Suppose you will go blind 3 days later? How would you spend those 3 precious days? What would you see before going into darkness forever?

    I should want {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (much) to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. I should want to see the people whose {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (kind) and company have made my life worth {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (live). First I should like to stare long{#blank#}4{#/blank#} the face of my teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, who came to me when I was a child and {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (open) the outer world to me. I should want not merely to see the outline of her face, so that I could cherish {#blank#}6{#/blank#} in my memory, but to study that face and from it find the evidence of the love and patience with {#blank#}7{#/blank#} she accomplished the difficult task of my education. I should like to see in her eyes that strength of character which has enabled her to act {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (brave) in the face of difficulties, and that sympathy for all humankind {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (show) to me so often.

    Oh, those things above would be the things that I should see if I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (have) the power of sight for just 3 days!

    I had heard of the killers that helped whalers catch huge whales. When I worked at a whaling station，I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} it many times. One afternoon，I heard a loud noise coming from the bay. We ran down to the shore {#blank#}2{#/blank#} time to see an enormous animal throwing itself out of the water. George，one of the whalers，told me that it was Old Tom，the killer，who was telling us there's a whale. Another whaler {#blank#}3{#/blank#}out to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a whale hunt. We immediately headed out into the bay，with Old Tom {#blank#}5{#/blank#} us the way. Using a telescope we saw that several killers{#blank#}6{#/blank#} the whale were throwing themselves on top of the whale's blow­hole to stop it {#blank#}7{#/blank#} while others were stopping it diving or {#blank#}8{#/blank#} out to sea. Then the man in the bow of the boat aimed at the whale and killed it. These killers {#blank#}9{#/blank#} harmed or attacked people. Once when we were in the bay，the sea was {#blank#}10{#/blank#}，for which James was carried away by waves. Worse still，there was a shark. Fortunately，Old Tom rescued James.

    The nursing home invited me to play my violin for three{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (love) listeners I stopped in the room of the quiet and gentle woman, for whom I had played for two{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (time)before. She was sleeping but I set up anyway as I know she loves the violin. Her roommate was also with the health center for{#blank#}3{#/blank#}I volunteer and I asked if she wouldn't mind and maybe she would like it as well. She told me yes, please play but she was going to{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (weigh)soon. The weighing{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (take) about three minutes. My{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (sleep) beauty slept as I played and my other listener told me{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (repeated) how much she loved it and that I was just wonderful.

    It happened that another woman in the next door was sleeping lightly in front of her TV. She told me, " Why, sure, I would like music! Come on in!" Her TV and her room mate's TV{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (be) on (the room mate wasn't there). I played through it for one piece and asked if I could turn them off{#blank#}9{#/blank#}her. Oh please, she said. What{#blank#}10{#/blank#}difference today!

    Dujiangyan is the oldest man-made water system in the world, and a wonder in the development of Chinese science.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (build) over 2, 200 years ago in what is now Sichuan Province in Southwest China, this amazing engineering{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(achieve) is still used today.

    In ancient times, the region in which Dujiangyan now stands{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(suffer) from regular floods caused by overflow from the Minjiang River.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (help) the victims of the flooding, Li Bing, the region governor, together with his son, decided to find a solution. Li Bing, the region governor, together with his son, decided t find a solution. Li designed a series of channels built at different levels along Mount Yulei that would take away the floodwater while leaving the river flowing naturally.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (good) still, the extra water could be directed to the dry Chengdu Plain, making{#blank#}6{#/blank#}suitable for farming.

    Once the system was finished, no more floods occurred and the people were able to live {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(peaceful). Today, Dujiangyan is admired by scientists from around the world because of one feature. Unlike modern dams{#blank#}8{#/blank#} the water is blocked with a huge wall, Dujiangyan still lets water flow through the Minjiang River naturally{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (enable) ecosystem(生态系统) and fish populations to exist{#blank#}10{#/blank#}harmony.

    Born in England in 1944, Ian Wilmut{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(know) as the leader of the research group than first cloned a female lamb {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (call) Dolly in 1996. Dolly became famous and pictures of her appeared on the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (cover) of magazines all over the world. The {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (possible) of reproduction without a male and female being involved also made her the focus of a moral debate. For scientists, however, the cloning of dolly using the DNA of an adult cell was a breakthrough {#blank#}5{#/blank#}showed the cloning of special animals was possible.

    However,{#blank#}6{#/blank#}Wilmut think unlikely is human cloning. He says {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (undertake) the procedure with humans would require 29 surrogate（替代的）mothers and 300 eggs. Of those 29, 28 would be bound {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(experience) failure and suffer physically and emotionally. He says he is also concerned about the psychological and {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(society) consequences a cloned might have to go through. For these reasons, he is not{#blank#}10{#/blank#} favor of it.

    There's no electricity {#blank#}1{#/blank#} water. However, one thing is for sure, I've become more imaginative in my teaching. Science is my most {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (challenge) subject as my students have no concept of doing experiments. In fact, there is no {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (equip), and if I need water, I have to carry it from my house in {#blank#}4{#/blank#} bucket! The other day I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (show) the boys the weekly chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling over everywhere. Sometimes I wonder {#blank#}6{#/blank#} relevant chemistry is to these students, most of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway.

    Tombe's father, Mukap, led us to his house, a low bamboo hut with grass {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (stick) out of the roof — this shows it is a man's house. There were no windows and the doorway was just big enough to get through. The hut was dark inside so it took time for our eyes {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (adjust). Fresh grass had been laid on the floor and there was a newly {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (make) platform for Jenny and me to sleep on.