Many teachers believe that the responsibilities for learning lie with the student. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a long reading assignment is given, instructors expect students to be familiar with {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (inform) in the reading even if they do not discuss it in class or take an examination. The ideal student is considered to be one who is motivated to learn for the sake of learning, not the one interested only in getting high grades. Sometimes homework is returned {#blank#}3{#/blank#} brief written comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is not given, the student is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (responsibility) for learning the material assigned. When research {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (assign), the professor expects the student to take it actively and to complete it with minimum guidance. It is the student's responsibility to find books, magazines, and articles in the library. Professors do not have the time to explain {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a university library works; they expect students, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (especial) graduate students, to be able to exhaust the reference origins in the library. Professors will help students who need it, but prefer that their students should not be too dependent on them. In the United States, professors have many other duties {#blank#}8{#/blank#} teaching, such as administrative or research work. Therefore, the time {#blank#}9{#/blank#} a professor can spend with a student outside of class {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (limit). If a student has problems with classroom work, the student should either approach a professor during office hours or make an appointment.

    Most people nowadays are so busy with their lives that they do not have time to enjoy a healthy and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (balance) diet. For most individuals, as {#blank#}2{#/blank#} result of eating foods rich in fats and sugar several years, they choose to go on a diet but do not succeed at the end. Be sure to be with a strong {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (aware) that you are {#blank#}4{#/blank#} you eat! Therefore, maintaining a healthy diet not only {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (provide) your body with energy but also numerous health benefits. One is that you will keep a healthy weight and is also the easiest and most {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (benefit) way in which you can be energetic and protect yourself {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a number of diseases when growing old. Another benefit is that you will meet your everyday nutritional {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (require). {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (basic) speaking, you should ensure that you take the good amount of vegetables, grains, milk and proteins. In most cases, a healthy diet can help you decrease the risk of {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (get) some diseases like diabetes and cancer.

 to protect pandas. Otherwise, they are certain to die out.

    One day a girl was walking in the woods when she found two weak birds. She took them home and put them in a small cage. The {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (care) birds grew strong. Every morning they greeted her {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a beautiful song. The girl loved {#blank#}3{#/blank#}very much and wanted their singing to last forever.

    One day, the girl left the door to the cage open. Immediately, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} larger of the two birds flew out. The girl was afraid that it would fly away and never come back again. So when it flew close, she grasped(抓住) it wildly. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(fortunate),  the bird died in her hand. It was her love for the bird that killed it.

    She noticed the other bird jumping the cage. She could feel its great need for    {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(free). She lifted it from the cage and {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(set) it free. The bird was flying happily in the sky, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}made the girl so glad. Just then, the bird sat softly on her shoulder and sang the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(sweet) song she had ever hear.

     The fastest way to lose love is {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（hold） on it too tight; the best way to keep love is to give it wings（翅膀）！

    According to Chinese speaking practice, lion is a special animal to Chinese people. A pair of stone lions, a male {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a female, are {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(common) seen in front of the gates of traditional building.

    The lion {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(regard) as the king in the animal world, so {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(it) images represent power and prestige. The stone lions are also used to indicate the ranks of officials.

    It is interesting to note that China had no lions originally. The earliest stone lions were sculpted {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty from A. D. 25 to 220 with {#blank#}6{#/blank#} introduction of Buddhism(佛教) into ancient China. In the Buddhist faith, the lion, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} can protect the truth and keep off evils, is considered a divine animal of nobleness and dignity. In Chinese folk tales, the lion has become a symbol of {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (brave), power and good luck.

    It was also popular to decorate bridges with stone sculpted lions for the defending reason. The {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(well) known of bridges is the Lugouqiao, {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(build )from 1189 to 1192.

Dragon Heads­raising Day, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} falls each year on the second day of the second lunar month, is one of the Chinese traditional festivals. As the proverb goes, "The dragon is awake, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (raise) its head." On this day, dragons, a prominent totem (图腾) in Chinese culture raise {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (they) heads with the sound of thunder. Around this time, the earth {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (burst) with life. Grass and trees are beginning to shoot up. In ancient China, people {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (pray) beside a river or a lake for the precious spring rain to breed their crops.

{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (tradition), food eaten on this day was renamed after parts of the dragon. For instance, wontons were called "dragon's eyes". The special {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (food) usually eaten on this day include dragon's scales, popcorn and pig's heads.

In Shanxi, people get their hair {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (cut) in a symbolic move to remove the old and embrace the new. In {#blank#}9{#/blank#} countryside in Hebei Province, people would fetch water from a well at dawn. It was believed {#blank#}10{#/blank#} on this day the well was full of dragon eggs which would bring the collector a good harvest.