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，Bergqvst'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 {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (replace) it.”

    Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} successful that he designed the present one, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks —piling 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 a survival certificate recording their success. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a relaxing hotel break. “It's great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “as {#blank#}9{#/blank#} as a good start in survival training.''

    The {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (popular)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 though there are only 10 rooms.

    Some time ago, a friend of mine who worked in a part of the city I didn't know very well, invited me to call on him. It took me hours {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (get) there and I took great trouble finding a proper place to park my car. As I was already half an hour late, I parked my car quickly on a non-parking place. At noon, just as I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (leave) my friend's office suddenly I had no idea {#blank#}3{#/blank#} I had parked my car. I could hardly go up to a policeman and tell him that I had lost a small green car somewhere! I had to walk down street after street and examined each car {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (close). I was very happy to see a small green car just behind an old car. But how {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (disappoint) I was to discover that though the car was exactly {#blank#}6{#/blank#} my own, it belonged to someone else! I was very tired and went off for lunch. About half an hour later, I left the restaurant,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} was nearby, and walked down the street. Turning the corner, I nearly jumped for joy: my car was right in front of me. But soon I felt down because a ticket {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(attach) to my car.

    To tell the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (true), driving in crowded cities is far from being a pleasure. So walking or cycling{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (be) a good choice.

    I happened to be walking along the city street when I set my sight on a bakery, where a man with a tall hat is making{#blank#}1{#/blank#}cake, so I stopped{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(watch) how it was made. After watching it for several times for the next few{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (day), I decided to make one myself. With everything I needed{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (prepare), I began to carry out the whole process{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the help of the instruction book without {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(interrupt). After three times of failure, I finally made it and couldn't be more{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(excite)

    From this experience{#blank#}8{#/blank#}I have learnt is that as long as you try, God will always be on your side; on the contrary, if you just do things halfway, only {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(leave) the rest unfinished, the regrets will{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(definite) come after you.

David will never forget what happened to him the day before yesterday. He was eating something at home{#blank#}1{#/blank#} he received a strange phone call from a hospital. The caller said that his son{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(fall) to the ground unconscious on the way to school. It was he {#blank#}3{#/blank#}took him to the hospital. David hung up his cell phone and rushed to his son's classroom, only to find him listening to the teacher attentively. He suddenly realized that he had been cheated, but he felt {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(relieve). Just at that time the phone rang again, saying, "Your son is in great danger and he needs {#blank#}5{#/blank#}immediate operation which costs 48,000 yuan. The doctors here say they will not operate {#blank#}6{#/blank#}your son until they receive the money." When{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(ask) from where the caller had taken his son to hospital, the caller rang off. David gave a big smile and said. "What a pity!"

If the cheater thought he could get money from David in such a（an）{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(honest)way, he was wrong. Such phone calls are common these days. A few of them might have fallen victims to such tricks. Most parents are sensitive to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. It was really silly to cheat well—educated men like David.

    Believe it or not, it's a true story. The{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(colleague)in his office can confirm it, such as Tom, Peter and so on.

    Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors by going to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店).Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially{#blank#}1{#/blank#} they lack health insurance. Or they may stay away because they find it{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(embarrass) to discuss their weight, smoking, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (experience) in the past. But{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(play) doctor can also be a deadly game.

Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet{#blank#}5{#/blank#}medical answers— and most of them aren't nearly sceptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet &American Life Project found that 72 percent of those{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(survey) believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn't look up “headache” and the chances of finding {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(rely) and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (be) only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (inform) exists on the Internet.

    The problem is most people don't know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that's risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative ( 权威的), so it's hard to know if what you're reading is {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(reason) or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.

    We walked inside a museum in Garden City and looked around, eager {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (meet) Kobie Boykins, a NASA engineer. He helped to design the Mars rover (探测器) Curiosity, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} is still exploring to this day.

    In a big presentation room, Boykins {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (talk) about the team's newest rover, Mars 2020. We asked him if the new rover would be {#blank#}4{#/blank#} most complicated one he and his team {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (make) so far. He told us that most of the engineering would be the same. However, the rover is still more {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (advance) and will be able to get more accurate test {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (result).

    When Boykins finished his presentation, some people brought him into another room where we would interview him. We asked if he felt he was {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a lot of pressure at work. He told us that he {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (actual) put a lot of pressure on himself. He said that working on the spacecraft wasn't putting him in that position, but he still wanted to make {#blank#}10{#/blank#} perfect.