In 1955, I got a train ticket to visit my relatives in Cleveland. On my return trip, I met {#blank#}1{#/blank#} handsome soldier. He asked if he could look at the train timetable {#blank#}2{#/blank#} was held in my hand and then if he could sit next to me so that we could chat. I agreed and invited him to share the lunch my aunt {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (pack) for me before leaving. We talked all the way. Finally, we exchanged {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (address) and he said he would contact me.

    After a week, I still didn't receive a letter {#blank#}5{#/blank#} him and began to think he'd forgotten about me. On Saturday, the phone rang and a familiar voice asked if I would like to go out together. We ended up in {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (see) On the Waterfront at the Kallet Theatre. We had a more dates during his Army leave, and then he {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (send) to go overseas. For the next two years, we kept in touch with each other by letter.

    In 1957, we got married. We've been together for more than 60 years, raising three daughters who now have daughters of{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (they) own. Before taking my trip to Cleveland years ago, I was warned never{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (speak) to strangers on a train. I'm {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (certain) glad I didn't listen.

    There is a wonderful story about Jimmy Durante, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}is one of the great singers in the twentieth century. One day, when {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(ask)to be part of a show for some old World War II soldiers, Jimmy said he could afford only a few minutes and {#blank#}3{#/blank#}he would come if they wouldn't mind his singing one short song and immediately leaving for his next appointment. Of course, the show's director agreed happily.

    But when Jimmy got on stage, something {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(surprise) happened. He went through the short song and then stayed. The applause grew louder and louder and he kept staying. Pretty soon, he had been on stage{#blank#}5{#/blank#}fifteen, twenty, and then thirty minutes. One of his assistants behind the stage stopped him and said, “I thought you had to go after a few minutes. What happened?” Jimmy answered, “I did have to go, but I can show you the reason{#blank#}6{#/blank#} I stayed. You can see for yourself if you look at the front row.” In the front row {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(be) two men, both of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}had lost an arm in the war. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}had lost his right arm and the other had lost his left. Together, they were able to clap, and that was exactly{#blank#}10{#/blank#} they were doing, loudly and cheerfully.

    Mr.Brown was tired of living in the big city {#blank#}1{#/blank#} he worked. He wanted to move to the country and live in a house from which he could get to his office in the city early every day. He {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (look) for a house when he saw an advertisement in a newspaper one day. The advertisement said that a suitable house in a quiet area was up for sale {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a reasonable price, and the house was within a stone's throw of a railway station from which there were frequent {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (train) to the big city.

    "That's exactly {#blank#}5{#/blank#} I need," Mr. Brown said to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (him). So he called the housing agency and arranged to go by train the next day {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (have) a look at the house.

    The housing agent met him at the station and they started walking. It took them at least 15 minutes to get to the house. When they finally arrived, Mr. Brown said {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (angry), "I should be very {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (interest) to meet the man who threw the stone you mentioned in {#blank#}10{#/blank#} newspaper."

    "Failing to open curtains fully makes people more likely to get sick", {#blank#}1{#/blank#} new study suggests. It found sunlight kills disease-causing bacteria {#blank#}2{#/blank#} live in dust, while darker conditions let them thrive (繁殖). The findings {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (publish) in the journal Microbiome.

    Researchers {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (warn) the problem also affects windowless offices. Study leader Dr. Ashkaan Fahimipour said: "Humans spend most of their time indoors, where dust carries bacteria {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (make) us sick.

    "Therefore, it's important {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (understand) how the buildings we live influence dust eco-systems and how this could {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (serious) affect our health."

    His team at the University of Oregon chose 11 small rooms and allowed in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (differ) levels of sunlight. After 90 days, dark rooms had double the number of bacteria able to reproduce. Fahimipour added: "We hope that with {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (far) understanding we can design access to daylight in {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (build) schools, offices, hospitals and homes in ways that reduce the risk of dust-borne infections."

    The heat wave that broke high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (cause) the surface of the islands vast ice sheet to melt at near-record levels and a huge {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (lose) of ice in the Arctic. On Wednesday alone, more than 10 billion tons of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt, which is equal {#blank#}3{#/blank#} about 4,000,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, said Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute.

    Melting {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (increase) in recent decades because of climate change and has been decreasing accumulation from snow. Previously, during the 1970s and the 1980s, Greenland lost {#blank#}5{#/blank#} average of 50 billion tons of ice each year. From 2010 to 2018, that figure shot up to 290 billion tons {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (annual). This summer, the extent of the melt could surpass (超过) the record set in 2012, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} about 97% of the ice sheets surface began to melt. NASA-JPL Caltech reported at the time.

Greenland, the worlds largest island, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (lie) between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, with 82 per cent of its surface {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (cover) in ice. A June 2019 study by scientists in the U. S. and Denmark said melting ice in Greenland alone will add between 5 and 33 centimeters to the rising {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (globe) sea levels by the year 2100. If all the ice in Greenland melted, which would take centuries, the world's oceans would rise by 7.2 meters.