that. It's certainly less polluted here {#blank#}4{#/blank#} I suppose it's less stressful and that must be good for me. But it's just so much quieter here and that takes some time to get {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (use) to.

Pam: But it's so much busier on the streets here in London. It must be nice to walk around somewhere that is much less crowded.

Jane: Well, sometimes it is. Anyway,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} least I'm coming up to London next weekend. I'm more excited about that than I am about anything {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(happen) round here.

Pam: Oh dear, you seem to be thinking that you haven't made the best {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (decide)

Jane: Well, perhaps I'll feel more settled here after a few months.

Pam: Yes,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (probable). I personally think you're lucky to be where you are. When I {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(come) to visit you, I thought it was one of the most beautiful places I'd ever seen.

    Anna lost her arms in a car accident when she was a teenager. What was worse, she lost her parents at {#blank#}1{#/blank#}age of 20. Her elder sister, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} was ten years older than her, wanted to take care of her. However, Anna refused {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (live) with her sister, saying that she would take care of {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(she). She managed to enter college and {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (study) very hard. Four years later, she graduated and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (give) a job. Once she wrote {#blank#}7{#/blank#} her diary, “I am quite lucky. Though I lost my arms, I still have my legs.” Anna chose to face her misfortune in a positive way. Instead of {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (feel) sad every day, she decided not to let it hold her back. She has taught us a good lesson. When something bad happens to us, we have two {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (choose). One is to complain, and the other is to face it {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (brave). If we choose to escape, it will always follow us wherever we go. If we decide to be strong, new hopes will come. So choose wisely.

    Fu Xuewei, a 25-year-old girl from Chengdu, China {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (recent) shared a beautiful set of wedding photos on the Internet. However, there's a debate on the photographs, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} no groom (新郎) seems to be found in the photos. In fact, the only people {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (feature) in the photos are Ms. Fu and her 87-year-old grandfather.

    Despite having no plans of getting married anytime soon, Fu decided {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (wear) the wedding dress for her grandfather. The man fell seriously ill last September, with doctors warning that he could pass away {#blank#}5{#/blank#} any time. Fearing he might never get to fulfill the dream of walking her down to the Mr. Right, Fu arranged the surprise photoshoot. She took {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (she) grandfather for a regular hospital check-up, only to reveal that they were going to take pictures later and he agreed.

    Ms Fu {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (raise) by her grandparents from the age of ten, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} makes them mean a lot to her. She insists that she takes care of them in return. The young woman even {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (have) a tattoo of her grandfather. "I had my grandfather's appearance tattooed on my arm because I want all my new {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (friend) to know what he looks like in the future," she said.

    A lot of films have tried to describe the afterlife and our memories of family members, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} few have done as well as Coco, Disney Pixar's {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (late) masterpiece animation, which hit the big screen on Nov. 24, 2017.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (inspire) by the Mexican holiday of Dia de los Muertos — Day of the Dead — the film's production team created a young boy, Miguel, who wants his family to understand his love of music. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} that year's Dia de los Muertos, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} accident takes him to the Land of the Dead. In this land, there are friendly skeletons who can cross a bridge made of flower petals to visit their living family — that is, as long as their family still puts their photos on the family shrine (神龛). Those spirits who {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (forget) by their family will disappear completely. So it's in this magical world {#blank#}7{#/blank#} Miguel gets to meet and discover the truth about his great-great-grandpa.

    In an era {#blank#}8{#/blank#} young people are so {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (easy) attracted by celebrities, Coco reveals the emptiness of such flattery, teaching kids to preserve and respect the memory of their elders while {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (remind) them that the source of true creativity is so often personal.