Qiang Shuping was so busy making cloth shoes {#blank#}1{#/blank#} she didn't even rest during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The woman from Baipu County, Jiangsu Province, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (make) shoes since she was 19 years old, and this year marks her 3lst year making cloth shoes.

    She spends the entire day in her tiny studio, which {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(measure) less than 10 square meters altogether, filled with cloth shoes in {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(variety) stages of completion.

    Nowadays, many stores make cloth shoes {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(use) machines, but Qiang sticks to the technique of making shoes entirely {#blank#}6{#/blank#} hand. She say the shoes {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(produce) by machine are not of the same quality as handmade ones. The handmade cloth shoes are more durable（耐用的）and comfortable, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (soft), and absorb sweat better.

    Some people buy cloth shoes out of nostalgia（怀旧）, while others trust {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(they) quality. Making shoes isn't a profitable job, but Qiang still insists as she wants to preserve the craft and pass it down to the younger generation.

    Handmade cloth shoes are also called qiancengdi (shoes with a thousand layers), {#blank#}10{#/blank#} can date back to the ancient Zhou Dynasty. In 2009, the making technique of qiancengdi was listed as the national intangible cultural heritage（非物质文化遗产）

    English is a language {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (speak) all around the world. There are more than 42 countries {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the majority (大多数) of the people speak English. Most native speakers of English {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (find) in the UK, the US, Canada, and many other countries. In total, for more than 375 million people English is their mother tongue. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} equal number of people learn English as a second language. However, the number of people who learn English as a foreign language {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (be) more than 750 million.

    In only fifty years, English has developed into the language most {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (wide) spoken and used in the world.  Foreign staff in China are not requested {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (learn) Chinese. Chinese businessmen, taxi drivers and students can talk with them {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (use) English. You can listen to English songs {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the radio or use English to communicate with people around the world through the Internet. With so many people communicating in English every day, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} will become more and more important to have a good knowledge of English.

    Choice of seating in the lecture hall can affect a college student's performance, a study suggests.

    Lectures are a main part of higher education, and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(understand) how students interact and learn within the lecture theatre environment is central to successful learning. Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK examined {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (student) reasons for choosing particular seats in a lecture hall, and investigated how seating positions are related {#blank#}3{#/blank#} students' performance.

    "Interaction is a key part of learning and knowing who the students are interacting with can be {#blank#}4{#/blank#} great benefit when designing activities," said David P Smith of Sheffield Hallam University.

    Many students {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (prefer) being able to sit with their friends, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} others were more concerned with either attracting or avoiding the lecturer's attention. Some students chose seats {#blank#}7{#/blank#} allowed them to see and hear clearly. But others {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (easy) picked seats that made them feel less depressed, they said.

    Friendship groups who sat together tended {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (achieve) similar grades, and students who sat alone at the edges were likely to do worse than average.

    Lecturers may be able to use these findings to offer assistance to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (anxiety) students，and to support the learning of all students by encouraging interactions between the different groups.

    Soudee, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is a 24-year-old Frenchman, has already been at sea for two years. He {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (travel) along Africa's west coast, through the Caribbean Sea and up to the Arctic Ocean since he set sail from the Canary Islands in 2017. Soudee is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} only person on his sailboat but he brought along a pet hen with him. Soudee met Monique, the hen, on the Canary Islands shortly before he began {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (he) around-the-world voyage. He told a BBC reporter that he knew she was the one he needed.

    While planning for his trip, Soudee had considered {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (bring) along an animal for companionship (陪伴), but not {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(necessary) a chicken. Later he told the BBC reporter, "The hen is a good {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (choose). I don't have to spend much time looking {#blank#}8{#/blank#} it and I'm able to get eggs at sea."

    The story has also become popular on social media. One Twitter user wrote this week, "This hen has a(n) {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (good) life than me." Monique and her owner plan {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (sail) to Alaska next. You can find reports about Soudee's trip on his Facebook, Instagram and YouTube pages.

     Howard Carter is one of the most famous explorers in the world. He was brave and loved to discover new places. By the 1920s, he {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (start)searching for the tombs of the Egyptian Kings. In 1922, Howard Carter and his team made their most {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (amaze) discovery of all. They came across the tomb of King Tutankhamun, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} contained more treasure than any of them had ever seen before, as well as the mummy of the king. After {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (look) into the tomb, they closed it. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (unlucky), many of the men who had something to do {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the opening of the tomb got ill or even died after that. Some people think the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (death) were just coincidence or the curse of mummy. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (other) believe there is a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (science) reason. What is certain, though, is that She curse of the mummy' remains {#blank#}10{#/blank#} riddle to this day.