British people are working to an older age. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} number of working 70-74-year-olds has doubled in recent years. Around 10% of people in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (they) early 70s now work. This is the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(high) figure on record. An important reason {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the British work in their old age is that retirement pensions are becoming more difficult to live on. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(consequence) many older people have to work in order to survive.

    Britain {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (see) great changes in the labor market during the last decade, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}far more people working beyond their retirement age. While there are plenty who enjoy remaining in work, many need to earn extra cash because they can not afford {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(retire) early. Older people need decent(体面地) jobs and pensions so that they can make a proper {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(choose) about whether they remain in work. Now they are deciding on a career change later in life and are starting up their own businesses, {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(devote) to something they may have dreamed of doing for years.

    Once upon a time, there was a poor fisherman who always dreamed of becoming rich. He wished to become a millionaire, and{#blank#}1{#/blank#} did his wife. He had heard from some old men before that several ships{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (load) with diamonds and gold{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (sink) in the nearby seashore. Because of this, for a long time he kept searching that whole area{#blank#}4{#/blank#}this treasure. One day, while he was sitting on the boat daydreaming, he suddenly felt that the fishing rod{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (weigh) down by a heavy object. He{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (excite) pulled hard at it, and{#blank#}7{#/blank#} he saw made him exclaim, “Wow! A big, shiny gold chain!” He pulled hard at the gold chain to get it into the boat, but{#blank#}8{#/blank#}seemed to be no end to it. His boat started to get over-loaded and the sea water filled his boat. However, he had begun dreaming of a big house, a big piece of land and buying horses and{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (ox)... He kept pulling in the chain{#blank#}10{#/blank#} the boat kept sinking. The boat was finally submerged and he struggled to stay afloat. Unfortunately his feet were entangled in the gold chain and he drowned.

    The Mid-Autumn festival is a harvest festival {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (celebrate) on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. It celebrates three fundamental concepts, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} are closely tied to one another: gathering, such as family and friends {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (come) together, or harvesting crops for the festival; Thanksgiving, to give thanks for the harvest, or for harmonious unions; praying {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (sincere) for beauty, longevity, babies, marriage {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (partner) or for a good future.

    Traditions and myths surrounding the festival {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (form) around these three concepts, although traditions have changed over time due to significant changes {#blank#}7{#/blank#} technology, science, economy, culture and religion. It's about well-being together.

    The festival was a time when people enjoyed the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (success) reaping（收获）of rice and wheat with food offerings made in honor of the moon. Today, people still mark {#blank#}9{#/blank#}occasion with similar activities. They have outdoor reunions among friends and relatives to eat mooncakes and watch the moon, a symbol of {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (harmonious) and unity.

    As a saying goes, he who doesn't reach the Great Wall is not a true man. The Great Wall in China {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (impress) everyone who sees for the first time {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the general tourists to scholars. The vastness of the structure helps children grasp the great {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (achieve) in human history and can help inspire them {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (learn) more about human success over one thousand years.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (construct) over a period of 2,000 years, the stone solider {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (actual) consists of many great walls, some of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} date back to the fifth century B.C. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (order) these earlier long wall sections linked and extended with watchtowers to protect the new empire from northern tribes. Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction.{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (spread) westward into the Gobi desert to guard {#blank#}10{#/blank#} Silk Road. All together, the walls may have stretched more than 30,000 miles.

    If you go out to the fields at night in spring or summer, you can hear frogs singing {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（joy） here and there. It seems as if they were performing a field symphony.

    The frog is a good and useful creature that benefits human beings. They can catch fast-moving insects. Each frog eats a large number of pests that are harmful{#blank#}2{#/blank#}crops. This little creature is regarded{#blank#}3{#/blank#}the natural enemy of pests".

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}now frogs are getting fewer and fewer. This is because they are killed and put on the table as a delicious dish by their chief enemy, human beings. It is {#blank#}5{#/blank#}shameless and cruel act, isn't it?{#blank#}6{#/blank#}cause responsible for the rapid reduction of frogs is that farmers use insecticides （杀虫剂）to kill pests and frogs get killed as a result of drinking poisoned water{#blank#}7{#/blank#}eating poison-killed insects.

    Something must be done without delay{#blank#}8{#/blank#}（save）frogs. If we don't punish those{#blank#}9{#/blank#}sell and kill frogs to make money, then one day all of us {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（punish） by nature for failing to keep the balance of nature.