---Next month, dear.

A. when will my mum come back B. when my mum will come back

C. how my mum goes to work D. where will my mum go

A. how did you visit the city B. how many days you've spent there

C. which hotel you stayed in Sanya D. how you found the seafood there

A traveler came out of the airport.There were a lot of taxis there.He asked every taxi driver his name.Then he took 【1】 third one.

“How much does it cost to use your taxi【2】 the whole day?”the traveler asked.

“100 dollars,”said the taxi driver.This was very expensive,but the traveler said 【3】 was OK.

The taxi driver took the traveler everywhere.He 【4】 him all the parks and museums in the city.In the evening they went back to the hotel.The traveler gave the taxi driver 100 dollars.

The next day the taxi driver took the traveler to more beautiful 【5】 in the city.And in the evening they went back to the hotel.The traveler gave the taxi driver 100 dollars 【6】 and said,“We had a good time together.7【7】 I’m going home back to New York.”

“You 【8】 from New York!”said the taxi driver.“I have a sister in New York.Her【9】 is Sandy.Do you know her?”

“Of course I 【10】 her.She asked me to give 200 dollars to you!”the traveler answered.

As elderly master grew tired of his student’s complaining,so one morning,the master gave the young man some salt and told the unhappy young man to put some salt in a【1】 of water and then drink it.

“How does it【2】?”the master asked.

“Bitter,”said the young man.

The master smiled and then asked the young man to take the 【3】 amount of salt and put it in the 【4】.Then,the old man said,“Now drink from the lake.”

The young man did 【5】 his master told him to.And then,the master asked again,“How does it taste?”

“Fresh,”the young man answered.

“Do 【6】 taste the bitterness?”asked the master.

“No,”said the young man.

Then,the master sat beside this young man,【7】 his hands and said,“The pain of life is salt.The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same.However,the amount of bitterness we taste 【8】 on the container(容器) we put the pain in.So when you are in pain,【9】 only thing you can do is to enlarge(放大) your sense of things.【10】being a glass.Become a lake.”

Alice Munro (愛(ài)麗絲·羅),a Canadian writer called “master of the contemporary short story”,【1】 the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013.

The prize committee compared the 82-year-old writer to Anton Chekhov (安東·契訶夫),the 19th century Russian who is considered as one of the【2】 short story writers in history.

Munro is the【3】 Canadian-based writer to win the literature award.Saul Bellow,who won 【4】 in 1976,was born in Quebec 【5】 moved to the United States as a child and is regarded as a U.S.writer.

Munro is【6】 13th woman to receive the literature prize in the world.

After the prestigious (聲望很高的)award was announced,the Nobel committee said that it hadn’t been able to get in touch 【7】 Munro and left a phone message to tell her the good 【8】.But she said the award 【9】 “quite wonderful” and she was “terribly surprised”.

“I knew I was in the running,yes,but I【10】 thought I would win,” she said.

A poor young man went to Paris,expecting that his father’s friend could help him find a business 【1】 living.

“Are you 【2】 at math?” his father’s friend asked him.

The young man【3】 his head.

“How are your history and law?”

The young man lowered (低下)his head sadly.

His father’s friend asked again and again,but the young man could 【4】 shake his head.He himself couldn’t find out any advantages.

“Then write down your address【5】.”

The young man wrote his address and turned to leave,【6】 he was stopped by his father’s friend.“Your name is written very beautifully,which is your advantage.You shouldn’t satisfy yourself with 【7】 a job for living.”

Many【8】 later,the young man wrote the classical works that were well-known in the world.He was Alexandra Dumas (大仲馬),【9】 famous French writer of the 18th century.

There are many ordinary persons who all have many small advantages,but they can’t find 【10】.In fact,there is a gold mine (礦)in every ordinary life.If you’re willing to dig,you will dig out treasures that may surprise yourself.

John was born in a poor village.His parents didn’t have money to send him to school when he was at the age of going to school.He was very【1】.Mr.White was his neighbor.He knew John well and felt sorry for him.So he often lent some 【2】 to him so that John could go to school.He studied very hard and did well in all his lessons.When he【3】 middle school,Mr.White introduced him to his friend in town.And John began his work.

Once Mr.White was badly hurt in a traffic accident.Before dying,he asked John to look 【4】 his daughter,Sandy.The young man agreed and several years later he married the girl.He loved his wife very much and tried his best to make her happy.He was good at 【5】 and often cooked delicious food for her.So she became very fat.

One day she found there was【6】 wrong with her heart.Her husband wasn’t at home.So she went to hospital by【7】.The doctor looked her over and told her not to eat meat,sugar,chocolate and other fatty things.She was worried that she might forget the doctor’s【8】 and wrote the names of the food on a list.

When she got home,she put 【9】 list on the table and went out.When she returned home that afternoon,she found many kinds of【10】:meat,sugar and chocolate in the kitchen.John was busy cooking there.As soon as he saw her,he said happily,“I’ve bought all the food you like,dear!”

Sandstorms are strong,dry winds that carry sand.They are often 【1】 thick that you cannot see the sun.Northwest China is part of the sandstorm centre in Central Asia.There have been 【2】 sandstorms in China in recent years than before as a result of “desertification”.This happens when lands become 【3】 because of climate(氣候) changes and because people 【4】 down trees and dig up grass.

The Chinese Central Weather Station can forecast(預(yù)報(bào)) a sandstorm some weeks 【5】 it reaches Beijing,but the power(威力) of the storm may still surprise people.Weather experts advise people not to go out when a sandstorm【6】 in the city.A man 【7】 lives in Beijing told the reporters,“To ride【8】 bike in a sandstorm is terrible.The winds are very strong that 【9】 difficult to breathe and the dust makes me ill.”

The desert is only 250 kilometers away to the west of Beijing.To 【10】 it coming nearer,the government has planted over 30 billion trees and plans to continue planting for the next five years.

Chinese dishes are very different in the north and south.But in most parts of China,there is one kind of food that is 【1】 in most parts of China.It is baozi.

Baozi are made in different sizes.【2】 smallest kind is xiaolongbao.Each one is as small as a ping-pong ball.The fillings of baozi are also 【3】.Usually Baozi are 【4】 with vegetables or pork.In the south,many people also put sweet fillings such 【5】 sugar in baozi.Some baozi even have soup inside.People drink the soup before eating the baozi.Some people think it’s【6】 to make this kind of baozi.But in 【7】,it’s very easy.【8】,we put a jelly(嗜喱) of gravy inside a baozi.Next,we put the baozi in a pot on a fire.Later,【9】 the baozi gets hot,the jelly turns into soup.

Baozi is an important kind of traditional food to Chinese people.Not only Chinese but also many foreigners like baozi.【10】 call them dumplings,the same name as jiaozi in English.