Venice Film Festival is considered to be the oldest film festival in the world. The first Venice Film Festival was  1  in Italy in 1932. It was 14 years earlier than the first Cannes Film Festival in France.

    At the first Venice Film Festival, there were no judges（裁判） and no 2 at all. Only a list of good films was chosen by the public. At the 3festival, prizes started to be given. The prize of the festival was the Golden 4 . The lion is a symbol of the ancient republic of Venice.

5the Venice Film Festival was first held, the government has wanted to hold it every year. But from 1938 to 1942 the festival was destroyed 6 special reasons. Also, from 1940 to 1942, the festival was not held in Venice, so it was considered to have been 7 during that time. In 1946, the festival became active again. Now the festival becomes more and more 8 . Each of the editors in the world wants to have a seat in this festival.

      Venice Film has  9  a great opportunity for people around the world. They can learn about other countries' culture by watching films. Many movie makers send their  10 to the festival and some of them hope to win the Lion Award.

    Pupils in England were able to watch a new TV program called Monkey 1 November 1979. Most of them were hearing this story for the first time. 2, this story is not new to Chinese children.

    There are many fairy tales（童话故事）in China. Journey to the West is 3 of them. In 4 tale, The Monkey King is the main character. He is not just any 5 monkey. We say this 6 he can make 72 changes to his shape and size. He can turn himself into 7 animals and objects. But unless he can hide his tail, he can't turn himself into a 8. He always uses a magic stick 9 the bad people. Sometimes, he can make the stick so small that he can 10 it in his ear. He is 11 able to make it big and long. This fairy tale is really great.

    The Monkey King has 12 Chinese children for many years. 13 the TV program came out more than 30 years ago, western children became interested in reading this story. Great Monkey King keeps 14 to help the weak and never gives up. In fact, children 15 the world love the Monkey King.

    Stephen Hawking, a famous British physicist, died aged 76 on March 14^th, 2018. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said.

    As one of the well-known 1on space and time in the world, Hawking devoted his whole life to discovering the secrets of the Universe, and he is called the King of the Universe. However, this genius's life was not smooth and he had been 2 from the disease since he was 21 years old. When he studied maths and science at Oxford University, he became 3ill, causing his life very harsh: he could neither speak with his mouth nor stand on his legs or move his body.4, he was given only a few years to live. But he refused to 5 his hope of living and went on to study at Cambridge University after6 from Oxford University. In 1965, he got a doctor's degree in philosophy. Then he worked as a professor at Cambridge University. He was known for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books,7 A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, The Grand Design, etc.

    Although he lost many most important living conditions ordinary people have, he still felt he was rich, such as a finger that could move, a brain that could think… all these made him8 to life. Last year, Hawking was invited to China. His self-confidence and humorous conversations 9us deeply.

    From Stephen Hawking's10 experience, we learn that nobody should lose hope, no matter how bad the situation is. As he once said, "Life is not fair, you just have to do the best you can in your own situation."

One day Jack's wife was cleaning out a closet(壁橱)."Look at all these umbrellas," she said to Jack. "There are eight and they are all broken. I'll take them to the umbrella shop and have them mended." Jack said. Jack took the eight umbrellas to the shop and left them there. "They'll be ready tomorrow," the shopkeeper said.

That evening Jack went home from the office by bus as usual. He sat next to an old woman. She had an umbrella on the floor near her. When the bus reached his stop. he picked up her umbrella and stood up, "Hey!" the woman said. "That's my umbrella!"

"I'm sorry," Jack said, and at the same time he gave the umbrella to her. "I took it by mistake. Please excuse me."

The next day he got back the umbrellas from the umbrella shop and got on the bus. As he sat down, a person behind him said, "You certainly have a successful day!" He turned around and saw the woman whose umbrella had almost been taken by him the day before.