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    Chinese students work hard to learn English. Do you know American kids are {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to learn Chinese? About 50,000 American students now study Chinese .“Because of china's fast growth, Chinese is more useful than{#blank#}2{#/blank#}languages,” said Scott McGinnis, a Washington language expert.

    For example, in 1999,only three Chicago schools had Chinese classes. This year more than 20 do. In many US cities , students take Chinese lessons during holidays{#blank#}3{#/blank#}on the weekends. But Chicago schools teach Chinese during the regular day. Last year China gave them 3,000 textbooks because they had done a good job.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Chinese classes are becoming popular, it is one of the most difficult languages. It totally takes an English speaker about 1,320 hours to become good at Chinese , but it only takes 480 hours to learn French, Spanish or Italian.

    A kind of little cars may some day take the place of today's big ones. People will like this kind of small cars more and more. The car is as small as a bike but can {#blank#}1{#/blank#} two people in it. Everybody can drive it, just like riding a bike. Even children and old people can drive them to school and {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

    If everyone drives such a car in the future, there will be less {#blank#}3{#/blank#}in the air. There will also {#blank#}4{#/blank#}more space for all the cars in cities, and the street will have more space for people to walk. Three such cars can fit in the space now needed for one car of the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}size.

    The little cars of the future will cost much less {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to own and to drive. And they can go only 65 kilometers an hour, so driving will be safer, too.

    The cars of the future will be fine for {#blank#}7{#/blank#} around a city, but they will not be useful for a long trip.

    This kind of cars can save a lot of gasoline( 汽油 ). They will go 450 kilometers {#blank#}8{#/blank#} needing to stop for more gasoline.

    If big cars are still used along with the small {#blank#}9{#/blank#} , two sets of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be needed for the big, faster cars and other roads will be needed for the small, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} cars.

    Mr. Li, a bus driver, gave his life to save 25 of his passengers.

On March 29, 2018, when Mr. Li was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} On a. highway, suddenly a piece of metal (金属) flew up from the road and broke through the windscreen (挡风玻璃) of his bus. Mr. Li was hit in the arms and stomach. What did he do next? A video in the bus clearly {#blank#}2{#/blank#} his final actions. He stopped the bus, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the door, asked the passengers to get off {#blank#}4{#/blank#} told them not to run around as the bus was still on the highway. After he did these, he passed out (昏迷) .

    "I didn't realize what had happened until I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the noise and saw the broken glass," said a passenger. "Although the driver was {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, he made sure we {#blank#}7{#/blank#} safe." Mr. Li's colleagues (同事) were not surprised at his final actions. "He had a safe driving record of more than 1 million {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. He had good driving habits," said one of his colleagues.

    Mr. Li was sent to a local hospital. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, he was badly injured and died a few days later.

    Mr. Li was a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} hero. He was called "the best driver" in the country.