Recently a really strange thing happened in a middle school in China's Hubei Province. Over 600 students there took part in a “caring for an egg like a baby”{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (active) in which they were asked to keep an egg close at hand for a month{#blank#}2{#/blank#}breaking it.

    "It's hard for parents to bring up their children{#blank#}3{#/blank#}many students just ignore it,” said Liu Kang, the school's director. "They should{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(teach) to be grateful to their parents, who have given them life but ask for nothing in return.”

    Li Ming is one of the students. His egg didn't break during the month, but he felt{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(exhaust). "I now realize that my parents have had great difficulty{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(bring) me up. I'll do all I can to make their life easier and more{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(comfort) when I grow up.” promised the 13-year-old boy.{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (luck), about 10 students broke their eggs. Yan Yueming broke his egg after just five days, which made him frustrated. He said, "I can't imagine{#blank#}9{#/blank#}sad my parents would be if there was something wrong with me, their 'egg'!" It is time I{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(do) something in return for their love.” said Yan.

    Most of us use memes(表情包) when{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (talk) to our friends on WeChat or QQ. And {#blank#}2{#/blank#} all the file formats(文件格式). GIF is probably the most popular.

    A GIF is usually{#blank#}3{#/blank#} short funny video that only lasts for a few seconds.

    The GIF turned 30 this year,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} is even two years older than the World Wide Web itself. Ever since the GIF{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (create) in 1987, it has long been overlooked. It wasn't until the age of smartphones and social media{#blank#}6{#/blank#} it became part of our daily lives.

    The GIF does a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (good) job of showing people's feeling than short text messages do. It is also a very small file format compared with regular videos, which helped it become popular among smartphone {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (use).

    Because of its{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (popular), Oxford Dictionaries name “GIF” the word of the year in 2012. There are even search services specifically(专门地) for GIFs, such as Tenor and Giphy. And if we can't find anything we like there{#blank#}10{#/blank#} is easy to create our own GIFs on apps like DSCO and Giphy Cam.

    For Rachael and Leigh Badman, there is only one wish on their Christmas list this year — that their sick daughter Paige should survive until December 25. Fifteen-year-old Paige suffers from {#blank#}1{#/blank#} rare brain condition, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} affects as few as 12 people in the world, and could kill her any day {#blank#}3{#/blank#} warning.

    And her condition has gone even {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(bad) in recent months. Her parents filled the family home with Christmas decorations {#blank#}5{#/blank#} September 1 so she could enjoy the rest of her life. Since then, she has {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(regular) opened Christmas presents and received visitors — but she sleeps for up to 19 hours a day, her parents knowing that each time she closes her eyes, she may never wake up.

    Mrs. Badman {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(describe) dealing with the condition as "like being on death row" as she never knew if {#blank#}8{#/blank#} daughter would wake up the next morning.

    The mother said: "She always loves Christmas and I get my heart broken when I see her {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(suffer) like this. Our best Christmas present would be having Paige with us on Christmas. No matter {#blank#}10{#/blank#} she leaves the world, we make sure that she is always happy."

    Typhoon Mangkhu attacked the Pearl River Delta on Sunday,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (leave) a trail of damage, flooding and injuries in its wake and forcing the closure of schools, markets and most public s{#blank#}2{#/blank#} across the area.

    After claiming at {#blank#}3{#/blank#}29 lives in the Philippines, the {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(destroy) storm has caused 4 deaths in Guangdong.

    Hong Kong Observatory kept its highest No 10 Hurricane Signal（十号风球） in effect for 10 hours from morning to evening on Sunday.

    In the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, strong winds and heavy rain left more than 213 people{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(injure) , and over 1,200 people sought refuge（应急避难） in temporary government shelters.

    According to the Guangdong Meteorological Observatory, Mangkhut will c{#blank#}6{#/blank#}to cause heavy rain and bring strong winds to the province{#blank#}7{#/blank#}Thursday.

    E{#blank#}8{#/blank#} said the warm seawater in the South China Sea helped Mangkhut maintain its strength after an {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(early) landfall in the Philippines.

    P{#blank#}10{#/blank#}, firefighters and other members of government departments worked overnight to clean and repair damaged public facilities.

China's Chang'e 5 mission successfully delivered samples(样本)of moon rock and dust to Earth on December 17, 2020. It{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(mark) the first time in 4 years that moon rocks have been brought back to our planet, since the Soviet Union's I.una 24 mission in 1976.

The sample capsule landed in Inner Mongolia{#blank#}2{#/blank#}a little after 2：00 a. m. Recovery teams in trucks and helicopters located the landing site shortly after and secured the sample{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(contain).

While Apollo-era moon rocks are estimated to be about 3 to 4 billion years old, the material{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(collect) by Chang'e 5 is from a site in the northwest region of the moon's near side. This area was formed{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(late), and the rocks here are thought to be only about 1.2 billion years old. That means scientists could learn more about the evolution of the moon and test out new techniques for estimating the age of geological samples from other{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(planet)and moons(卫星).

The Chang'e lunar program, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}includes landing two lunar rovers(月球车)on the moon's surface, has been{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(remarkable)successful. Although Chang'e 5 was a short mission, it's one of{#blank#}9{#/blank#}most complex projects undertaken by the Chinese space program so far. The country is far from done with the moon—Chang'e 6, a second lunar sample return, is scheduled{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(launch) in 2023 or 2024.