A 24-year-old Long Island man was charged early Thursday morning after crashing his car and killing his girlfriend while driving over the speed limit. Kevin Daly {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (sentence) to nearly three years in prison after losing control of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} partner Alice Hicks' car on a country road {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 80mph. She was a passenger in the Mini-cooper and was thrown from the car {#blank#}4{#/blank#} he crashed into another vehicle  {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (move) in the opposite direction. Daly, 24, denied causing{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (die) by dangerous driving and was found guilty by a jury (陪审团) at Taunton Crown Court. The court heard that neither Daly {#blank#}7{#/blank#} Miss Hicks, 22, was wearing seatbelts at the time of the collision that happened on November 17, 2011. NBC New York reports Kevin Daly, was driving on County Road 83, when the road was blocked by a truck that was waiting {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (turn) right. Witnesses described {#blank#}9{#/blank#} Daly had little or no chance of stopping behind the still traffic and he turned to avoid the van {#blank#}10{#/blank#} hit a Mazda on the other side of the road.

    How will our continuously growing population affect our way of life, our environment, even our planet? No matter how you look at it, we will face {#blank#}1{#/blank#}extremely serious problem. By the middle of the 21^st century, we {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(use) up all the oil that drives our cars if at the rate we're going. Even if scientists develop some new {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(way)of feeding the human race, the crowded conditions on the earth will make {#blank#}4{#/blank#}necessary for us to look for open space somewhere else. But none of the planets in our solar system are able  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(support) life at present. One possible solution {#blank#}6{#/blank#}the problem, however, has recently been suggested by an American scientist, Professor Carl Sagan. His idea is {#blank#}7{#/blank#}before the earth's resources are almost exhausted, it will be  {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(total)possible to change the atmosphere of Venus（金星）and so create a new world almost as large as earth itself.

    However, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} his idea is turned into reality, humans have a long way to go. On the one hand, Venus is much {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(hot)than the earth; on the other hand, there is only a tiny amount of water there.

    John Snow was a famous doctor in London-so{#blank#}1{#/blank#},indeed,that he{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Queen Victoria as her personal physician. But he became{#blank#}3{#/blank#}when he thought about helping ordinary people{#blank#}4{#/blank#}to cholera.This was the deadly disease of its day.Neither its cause nor its{#blank#}5{#/blank#}was understood.So many thousands of terrified people died every time there was an outbreak.John Snow wanted to face the challenge and solve this problem.

    First there was England.Wales was{#blank#}6{#/blank#}to it in the thirteenth century.Now when people{#blank#}7{#/blank#}to England you find Wales{#blank#}8{#/blank#}as well.Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the name was changed to "Great Britain".Happily this was accomplished without{#blank#}9{#/blank#}when King James of Scotland became King of England and Wales as well.Finally the English government tried in the early twentieth century to form the United Kingdom by getting Ireland{#blank#}10{#/blank#}in the same peaceful way.

Elias' Story

    Elias, a poor worker in South Africa, said that the time {#blank#}1{#/blank#} he first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of his life. In 1952, he went to see Nelson Mandela, a black lawyer for advice. Mandela was generous with his time, for{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Elias was very grateful.

    He began school at six, but he had to leave school two years later {#blank#}3{#/blank#} his family couldn't afford the school fees and the bus fare.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} a result, he had very little education. After {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (try) hard, he got a job in a gold mine. However, to live in Johannesburg, one had got to have a passbook. Not having one, because he was not born there, he worried about{#blank#}6{#/blank#} he would become out of work.

    Then Mandela helped him, telling him how to get the correct papers {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (stay) in Johannesburg. He became more hopeful about his future and later joined the ANC Youth League {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(organize) by Mandela. Just as Mandela put it, the blacks were so badly treated that they had reached a stage {#blank#}9{#/blank#} they had almost no rights at all.

    In 1963, he helped Mandela blow up some government buildings. He knew that only by answering violence {#blank#}10{#/blank#} violence could they achieve their dream of making black and white people equal.

    China's homegrown sci-fi blockbuster （大片） The Wandering Earth scored at the Spring Festival box office. The film is an{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(adapt) of a novel of the same name by Liu Cixin, author of the Hugo Award-winning The Three-Body Problem. As{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(it) visual effects impress a global audience, a united human community when{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(face) a big disaster gets attention too.

    Director Guo Fan said that he{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(conscious) avoided making a do-it-alone superhero; instead, the fight to save Earth{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(fight) by all humans. In The Wandering Earth, mankind is threatened by a dying sun,{#blank#}6{#/blank#}forces them to go on a generations-long space journey to look for a new one. At{#blank#}7{#/blank#}center of the story are a Chinese astronaut and his son, who join a global task{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(prevent) Earth from crashing into Jupiter. At the end of the film{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(come) international rescue teams who help the Chinese team and give a final try to save Earth.

    One online review reads, “It fits the Hollywood standard on presentation and visual effects, but the themes of family and love of homeland are typical {#blank#}10{#/blank#}Chinese sci-fi films.”