A
Once upon a time, there was a man. He 1. l in a small town. One day, he wanted to buy himself a new pair of shoes. He measured(测量) his two 2. f with a ruler and then wrote down his 3. s on a piece of paper. After that, he went to the shoe shop.
When he 4. a at the shop, he reached into his pocket, but he found the paper was not there. So he said to the shopkeeper, “I have left the 5. p at home and I don't know the size. I'll go back home to 6. g it.” Then he ran out of the shop.
He ran back home, found the paper and then ran to the shop 7. a. But it took him a few hours and the shop was 8. c. He spent the afternoon on the way and could not buy his shoes. Someone asked him, “Do you want to buy the shoes for 9. y?”“Of course,” he answered. “Then why don't you try on the shoes by yourself?”“ I 10. t the ruler more than my feet,” he answered.

1. lived 2. feet 3. size 4. arrived 5. paper 6. get
7. again 8. closed 9. yourself 10. trust

B
Many animals hide to stay alive. They hide in many 1. w. Some animals hide in leaves; some animals hide in snow. Usually their colours or shapes help 2. p them. It's hard to see an Arctic bear in snow. Its white 3. f helps protect it. Chameleons(变色龙) can hide by 4. c colours. Their skin turns the same colour 5. a what is around them. Some chameleons can change colours in five minutes.
Many animals try to look 6. b than they are to stay alive. Some animals can make other animals think they are very big. If they look very big, animals that are 7. l for food will run away. Bears look very scary. Some animals will run 8. a from them.
Many animals try to stay around other animals. This helps them stay alive. Zebras stay 9. c together so that they can help each other look out for danger. Some birds stay in a circle, each toward a different 10. d. In this way they can also help each other stay alive by looking around for animals that may want to eat one of them.

1. ways 2. protect 3. fur 4. changing 5. as 6. bigger
7. looking 8. away 9. close 10. direction

C
Students are used to speaking Mandarin(普通话) both at home and school. 1. H, more than 20 third-grade students from the Affiliated Primary School of Hunan Normal University have 2. c to learn the local dialect in the classroom.
According to China Daily, the class was 3. t by language professors at universities such as Hunan Normal University, Central South University and Changsha Normal University.
Apart from listening, 4. s, reading and writing, students can learn about the idioms(习语), nursery rhymes(童谣), figures of speech(修辞手法) and culture 5. b the dialect, according to Ms Luo of the 6. c.
“As the country has been promoting(推广) Mandarin, many 7. y students do not learn how to speak local dialects. That's 8. w the country has started to preserve(保护) different language resources in recent years,” she said.
Ms Luo told China Daily that promoting the 9. u of Mandarin and dialects is not contradictory(相互矛盾的).
“Dialect protection is a 10. f trend(趋势), and different dialects, which carry different cultures and values, should not, and will not, disappear,” she said.

1. However 2. chosen 3. taught 4. speaking 5. behind
6. course 7. young 8. why 9. use 10. future