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时文阅读 4Smell of competition Wen Ruyang (right) and her teammates at the soup cooking competition. PROVIDED TO 21ST香气四溢的校园煲汤大赛！ It was an October afternoon. A fantastic smell of food came out from Guangzhou Guangya Experimental School. Students there 1 (have) a cooking competition! Earlier this year, the school 2 (set) up several life skill courses, among which the cooking class has been the most popular. After 3 (learn) for half a year, the school decided 4 (hold) a cooking competition to test the students. They 5 (choose) soup as the theme since its a favorite for Guangdong people. On the day, 16 students 6 (divide) into four groups to make their own soup.Gan Zhanhao, 13, and his teammates cooked a lotus root (莲藕) soup. It took them quite some time because they sliced (切菜) the roots first. This made peeling (削皮) afterwards pretty hard. After more than two hours, Gans team 7 (final) finished their soup. “I never knew 8 (make) soup would be so hard,” said Gan. “I had to keep an eye on the fire and the pot (罐子) all the time.” “I appreciate (感激) my parents,” he added. Wen Ruyang, 13, and her team made spareribs (排骨) soup. “Our soup is perfect for autumn,” she said. “It 9 (contain) honey dates (蜜枣), lotus seeds and fine spareribs.” In Wens words, honey dates are good for dry weather and lotus seeds keep 10 (we) cool. 11 (make) sure the soup tastes good, Wen and her teammates did many experiments to control (控制) the amount of dates and salt. Finally, their soup won praise from the judge She Ziqiang, a well-known herbalist (中药师) in Guangdong called “King of Soup”. He said the soup of Wens team was one of the 12 (good) he had ever tasted!1. were having 2. set 3. learning 4. to hold 5. chose 6. were divided 7. finally 8. making 9. contains 10. us 11. making 12. best 2“拼命三郎”彭于晏。 When talking about Taiwan actor Eddie Peng, whats the first thing you think of? In the past most people would say he is handsome. But now, 1 (many) people will see how dedicated (敬业的) an actor Peng is. Very few actors are willing 2 (spend) a year to train for a movie. But Peng did. In 2011, he played a gymnast (体操运动员) in the movie Jump! Ashin (翻滚吧！阿信). 3 (play) the role well, he worked with a gymnast for 11 months. It was really hard training for a person with 4 (not) experience before. Peng 5 (fall) from the vaulting horse (鞍马) time after time. He kept 6 (lose) his balance while doing backward somersaults (后空翻). But he didnt give up. Finally, Peng was able to finish 80 percent of the gymnastics in the movie like a real athlete. Two years 7 (late), Peng got to play a boxer (拳击手) in the movie Unbeatable (激战). To make himself 8 (look) more like a boxer, Peng started a strict diet (节食). For three months, although feeling 9 (hunger), he had to do exercise and practice boxing eight hours a day. “Its not just about the figure,” said Peng. “You only get to understand what a real boxer 10 (think) after the same hard training he or she had.” Pengs newest role is a cyclist (自行车手). He has already cycled 120km every day for some 11 (times). The 32-year-old said he really enjoys 12 (throw) himself into the characters. “Every time I shoot a movie, I got to learn a new skill,” he said. “Its like a bonus (奖励) for acting!”1. more 2. to spend 3. To play 4. no 5. fell 6. losing 7. later 8. look 9. hungry 10. thinks 11. time 12. throwing 3FILE PHOTOA FEW weeks ago, I 1 (get) $120 (734 yuan) from a friend in a Smile Group. He asked me 2 (do) good things with the money. Since then I 3 (use) the money to help strangers, and raised a lot of smiles. One day I was in a shop, looking at the second-hand books. It 4 (happen) that the bookshelves were next to the toy shelf. I noticed a poorly dressed woman 5 (stand) behind me. A little girl about 3 years old came over to the toy shelf. 6 (Immediate) her attention 7 (catch) by a toy pram (手推车). She spoke to her mother and her mother asked the shop assistant (店员) how much it 8 (cost). The answer was $3. Then she said “no”. The child said 9 (something). Maybe “no” was not new for her but she couldnt keep the disappointment (失望) from 10 (she) face. I had a total of $5. I put the money in the 11 (mother) hand and said: “Buy her a doll too.” I didnt wait to see the end. I walked out of the shop and into the sunshine. The money the friend gave me was to help me find 12 (hap