Can you imagine yourself {#blank#}1{#/blank#} （work） on a project alone in office, and no one out there to support and assist you? Definitely not! We all love to be a part of a team and do things through teamwork. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}just makes life easier.

    Teamwork can {#blank#}3{#/blank#}( explain) as an activity or a set of inter-related activities done by more than one person {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(meet) a common goal. Teamwork is not only followed in the corporate world today, rather it is one of the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(old) things known to man. Mankind has worked in teams and groups since the primitive days of civilization. Hunting in groups {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(be) a suitable example of teamwork during those days. It is only in recent times {#blank#}7{#/blank#}it has been developed as a “concept” in the management jargon（术语）.

    Working as a team can benefit you as an individual, as a team, as well as an {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(organize). For some people, initially, it might be a bit difficult to adjust in a group, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}I am sure, they will gradually learn to adjust and work as a team. Effective teamwork motivates an individual to grow into a responsible citizen, and accomplish individual as well {#blank#}10{#/blank#}organizational goals.

    From {#blank#}1{#/blank#} early age he was interested in plants. He {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (study) agriculture in college and as a young teacher he began experiments in crop breeding. He thought that the key to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (feed) people was to have more rice and to produce it more quickly. He thought there was only one way {#blank#}4{#/blank#} do this-by crossing different species of rice plant, and then he could produce a new plant which could give a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (high) yield than either of the original plants.

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    A patent is an official document{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(give)to an inventor by a government. This document {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(general) gives inventors the right to stop anyone else from copying, using or selling the invention without their permission.

    Inventions are the result of hard work. It may only take a moment of inspiration to think of a good idea but it takes a lot of research and experimentation to turn it into a(n){#blank#}3{#/blank#} (use)and working invention. So, inventors deserve a reward for the amount of time they spend {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(develop)their ideas. They also need the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(secure) of knowing that if they share the invention with {#blank#}6{#/blank#}rest of the world, nobody will steal it, use it or copy it without their permission.

    Patents also benefit the society {#blank#}7{#/blank#}return for patent protection. Inventors agree{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(show)all the technical information about their invention. This information is available to everyone and has enough details {#blank#}9{#/blank#}can be used by people with basic knowledge to produce the invention. In this way, patents help to spread new knowledge, which can in turn help people find {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(solve)to different problems or to make further advances in science and technology.

    The Silk Road was a route that connected people from the East to West for hundreds of years and allowed {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (they) to trade valuable goods with each other. But there's more to the story. The Silk Road should {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (real) be called the Silk Roads. The Silk Road, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} started in China, went west and branched out into many routes.

    The Silk Road has been around for nearly 3,000 years. Most people know that valuable goods traveled along the route: silk and spices from China; jewels and wood from India; gold and animals from East Africa. These goods {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (trade) in cities along the route or ended up as far west {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Europe.

    But the people {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (travel) along the Silk Road were carrying something far {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (valuable) than their goods. They were carrying ideas and technology. European travelers returned home with stories of huge Chinese ships they had seen. The compass is an example of a(n) {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (invent) that came west from China. Europeans learned from Korean maps, which were advanced for the 1400s.

    {#blank#}9{#/blank#} was the 11, 000 km Silk Road that shaped the world we know today. The many routes were a way for different people {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (meet) each other and talk about the developing world.