One day, Daisy went to see the animals in a flying carpet. It{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(fly) away to Tibet in China first{#blank#}2{#/blank#}she saw an antelope. The antelope told her that they were killed for the wool taken from their {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（stomach）.Then the carpet got to Zimbabwe, where Daisy saw an elephant. The elephant said they were {#blank#}4{#/blank#} danger. Now the government allowed tourists to hunt only {#blank#}5{#/blank#} certain number of animals if they gave money to the farmers.

    The flying carpet rose again and soon they arrived at a thick rainforest. There was a monkey {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(rub) a millipede insect over{#blank#}7{#/blank#}body because the insect could protect it from mosquitoes. The monkey told Daisy, “ Attention should {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（pay）to the rainforest where animals live. Our natural habitats are of great {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(important).” Daisy was affected by what the monkey said. She decided {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(make) a difference to wildlife protection.

    It was my first day in Hangzhou, the Chinese city famous for its {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (nature) beauty and history and I didn't have much time to spare. I wanted to see {#blank#}2{#/blank#} much of the city as possible in the two days before I was to return to Guangzhou.

    My first task was to decide where to go and how to get there. I took out my guide book {#blank#}3{#/blank#} there was a lot of information about the city's well-known tourist {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (attraction) and started to read. At that moment, an attractive young lady who noticed my book came up {#blank#}5{#/blank#} me and introduced herself. She said her name was Bai Li and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (kind) offered to show me around the city. I was delighted and was about to accept her suggestion when she {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (suggest) we first go to the West Lake and walk along the Broken Bridge.

    I liked the idea of visiting the West Lake, but wasn't so sure about crossing the Broken Bridge. If it was broken, did she expect me {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(jump) across? And I couldn't swim, so if I fell in then I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (die). That was definitely not an attractive idea, so I politely declined her {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (invite), closed my book and walked away.

    Qixi is an important festival that celebrates love and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(devote), which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the Chinese calendar. The love story of Niulang and Zhinu, and the Qixi Festival have been handed down for generations. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} actually these ancient traditions and customs {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(die) out nowadays.

    Many a Chinese, particularly youngsters, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(seem) to know more about St Valentine's Day on February 14th, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}people celebrate it with bouquets of roses, chocolates and romantic candlelight dinners.{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(refer) to as the “Chinese Valentine's Day,” Qixi, as a traditional Chinese festival, is more similar {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a western festival since fewer people than ever will gaze at the heavens to pick out the two stars shining bright on either side of the Milky Way. There are reminders dotted about, in {#blank#}8{#/blank#}form of big ads saying “Sales on Chinese Valentine's Day!” in shops, hotels and restaurants. However, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(differ) from traditional practices, few young women will mark the festival with their boyfriends, or take part in traditional activities to celebrate {#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

    The music industry is never short of teen pop stars with wonderful looks, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} it doesn't often find one like US singer Taylor Swift. "Beneath Taylor Swift's not-a-girl, not-yet-a-woman sweetness hides a very {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(skill)songwriting technique (技巧)," writes Leah Greenblatt with Entertainment Weekly.

    Songwriting, the country singer explains, is "how I deal with problems. I am used to {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(write) about things that really influences me most." So in her songs, there is always {#blank#}4{#/blank#} true and honest. They seem like stories from {#blank#}5{#/blank#} diary and that certainly helps Swift attract her audience.

    She {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(sell) more than 13 million copies worldwide of her first two albums, 2006's self-titled debut (首张专辑) and 2008's Fearless. She's the youngest artist ever to {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(name) Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards. Not surprisingly, there were great expectations for her third album, Speak Now, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} came out late last month, where she again returned {#blank#}9{#/blank#} her own life for material. "The 14 songs are all about the last two years... when life was a little bit bigger and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(crazy)," says Swift. "So I've written about the lessons and confusion and heartbreak and all the different things that go along with being 18, 19 and 20."

    He's an old cobbler (修鞋匠) with a shop in a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he told me, "I haven't time. Take them to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} other fellow on the main street.

    Just looking at his bench {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(load) with tools and pieces of leather, I knew the craftsman (手艺人) was rather {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(skill). "No," I replied, "the other fellow can't do it well."

    "The fellow he mentioned" is one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(careless), and when they have finished sewing back a sandal strap (鞋带), you might as well just throw away the pair. The reason {#blank#}5{#/blank#} I wanted to have my shoes repaired in the shop is that the man works very carefully.

    The man {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(have) me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, "Come back tomorrow."

    I was about to leave {#blank#}7{#/blank#} he took a pair of soft leather {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(boot) off a shelf.

    "See what I can do?" he said with pride. "Only three {#blank#}9{#/blank#} us in Paris can do this kind of work."

    The cobbler was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty hat, his funny accent and, above all, his pride in his craft.

    In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(satisfy) from pride in a job well done.