Jenny is my pen friend.Yesterday was her{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(第十二)birthday.She came to China and she likes travelling in the natural world. On the first day,we got up very early and went to Tian'anmen Square.We stayed{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(在….之中) thousands of people and waited to see the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}（旗子）raising. On the following day, we{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(继续) to visit.We visited the Great Wall.It is one of the great{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (奇迹) in the world. When we got to the Great Wall ,it was very early in the morning. The sky was grey. We could see nothing and it was{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(寂静的). Half an hour later, the sun rose and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (照耀) on the Great Wall. Jenny was so excited that she began to run on the Great Wall.{#blank#}8{#/blank#}（几乎，差不多） thousands of men died when they built it. The Great Wall was made not only of stones, but millions of lives.We remained on the Great Wall for two hours. For her, the Great Wall is the place of interest not only to the Chinese people, but also to{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (任何人) all over the world. We really enjoyed{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(我们自己).

    It was an unforgettable trip.

    Betty started to learn English at the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}of six. She went to an after-school English class every week. But Betty thought it was{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(bored) to go to her English classes. She didn't think{#blank#}3{#/blank#}was important to learn English and she did not need to speak English in her everyday life.

    After she{#blank#}4{#/blank#}a school baseball team , she started to know more about the baseball players who joined teams in the USA. Now, she wants to know more about what happens to them. So she reads English newspaper{#blank#}5{#/blank#}the Internet. When she meets new words, she looks{#blank#}6{#/blank#}up in her dictionary and writes difficult sentences in her notebooks. When she goes to school, she asks her English teacher for{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. Little by little, she finds that English is really important, and she is more and more{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(interesting) in it.

    Her parents promise to take her to New York to watch a baseball game if she gets good mark in the English exam next month.{#blank#}9{#/blank#}exciting it is! Betty is so happy that she works{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(hard) on English than before.

    Health is very important, it means everything. So we should take good care {#blank#}1{#/blank#} ourselves. But one day, Mrs. Zhao met a problem. She {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (feel) both weak and tired. She was worried about her {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (healthy). When she worked in the garden, she had to sit down and rest every five {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (minute). So she went to see {#blank#}5{#/blank#} doctor. After looking {#blank#}6{#/blank#} over, the doctor said that she was only fat. There was {#blank#}7{#/blank#} serious. If she wanted to be thinner than {#blank#}8{#/blank#}, she'd better do more sports, eat vegetables, and {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (little) meat.

    Mrs. Zhao took the doctor's advice. Now she feels better. So remember: Health {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (come) first.

    Chinese social network companies began to take away the smoking emoji(表情符号) from their products to support China's new indoor smoking ban(禁烟令).

    The smoking emoji usually s{#blank#}1{#/blank#} for the feeling of “cool” or “relaxed” in many apps before. Since the new ban was announced, China's technology companies have been a{#blank#}2{#/blank#} to take this kind of emoji away.

    “Smoking is not cool,” said Zhang Jianshu, head of the Beijing Tobacco Control Association. “It's not p{#blank#}3{#/blank#}to take smoking as being cool”. He pointed out that the major social network users are younger people, who were much e{#blank#}4{#/blank#} to be influenced.

    In response, Sina Weibo took away the emoji of a smoker in September on its smart phone apps and c{#blank#}5{#/blank#} Two months later, Tencent followed Weibo's footsteps on November 6, 2017 to change the smoking emoji w{#blank#}6{#/blank#} a green leaf. However, the action was only taken on QQ's mobile app. QQ on PC still r{#blank#}7{#/blank#} the same. Tencent's another popular social app, Wechat, has also been required to change the emoji.

    China is home to 300 million smokers and produces the world's l{#blank#}8{#/blank#} number of cigarettes. It is reported that about 27.7% people s{#blank#}9{#/blank#}in China in 2017, according to the government. Zhang said, taking the smoking emoji away was to prevent it spreading the wrong i{#blank#}10{#/blank#} among the public.

The BTAC hopes to use the social network to make more people develop a healthier lifestyle.

    Have you ever heard of anything about crying marriage(哭嫁)? It sounds surprising, doesn't it? In fact, the custom of crying marriage {#blank#}1{#/blank#}a long time ago in many parts of Sichuan Province, Southwest China. And it remained popular till the end of the Qing Dynasty.

    Sometimes, you can still see it happening in some {#blank#}2{#/blank#}far away from cities if you are lucky enough. Though it is not {#blank#}3{#/blank#} popular as before, the custom can still be seen by people in many places, especially in the villages of Tujia people. They regard it as something {#blank#}4{#/blank#}has to be done when a marriage happens.

    It is {#blank#}5{#/blank#}same in different places of China. According to the tradition, every bride(新娘) had to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}at the wedding(婚礼). If not, the bride's neighbors would look down upon {#blank#}7{#/blank#}as a girl from a poor family. And she would be laughed at {#blank#}8{#/blank#}all the villagers. In fact, her mother sometimes beat the bride for not crying at the wedding.

In a {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, crying at weddings is a way to set off for happiness. The bride doesn't really feel sad in her heart. {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, in the marriages of the old days of China, quite a lot of brides indeed cried over their unlucky marriages and even their bad life.

    A camp called Camp Cooper with over 20 years experience in the camp field, is now a very famous and popular camp in the UK. More and more kids are interested in taking part in this camp during their summer or winter holidays. Here is some information about this camp.

    Camp Cooper is named after a dog called Cooper because the dog also loves camp - there's nothing he loves more than hanging out with campers.

    Camp Cooper makes the parents believe that sending their children to Camp Cooper is sending them to a place where the children will be taken good care of and the kids won't feel lonely at all there.

    Activities are carefully split(分成) into three kinds. The reason they do this is to give campers the chance to focus their time on activities they are interested in. They plan to create the perfect balance for campers to try new activities and develop their skills.

    Creating and developing friendships are the most important part of Camp Cooper. It's believed that creating connections with different people is very important for development, confidence and well-being. People feel the happiest when they are connected to others and the workers here work hard to make sure that everyone is included and feels part of the Camp community.

    Camp Cooper gives students confidence to speak and learn English. The workers also work with each of the students to help the campers become a more confident English speaker.

    It's said that the kids who take part in this camp will go home more confidently and be more willing to try new things.

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