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 on a holiday.

    Always give {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(strange) the feeling that you are at home. Have the snow {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(clean) off your stairs or out of your driveway during the winter season. You might ask someone to park {#blank#}5{#/blank#} car in your driveway.

Tell your newspaper deliverer that you are not at home. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(have) a pile of newspapers and other mail on your doorsteps tells people that are not at home, so you could also have a neighbor {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a relative get your mail every day.

    Fix a timer in some of your rooms {#blank#}8{#/blank#} turns lights on and {#blank#}9{#/blank#}during different time of the day. Some TVs also comes with a timer that you could set to be turned on during certain time. Have a sensitive light outside your house that {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(keep) thieves away when you are not at home.

    On Sept.19, 2014, Alibaba went public on the New York Stock(股票)Exchange, which shows that Ma Yun has done his business {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(success). A short Chinese man seems to be the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(tall) man in the world right now.

    Ma Yun used to be an English teacher who led {#blank#}3{#/blank#} easy life. When he was twelve, he found that English was very interesting. Every morning he got up at 5 a.m. and then ran to a hotel near the West Lake,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} he could communicate with foreign visitors in English. The experience made him a fantastic English speaker and often delivered English speeches without {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(refer) to his notes. In a trip to the US in 1995, Ma had access to the Internet {#blank#}6{#/blank#} chance.{#blank#}7{#/blank#} was after he returned home that Ma set up a website and created his own company-Alibaba in Hangzhou. He was so{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(devote) to his work that he {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(name) “Crazy Jack Ma”. In my opinion, his{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(curious) and determination made Alibaba the world's largest e-commerce company.

    Dujiangyan is the oldest man-made water system in the world, and a wonder in the development of Chinese science.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(build) over 2, 200 years ago in what is now Sichuan Province in Southwest China, this amazing engineering{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(achieve) is still used today.

    In ancient times, the region in which Dujiangyan now stands{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(suffer) from regular floods caused by overflow from the Minjiang River.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(help) the victims of the flooding, Li Bing, the region governor, together with his son, decided to find a solution. Li designed a series of channels built at different levels along Mount Yulei that would take away the floodwater while leaving the river flowing naturally. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(good) still, the extra water could be directed to the dry Chengdu Plain, making {#blank#}6{#/blank#}suitable for farming.

    Once the system was finished, no more floods occurred and the people were able to live {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (peaceful). Today, Dujiangyan is admired by scientists from around the world because of one feature. Unlike modern dams{#blank#}8{#/blank#} the water is blocked with a huge wall, Dujiangyan still lets water flow through the Minjiang River naturally,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (enable) ecosystem(生态系统) and fish populations to exist {#blank#}10{#/blank#}harmony.

    China's male beauty vloggers go viral as gender attitudes shift

Blushes, eyeshadows and concealers are no longer {#blank#}1{#/blank#} found in a woman's cosmetic bag as more and more men in China discover the power of makeup.

    The popularity of male beauty vloggers is leading a(n) {#blank#}2{#/blank#} in China's male cosmetics market, estimated to grow to a huge $2.4 billion in 2022. It's also paving the way for more young Chinese men to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} with gender-bending makeup and clothes, in a culture with a long history of swaggering, masculine stereotypes, and where the trope of the ancient male emperor with multiple wives is still going strong.

    Even in 2018, parents can {#blank#}4{#/blank#}young sons in training camps to teach them to be tough and manly. Single men looking to marry face pressure to fit certain norms – be the breadwinner and own property; multiple houses are a(n) {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

    The change in gender ideals has been influenced by South Korean pop culture, where male celebrities and boy bands have {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a softer, effeminate look. With Chinese celebrities and regular boy-next-door types adopting a more {#blank#}7{#/blank#} appearance, the fad has its own slang – xiaoxianrou, or “little fresh meat.”

    Wang Zilu, 22, has used makeup for three years –{#blank#}8{#/blank#} after realizing how just a little could “change the shape of your eyebrows, the style of your lips”. He learned via other vloggers before starting a social media account to post his own before-and-after videos.

    “The first time I put on makeup, it took me an entire afternoon,” he recalled. “The most difficult part was eye shadow – how to mix and match different colors without making it ugly.”

    Makeup, for some, has gone from a fun hobby to a profitable {#blank#}9{#/blank#} –China's most popular beauty vloggers reportedly can {#blank#}10{#/blank#} in as much as 10 million yuan a year (£1.2 million).

But even with more young Chinese men trying out a bit of blush, not everyone's used to it just yet.