On 28 of March Richard Byrd stood outside the small house. He shook hands with the men who were leaving. They were heading back to the main camp on the coast of Antarctica (南极洲). He would 1 to work at the base camp.

    "I don't like leaving you here alone,"Pete Demas said."I'll be 2,"Byrd replied. He was looking forward to the challenge of spending the winter at the base camp. He would be recording the weather. There was plenty of food and fuel (燃料) in the tiny house. He felt sure 3 would go wrong.

    But something did go wrong. Byrd was burning the fuel for4 . But the fumes (有毒气体) were not leaving the house. Slowly he was being poisoned (中毒). On May 31 he broke down. When he came to, he made himself into his sleeping bag. Three days later he 5 it was a Sunday. The men would be  6 his radio message. Byrd moved hard out of bed and 7 the call. He didn't want the men to know how 8 he was. It was too dangerous for them to come to save him.

    By will-power alone, Byrd managed to stay alive. He was so 9 that he could hardly walk. But he forced himself to do the basics. He 10  food and made myself eat. He took 11of weather and sent radio messages. But by late June, the men 12 that something was wrong. Most of the time, Byrd's messages made no sense.

    On August 11 Demas and two others reached the base camp. They 13 recognized (认出) Byrd. He was very thin and looked terrible. Byrd 14  them and then fell to the ground. The men had arrived in time. After two months of care, Byrd's good 15returned. He and his men worked together again.

There are lots of amazing places for people to imagine and expect in the world. But many people {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (encourage) to go into Cambridge.

I come from Cambridge, a beautiful city in the east of England. I have grown up there and experienced many {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (wonder) times. I have many good {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (memory) of it. In recent years, it develops {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (rapid) and has changed a lot. For this, more and more tourists take an interest in it.

Cambridge is 80 kilometers from London. London is in {#blank#}5{#/blank#}south of England. It has a population of about seven and a half million, so it is {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (big) and busier than Cambridge. It is about 2,000 years old, and it is famous {#blank#}7{#/blank#}Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge. England {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (it) is part of an island. It owns rich tourism resources. Tourists like the mountain areas and beautiful lakes in the north, and the hills and pretty villages in the south. So it's really perfect for you {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (pay) a visit. It is never very hot in summer {#blank#}10{#/blank#}very cold in winter. So you can visit England any time of the year. Or it will be a pity in the rest of time.

Birthday Party in a Box

Andy is a very cute boy but just a little shy. When his birthday month came around, he looked forward {#blank#}1{#/blank#} having a big birthday party. But his family is quite small and poor, so there wouldn't be other people visiting. He had to celebrate it by {#blank#}2{#/blank#} ( he). I found out he was feeling a little unhappy."{#blank#}3{#/blank#} I send him a card and a small gift, he' ll be happy." So I got his school address from his mom and planned {#blank#}4{#/blank#} ( choose) something and send it.

Then I got {#blank#}5{#/blank#} idea! I took a small recorder(录音机) and asked my three friends to sing Happy Birthday to You. It was such fun making the recording! Other people joined us and we sang {#blank#}6{#/blank#}( loud) together, so it really sounded like we had a party going on! Then I bought a small gift,a card, a few cupcakes, a box of birthday candles and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} ( send) them to him.

I got a call a few days later. Andy told me he thought it is much more beautiful than other {#blank#}8{#/blank#}  ( song) to him." Thanks for the wishes, thanks for the gifts, thanks for giving me {#blank#}9{#/blank#} ( much) happiness in my life! It's so enjoyable that I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} ( remember) it forever(永远)!" （）31. A. carelessly  B. strictly C. angrily D. seriously

Jing Baoshan，69，lives a quiet life in Pinglu County， "Baoshan" 1 "protecting the mountains"，something he seems to have been doing in his life. 

In 1970，the then 17-year-old 2 the army and became a soldier. After 17 years，Jing3 to his I hometown in Pinglu and worked as a forest ranger （护林员）. He worked there for 25 years until he retired in 2012.4 his 25 years of service，he worked alone most of the time and met a number of5 situations. Fighting forest fires was one of them. 

In 2000，he was patrolling （巡逻） when he found one fire. He called for6 from the closest village. As more firemen made their way，Jing and five farmers were7 the fire when the wind suddenly changed direction. Four of the farmers8 . Jing and the surviving farmer were9 hurt. He felt very sad for those farmers' deaths and that was one of the reasons why he decided to devote （奉献） the rest of his life to the forest. 

On October 1^st ， 2019，Jing was invited to the ceremony10 the 70th anniversary （周年纪念）of the founding of the People' s Republic of China. He said he would11 forget it for the rest of his life. 

Now，Jing continues to12 the forest as a volunteer at least once every two weeks. Smart GPS plays a very important role in keeping the rangers13 today. Jing believes the14 show the country's development. More importantly，he said that people are now coming to15 the importance of a well﹣ protected environment. 

It was Sunday. Tom went to the City Stadium for a basketball match. Tom was worried because there was a traffic jam and he might be late for the match. He got off the bus and ran as fast as he could. He {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the team shirt and his number was eleven. 

Tom was not a player in the match, but a fan. He retired (退役) last year and went back home. This time he had a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to watch a match of his former (以前的) teammates in his home town. He was {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to meet them again. After running for over twenty minutes, he arrived at the stadium on time. His former teammates played {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a stronger team, but they did better. Finally they won the match. Tom {#blank#}5{#/blank#} for them loudly. After the match, Tom waited at the gate of the stadium so that he could meet his old friends as soon as they came out. It was an exciting day. 

 The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature went to the South Korean writer Han Kang.__ {#blank#}1{#/blank#} October 10th, the 53-year-old writer was awarded the prize for her" poetic prose(诗意的散文)". She is the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}( one) South Korean writer to win the prize.

Han {#blank#}3{#/blank#}( keep) writing since her first prose came out in the 1990s. One of her{#blank#}4{#/blank#}( good) works is The Vegetarian. It tells the story of a woman's decision to stop{#blank#}5{#/blank#}( eat) meat and her family's worry about her mental health. She tries to be free. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} novel was also translated into English.

A question often {#blank#}7{#/blank#}( appear) in her works: If you were able to live as you wanted, what would you do with your life? And she likes to mention the question in many of her {#blank#}8{#/blank#}( speech).

 Many main characters in Han's books are women. However, readers can find lots of men's opinions {#blank#}9{#/blank#} Han thinks this kind of mix is helpful for readers to discover human nature.

 By Friday morning, her books are among the top 10 in popular online bookshops. "It was{#blank#}10{#/blank#}( real) amazing to hear that a Korean woman writer had won the prize, so I came here to look for her books," said a reader.