Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world's first igloo(冰屋) hotel.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(build) in a small town, it has been attracting lots of visitors but soon the fun will be over. In two weeks' time Bergqvist's ice creation {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(be) nothing more than a pool of water. “ We don't see it as a big problem,” he says. “ We just look forward to replacing it.”

    Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was {#blank#}3{#/blank#}successful that he designed the present one,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(put)1, 000 tons of snow onto a wooden base；when the snow froze, the base {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(remove).

After their stay, all visitors receive {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(congratulate) and a survival certificate recording their success.{#blank#}8{#/blank#} no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test {#blank#}9{#/blank#}a relaxing hotel break. “It's great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “As well as a good start in survival training.”

    The popularity of the igloo is beyond doubt：it is now attracting tourists from all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even {#blank#}10{#/blank#} there are only 10 rooms.

    Cloning is a way of {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(make) an exact copy of another animal and plant{#blank#}2{#/blank#} has two major uses. One is{#blank#}3{#/blank#} gardeners use it to produce commercial quantities of plants. The {#blank#}4{#/blank#}is that it is valuable for research on new species and for medical research on animals. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, the process of cloning is difficult to undertake.

    Many attempts to clone mammals failed. The first successful clone, Dolly the sheep, made the whole {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(science) world follow its process, though it had {#blank#}7{#/blank#} problems than the normal sheep. On the other hand, Dolly's appearance {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(raise) a storm of objections and had a great impact {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the media and public imagination. Different people have different opinions of it. However, scientists still wonder whether cloning will help {#blank#}10{#/blank#} harm us and where it is leading us.

    China{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(witness) rapid growth in dealing with cases between citizens and government departments over the past five years. But{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(take) officials to court (法庭)would have been unheard of 30 years ago.

    “The question of whether to allow citizens to sue (起诉)government departments caused heated debates back then,” said Yang Jingyu, 82, a retired lawmaker {#blank#}3{#/blank#}at the time was a member of the Standing Committee of the National Peopled Congress.

    He looked back {#blank#}4{#/blank#} discussions about the Maritime Traffic Safety Law, which {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(regard) as a basis of China's legal system. But it started a debate on whether governments could be sued, because some officials thought what they do is in the name of the country.

    However Peng Zhen, who {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (devote) to making the laws, argued that it would be unfair{#blank#}7{#/blank#} we did not allow citizens to appeal (上诉)in court. For example, sailors, especially{#blank#}8{#/blank#} who had worked many years to become captains, would be jobless or fall into trouble if they were {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(wrong) punished.

    Now, according to the laws, courts must accept cases without {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (hesitate) if litigants (当事人)provide enough material.

    Cultural TV programs have experienced {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  come-back at the start of the Chinese New Year. A new program, Readers, has become a hit. Broadcast on China Central Television (CCTV) over the weekend, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}is bringing fresh{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(enthusiastic) for literature in China. Readers sets out to interpret the power and values behind {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(tradition) Chinese culture.

    The weekly talk show, produced and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(host) by famous TV personality Dong Qing, invites people from all {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(walk) of life to read poems, essays and books they like or wrote. Without any amazing stage design, Readers has brought the almost-lost habit of reading aloud back into the public spotlight, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(make) the audience bathe in the beauty of language. The participants also {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(active) share stories from their own life explaining reasons {#blank#}9{#/blank#}particular pieces touched their hearts or shaped their lives. In the show, poems can{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(adapt)into songs. Since its broadcast, it has been considered as "a breath of fresh air” among various shows in China.

    The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Canada has organized a group of doctors to help sick people in the past few months. The doctors will send patients to art galleries, instead of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (give) them medicine. The museum is involved in ten experiments on patients to find out how art has an effect {#blank#}2{#/blank#} health. The patients include people with breast cancer (乳腺癌), eating disorders and mental health {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (problem). Thomas Bastien, director of education and wellness at the museum, believes that art can heal. He said, "We saw that the museum was good for people, so we {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (decide) to start this program with the doctors a few months ago. If you have breast cancer, you can come to the museum and you might feel much {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (well)".

    Dr Helene Boyer, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} has a lot of experience in helping to heal people with art treatment, spoke about its advantages. She said, "There's more and more scientific evidence that art treatment is good for your physical health." She said that looking at art increases {#blank#}7{#/blank#} same kinds of hormones (激素) in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (we) bodies that are produced when we exercise. The museum's director-general said, "I am {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (complete) sure that in the 21st century, art will be what physical activity was for health in the 20th century. I am very {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (confidence) in it."