One day, Nick invited his friends to supper.He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (find) that he had run out of salt.So Nick called to his son,“Go to the village and buy some salt,but pay a fair price for it: neither too much {#blank#}2{#/blank#} too little.”

    His son looked surprised. “I can understand why I shouldn't pay too much.Father,but if I can pay less, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} not save a bit of money?”

    “That would be a very{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (reason) thing to do in a big city,but it could destroy a small village like ours,”Nick said.

    Nick's guests, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied,"The only reason a man would sell salt{#blank#}6{#/blank#} a lower price would be that he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect{#blank#}7{#/blank#} me sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it."

    "But such a small thing couldn't{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (possible) destroy a village."

    “In the beginning, there was only{#blank#}9{#/blank#} very small amount of unfairness in the world,but everyone added a little, always{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (think) that it was only small and not very important,and look where we have ended up today.”

Recently I failed an exam. However, after I came out of my teacher's office, I told myself, "Smile! It's not so serious."

    I smiled a big smile and it worked a little, really.

Everyone gets frustrated sometimes. I used to be always influenced by {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (press) and I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (be) often in low spirits. But one day I came {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a sentence in the Bible. "Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself, let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day." It suddenly struck me, "{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (worry) about a problem doesn't help. Why not just give a big smile and face up the trouble?"

    Now every time I want to cry, I remind myself that laughter is better than {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (tear) and anger. I{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (convince) that there's something magical about a smile. A smile helps me recover confidence and gives me the courage to move on.

    Remember, whenever {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (face) with a setback, whenever you've been treated {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (unfair),{#blank#}9{#/blank#} it takes is determination and you can feel happy again. Smile at life,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} it will shine on you.

    When I was in high school our physics teacher gave us a challenge {#blank#}1{#/blank#} involved making a paper airplane of any shape. The only objective was to get it to fly as far as possible. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (stand) at the starting line, one of my classmates took a piece of flat paper, crumpled (把…捏成一团) it up, and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (throw) it down the way. He beat the class with ease. Some of the students got mad and said that he cheated, but the physics teacher {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (clear) explained it could be any shape and that a paper ball was indeed a shape.

At the first light of day, Feng Tianqiong gets up to clean her Farmyard She runs an agritainment (农家乐) business and prepares local specialty chaihuoji, or roast chicken{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(cook) on firewood.

The 60-year-old farmer{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(welcome) her first guests at 10 am, and one hour later, visitors pack out of her farmyard sealing area in the Three Gorges reservoir region along the Yangtze River, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(drive) from nearby cities for leisure travel during weekends or holidays.

Living in the Dazhou township in Southwest China's Chongqing, she{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(previous) managed to earn a living by farming. In March 2019, Feng opened her agritainment business after the local government built a landmark riverside 10-mile corridor and several tourist{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(attraction). These had spread on social media and become hot spots for photo shoots with their beautiful river views,

Last year alone r over 200,000 tourists crowded into Feng's town, leading to the emergence of 30 agritainment businesses{#blank#}6{#/blank#}three bed-and-breakfast venues in villages.

"It is all thanks to the government's efforts{#blank#}7{#/blank#}( promote) infrastructure (基础建设) and develop rural tourism," Feng says.

Feng's is among so many towns,{#blank#}8{#/blank#}have ridden the wave of rural tourism. The industry generated total revenue (税收) of 850 billion yuan nationwide last year.

{#blank#}9{#/blank#}more urban residents driving to the countryside for leisure on weekends and holidays, local villages have been transforming empty and old houses into agritainment businesses, aiming to catch up with the sector's rapid {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(expand).