If you're in Florence, Italy, and see a man on a ladder ____(1)____ (wipe) the dust off statues and buildings, don't worry. It's just Alessandro Ricci gathering material for his famous smog paintings.

   Ricci is not a common ____(2)____ (art), because he used smog as the main material of his artworks. Unlike other painters seeking fast recognition of their talent, instead he is mere ____(3)____ (concern) about bringing attention to how much smog there really is and how it's destroying both its monuments and people.

   Ricci lives with his parents nearby Florence, but almost every day he visits the streets of the city, ____(4)____ collects smog for his paintings. He applies the smog directly onto a cloth and creates street scenes and buildings from ____(5)____ he got the dangerous material. ____(6)____ (final), he seals his paintings with a natural resin (树脂).

   His actions helped win a small victory for the people of Florence. ____(7)___ October 25, 2012, the Duomo area of the city ____(8)____ (make) pedestrian-only. ____(9)____, there is still a long way to go, he believes, and only to clean the thick layer of smog that has accumulated throughout Florence would take several years. Still, he continues his unique smog artworks and lets the people know how ____(10)____ (pollute) the environment they live in really is.

（Class1.7.8）He (1)    (2)     a new record in September 1935 at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. …It was over 30 feet (3)    (4)    and had a 2500-horsepower engine. Although Campbell reached a speed of over 304 miles per hour, he had great difficulty in (5)     the car because a tyre (6)    during the first run. After his attempt, Campbell (7)   (8)    (9)   learn that his (10)    speed had been 299 miles per hour.

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Once there lived a rich man 1 ________ wanted to do something for the people of his own. But first he wanted to find out whether they deserved 2 _______ (one) help.     

In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed 3_________ very large stone. Then he 4 ___________ (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. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. 5 ___________ man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove 6 __________. Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone, 7 _________ (say) to himself: “The night 8___________ (be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.”  

Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his 9 __________ (strong) to move it. How great was his surprise at last! 10 ___________ the stone, he found a bag of money.

（Class 2-6）Tired of sleeping on the floor, a young man in Teharan (1)     (2)    for years to buy a real bed. …He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm (3)     (4)  . A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it (5)    into the courtyard below.

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She looks like any other schoolgirl, fresh-faced and full of life. Sarah Thomas is looking forward to challenge of her new A-level course. But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term     (1)     (rest). Instead, she is earning $6500 a day as      (2)     model in New York.

  Sarah       (3)       (tell) that she could be Britain’s new supermodel earning a million dollars in the new year. Her father Peter 44, want her to give up school to model fulltime. But Sarah,     (4)      has taken part in shows along with top models wants       (5)       (prove) that she has brains as well as beauty she is determined to carry on with her        (6)       (educate).

She has turned down several       (7)       (invitation) to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies After school she plans to take a year off to model full time before going to university to get a degree       (8)       engineering or architecture.

Sarah says, “My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school     (9)       (come) first. I don't want to get too absorbed in modeling. It is     (10)       (certain) fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal. I don’t want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can't model my more.”

（Class1.7.8）The crowd began to shout, but the drunk (1)     (2)      (3)   the danger. …Apparently sensitive to criticism, the bull forgot all about the matador and (4)      (5)  the drunk.

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A man who was out of work applied for the position of “office boy” at a big firm. The HR manager  41      (interview) him, then a test： clean the floor. “You are hired,” he said, “Give me your email address,  42     I’ll send you the application to fill.” The man replied “I don’t have a computer, 43     an email”.

“I’m sorry,” said the HR manager, “that means you do not exist. And anyone  44     doesn’t exist cannot have the job.” The man left  45      no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket.

He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10kg tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he 46      (success) in doubling his capital(资本). He repeated it 3 times, and returned home with $60.

5 years later, the man is one of the 47      (big) food retailers(零售商) in the US. He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance.

He called 48      insurance broker(保险经纪人), and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied, “I don’t have an email”. The broker replied 49      (curious), “You don’t have an email, and yet have established an empire! Do you imagine 50    ​  you could have been if you had an email?

The man thought for a while, and replied. “An office boy!”

Liu Fang is a famous pipa soloist,    61    whose music is strongly influenced by traditional singing.     62     (graduate) from Shanghai Conservatory of Music,          63      she studied the pipa and the guzheng, she went back to work in her hometown Kunming. She then moved to Canada in 1996 and    64    (live) there since then. For her, the biggest challenge of playing the pipa is to respect the traditions but     65    (add) her own style. In her opinion, classical Chinese music and traditional Chinese painting are quite    66    (like). The former has    67     (silent) that is full of music    68    the latter features empty spaces which give life to the whole painting. As a soloist, she enjoys performing live, for she likes the atmosphere of a concert. Not having a concert for a long time may put her in a state of    69     (depress). She also enjoys the time immediately after the concert to share the feelings and ideas with the audiences,    70    (listen) to their opinions about the music.