Many people travel during the holiday season but do not make sure that their houses and homes {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(protect). Crimes go up {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(rapid) during the winter an summer holiday seasons. Here are some things that you should keep in mind when you go on 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 his/her car in {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(you) 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 you are not at home, so you could also have a neighbor {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a relative get your mail every day.

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

    Have you ever wondered whether where is life on Mars? The bog Red Planet is a mystery to us but {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(hope) not for much longer.

    On November 11, the Mars rover(漫步者){#blank#}2{#/blank#} (name) Curiosity started its journey into space. After eight months flying in a rocket, Curiosity covered more than 566 million kilometers and finally landed on Mars — according to BBC reports.

    The rover is there to find out {#blank#}3{#/blank#} there is, or ever was, life on the cold, desert-like planet.

    The place {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Curiosity landed is called Gale Crater, a huge hole on Mars. Scientists believe that there {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(be) once water and even life there.

    In order to do its job, Curiosity is packed with many {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(use) tools, though it is only three meters long, about the size of a small car.

    It has a robot arm that can collect soil and drill into rock. It also carries {#blank#}7{#/blank#} own laser gun. The gun can turn a small amount of rock into gas, so that Curiosity can study what the rock {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) up of.

    {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the help of these tools, Curiosity will act as a robot geologist. For the next two years, it will stay and travel inside Gale Crater,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (collect) and studying rock and soil.

    My first impression of Mrs. Li, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} kind and patient teacher，was that she was nervous and shy. But now，her characters and teaching styles such as explaining English grammar so {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (clear)， {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (avoid) making students feel stupid make the class like working {#blank#}4{#/blank#} her. Mrs. Chen，almost 60，is very strict. She's also very serious and doesn't smile much. Some of our classmates don't like her, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} most of us really appreciate her {#blank#}6{#/blank#} her teaching is so well organized and clear. Mr. Wu  {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (teach) us for two weeks and he's already very popular. The young teacher，about 28，has got so much energy that this is one class you do not fall {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (sleep) in！He's really amusing and tells jokes {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  he thinks we're getting {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (bore)．I respect him a lot.

    We use flowers as messengers to say something we might have trouble {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (say) directly ourselves. Over time flowers have come to symbolize the most {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (power) human experiences: beauty, love, hope, and rebirth. Sweet flowers alone can say what one {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (fear) expressing. We've listed some of the most famous flowers that have an important meaning. In Mao Zedong's poem Ode to Plum Blossom《咏梅》, the plum blossom was used {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (praise) soldiers who sacrificed their lives for Chinese people. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} great Chinese poet Li Bai from the Tang Dynasty once compared Yang Yuhuan's beautiful face {#blank#}6{#/blank#} blooming peonies (牡丹). Flowering in May, peonies' large petals and strong colors are linked to prosperity (成功) and richness. The orchid (兰花) is well known because {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (it) delicate smell attracts lots of people. Beautiful articles and poems {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (call) “lanzhang” by Chinese people in traditional Chinese culture. Roses, of course, have the most colorful meaning among all the flowers. Red roses mean “I love you.” A red rose, rather than yellow roses, acts as the traditional romantic gift{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (give) to your love on Valentine's Day. Sending yellow roses can be risky, as they represent either friendship {#blank#}10{#/blank#} envy.

    The Czech Republic really loves celebrations, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(include) anniversaries, national holidays and many other festivals.

    In the fall they hold their harvest festival in different regions. People basically celebrate the harvest, recognizing that they have enough food to survive through winter. It's a tradition that dates back{#blank#}2{#/blank#} the time when people didn't have enough food to eat, so many died from {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(hungry).

    I felt very {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(luck) to go to a village, where a festival was being held. This village is known for its outdoor museum{#blank#}5{#/blank#} shows the lives of people from the past and the jobs they did.

    In the afternoon, there were not only performances of singing and dancing, {#blank#}6{#/blank#}also plenty of other activities to do. Bands started to play traditional Czech music on the stage. People in the garden{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(drink) beer and enjoyed {#blank#}8{#/blank#}wonderful music that everyone there relaxed.

    Through festivals Czech people remind{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(they) of their history, and at the same time have {#blank#}10{#/blank#}good time together with their families and friends.

    Recently, I feel upset for I have a strange neighbor. She lives in a house with {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (dust) curtains {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (hang) before dirty windows. I don't know if it is because she has no friend {#blank#}3{#/blank#} she has developed the habit of setting down a series of facts she has gone through in her diary.

    She seldom goes outdoors.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, one day I happened {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (meet) her when she was walking the dog in the park at dusk. She looked tired and I wondered {#blank#}6{#/blank#}she was experiencing. She was much {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (concern) about my new novel. It was the first time in a year that I {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (communicate) with her face to face. We didn't stop talking until the sky was{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (entire) dark. We had got to go home immediately because a thunder storm was {#blank#}10{#/blank#} its way!