The local elementary school had just let out and I found myself behind a school bus as I was driving home. The bus stopped by a house {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (stand) on top of a hill. A little girl no more than seven years old jumped down the bus steps and{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (start) running up the driveway toward the house.

    I looked up the hill to see {#blank#}3{#/blank#} she was going and saw her Dad waiting for her. As she got closer and closer her Dad smiled and bent down to greet her. When she got to him, he folded her in {#blank#}4{#/blank#} powerful arms and gave her a huge hug.

    My eyes watered a bit as I watched this scene and remembered all the times {#blank#}5{#/blank#} my own children had ran into my arms with {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (smile) faces. Every single hug from them {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (be) a fountain of youth and a treasure of joy .

    My lovely trip down memory lane was interrupted when I heard the car behind me sound its horn (喇叭). I saw {#blank#}8{#/blank#} school bus quickly pulling away. I started to follow it again with a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (light) spirit than I had before. I took that beautiful moment and stored it {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (safe) in my soul where I knew it would remain forever.

    Have you ever seen the TV show Where Are We Going, Dad? It is now without doubt {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (popular) TV show in China, attracting over 600 million viewers each week. In this program, several fathers, who are all well-known in China, take care of their kids alone {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the help of the children's mothers. They also take part in different kinds of {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (active) with their kids together, such as cooking, fishing and selling goods.

    One reason why the show is so popular is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} it reflects social reality. In big cities, fathers are always {#blank#}5{#/blank#} busy with their jobs to spare time for their kids. Meanwhile, large numbers of fathers from the countryside {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (come) to big cities over the years, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (leave) their kids at home under the grandparents' care. Xu Canyong, a 33-year-old man {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (employ) in a company in Shantou, Guangdong Province, said, “I have a son and a daughter in my hometown. I miss them very much.”

    Xie Dikui, the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (direct) of the show, said that he was also moved by the program. “{#blank#}10{#/blank#} these fathers are busy, they manage to spare time for their kids. We can do as well as them.”

    Our parakeet (长尾鹦鹉) Chip and Goldie, a stray tortoiseshell kitten we took in{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (grow) to be best friends, eating and playing together. I was a member{#blank#}2{#/blank#}a bird conservation organization at the time, so we often took care of injured {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(bird). Goldie helped raise dozens of injured and orphaned native birds{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (act) as a watchful guardian. One day, it was Chip who needed Goldie's supervision. I had left a large bowl of pancake batter (面糊){#blank#}5{#/blank#} (cover) in the kitchen. But while I was out of the room, Chip climbed onto the bowl to have {#blank#}6{#/blank#} taste but soon fell in and sank{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (luck), Goldie was on hand and stuck her face in the bowl to fish Chip out. She cleaned his face and beak so he could breathe before running to alert me with a loud meow. I followed Goldie{#blank#}8{#/blank#} was also covered in batter, back into the kitchen {#blank#}9{#/blank#} found a battered budgie on the floor. After being washed, dried and warmed, Chip made a full {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (recover). Bowls were always covered in future and Goldie and Chip remained the best of friends.

    Charlie Chaplin was a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (humor) actor. He entertained us nonverbal (不用语言的) humor. Born in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (poor), he became famous for using a particular form of acting in entertaining silent movies. He was {#blank#}3{#/blank#} charming character, well-known throughout the world. He played a poor and homeless person, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (wear) large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round black hat {#blank#}5{#/blank#} carrying a walking stick. The character was a social failure in the movies, but he {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (love) by all the people. By overcoming {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (difficult),being kind to people unkind to him, making a sad situation entertaining and eating a boiled shoe, Charlie Chaplin made {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（we）happy and excited. Charlie Chaplin produced, directed and wrote movies in {#blank#}9{#/blank#}   he starred（主演）. In 1972 he was given a special Oscar {#blank#}10{#/blank#} his outstanding work of bringing humor to us all through films.

    Paper-cutting was recognized as a national cultural heritage(遗产)in 2006. According to experts, paper-cutting conveys the culture shared between China {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the West to wish for family reunions and maintain links with loved ones, alive or dead.

    In the movie Coco, for instance, the 12-year-old Miguel and his family dance and sing to celebrate the Day of the Dead, a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (tradition)festival in Mexico, when colorful paper-cuts are hung on the street. Chinese people also cut images of small figures {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (call) back the spirits of the dead. The difference is that most Chinese paper-cuts are red, while those in other countries {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (be) often made in many other colors.

    Fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen liked to cut {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (character), such as princesses and angels, out of paper while {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (tell) stories to children. In China, female friends and family members used to chat and make paper-cuts together.

    “{#blank#}7{#/blank#}the patterns and colors may be different, paper-cuts share the same function of maintaining emotional ties among people, "says Yang Huizi, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} art teacher at Beijing Union.

    Yang {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (study) and performed the art for over a decade. Besides routine university courses, she also organizes nonprofit paper-cutting activities {#blank#}10{#/blank#}are open to the public in Beijing to promote basic knowledge of paper-cutting.

    US writer Margaret Lee Runbeck once {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (write), "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but {#blank#}2{#/blank#} manner of traveling." But traveling is not always happy, at least for the buddies in the movie Green Book.

    The movie {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (adapt) from the true story of a road trip through the southern US in the early 1960s. In the film, the black pianist Don Shirley hires Italian-American Tony to drive him to performances, but they face problems because of Shirley's skin color. These problems enable them {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (form) a special friendship.

    "There's something so deeply right about this movie, so true {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the time, said US film critic LaSalle. The time La Salle is talking about was between 1876 and 1963, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} African-Americans experienced a very different and difficult period. Many parts of the country had Jim Crow laws, which allowed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (race) segregation (隔离). But in 1936, a blackmail carrier named Victor H. Green published a list of friendly {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (business) as a small book with a green cover. The Green Book helped African-Americans travel more safely. Then in 1964, Jim Crow laws went away. The book went away, too.

    Today many US people still remember the time of Jim Crow laws. But they {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (probable) don't know about The Green Book. It's a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (forget) part of the story.