This is Zhang Hua's room. It's a big and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} room. It's bright and clean. There are some {#blank#}2{#/blank#} on the front wall. On the back wall there are two maps {#blank#}3{#/blank#} China. The desk is next to the bed. Her pencil-case and books {#blank#}4{#/blank#} on the desk. What's {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the bed? Do you {#blank#}6{#/blank#}?  Oh, it's a tennis {#blank#}7{#/blank#}.

    She likes tennis very much and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} tennis every day. Tom, one of her friends, likes {#blank#}9{#/blank#} TV very much. She thinks(认为) it's {#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

    Charlotte Simmonds is a 17-year-old student from Sydney, Australia. Charlotte spends most of her flee time on the beach {#blank#}1{#/blank#}she is also a surf(冲浪) life saver. Her job is to save {#blank#}2{#/blank#} on the beach or in the water, but she doesn't get any money {#blank#}3{#/blank#}this. When she grows up, she {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to work as a life saver on some of the most famous surf beaches in the world.

    Charlotte joined a surf life savers' club with her older brother and sister when she was {#blank#}5{#/blank#}five years old. "We lived near the beach but my parents were Very{#blank#}6{#/blank#}in their shop, so they didn't have time to play with us. Joining the club was a great Way to meet other {#blank#}7{#/blank#} keep healthy and most importantly, we could spend hours on the beach. We {#blank#}8{#/blank#}to swim and surf at an early age. At the age of 15, I {#blank#}9{#/blank#}a surf life saver and soon after that I saved somebody in the water."

    Charlotte loves helping people on the beach. "Everybody can see {#blank#}10{#/blank#}on the beach because we wear red and yellow hats, shirts and shorts: If you can't see us, that means we can' t see you, So maybe you aren't safe," she said.

    Can you write down Chinese characters(汉字) that are read to you? It can be {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, especially when the Chinese characters are not included in most dictionaries.

    Lu Jialei, a student from Hangzhou Foreign Language School, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the Chinese Character dictation(听写)Competition on Oct. 18, 2013.

    During the competition, the host read Chinese characters to the student, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}their meanings and gave example sentences. The student was required to write down the Chinese characters.

    Winning the competition was a(n) {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to Lu. "I am not the smartest one," she said. "But I pay attention to details(细节)."

    To prepare for the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, Lu and her teammates studied the Modern Chinese for 10days. She {#blank#}6{#/blank#} had a secret wepon(武器).She studied how Chinese characters were formed.

    In the final round of the competiton, the host read wanluan to Lu and said it {#blank#}7{#/blank#} graceful(优雅的). "I had never heard that before!" said Lu. But she made a good guess. "Chinese characters meaning graceful often have '女' in {#blank#}8{#/blank#}, while many Chinese characters pronouncing luan have '亦'. So I wrote it down: '婉娈'."

    Lu has good reading habits. "When others pay attention to the main idea of a(n) {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, she looks at how the author uses words and sentences to express himself or herself," said Su Yunsheng, Lu's Chinese teacher.

    Su is happy to see {#blank#}10{#/blank#} like Lu find the beauty of Chinese language. "Learning to write Chinese characters is an important part of inheriting(继承)culture," said Su.