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.

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    There's no one reason why women return to school. Going back to school provides private and public benefits. College graduates, generally enjoy higher salaries,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (employ) more consistently, and work in nicer conditions. College-educated people vote more, give more to charity, and rely{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(little) on government support.

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    To Schlossberg, education is critical in the long run. She says, “You are going to do much better than before{#blank#}8{#/blank#}you have a good education; you are going to be happier than before on condition that you have{#blank#}9{#/blank#}education that enables you to do what you have to do in life. The question is{#blank#}10{#/blank#}you are ready at this time to go for it.

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    Lu Yonggen, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has donated life savings of 8.8 millions yuan to educational causes. The 87-year-old scientist says his achievements would not have been possible with the Communist Party of China, but that he is willing to make his last contribution to the country.

    In March, Lu and his wife transferred all the money they saved it in more than 10 bank accounts to South China Agricultural University to establish the educational fund sponsoring poverty-stricken students and talented young teachers. Lu herself also works hard in the field of rice genetics, climbing mountains in 2001 at the age of 70 to find wild rice. During the past five years, he fostered 33 new varieties of rice seeds what are grown on land covering 600,000 hectares.

    Despite a famous scientist, Lu lives a simply and humble life, using broken furniture dated back to the 1980s in his home.

    Many people travel during the holiday season but do not make sure that their houses {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (protect). Crimes go up rapidly during the winter and summer holiday seasons. Here are two things that you should keep in mind when you go {#blank#}2{#/blank#} 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. Your might ask others to park {#blank#}5{#/blank#} cars in your driveway.

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

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    Thus, from the blues, there {#blank#}13{#/blank#} (spring) up a faster, livelier kind of music called jazz.

    Besides the works of da Vinci, the Louvre Museum has more than 6,000 other European paintings, {#blank#}14{#/blank#} (range) from the 13th century to the 19th century.

    The idea for our festival was hatched back in 1978, {#blank#}15{#/blank#} it was known as the Utah/US Film Festival.

Photographers Turn Their Cameras on Pets

In 2019 photographers Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks visited 14 countries on assignment. When the couple described the adventures {#blank#}1{#/blank#}they had experienced when photographing, people invariably asked, "But who takes care of your four cats and dogs?" They joked that the pet siter made a lot of money.

But 2020 couldn't have been {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(different). Due to COVID-19, Brinson and Banks never left the United States. Often, they didn't even leave their Los Angeles neighborhood. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} {#blank#}4{#/blank#}spending long hours in airport security lines and waiting-for the perfect lighting, the pair stayed along with dogs Tux and Tia and cats Rex and Kudzu. "Our pets became emotional therapy animals, and our only friends we could safely hug in a world {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(strike) by a deadly pandemic," Banks said.

As COVID-19 lockdowns swept across the world in March of 2020, the change made an especially great impact on photographers, who are accustomed to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(spend) long periods abroad. And so many cameras {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(turn) on a domestic subject: the pet.

Research suggests that pets have offered emotional support during the pandemic, helping {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) the long days of isolation more bearable, says Emily MeCobb, a clinical associate professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. In fact, the pandemic has sped up a trend, according to McCobb's and other scientists' observation, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the pet is becoming a member of the family. "In the past 20 to 30 years, the role of the pet in the family {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(take) on a whole new role," says MeCobb." It really hasn't been that long {#blank#}11{#/blank#}these furry child substitutes gained this kind of importance in American society."