W: What {#blank#}1{#/blank#} wonderful place!

M: I wanted the best restaurant {#blank#}2{#/blank#} your birthday. And I know you like French food. Let's begin with a cocktail(鸡尾酒) and then look at the menu.

W: I don't want to look at it because {#blank#}3{#/blank#} always takes me a year to make up my mind. Any suggestions?

M: I've never been here before, but everything {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (suppose) to be excellent.

W: They have snails(蜗牛)! But I wouldn't dare eat them. They might make me sick.

M: I feel the same way about snails. I think I'll have roast duck(烤鸭). It comes with vegetables and potatoes.

W: {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (sound) good. But {#blank#}6{#/blank#} I like seafood, I'd like {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (begin) with some seafood. And let's have the salad after the main course.

M: Fine. We should have white wine with dinner and champagne(香槟)with dessert since this is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}celebration.

W: Oh, don't forget the cheese. There's nothing like real French cheese.

M: I can see already this {#blank#}9{#/blank#} going to be an {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (enjoy) and delicious dinner.     

    Jean Little who was born in Taiwan, China, has been living in Canada since the age of seven. In spit of the challenge of{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(she) blindness. Jean began writing as a child and has never stopped. despite{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(limit) vision, she attended regular school {#blank#}3{#/blank#}graduated in 1955 from the University of Toronto with an Honors Degree in English. She taught special need children until 1962. That year, her first book, Mine for Keeps, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(win)the Little Brown Children's Book Award and since then Jean has written 50 books, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (include)novels, picture books, autobiography, poetry and short stories, among {#blank#}6{#/blank#}are some of Canada's best-loved works for children, such as Dancing Through the Snow, Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird, Listen for the Singing. Her books {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(translate) into a dozen languages so far and have won many awards.

    In addition {#blank#}8{#/blank#}all her awards, she has received six honorary degrees and is a member of the Order of Canada for her outstanding {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(contribute) Canadian children's literature, and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(recent) she won the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.

    As is known to all, we live in a world of germs（细菌）. It is impossible to avoid exposure. Genetic makeups may give some people {#blank#}1{#/blank#} advantage over others. However, it does not stop people from becoming sick.

    All of us have been a victim of an {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (ill) at some point in our lives. Moreover, it is likely that we {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (get) sick again in the future. Our best chances of avoiding sickness {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (be) by exercising and employing good {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (habit).

    While good hygiene and exercise serve as obvious advice to most people, eating {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (healthy) is not always obvious. If you cannot define “healthy”, then your immune system will be happy {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (tell) you. The immune system is the foundation of our health. It works for us every day to keep us well. Ask {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (you): “Are you making its job easier {#blank#}9{#/blank#} harder?”

    Like any system, the immune system is not different. It has a tolerance too. If you eat unhealthily, your immune system will make you aware of it.

    Take a step in the right direction {#blank#}10{#/blank#} including some healthy food in your diet.

    Xuexiang Village, formerly known as a forestry farm, has been transformed into a booming tourist resort. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (locate) at the southern foot of Changbai Mountain, it has much snow. The snow here starts falling in October and begins to melt in April. A unique scene is the “snow mushrooms”, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} are formed after snow falls onto wood piles. Together with log cabins, pine trees and snowy mountains, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} place looks like a fairy tale world. Several decades ago, people {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (come) here as loggers. Years of excessive logging resulted {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a resource-shortage problem. After the natural forest protection project {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (launch) in 1999, the forestry farm stopped logging and started to make good use of the snow to develop the tourism industry. Amateur photographers first promoted the beautiful scenery, then, with the help of the internet, it {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (gradual) became famous and tourists began coming. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (sense) the new opportunities, loggers started to open family hotels and restaurants. Nearly 80 {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (family) are now involved in tourism business. “My family can make 200,000-300,000 yuan each year, which {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (able) us to live a much better life”, said Fan, a used-to-be logger.

    China is leading the world in facial recognition algorithms（人脸识别算法）. It is reported that its best algorithm can recognize l0 million people {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a single mistake in less than a second.

    The top five of the 39 facial recognition algorithms in the word come from China, according to a test, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} released the results for 2018 last Friday. YITU Technology, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Shanghai-based company that claimed both the top and second spot on the list, said that its top algorithm is able {#blank#}4{#/blank#} （recognize）nearly every person in a sample base of 10 million. However, "it is very likely for a human brain to make {#blank#}5{#/blank#} （mistake） in recognizing the identities of 100 people," the company said. Algorithms from Beijing-based company Sense Time {#blank#}6{#/blank#} （win） the third and fourth spot, while the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology（SIAT）claimed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} （five） in the test. YITU said that high facial recognition accuracy（精确）means that users gain {#blank#}8{#/blank#} （good） experiences when {#blank#}9{#/blank#} （use） related products. For example, when a user uses facial ID for payment on a smartphone, it will not authorize the payment for someone else with a similar {#blank#}10{#/blank#} （appear）as the user, the company noted.