Americans love pets. In America, there are more families with pets    1    those with children. It is common    2     U.S. homes have some sort of pets, such as monkeys, snakes and even wolves. But Americans’ all-time favorites are cats and dogs, because dogs can offer protection from thieves and unwelcome visitors and cats can help get rid    3     the home unwanted pests. Beneath keeping pets, there lies a basic American belief: Pets have a right to be treated well. In Houston, Texas, dogs can have their dinner    4     (deliver) to their homes, just like pizza. Pets can even go with    5     owners on vacation. Besides, at least 75 animal welfare organizations exist in America    6     provide care and adoption services for    7     (home) and ill-treated animals. To pay for the high-tech health care, people can buy health insurance     8    their pets. Pets are as basic to American culture as hot dogs or apple pie. By now researchers    9     (discover) that interacting with animals lowers a person's blood pressure. Pets even encourage social relationships: They give their owners an appearance of friendliness, and they provide    10     good topic of conversation.

Watching online open classes U.S. top universities has become indispensable for many young Chinese. Guo Lei, a native of Guangzhou, has become 1       (addict) to various open courses after she watched the online video of " Justice: What's the right thing to do." Guo was immediately attracted by the topic and the discussion of the Harvard students about 2      (moral) and justice.

About 700 sina micro bloggers 3       (post) different links to the videos. 163.com has launched a special channel for open programs, 4      (provide) more than 1,200 class hours of free videos. Many Chinese have adjusted 5      daily timetable and some office workers have quit taking naps 6       they can watch videos at noon. 7      download free online resources to their cell phones to watch while taking buses.

On Douban.com, a netizen named "an independent cat" called 8      others to get up an hour earlier in the morning to watch the videos before leaving for work, 9     has mobilized a great number of followers.

"This set up a good example of how to change and improve our teaching methods." said Wang, a professor of Sun Yat-Sen University. He also suggested that lectures by some popular Chinese speakers and professors 10       (translate) into foreign languages and posted online to help foreign audiences understand Chinese culture.

Alfred Nobel became a millionaire and changed the ways of mining，construction，and warfare as the inventor of dynamite（炸药）. On April 12，1888，Alfred's brother Ludwig died of heart attack. A major French newspaper mistook his brother ___1____ him and carried an article ____2_____(announce) the death of Alfred Nobel. “___3___ merchant of death is dead.”The article read. “Dr. Alfred Nobel，___4____ became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before，died   yesterday. ”

Alfred put ____5____ the newspaper sadly. It was his brother rather than __6___ who had died and the French newspaper had made a mistake. All the same, Alfred felt uncomfortable. Was this the way the world was going to remember him? He did not like that idea at all. He wanted people to remember him as a man of peace.

He invented his dynamite at a perfect moment in time. Many countries were beginning to build roads through mountains and needed a safe, strong dynamite. His dynamite was developed for such peaceful uses. He also thought that ____7____ all countries had the same great weapons, they would see how impossible war was and that any country fighting a war ___8___(destroy). Therefore, there would be no more wars. Many people of his day also thought this way.

To make sure that he was remembered with love and respect. Nobel arranged in a will to give the ___9____(large) part of his money to establish the Nobel prizes，which would be awarded to people who made great ___10____ (contribute) to the causes of peace，literature，and the sciences.      

Nowadays, it is common that parents buy   1   educational present for their children. A lot of personal computers are placed under the Christmas tree this year.  2  (believe) that computers are the key to success, parents are also insisting that children  3  (teach) to use them in school as early as possible. The problem for school is   4  when it comes to computers, parents don’t always know best. Teachers found themselves caught in the middle of the problem between parent   5  (press) and wise educational decisions. Many schools are giving in to parental impatience and are purchasing hardware   6   good educational planning. Educators do not even agree on how computers should be used. Even those   7   believe that all children should have access to computers warn of potential dangers to the very young. The temptation(诱惑) remains strong    8   (large) because young children adapt so well to computers. However, not every school can afford to go into computing, and that creates   9   problem: a division between the haves and the have-nots. Very few parents are agitating for（倡导）computer instruction in poor school districts,   10   there may be barely enough money to pay the teacher.

Every student will 　　1　 (face) with the question when he passes the college entrance examinations: Should we choose a good major(专业) 　 2　 a good university first?

Some students prefer 　　 3　　 　(consider) majors first so that they can learn 　　　 4　 　 they are interested in. It will also make 　　5　 possible for them to take their favorite jobs in the future.

6　　 , those 　 7　 　think differently believe that the environment is important to one's development and that graduates from leading universities are often more likely to find a good job.

In my opinion, the best 　　8　 　(choose) is a good major at a good university. If we cannot obtain　　 9　 , the first thing to consider is a good major, because no matter 　 10　 we study, we can still achieve a lot in a certain field if we try our best.

BEIJING---World-renowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China   1   (attract) top-rank postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.

Oxford made its first   2   (appear) at the China Scholarship Council's annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair,   3   opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider   4   Oxford can offer for   5   academic and professional careers.

"The students came well-prepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance," said Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make   6   two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.

The University of Cambridge   7   (attend) the fair since its first session in 2009, and stresses that it would continue to invest to train students to be problem-solvers.

  8   Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for   9   best and brightest, Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation   10   competition, except in their traditional annual boat race.

In most cities,   1   or poor, it is the less well off that are most at risk from floods and natural disasters. It was the poor of New Orleans, nearly a   2   (three) of the population, who lived in the lowest-lying parts of the city and   3   (suffer) most from Katrina’s (卡特里娜飓风) wrath (愤怒).   4   (similar), it was the urban poor of Honduras (洪都拉斯) and its neighbors who were struck hardest   5   Hurricane Mitch in 1998. And it is the people of the slums (贫民窟) more widely in Latin America   6   are most capable of being attacked.

In some places, too little water, not too much, is the problem. China’s thirst for industry and   7   ( irrigate) has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers(蓄水层). Droughts seem to be ever more frequent in northern China, and southern cities such as Guangzhou are also affected. Rivers are drying up: the Yellow River now flows to the sea for only   8   few weeks a year. And the rain, when it comes, is intensely acid. To make matters   9   (bad), the glaciers on which both China   10   India partly depend are melting. Any benefits from extra water supplies will be short-term, and damaged by floods.

Americans love pets. In America, there are more families with pets  1   those with children. It is common   2    U.S. homes have some sorts of pets, such as monkeys, snakes and even wolves. But Americans’ all-time favorites are cats and dogs, because dogs can offer protection from thieves and unwelcome visitors and cats can help get rid   3   the home unwanted pests. Beneath keeping pets, there lies a absic American belief: Pets have a right to be treated well. In Houston, Texas, dogs can have a right to be treated well. In Houston, Texas, dogs can have dinner   4   (deliver) to their homes, just like pizza. Pets can even go with   5   owners on vacation. Besides, at least 75 animal welfare organizations exist in America which provide care and adoption services for   6   (home) and ill-treated animals. To pay for the high-tech health care, people can buy health insurance   7    their pets. Pets are   8   basic to American culture as hot dogs or apple pie. By now researchers   9   (discover) that interacting with animals lowers a person’s blood pressure. Pets even encourage social relationships. They give their owners an appearance of friendliness, and they provide   10    good topic of conversation.

Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people’s daily life.   1   these proverbs there are often interesting stories. For example, the proverb, “plucking up a crop   2  (help) it grow”, is based on the following story.

    It is said that a short—tempered man in the Song Dynasty (960—1279) was very anxious to help   3  rice crop grow up quickly. He was thinking about  4   day and night. But the crop was growing much slower than he expected.

    One day, he came up with an idea   5   he would pluck up all of his crop a few inches. He did so the next day.

    He was very tired   6   doing this for a whole day,   7  he felt very happy since the crop did “grow”  8  (high).

    His son heard about this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately the leaves of the crop began to wither.

This proverb is saying we have to let things go in their   9  (nature) course. Being too anxious to help an event develop often   10  (result) in the contrary to our intention.

Viennese-born composer Frederick Loewe, 1　　　　 we remember from his classical musicals including “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot”, was not always famous. He studied piano with the great masters of Europe and achieved huge success as a 2　　　　　 (music) and composer in his early years. But 3　　　　 he immigrated to the United States, he failed as a pianist. For a while he tried other types of work including gold mining and boxing. 　4 he never gave up his dream and continued to play the piano and write music.

　 During those difficult years, he could not always afford 5　　　　 (make) payments on his piano. One day, bending over the keyboard, he could hear nothing but the music that he played with such 6 inspiration. When he finished and looked up, he was astonished to find that he had an audience of three moving men who were seated on the floor.

　 They said nothing and made no movement toward the piano. Instead, they 7　　　 (dig) into their pockets, pooled together enough money for the payment, placed 8　　　 on the piano and walked out, empty handed. 9 (move)) by the beauty of his music, these men recognized excellence and responded 10　　　　 it..