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    The Great Wall was listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a dragon, it winds up and down across deserts, grasslands and mountains, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(run) approximately21,196 kilometers from east to west.

    The {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (construct) of the Great Wall was not that easy, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} drew heavily on the local resources for building materials. The walls were {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (original) built in the Spring ＆Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Emperor Qin Shi Huang succeeded in his effort to have them joined together. Since then, the Great Wall {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(serve) as a monument of the Chinese nation throughout history.

    With {#blank#}6{#/blank#} history of about 2,700 years, some parts of the Great Wall are now {#blank#}7{#/blank#}ruins or have disappeared. However, the Great Wall of China is still one of the most appealing{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (attraction) all around the world owing to its historical significance. The best-known part of the Great Wall of China, Badaling, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(locate) 43 miles northwest of Beijing, attracts thousands of national and foreign tourists every day.

    Today, the Great Wall {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (recognize) as one of the most impressive architectural achievements in history.

    Jogging makes you burn fat and lose weight. In addition to increasing metabolism (新陈代谢), jogging is an {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (effect) way to burn more calories, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} helps you lose weight. If calories consumed in food are less than calories {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (spend) during exercise and other daily activities, you will lose weight. It is impossible not to! Many people have learned how to lose weight by{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (start) a running program.

    Jogging {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (help) to reduce stubborn fat. A running program can really help to cut back {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the last of your stubborn fat. Change can take a long time to come but {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (eventual) it makes maintaining a healthy weight much easier.

    If you suffer from poor appetite, jogging will improve your appetite. Along with all other {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (form) of exercise – the harder you work, the more you will eat {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (repair) your muscles and refuel them. When you start to run longer, you will start to eat to fuel your body, and may even find that you need to eat more food every day {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you did when you were overweight.

    In the past a gentleman would offer his seat {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a lady on a crowded bus.  But now, he will probably look out of the window or hide behind his newspaper, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(leave) the lady standing {#blank#}3{#/blank#} someone else gets off.  You can't entirely blame men for this change in manners. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(go) are the days when women could be referred to the weak. A whole generation has grown up demanding {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(equal) with men in jobs, in education and in social life.  Hold a door for some women {#blank#}6{#/blank#} you are likely to get {#blank#}7{#/blank#} angry lecture on treating women {#blank#}8{#/blank#} weaklings.  Take a girl out for a meal and she'll probably insist on paying {#blank#}9{#/blank#} share of the bill.  All these, according to some sociologists, will change men's attitude towards women and the conventional active politeness is perhaps slowly being {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(replace) by true consideration for the needs and feeling of women, so that men can see women as equal human beings.

The annual Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is Harbin's main tourist highlight. It is the world's biggest winter festival. The {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (bitter) cold winters are just right for this festival.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#} sets the Harbin festival apart is the scale and size of the sculptures and the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(beauty) lighting. It is bigger than {#blank#}4{#/blank#}ones in Sapporo, Norway, and Quebec.

At first, mainly Chinese participated, but in the last decade, it {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(become) an international festival and {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(compete). As the festival grows in international participation, and as China's economy grows, the size of the snow sculptures and ice architecture exhibits keeps {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(grow). The work going into making those exhibits is astonishing, and their size and beauty is amazing.

The lightning {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(effect) on the huge ice sculptures in the Ice and Snow World are technologically complex.

Officially the festival {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(hold) from the end of December through February. Opening dates keep changing, and ending dates partly depends {#blank#}10{#/blank#}the weather.

The Sun Island Scenic Area will be opened from Dec. 21 to Feb. 28.

Human history begins with stories. Some stories are so important that they{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(pass) down for countless generations. And storytelling is a useful tool, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}gives a lesson much more powerfully than other ways. For example, once I had to tell actors to be on time for a performance. Instead of{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(repeat) the time over and over again, I told them a true story. "The year before, one of the actors was late. We replaced him so he didn't get a chance to perform." Then, no one{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(be) late again.