As less people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is committed to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

    Li worked as a miner for more than ten years. After {#blank#}3{#/blank#} mine closed down, Li turned{#blank#}4{#/blank#} housing decoration, until he {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.

    Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young, and he found it easy to learn the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could make a {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(vary) of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup(糖浆). When the sugar cools down, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} appears is a piece of sugar art.

    Choice of seating in the lecture hall can affect a college student's performance, a study suggests.

    Lectures are a main part of higher education, and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(understand) how students interact and learn within the lecture theatre environment is central to successful learning. Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK examined {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (student) reasons for choosing particular seats in a lecture hall, and investigated how seating positions are related {#blank#}3{#/blank#} students' performance.

    "Interaction is a key part of learning and knowing who the students are interacting with can be {#blank#}4{#/blank#} great benefit when designing activities," said David P Smith of Sheffield Hallam University.

    Many students {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (prefer) being able to sit with their friends, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} others were more concerned with either attracting or avoiding the lecturer's attention. Some students chose seats {#blank#}7{#/blank#} allowed them to see and hear clearly. But others {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (easy) picked seats that made them feel less depressed, they said.

    Friendship groups who sat together tended {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (achieve) similar grades, and students who sat alone at the edges were likely to do worse than average.

    Lecturers may be able to use these findings to offer assistance to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (anxiety) students，and to support the learning of all students by encouraging interactions between the different groups.

Are you on{#blank#}1{#/blank#} diet? Then maybe you should consider{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(sit) by the window the next time you eat out. A new book claims that{#blank#}3{#/blank#}you sit in a restaurant can affect how much you consume.

A new research found that people sitting farthest from the front door ate the fewest salads and were 73 percent{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(likely) to order dessert.

The diners{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(seat) at a dark table ate heavier food and ordered more of it, {#blank#}6{#/blank#}those sitting at bright bar tables ordered more salads and fewer desserts.

According to the researchers, the darker it is, the more invisible you {#blank#}7{#/blank#}feel, the less easy it is to see how much you're eating and the less guilty you are when you eat more.

In contrast, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(expose) yourself to the sunlight, people or trees outside might make you more aware {#blank#}9{#/blank#} you look, might make you think about walking or might make you want a green salad.

The researchers also noted that slim diners chewed around 15 times per mouthful, three chews more than heavier diners. By eating more slowly, the diner consumes less in the time{#blank#}10{#/blank#} takes for the brain to register satisfaction.