Long time ago, a boy {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(name) Bob met a new friend in QQ, she is Larry.   Larry works with Transport Drivers. Inc. One morning in 2009, Larry was traveling along 165 north after delivering to one of his customers when he saw a car{#blank#}2{#/blank#}its bright lights on. As he got even{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(close), he found another vehicle upside down on the road. One more look{#blank#}4{#/blank#}he noticed fire shooting out {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(repeat) from under the disabled vehicle. Larry pulled over, set the brake and got hold of the fire extinguisher (灭火器). Two good bursts from the extinguisher and the fire {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(put) out.

    The man who had his bright lights on came over and told Larry he had made a call. They then heard a woman's voice coming from the damaged vehicle.{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (approach) the vehicle, they saw that a woman was trying to get out of the broken window. They told her to stay still, but she thought the car was going to explode. Larry told her that he had already put out the fire.

    Once fire and {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(emergent) people arrived, Larry and the other man backed off and let them go to work. Then, Larry asked the police {#blank#}9{#/blank#}he was needed or free to go. They let him and the other man go.

    One thing is for certain—It {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(be) his efforts that most likely saved the woman's life.

—Yes, they took away all the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} there and became rich overnight.

People eat rice all over the world

    Rice {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (believe) to have been first grown in China or possibly somewhere else in eastern Asia around 10,000 years ago. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} earliest evidence of rice farming comes from a 7,000-year-old site near the lower Yangtze River village of Hemudu in Zhejiang province in China.

    Rice is a kind of food which requires much labor. In developed countries, the planting and harvesting is done {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(most) with machines. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, in much of the world, these things are still largely done by hand. It takes one farmer 1,000 to 2,000 working hours {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(raise)a rice crop on 2.5 acres of land. The fact that rice needs so much labor means{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(keep)a lot of the population on the land.

    Rice is also a crop {#blank#}7{#/blank#} need of lots of water. The wet rice grown in most of Asia needs hot weather after a period of rain and conditions provided by the rainy seasons affect many of the places {#blank#}8{#/blank#} rice is grown.

    Rice straws(稻杆）{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(leave)in the fields add nutrients(营养物)to the soil after rice is harvested(收割). For the next crop, rice farmers can often enjoy a good harvest by adding little {#blank#}10{#/blank#} no fertilizer.(肥料)

    We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and exams. Yet would it be {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding as it is in China?

    In US high school, everything {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (record) and graded, including your grades on quizzes, tests and final examinations. Failing {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps contrary to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention to their {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (academy) performance to try to get into distinguished universities.{#blank#}6{#/blank#},they'll be disappointed after graduation from high school.

    Like university students, US high school students have the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (free) to choose the courses that most interest {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (they).Even a 9th-grader can sit {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the same classroom as 12th-graders.But this also means he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her differently just because he or she is a few years {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (young).

    Tayeb is studying literature at Beijing Language and Culture University."{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(celebrate)the Spring Festival in China makes me love China even more, "she said.

    On Thursday, Tayeb's university organized an event {#blank#}2{#/blank#} foreign students could try their hands at making dumplings, a traditional food {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(eat)during the festival. Tayeb said she liked this aspect of the festival most.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} dumplings, Chinese New Year is also a time for temple fairs, red lanterns, paper­cuts, blessings of good fortune and ancestor worship.

    Bayomy, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Egyptian student at the same university, said she {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(plan)to visit a temple fair in Chaoyang Park on Sunday. She was {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(deep) impressed with the Spring Festival in 2014.She remembered how her classmate's father left out plates of food for their families' ancestors.

    Like Chinese, many foreigners put couplets(对联), Chinese characters wishing for good fortune on their front doors.

    Marie, a British {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(translate)in Beijing, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (send)a couplet by her Chinese friend on Thursday.She stuck them on the door of her apartment, took a photo of herself standing in front of it, and shared it with her parents in Britain." These couplets are an {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(express) of hope for the future and contain the Chinese spirit of 'harmony', "said Marie.