For many Chinese, winter holiday season doesn't seem complete without the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. But it's impossible to satisfy all 1.3 billion Chinese.

    Even if you, especially young audience（观众）complain about the Spring Festival Gala, watching it while having Lunar New Year's Eve dinner has become a common way for families to get together. It's much more than just a TV program, it's also a way to bring family members together and get them talking during the holiday. Think about how you'll watch the gala and discover its fun.

1. Share your opinions（观点）about the programs and artists with your family members. Introduce artists who young people enjoy to the elderly memebers of your family, such as “fellow brother” William Chan, or former（以前的）singing group EXO members Kris Wu and Lu Han.

2. Post your compliments and complaints on micro blogs and WeChat moments to share with friends. Then they will know what you're satisfied with and what you complain about. In recent years, the gala is trying to attract young people by using Internet slang（俚语）. Guessing when and what Internet chat lingo（术语）will be mentioned in the show is surely going to be hot on social media. Will there be “drunk and tired”（也是醉了）? Have a bet with friends.

3. Online video websites such as IQiyi and Youku have introduced a real-time online discussion system. All comments（评论）are displayed on the screen. You can try watching the show in this interactive（互动的）way instead of the traditional TV sets so that you may know others' opinions about the programs in the Spring Festival Gala.

    February 14 is a day for people who have fallen in love. On this day, these men and women give gifts (presents)and cards to each other for Valentine's Day(情人节).This day has been popular with people in love  for a long time. At first，this holiday was called Lupercalia. Then the name of the day was changed to Saint Valentine's Day. The man named Saint Valentine was killed on February 14，270 AD, because he was a Christian (基督教徒).

    Before Saint Valentine was killed，February 14 was the old Roman holiday，Lupercalia. The church wanted people to think of a Christian holiday on this day，so the church changed the name of the holiday.

    This change did not stop people in love from giving gifts to each other. People usually gave gloves, handkerchiefs, or even underwear was gifts. Sometimes people also put hearts and flowers on the presents before giving it to the other persons.

    Valentine cards did not become popular until the 1750s. The first Valentine cards were made by hand. People wrote their own words on the cards. These words were usually funny.

    Now, every year around February 14，cards and chocolates fill shops for people in love.

Once upon a time, a king of frog decided to have a 1 . "There is a tree near the pond(池塘). The one who climbs to the top of this tree will be the winner," he said.

All the frogs were 2 to take part in the competition. As soon as it started, they began climbing one by one. 3 many frogs fell down, which made them hopeless while others 4 . Those who didn't try said, "No one can do it. It's 5 ." After hearing this, some of them stopped trying. However, one frog didn't 6 . He kept trying and succeeded. All the other frogs were quite surprised. They all wanted to know 7 he was able to do it.

The winning frog told them he was deaf and couldn't 8 anything. He thought the frogs below were cheering for him. The encouragement made him try harder and 9 he made it.

Sometimes, we should not listen to negative (消极的) words from others. Instead, we should focus on our 10 and put in all effort to achieve them.

Harries, a 25-year-old nurse in a hospital. One evening there was a big dance at the hospital.

Most of the doctors and nurses would be there. But someone must be 1 to look after the sick children. Harris liked dancing, but she had to work and couldn't go there. She felt 2 . Harris went to each sick 3 one after another and said good night. One little boy of 11, David was able to say good night 4 an adult. He was serious ill, and he could 5 move any part of his body except his hands. Harris knew he would never get any better, but he was always happy and was always 6 about others instead of himself.

David knew that Harris loved dancing, 7 he greeted her with the words,"I'm very sorry that you have to 8 the dance because of us. But we are going to have party for you. Look there is a piece of cake. I saved it from my 9 this evening, so it's quite fresh. And there's also a dollar there. You can buy something to drink with that. I'd get 10 and dance with you myself if I was able to." he added.

Harris was moved and wasn't unhappy any more.

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One woman thinks that working at the weekends can be dangerous. She is Kelly Smith. Mrs. Smith works in an office in Brighton, England. One Saturday, May 24, she went to the office to do some work. After she got into the lift, it stopped between the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Mrs. Smith couldn't get out of the lift. She began to shout, but no one heard him. Then Mrs. Smith {#blank#}3{#/blank#} that it was holiday in England. No one was going to work until Tuesday. With nothing to eat or drink, Mrs. Smith was very hungry and had to sleep most of the time. Early on Tuesday morning, her workmates came to work and found the lift {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. When the lift was opened, Mrs. Smith came out cold, weak and tried. She had been in the lift for more than 60 hours.

Now Mrs. Smith says, "I only use lifts if they have telephones in them!"