Over the past years, Zhang Dewu has never 【小题1】 (stop) swimming in the frozen Songhua River in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, on winter days. 【小题2】 lower the temperature is, the more excited the old man becomes.

He began 【小题3】 (love) winter swimming when he first tried it about 20 years ago and became a winter swimmer. The cold and strong winds on the frozen river can’t make him afraid. Before he jumps into the icy river. Zhang will do some warm-up exercises, running, watering his body with room-temperature water and so on.

“Winter swimming makes me 【小题4】 (health). I seldom catch a cold,” he said, “However, this exercise isn’t good 【小题5】 everyone, especially for those who have heart disease or hypertension (高血压).”

My name is Xiao Jun. I 【小题1】 from the countryside. Now I am studying in a big city. People can eat all 【小题2】 (kind) of foods and do lots of things. It’s so convenient (便利的). Many people like 【小题3】 (live) in the city. Many people are moving to cities to find work because often there is much work in the city. 【小题4】 I don’t like it very much. In the city, there is 【小题5】 (many) traffic on the road and the cost of living is 【小题6】. It’s noisy, too. I 【小题7】 [mis] the life in the countryside. There are many houses 【小题8】 big yards. The air is 【小题9】 [freʃ], and the water is clean, we can see green trees and beautiful 【小题10】 [‘flaʊə(r)z] here and there. More people like living in the countryside now.

Nobody’s journey is smooth. Life is 【小题1】 of unexpected things. So when you are in trouble, don’t lose heart. 【小题2】 you can smile at your life, everything will be OK. Here is a story about it.

At the age of four, Allman fell off a train and his eyes were 【小题3】 hurt. Since then, he couldn’t see 【小题4】. It would be wonderful to see again, but bad luck might not be always bad.

In fact, although Allman became blind, he learned to love his life more. But he had a hard time 【小题5】 he was successful.

The hardest thing 【小题6】 to believe in himself and it had to start with the simplest things.

One day, a girl gave Allman a baseball. He thought she was fooling him.

“I can’t use this,” he said.

“Take it with you and roll it around,” the girl smiled and said. Her words got into his head. “Roll it around!” By 【小题7】 the ball, Allman could hear where it went. This gave him 【小题8】 idea of doing something he never thought of: playing baseball. Years after that, he invented a successful game of baseball 【小题9】 the blind. He 【小题10】 it Ground Ball.

From then on, Allman began to smile at life and achieved more.