Shanghai’s underground library is an example of “guerilla libraries” (流动图书馆) which have been springing up all over the world. (9)__________ a traditional library, a guerilla library is usually set up by individuals who want to connect people of
similar interests within a community. It (10)__________ be a few shelves of books set up on the corner in a neighborhood, or just a book left in a coffee shop with instructions inside to pass the book along after it’s read.
According to the guerilla library movement, e-books have taken the passion out of reading. They say people are losing out on the emotion that comes with (11)__________(hold) a real book in their hands and also the satisfaction that comes with sharing a book with another person.
In general, people don’t read many books these days. Last year, people in China between the ages of 18 and 70 read
(12)__________(few) than five books. Most people use the excuse that they’re just too busy or that reading is a boring activity. Well, some books may be boring, but reading certainly isn’t. It’s educational, entertaining and (13)__________ wonderful way to spend a few idle minutes or hours.
The Metro Line 2 library will soon expand to Lines 3 and 4, but why wait? You (14)__________ start your own guerilla library by passing along a good book that you’ve read.
(15)__________(give) it to a friend, leave it in a café, or leave it in the subway! After all, riders like to be readers, too.
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A Happy Person, a Successful Person
A successful person (1)__________(think) by many to be a person that makes a large amount of money and lives in a very nice house in a wealthy neighborhood. (2)__________what is not
mentioned often enough when it comes to success is happiness. If you are able to be happy most of the time, then you are already successful.
More does not necessarily mean that it will be better for a person. But that is how people in many nations are raised to think. (3)__________ are taught from a young age that they (4)__________
have (5)__________ their friends or neighbors have. And it is what that makes these people bitter and unhappy. (6)__________(have) great wealth is a good thing but that is only a small part of what success is. If the other parts of your life are struggling (艰难的), all the money in the world (7)__________(not make) you happy and successful.
People in (8)__________ United States earn high salaries, but they are not happy because the long-hour work puts lots of stress (9)__________ them and they even have to sit in traffic one hour each way (10)__________(get) to and back home from work. However, Mexicans are much happier (11)__________ they are not as rich as Americans. They know how to live life at a slower pace and they take the time (12)__________(notice) and appreciate
(13)__________ is around them. They also place great importance on family values and make the most of what they have.
Money may not necessarily mean that you are successful or happy. Remember that it is happiness that brings you true success because a happier person will automatically attract more good things to him or her. A happy person is a person (14)__________ generally has a great attitude towards life and he or she always tries to be grateful and optimistic no matter what life throws at him or her. Happiness is the (15)__________(great) success.
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Chinese swimmer Sun Yang won three gold medals altogether and (1)__________(award) the best male swimmer during the 2013 FINA World Championships (世界游泳锦标赛) held in Barcelona, Spain, after (2)__________(complete) a sweep of the freestyle (自由泳) distance events with victories in the 400, 800 and 1,500 meters. However, (3)__________ was not easy for Sun Yang to take these remarkable titles (4)__________ he did not have a major competitor in Barcelona, because he was deeply bothered by the
negative reports of him and was under great pressure (5)__________ he competed in the Barcelona Championships.
Sun Yang (6)__________(make) historical breakthroughs at the 2012 London Olympic Games, (7)__________ established him as one of China’s (8)__________(outstanding) sportsmen after Yao
Ming and Liu Xiang. Nevertheless, his fame also brought him much criticism and bad influence. After the Olympics, Sun Yang was publicly criticized by his coach Zhu Zhigen for not training
enough and (9)__________(perform) too many commercial activities. He was also attacked by the public for focusing too much on his romantic relationship. Due to the conflict during training, Sun Yang even split with his coach for a period of time. At that time, many people began to question his future prospects (前途) (10)__________ an athlete.
Fortunately, (11)__________ talented swimmer saved himself from criticism and rebuilt his heroic image by achieving three gold medals in Barcelona, which also made him the first Chinese swimmer (12)__________(name) as the best male swimmer. Unlike the bad boy who was at odds with media and
(13)__________ coach, Sun Yang appeared to be more mature in Barcelona. “I met the biggest difficulty (14)__________ my life in the past half year. I was not training well in the last two months. (15)__________ I wanted to do my best in the competition and not let down those who supported me,” he said with tears. Sun Yang’s successful performance signaled a restart for the young star after the year full of difficulties.
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Sliding across a rope, her face tight with concentration, (1)__________ young woman looks as if she is on a rigorous bootcamp (新兵训练营). However, in fact, she is a tourist in
Nabari (日本三重县名张市), the birthplace of Japan’s ninja (忍者), where visitors can pay for the pleasure of (2)__________(train) like ninjas in old days.
Scurrying (疾走) over walls, throwing deadly spiked darts (带刺的飞镖), (3)__________ walking across water in special ninja shoes were all important skills used by ninjas. Now，Such skills (4)__________(teach) to enthusiastic visitors as Nabari and its neighbouring town, Iga (伊贺市), (5)__________(use) their ninja heritage to attract tourism and boost （促进）the local economy. Iga and Nabari are known as the home of ninja (6)__________ the first ever ninjas were trained in the area in the early 15th
century. The mountainous nature of the region may have helped boost the secretive image of ninjas, most of (7)__________
belonged to (8)__________ the Iga or the Koga (甲贺) clan (派). The men (9)__________ Iga were particularly famous for their fearlessness and deadly skills.
Ninjas were (10)__________(well known) in Japan in the 15th century. Nevertheless, six centuries later, the ninjas’ skills are being used (11)__________(boost) the area’s flagging (萎缩的) economy. Visitors to Nabari (12)__________ buy a ninja training tour, which will teach (13)__________ how to climb a 20 feet wall, throw shuriken darts (忍者镖) and cross rivers using ropes. Tourists who manage to get through the course
(14)__________ injury can receive graduation certificates, while others can visit Iga, an hour down the road, and watch a ninja (15)__________(display) after their exhausting insight into the lives of traditional ninjas.
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By her own definition（定义）, 19-year-old Hou Yifan is an average student. She is a sophomore（大学二年级学生）at Peking University, (1) __________ of China’s top colleges, and says she constantly falls behind on her work.
But she has a better excuse than most: Ms. Hou is one of the (2) __________ (great) chess prodigies (神童) in history. She has been ranked among the top 10 women in the world (3)__________ she was 12 and became a grandmaster（特级大师）, the game’s top title, when she was 14 years old—the 15th (4)__________ (young) on record.
One day last month, while most of her fellow students were in class, Ms. Hou was routing (使溃败) Anna Ushenina of Ukraine in the last game of their Women’s World Chess Championship match in Taizhou (泰州), Jiangsu province. She won the match to recapture the crown, which she lost last year to Ms. Ushenina, (5)__________ is nine years Ms. Hou’s senior. Ms. Hou first won the crown in
2010 when she was 16, making her the youngest player, man or woman, (6)__________ (win) a world title. She successfully defended the title in 2011.
Born in Xinghua (兴化), China, Ms. Hou (7)__________ (discover) the game when she was three and her father took her to a store where she saw a glass chess set in a window and began staring (8)__________ it. Her father bought a set, and she soon began beating him, so he found her a chess tutor. By 2003, at age nine, she was a member of the Chinese national team.
(9)__________ (describe) herself as a full-time student, Ms. Hou said she did not receive any “special privileges（特权）” that allowed her (10)__________ (avoid) fulfilling her course requirements. She also has to be in class most of the time, although she (11)__________ (allow) to leave for tournaments. Her travel schedule is making her studies difficult, (12)__________ she said she took her books with her.
Since Ms. Hou is well-known in China, some of the other students were “a bit surprised” when she enrolled last year at the university, she said, adding that her fellow students had got used to (13)__________ (have) her there. Asked (14)__________ she was in the university at all, she said, “I am really trying (15)__________ (learn) something” other than chess.
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In September 1991, two German mountaineers (1) __________
(climb) in the Italian Alps(阿尔卑斯山) when they saw something (2) __________ (lie) in the ice. They were surprised when they realized that it was the body of a man. The two Germans guessed that the man had been (3) __________ mountaineer. Many climbers (4) __________ (kill) in the Alps over the past 200 years, and sometimes their dead bodies were found (5) _________ a long time.
When the two men got back to the (6) __________ (near) town, they reported (7) __________ they had seen and the body was recovered. When doctors examined it to try to identify the man, they discovered something surprising. The man was not a modern mountaineer, but a Bronze Age(青铜器时代) traveler (8) __________ lived more than 5,000 years before. He had died high up in the mount ains and the freezing
temperatures and thick ice kept his body perfect for thousands of years.