Last night, I walked into a restaurant and ordered some food. About twenty 【小题1】 (minute) later, a group of young people walked in and ordered 【小题2】   (they). To my amazement, they got served first and began to eat and laugh happily. I even 【小题3】 (hear) one of them bragging (吹嘘) about how he was connected to everyone in the restaurant. I was so angry that I called the waiter.

“Yours is a special order, being prepared 【小题4】   the head chef (主厨) himself. Their orders 【小题5】   (prepare) hurriedly and that's why they were served first. Please have some juice as you wait，” he told me. I calmed down and waited 【小题6】   (patient). Shortly after that, my meal was served by six waiters.

What I didn't know was that the boss of the restaurant happened to be 【小题7】   old long lost friend of mine. She saw me when I entered the restaurant and decided 【小题8】   (give) me a surprise.

She changed my simple meal to a five­star one. People at the other table were 【小题9】   (shock). Suddenly they began murmuring (发牢骚),   asking 【小题10】 they didn't get that kind of service and meal.

Yours，

Li Hua

The hardships involved in building the Great Wall are beyond imagination. Large numbers of people had to leave their homes and families to go to the north,【小题1】they worked hard for years. Of the legends about the Great Wall, the story of Lady Meng Jiang is the most【小题2】 (move). Lady Meng Jiang lived during the reign of the First Emperor of Qin. After her husband 【小题3】 ( call) up to build the Great Wall, she missed him so much【小题4】she traveled many miles to see him but only【小题5】 (tell) that her husband had died and was buried under the Wall. She was【小题6】 ( extreme) sad and cried for three days and nights until the Great Wall fell down one section after another.

Over the past centuries, the Great Wall【小题7】 (become) a symbol of unity and【小题8】 (strong) for Chinese people. It symbolizes that the great achievement can be made with【小题9】common will and joined effort. For example, the national anthem, composed during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, called on people to "build our new Great Wall【小题10】our flesh and blood".

A man was really worried about his son, 【小题1】 was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk 【小题2】(train) his child.

The Buddhist monk said to the boy’s father, “You should leave your son to me. I will make him a man of【小题3】(brave) within three months. However, you can’t come to see him during that period. ”

Three months later, the boy’s father returned. The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the child and a(n)【小题4】(profession) boxer.

Each time the boxer hit the boy, he fell down, but at once the boy stood up. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked, “【小题5】do you think of your child?”

“What 【小题6】 shame!” the boy’s father said. “I never thought he could be so【小题7】(easy) knocked down. I shouldn’t【小题8】(leave) him here at all.”

“I’m sorry that’s all you see. Don’t you see【小题9】 each time he falls down, he stands up again instead of crying? That’s the kind of courage you wanted him to have.”

If each time you【小题10】(knock) down and you have the courage to stand up again, then you can be proud of yourself.