Do you have any foreign friends? Do you know their characteristics（特征）?

    The Germans are very quiet and they always keep calm. They don't like to speak more words. They look very serious. They like different kinds of amusements（娱乐）. The Germans are very hard－working. They like tidiness, especially the women, who always keep their home clean.

    In some ways, the Englishmen look the same as the Germans. They are very quiet and never talk too much with the strangers. They are really polite, so we often hear they say “Thank you.” Or “Sorry.” The gentlemen are also the Englishmen.

    The French's holidays are very long. They like traveling and usually spend their long time staying in other countries. The Frenchmen are more outgoing than the Germans. It is very easy to make friends with them.

    Compared to the Frenchmen, the Americans are more outgoing. And they are even opener than all of the Europeans（欧洲人）. They don't like to depend on others. So it is very common that the students do part-time jobs in their free time. And in Americans' eyes, success is an important part in their life.

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     The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXIII Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as PyeongChang 2018, was held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Korea. Some opening rounds events were held on 8 February 2018, the eve of the opening ceremony.

     Pyeongchang was chosen as the host city in July 2011 in South Africa, which was the host country of last term Winter Olympics. This was the first time that South Korea had hosted the Winter Olympics and the second Olympics held in the country, and that was the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. It was also the first of three consecutive (连续的) Olympics to be held in East Asia. The other two will be the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing．      

     The Games had 102 events in fifteen sports, with the addition of “big air” snowboarding, mass start speed skating, mixed doubles curling and so on, to the Winter Olympic programme. 2,914 athletes from 92 countries or regions competed, including Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore which were the first time to take part in the Winter Olympics. North Korea entered with South Korea during the opening ceremony as a united Korea．

     Norway won 39 medals in all, followed by Germany's 31 and Canada's 29. Germany and Norway were tied for the most gold medals won: both won fourteen golds. Host nation South Korea won seventeen medals, their highest medal at a Winter Olympics, five of which were gold.

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Beijing Opera is one of the Chinese traditional drama art forms and the largest Chinese opera form. Having a history of about 200 years, it is developed from many other drama forms, mostly from the local drama" Huiban". It was especially popular in south China during the 18th century.

Theatrical(戏剧的) art forms in many other countries do not have singing, dancing and spoken parts together in one single drama. An opera singer, for example, neither dances nor speaks on stage; there are no singing or dancing parts in a modern play; in a dance drama, the dancer doesn't speak or sing. Traditional Chinese drama, including Beijing Opera, is a kind of entertainment(娱乐). It includes spoken parts, singing and dancing.

Beijing Opera has spread to many other places. Mei Lanfang, one of the most famous performers of all, was the first to introduce Beijing Opera to foreigners and made highly successful tours to foreign countries." You will doubt and sometimes be a little bored, but you will be interested gradually. You will be strongly attracted to Beijing Opera, even if you know nothing about the drama background." This is how one traveler described his first experience in watching Beijing Opera.

Beijing Opera is China's national opera and it is full of Chinese cultural traditions. Welcome to China and enjoy Beijing Opera!

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