“It is better to travel 10,000 miles than to read 10,000 books,” said US First Lady Michelle Obama in Beijing on March 22. Mrs. Obama, along w  (1)   her mother and two daughters made their first trip to China from March 20-26.

In a speech at Peking University, Mrs. Obama encouraged students to study a  (2)   .  “It’s not enough to get good  g  (3)   at school,”  she said in the speech.   “Overseas (海外) e  (4)   helps make our life successful.”

“By learning each other’s languages and by showing respect (尊重) for each other’c  (5)  to so much more,” she said.

The US is the top destination (目的地) for Chinese students who go abroad. More than 200,000 Chinese students are now studying in the US.

In 2009, US President Barack Obama announced (宣布) his goal of s  (6)  100,000 students to China. S  (7)   then 68,000 US students have come to China.  What’s  m  (8)   ,many kids in the US are now studying Chinese. “It is a hard language, but it is never t  (9)   early to start learning it,” said Mason Grabowski, 14, a student from Chicago.

Hello．everyone．I'm Daming from China．Spnng Festival is coming．I tell you something about Spring Festival．It is very important in our country．It usually ____56____ (come)in January or February．There are a lot of____57____(tradition)customs(习俗)for Spring Festival．

　For example，before Spring Festival，my parents usually ____58____(clean)the house and sweep bad____59____(luck)．My grandmother is good at ____60____(cook)．She can ____61____ (make)some New Year cake(年糕)．We always ____62____ (have)a big dinner on Spring Festival's Eve(除夕)．There are so much deficious food．Of course，____63____（I)favourite thing is to watch Spring Festival Gala Evening(春节联欢晚会)．The next day we must get up early and visit our family and friends．What's happening outside？Ha ha！My uncles and brothers are ____64____(1earn)a dragon dance．It's really busy and ____65____ (interest)．

　　You can find h__③__ of free yellow bikes in some U．S．cities．The idea began in Portland, Oregon, in 1994．People saw a need for f__④__ transportation, and they wanted to help c__⑤__ pollution．So, to get citizens out of their cars and onto pollution free bikes, they s__⑥__ the Yellow Bike Project．
　　The public bike are p__⑦__ bright yellow a nd placed throughout the city．People can hop on a yellow bike and ride to work to school, or to run errands．They then leave the bike for the n__⑧__ rider．There have been times when bikes have been stolen, but most people obey the r__⑨__．What would be the point of stealing something that’s already free?
　　Portland’s i__⑩__ quickly became popular．Within two years of its start similar programs were set up in cities in six other states．

There was a lovely vegetable patch (菜园). A large tree______61_ (grow) there. Both the patch and the tree gave the place a wonderful look, and they were the____62___ (proud) of the gardener. But no one knew that the vegetables and the tree _63______(can  not) stand (忍受) each other. The vegetables hated the tree’s shadow (阴影), because it left them only just enough light _____64_（live）. The tree, on the other hand, hated the vegetables because they ____65____(drink) nearly all the water, (leave)____66__ him just enough to live.

The situation became so serious that the vegetables decided to use up all the water in the ground so that the tree___67___( die.) .The tree answered back by not (protect)_______68___ the vegetables from the hot sun, so they began to dry up. Soon the vegetables were really weak, and the tree was drying up.

The gardener ______69__(wonder) why and stopped watering them. When he did that, both the tree and the vegetables realized that it was _70_______(good) to help each other. They learned how to live in harmony with those 71________ (介词)them. So they decided________72_(work )together, using both the shade and the water _____73______( grow )well. After______74____( see)how well they were doing, the gardener gave the best care to his vegetable patch,______75_____ (water)and fertilizing (施肥) it better than any other patch for miles around. 

English people like DIY. A lot of people always spend their holiday making their homes more b61  . If there is anything that needs repairing or decorating around their homes, such as  p 62   the walls or putting in a new shower, they will do the jobs themselves. They s63  DIY experience with their friends. More and more people show an i 64  in DIY. Sometimes people also DIY in order to s 65  money. They are trying To find ways to make their house better when they can’t a 66  the cost. So, it is not surprising that DIY is very popular.

DIY can be different. People often find it not e 67  to build a piece of furniture because they can’t understand the instructions well. Sometimes the instructions are simple and clear, but the furniture i 68   is difficult to build. DIY can also be d 69  . People should learn much about DIY work before doing it. Unluckily, many people don’t care about that. So they may be in danger. It is r 70  that in just one year thousands of people were hurt while doing DIY in the UK, including those who fell off ladders.

Molly lived in the country, but one day she decided to visit a big city to do some shopping and to go sightseeing. She stayed at a h   81    near the center of the city. She had hardly ever been to the city before, so she was very e   82     about what she would find.

On the first morning in the city, as she walked on the road, she s   83     a blind beggar（乞丐）. Molly f    84    sorry for the beggar and she put a dollar into his bowl. “Thank you,” he said.

On the t   85    day, Molly did not have a dollar coin（硬币）. She only had fifty cents, so she put the m   86    into the beggar’s bowl. The beggar knew that she gave him less money than the first two days. “Why are you so stingy（吝啬的）t   87   ?” he asked.

Molly was very s   88   . “How do you know I haven’t given you a dollar?” she said. “If you’re blind, you can’t know what I have put into your bowl.”

“Well,” the beggar said, “to tell you the t   89   , I’m not blind. I’m just w   90    for my blind friend because he is on vacation.”

​ My father used to work in the city and seldom stayed at home. But he would come b  86   to help harvest rice every year.

One autumn, he promised to help our neighbor, who lost his a   87     in a traffic accident in 1999 to harvest his rice. After Father harvested our own, his little rice picker broke. What’s worse, he had to return to work the next day b   88    his partner was ill in hospital. It m   89    that Father wouldn’t be back in a few days. It now seemed i   90    to help out the neighbor.

Father told us that he wouldn’t let the n   91    rice rot (糜烂) in the field. He decided to harvest it by hand w   92    a machine. “If tonight’s weather is clear, I think I can do it.” added my father. In fact, he was rather tired after a day’s harvest work.

After dinner, Father had a short rest and made his way to the field. A f   93   moon was glowing in the sky and the weather was cold but clear. He spent the whole night k   94   his word.

I would never f   95    the image：Father was cutting rice in the light of the harvest moon. Behind him, row after row of rice stocks stood at attention, showing respect for a man who kept his word.