Many people travel during the holiday season but do not make sure that their houses and homes  {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (protect).Crime goes up {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (rapid) during the winter and summer holiday seasons.Here are some things that you should keep in mind when you go {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a holiday.

     Always give {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(strange)the feeling that you are at home. Have the snow {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (clean) off your stairs or out ofyour driveway during the winter season. You might ask someone to park {#blank#}6{#/blank#} carsin your driveway.

       Tell your newspaper deliverer that you are not at home. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (have)a pile of newspapers and other mail on your doorsteps tells people that you arenot at home, so you could also have a neighbor {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a relative get yourmail every day.

       Fix a timer in some of your rooms {#blank#}9{#/blank#} turns lights on andoff during different times of the day. Some TVs also come with a timer that youcould set to be turned on during certain times. Have motion (运动) sensitive lights outside your house that keep thieves away {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you are not at home.

    After the tsunami(海啸)hit India，many people who lived near the sea were greatly influenced. A lot of people lost their homes and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(unfortunate) some even lost their lives.

    College girls {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(ask)to collect money from their neighborhood. So we formed a group and devoted {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(we) to collecting money for the tsunami relief fund (救济金)．In our area，we showed a sign board，{#blank#}4{#/blank#} read，"Please help the sufferers, "to the people in the neighborhood and asked for their help. They donated money，dress，rice，medicine {#blank#}5{#/blank#} anything else useful.

    A small boy who was on the way to his school came running to us and asked us {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(wait) there for some time. After 5 minutes he ran to us with {#blank#}7{#/blank#} small savings box. It was a plastic box which there {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(be) many coins inside. He said he got the little box from his granny as a birthday gift {#blank#}9{#/blank#} saving coins. And he wanted it to be donated for the fund. It was the real greatest offering of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(kind) collected by us. What a lovely boy and what a big heart!

    The traditional Chinese Longtaitou Festival, also called Dragon Head Raising Festival, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (fall) on the second day of the second lunar month every year, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the rain-bringing Dragon King is said to awaken {#blank#}3{#/blank#} his winter sleep. It's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (wide) believed that the second day of the second month on the Chinese lunar calendar means the start of spring and farming.

    The festival is a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (reflect) of the ancient agrarian (耕作的)culture. Nowadays, although some of the old ways {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (celebrate) the festival are no longer in practice, some still keep on. Most of them are still identical to those practised in the ancient times, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (include) eating Chinese pancakes and noodles. The most famous {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (tradition) practice on this day is to have a haircut. Some people believe that going to the barber's on the second day of the second month will get rid of bad luck, while {#blank#}9{#/blank#} believe it is bad luck to get hair cut during the first month of the lunar calendar. Folk {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (activity)like dragon dance are also held during the Longtaitou Festival across China.

    Have you ever wanted to be in a TV show or movie? There is a new app {#blank#}1{#/blank#}lets you put yourself in your favorite shows.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} some people are worried about this app.

    The app is called ZAO. A tech company{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(call) Momo released it last month. It lets users put their faces over the faces in photos and videos. Users can put themselves into popular TV shows and movies. For example, you can put your face into a scene from the movie Titanic. Your face {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(replace) Jack's or Rose's. It looks very {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(nature). Released on Aug 30, it was the most-downloaded free app in China as of Sept 10, according to App Annie, {#blank#}6{#/blank#}website that tracks app data.

    However, some people worry that the app could be abused. People can use the app to make themselves look like politicians or celebrities (名人). They could also violate (侵犯) celebrities' right of publicity, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (use) their faces to make videos or {#blank#}8{#/blank#}other illegal uses.

    Other people worry that they might lose their facial recognition data. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}is possible that hackers (黑客) could steal this data from app{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(company) and use it to break into users' phones and steal their money.