As less people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is committed to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

    Li worked as a miner for more than ten years. After {#blank#}3{#/blank#} mine closed down, Li turned{#blank#}4{#/blank#} housing decoration, until he {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.

    Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young, and he found it easy to learn the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could make a {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(vary) of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup(糖浆). When the sugar cools down, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} appears is a piece of sugar art.

    “What are you busy with yourself, Mother?” The girl of less than six years old asked her mother{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(curiosity). “{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(make) dinner for the neighbor's aunt.”

    “ Why?” “{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the other day the aunt {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (lose) her daughter and is so sad now. We must take good care of her these days.”“ Why need our care?” “ Because{#blank#}5{#/blank#}then on the aunt can't do{#blank#}6{#/blank#}they like to along with her daughter. She is very pitiful. In her distress, making dinners and doing chores are also becoming so difficult. My dear, can you help Mother hit an idea to help the aunt in other ways?” At her mother's proposal, the girl thought for a long while. All of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} sudden, she went to the neighbor and knocked at the door.

    The neighbor with a look of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(tired) opened the door. “What can I do for you?” asked the neighbor. “I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (hear) my mother say you're very distressed for losing your daughter...” The girl timidly handed the band-aid tightly {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(hold) in her hand to the neighbor.

    The neighbor suddenly choked with sobs, her tears gushing from her eyes. She hugged the girl and said, “ Thank you. This band-aid will cure my wound.”

    We think that life in Chinese high school is a hard experience in which we have to survive mountains of homework and all kinds of exams. Yet would it be{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as hard {#blank#}2{#/blank#} it is in China?

    In US high school, everything must {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(record) into your studying document(文件), including your grades, tests and final examinations. Failing {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps completely different from {#blank#}5{#/blank#}we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(they) study in order that they can get into a good university.

    Like university students, US high school students can choose the {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(course) that most interest them freely. Even a ninth-grader can sit {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the same classroom as 12th-graders. But this also {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(mean) he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(different).

    Like the native Chinese, some foreigners have started to join their Chinese friends {#blank#}1{#/blank#} sending or grabbing virtual red packets during the Spring Festival and other special {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(occasion).

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(attract) by the unique way of interacting with people as well as the culture that gave birth to the phenomenon, many foreigners say competing with friends to grab red packets in {#blank#}4{#/blank#}WeChat group can be a lot of fun.

    Mattias Klement, 27, a Swede{#blank#}5{#/blank#} has been living in China for years, said more foreigners have started to take part in this{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (active) because of the popularity of WeChat wallet.

    "I think it is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (main) because more and more places now allow paying with WeChat. It's also fun to just involve {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(you) in the culture of it," said Klement. Two years ago, when some friends{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (send) him 5.20 or 8.88 Yuan red packets, he had no clue about the hidden meanings. Now, he is not only quite familiar with them but also has been used to sending some.

    "It's nice to be able to say 'I love you' with 5.20 Yuan, I guess," he said, laughing. "I also remember{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (try) to tick some of my friends off by paying back 99.99 instead of 100 just for fun.”

    On the first day of school our professor{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(introduce) Rose,a little old lady,to us."Why are you in college at such{#blank#}2{#/blank#}old age?"I asked later.She jokingly replied,"I'm here to meet a rich husband,get{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(marry),have a couple of children,and then retire and travel."

    At the end of the first term we invited Rose{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(make) a speech to our football team.She cleared her throat and began,"We do not stop playing because we are old;we grow old because we stop playing.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}you lose your dreams, you will die.There is a huge difference{#blank#}6{#/blank#}growing older and growing up.Anybody can grow older.The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity.The elderly usually don't have regrets for what they've done,{#blank#}7{#/blank#}rather for things they haven't done.The only people{#blank#}8{#/blank#}fear death are those with regrets."

    At the end of that year Rose finished the college degree.One week after graduation Rose died{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(peace) in her sleep.Over two thousand college students attended her funeral（葬礼）to honor the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's{#blank#}10{#/blank#}too late to be all you can possibly be.