Everyone {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (complain) about being stuck in traffic. It is quite possible that the future city will have no traffic at all. H.G Wells, in his book The Sleeper Awakes, tells something about the traffic. In the streets of that future London there will be no vehicles. The city {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (provide) with moving roads. One side of the road travels {#blank#}3{#/blank#} one direction; the other side moves {#blank#}4{#/blank#} opposite way. Anyone who wants to go to another part of the city steps on the moving “way” and sits on one of the seats until he arrives. He has none of the troubles {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a private car brings with it: whether there is enough petrol, whether the tyres are all right, where to park it. The moving way is always at his service, always moving {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (silent) along, always ready {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (take) him to his destination. That city of the future has no traffic jams.

    To link up the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (vary) cities, vehicles driven by atomic power will pass along highways {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (divide) into two main groups of lanes. Each group will consist of several lanes, some for slow traffic, some for fast. Crossroads will not exist on these highways, but will be replaced by bridges and junctions(交叉口). Where these highways enter {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (city), ports and other built-up areas, they will pass through underground tunnels.

    One day a rich man took his sons on a trip to the countryside. He wanted to show them how the poor lived so that they could be thankful {#blank#}1{#/blank#} his wealth through hard work.

    They spent a couple of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (day) on the farm of what would be considered a poor family.

    On their return, the father asked the elderly boy{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (explain) what he had learnt. To his surprise, the boy, who had kept {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (silence) and deep in thought on the journey home, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (reply) in a way that shocked his father.

    “I want to become a farmer,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} the farmers can enjoy the beautiful night stars while we have only expensive lanterns.” Finally, he asked his father, "What makes us safer, large walls around our house or some friends {#blank#}7{#/blank#} will protect us?"

    After a while, the boy finished by saying, "Before the trip I thought we {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (be) rich but today I learnt who is {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(true) rich." With this, the boy got up and walked away,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (leave) his father sitting on their comfortable sofa, totally speechless.

    Every Thanksgiving my family and I, along with others, prepare and serve Thanksgiving meals for the people in our small mountain community. My husband and I also bring meals to the disabled.

    This Thanksgiving we did {#blank#}1{#/blank#} same. After delivering them to some individual apartments, we went to the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (centre) dining room. We put the boxes filled with Turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and some other foods on the tables. People invited {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (we) to stay, and thanked us, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} we had other deliveries and had to leave. As we started to go out, I turned around and saw them all {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (watch) us. Then I asked, "Would anybody like a hug?" They lined up. There was so much {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (warm) in each hug.

    My eyes {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (fill) with tears and my heart with love. Now I visit now and then {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (chat) and, of course, hug. This year at my Thanksgiving delivery, when they line up {#blank#}9{#/blank#} their hugs, I am going to have them turn around and hug each other. These people have no family at Thanksgiving-- what could be {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (good) for them than hugs!

    Zhang Lanping has been teaching for 33 years now, but {#blank#}1{#/blank#} makes her special is her pair of crutches(拐杖). The courageous teacher from Gansu province {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (suffer) from poliomyelitis, an infectious disease, when she was only one year old.

    Zhang is not able to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (full) recover and therefore has to use crutches for the rest of her life. This condition, however, has not weakened Zhang's spirit. As a student, Zhang devoted {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (she) to acquiring knowledge, which she believed would make her a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (success) teacher.

    After graduation, Zhang applied as a college teacher but she was turned down because of her physical {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (disable). Zhang did not give up and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (accept) as a primary school teacher in her hometown in Gansu province, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} then experienced a shortage of teachers. For able­bodied people, it takes only six minutes {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (reach) school, but Zhang has to spend one hour from home to her work place {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(use) crutches. Zhang's efforts have not been in vain. The academic performance of her students is among the best in the district.

    My hometown is Hangzhou, which attracts a great many tourists every year. Hangzhou played a very {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (importance) role in Chinese history, so it has a number of great heritage sites well reserved.

    Lying on the west district of Hangzhou city, West Lake {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (be) the symbol of Hangzhou as well as one of the most beautiful {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (sight) in China. West Lake has all along been praised as a sparkling pearl.

    If you want to enjoy {#blank#}4{#/blank#} whole West Lake, there are three kinds of sight you need to see. The sunny one, the rainy one and the night view of it.

    There is a saying that the sunny West Lake is not equal {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the rainy West Lake, and the rainy West Lake is less beautiful than the West Lake at night.

    At last there is a love tale {#blank#}6{#/blank#} happened at West Lake. It is said that a white snake changed into a beautiful lady, who {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (call) Bai Suzhen. She was willing to repay Xu Xian for {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (save) her life 500 years ago. Then she married him, living together {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (happy). But the Monk Fa Hai kept doing wrongs to her. He finally made them part. Bai Suzhen was shut in the Leifeng tower and the couple had no chance {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (meet) again.

Dragon Heads­raising Day, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} falls each year on the second day of the second lunar month, is one of the Chinese traditional festivals. As the proverb goes, "The dragon is awake, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (raise) its head." On this day, dragons, a prominent totem (图腾) in Chinese culture raise {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (they) heads with the sound of thunder. Around this time, the earth {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (burst) with life. Grass and trees are beginning to shoot up. In ancient China, people {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (pray) beside a river or a lake for the precious spring rain to breed their crops.

{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (tradition), food eaten on this day was renamed after parts of the dragon. For instance, wontons were called "dragon's eyes". The special {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (food) usually eaten on this day include dragon's scales, popcorn and pig's heads.

In Shanxi, people get their hair {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (cut) in a symbolic move to remove the old and embrace the new. In {#blank#}9{#/blank#} countryside in Hebei Province, people would fetch water from a well at dawn. It was believed {#blank#}10{#/blank#} on this day the well was full of dragon eggs which would bring the collector a good harvest.