In Britain you're allowed to drive a car when you're seventeen. You have to get a special two-year driving license before you start. When you're learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you aren't allowed to drive the car on the road alone. You don't have to go to a driving school—a friend can teach you. The person with you isn't allowed to take money for the lessons unless he's got a teacher's license. 

    Before you're allowed to have a full license, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test, you have to drive round for half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you don't pass the test, you're allowed to take it again a few weeks later. In 1970, a woman passed her fortieth test after 212 driving lessons! When you've passed your test, you're allowed to go on driving if you like, and you must be healthy. Britain's oldest driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100. 

    Before 1904, everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1904 car drivers had to have a license. But they didn't have to take a test until 1935. In the early days of car driving, before 1978, cars weren't allowed to go faster than four miles an hour, and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.

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My Life in the Primary School

Zhu Yanjun won the second place in the Chinese Poetry Competition for his excellent poetry skills.

Born in {#blank#}1{#/blank#} village in Jingning County, Gansu Province, Zhu only received primary and middle school education. His love for {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(read) poetry and books came from his Chinese teacher who has published many {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(article) in magazines. "I also wanted to publish stories, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} I started to read," he told China Daily.

Although Zhu left school so early, he didn't stop his poetic journey. He worked {#blank#}5{#/blank#} more than 10 cities. Whenever he got to a city, he visited the bookstores and libraries there. He took a notebook to write down paragraphs from books and recite（背诵）{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(they).

Most of his favorite poems from the Tang Dynasty, and some of them {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(write) by Chairman Mao Zedong. Why? Because he found them easy {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(remember). Over the years, he has read thousands of poems and he can recite more than 1,000 of them now.

Reading poetry {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(help) Zhu stay calm and he never complains about hard work. "Whenever I face any difficulty, I think of a famous saying 'Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it'," he told China Daily.

Zhu's children were {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(interest) in poetry too. They were accepted into universities in different cities.

As an old saying goes, "The last leg of a journey marks the halfway point." This is exactly the case with me.

There was a time when I wondered how I should express myself and explain my opinions 1 . My parents and teacher gave me a lot of help, 2 didn't work well. And I often got low marks on writing and failed 3 proper words to express my ideas. So I 4 to make every effort to improve my writing skills. I read ancient poetry loudly every morning. At first, I made great progress, But as I continued, it became much 5 for me to improve myself.

Although 6 process was difficult, I never considered giving up. 7 important writing is! And 8 classmates supported me powerfully. They told me the saying, "The last leg of a journey marks the halfway point." I 9 by the words and I kept going. At last, my teacher was pleased 10 my writing.

I would not ignore (忽视) the value of this experience, because Rome was not built in a day. We have to put in more and more efforts as we reach success little by little.

Throughout history, the pillow (枕头) has a very long history. 

Nobody knows for sure when the pillow was invented and who was the i{#blank#}1{#/blank#}of it. It's said that people first used pillows in Mesopotamia around 7000 BC. The pillows were made of stones. So they were not c{#blank#}2{#/blank#} but practical. In ancient China, pillows were made of hard things, such as bamboo and wood. There were wonderful paintings of animals, h{#blank#}3{#/blank#}and plants on the pillows. In the 9th c{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, the ancient Greeks and Romans put things like feathers (羽毛) and grass into pillows to make them feel better. Since then, the softer pillows became p{#blank#}5{#/blank#}. 

Nowadays you can see different kinds of pillows in the market. 

My parents and I stayed in London for a few weeks last year. We went there in autumn. We think it is the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} time to visit England. The weather is usually very good. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} , we need to bring umbrellas with us. Because we will use them sometimes. There aren't too many {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in October. We stayed {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a small village. We had most of our sightseeing（观光）on {#blank#}5{#/blank#} . We went to see all the {#blank#}6{#/blank#}places. We went shopping and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} too much money. 

A lot of people say English food is awful（难吃）. We don't think {#blank#}8{#/blank#}. In fact, we enjoy{#blank#}9{#/blank#} vacation so much. So we {#blank#}10{#/blank#}to go there again this year.