—To be practical, I prefer to live in the country farming rather{#blank#}1{#/blank#} stay in the city living poorly.

    Some day, our world may {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (fill) with driverless cars. But.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}will we communicate with them if there's nobody in the driver's seat?

    At present, drivers can make gestures like{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (nod) when they let us cross the street.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} self-driving cars don't have this ability.

    The US car maker Ford and its partner Virginia Tech {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (try) to solve this problem. The team is testing a method {#blank#}6{#/blank#}uses light signals. For example, a slow-blinking tight shows the car is coming to  {#blank#}7{#/blank#}stop, and a rapidly flashing light   tells passers-by that the car is about to speed up.

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (test) the method on real roads, the team has designed a special suit that looks like a car scat. When a driver wears it, it appears as if the car were driverless.

    The team has {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (successful) collected more than 1,500 hours of data, which has recorded how people interacted with a “driverless” car. Ford says it plans to share the data {#blank#}10{#/blank#} 11 other car makers, which should lead to a signaling system that will be used in every driverless car.

    The Palace Museum, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (know)as the Forbidden City, welcomed {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (it)17 millionth visitor on December 13, becoming the museum with the most visitors in the world. The number of visitors has continued growing since it {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (reach)the milestone with 10 million in 2009. There is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} increase of 6.25％from last year in the number of visitors. Although the Palace Museum has limited daily visitors {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (protect)the ancient architecture, the number of off-season visitors has grown {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (steady)this year. Over the last decade, the museum has produced more than 10, 000 cultural items {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (range) from notebooks to lipsticks.

    The official Weibo account of the Palace Museum, with more than 6 million followers, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} keeps showing the palace's charm of four seasons by posting beautiful {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (photo) regularly, plays all important role in interacting with the young people and promoting the museum. The fundamental reason why the Palace Museum has become so popular among young people is that it strikes the right balance between preserving history {#blank#}10{#/blank#} providing many interesting interactive displays.

    One night, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} winter, a bear came into the city in Vancouver Canada. It walked through the city streets past houses, shops and offices. Then it {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (find) some food in bins outside a restaurant and started eating. In the morning, someone saw the bear and called the police. The police came with a vet (兽医) from the city zoo. They put the bear in a lorry and took it to the mountains outside the city. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (lucky), the bear was safe. But {#blank#}4{#/blank#} happens in other countries when big animals come into cities? In Vancouver it is unusual {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (see) a bear, but in some cities you can see big animals on the city streets every day.

    Big animals usually come into cities to find food. In Cape Town in South Africa baboons (狒狒) come into the city when they are {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (hunger). Human food is very bad for the baboons {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (tooth) because it has a lot of sugar. Now, there are Baboon Monitors working in Cape Town. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (they) job is to find baboons in the city and return them to the countryside.

    In Berlin in Germany, pigs sometimes come into the city for food. They eat flowers and plants in parks and gardens. Sometimes they eat vegetables from gardens {#blank#}9{#/blank#} they walk in the street, causing accidents. Some people like the pigs and they give them food and water to drink. Other people do not like the pigs and they want the government and the police to stop them {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (enter) the city.

    Nowadays more and more people like to travel, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (especial) when vacations come.A great number of people rush out of their homes or companies to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (travel) spots. They either drive or take a bus, a train, a ship {#blank#}3{#/blank#} so on. Some even ride bikes.

    However, there {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (be) another way of travelling—poorism. People have a tour in {#blank#}5{#/blank#} poorest areas of the worlds Some people may take a one-day poorest tour, and some even pay to stay in very poor neighborhoods {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (experience) the lowest living standards in the worlds Poorism tours take place around the world, and not just in the third world {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (country).You can, for instance, tour New York neighborhoods in the Bronx. Such tours can take people into the heart of poor areas. These tours may awaken people to pay {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (much) attention to long-standing poverty, or the effects of war.

    Some think that tours in the poor areas can raise social care. And the money from the tour can {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (donate) to help the people {#blank#}10{#/blank#} live there.

    Apart from working hard in sports, Kobe Bryant also challenges himself in other areas. Now he hopes to become famous for a completely d{#blank#}1{#/blank#} thing: writing. His book The Wizenard Series: Training Camp came out in March.

    The story is a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the West Bottom Badgers, a youth basketball team. It's made up of five books, with each focused on the story of one character: Rain, Twig, Cash, Peno and Lab. All of the kids on this team come from a poor neighborhood. No one {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (have) faith (信心) in the kids to succeed, but things {#blank#}4{#/blank#} after a new coach joins the team.

    After r {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the book, we got to interview Bryant. He said he didn't think he was going to be an author, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} that he often tells stories to his daughters. This is one of the reasons {#blank#}7{#/blank#} he wrote his own book. The book is based on parts of Bryant's real-life experience, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (especial) when he played for the Los Angeles Lakers.

    Bryant had two different jersey (秋衣) numbers — 8 and 24 — during his career. The number 24 m{#blank#}9{#/blank#} you need to work hard 24 hours a day to succeed.

    People Magazine noted that "Bryant is always breaking his limits both {#blank#}10{#/blank#} and off the basket court."