Earthquakes are a kind of natural disaster. They usually come {#blank#}1{#/blank#} warning. An earthquake is dangerous,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} there are still things you can do to protect {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    Slay calm as the earth begins to shake. Your chances of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (survive) in an earthquake go up if you can keep calm.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (stay) calm is not easy, but it can save your life.

    If you are inside when the earthquake starts, get under {#blank#}6{#/blank#} table or a bed. You need to have something {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (strength) around you to protect you from {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (fall) objects. Do not stand near walls or windows and stay out of the kitchen. The kitchen is dangerous because of many glass objects.

Remember to always hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

    One night, a mother and her daughter went out for dinner together. The mother was a heavy smoker, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(make) her daughter feel very upset and worried. She would often tell her mother that smoking was very bad {#blank#}2{#/blank#}her health. But her mother wouldn't listen and refused to stop smoking.

    However, at {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(they) dinner that night, she noticed that her mother didn't have a single cigarette. As a matter of fact, she realized that she hadn't seen her mother smoke for {#blank#}4{#/blank#} whole day.

    “I can see that you're not smoking at all today. Are you trying {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(give) up smoking?” the daughter asked hopefully.

    The mother answered, “No, I'm just feeling a little bit sick right now. I don't smoke {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(cigarette) when I'm sick, because if I do, it takes me {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(long) to get better.”

    The daughter{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(reply), “Well, I guess you would{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(probable) live a better life {#blank#}10{#/blank#}you got sick a bit more often!”

    Once there lived a rich man,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} wanted to do something for the people of his town. But first he wanted to find out {#blank#}2{#/blank#} they were worth his help or not.

    In the center of the main road into the town, he placed a very large stone. Then he {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (hide) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow. “Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. Another man came along and did {#blank#}5{#/blank#} same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained {#blank#}6{#/blank#}the stone but none tried to remove it.

    Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (say) to himself, “The night will be very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone. ” Then pushing and pulling with all his {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (strong), the young man began to move the stone ... How {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (surprise) he was! There was a bag of money under{#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

    Two weeks after the popular show Chinese Poetry Conference, a new program, Reader (朗读者), has become much {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (popular) than it.

    The weekly talk show, hosted by the famous hostess Dong Qing, invites people from all walks of life {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (read) aloud poems, essays and book excerpts (节选) they like or wrote. The guests who join{#blank#}3{#/blank#} it also share their own life stories and explain the reason why particular pieces touched their hearts. Viewers can often be moved to tears {#blank#}4{#/blank#} they listen to those stories.

    Three days after its first broadcast on CCTV-1，Readers has been {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (great) successful and interested thousands of people. Through the poetic words, Readers has made {#blank#}6{#/blank#} public pay attention to the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (lose) habit of reading aloud. Readers is one of the cultural TV {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (program) to restore (恢复) the country's love for literature. Its success is very {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (encourage) in today's television world where TV series {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (play) a leading part so far.

    Once, three men got {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (lose) in the forest. They decided they would stay in the forest until they found {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (they) way. The next morning, one man went to find some food. Soon, the other two men were {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (surprise) to find him back with a deer and asked how he got the deer. The man replied, “I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got a deer.” They both were {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (slight) confused because he had no weapons. A few days {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (late), the second guy went in search {#blank#}6{#/blank#} food and soon came back with a deer too. The other two asked how he managed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (get) the deer. His reply was {#blank#}8{#/blank#} same as the first man's. Then it was the turn of the third guy to search for food. Many hours passed, and the third man {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (hold) nothing in his hands came back, with blood on his face. The other two asked him {#blank#}10{#/blank#} had happened. He looked at them and relied, “I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got hit by a train.”