Long ago in the 1700s, “home” was used as a verb,【小题1】(mean) “to be guided to a destination”. So, when you home in on something，you get 【小题2】(close) to your target.That is also where we get homing pigeons—pigeons that can find 【小题3】(they) way home after being released.

But today,“home” is more often used 【小题4】a noun. And it has a very emotional 【小题5】(connect) with American English speakers. You can remember the meaning of the word by the expression “home is 【小题6】the heart is”. That expression means home is anywhere you feel love and comfort. In other words, “home” is not 【小题7】(simple) a building where you live—that’s a house.

The writer，Thomas Wolfe,【小题8】 (write) a book You Can’t Go Home Again in 1940.This title has worked its way into the English language. We use it to mean that the ideas and feelings you had as 【小题9】   child often change when you are an adult. So, even if you return to the place where you grew up，time and distance 【小题10】(change) your view.

Carpet weaving is done either by hand 【小题1】by machine. While machine-woven carpets are primarily for practical use, hand-made ones are for decorative purposes. The skill of carpet weaving 【小题2】(be) mainly represented in pattern (花样) designs.

The Chinese carpet design is based on the ideas of famous paintings or ancient stories. After the design is completed, it will then be enlarged into a blueprint and marked with colours in different 【小题3】(part) for the weavers to follow.

The silk 【小题4】is woven into the carpet needs to be coloured first. Previously, the pigment (颜料) was 【小题5】 (general) taken from natural plants and mineral materials. With traditional colouring processes, the pigments stick firmly to the silk under normal temperatures and thus give good 【小题6】(protect) for the layer of silk. Nowadays, however, chemical pigments layer of silk. Nowadays, however chemical pigments are often used 【小题7】 (increase) colour diversity.

Artisans engaged in this creative work may 【小题8】(group) into two categories according to the style of their works: experts working for arts and crafts schools, and professionals working in the industry.

【小题9】large number of carpet weaving professionals can be found in Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong Province and Hebei Province, among other places. Works 【小题10】 (create) by professionals are relatively more traditional, with patterns mostly featuring flowers and human figures.

As English learners, we have the alphabet clearly in our mind, in order, from a very young age. You can say the ABCs【小题1】rapid speed and some people can even say them backwards without 【小题2】(think)about it. We certainly can't imagine the alphabet being in any other order. but how did the order we know today come to be?

There’s【小题3】(real) not an easy answer. No one woke up and decided to put the 【小题4】(letter )in that order, the alphabet 【小题5】(evolve)slowly over a long period of time to become 【小题6】it is today. Our alphabet can date back to ancient Egypt. This first alphabet 【小题7】(improve)by the Phoenicians around1000 BC,【小题8】(early)than the Greeks by 200 years, and we have them to thank for vowels (元音 ) From Greece, our alphabet traveled to Rome, and the Romans turned 【小题9】 into the“modern”alphabet, with letters we recognize today.

So why that order? While we don’t know for sure. some scholars assumed that the order came from memory cells in our brains meant 【小题10】(help)people remember it-some kind of sentence where each letter became a full word, like the technique you used in school to remember the order of the planets.