—No, it still remains {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

    While thousands of college students headed for warm climate to enjoy sun and fun during their week off from classes, seven local students had other plans.

    The Northern Essex Community College (NECC) students and one of their teachers spent part of their spring break in New York City, helping repair an area{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (destroy) by the hurricane.

    “I wanted to see for myself what happened,” said Terry. “I couldn't imagine{#blank#}2{#/blank#}it is like to lose your home and everything that you know and the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(power) effect the hurricane had on those people. I wanted to do something, to understand their feeling of helplessness.”

    The group headed into Brooklyn's Red Hook district, which was hit hard by the hurricane. There they met people from other parts of the country,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}had also volunteered to help. Together, those volunteers and the NECC students{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(work) to clear rubbish out of a three-story building. They put on protective suits and gloves{#blank#}6{#/blank#}they entered the building.

    Inside the building, the students saw nothing but broken walls and doors and pieces of the building {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(lie) all over the place.

    The students returned to school with{#blank#}8{#/blank#}sense of achievement, a feeling that{#blank#}9{#/blank#}helped people in need. I was remarkable how a community lost so much and was still able to recover, and this left the deepest impression{#blank#}10{#/blank#}the students.

    Most of us use memes(表情包) when{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (talk) to our friends on WeChat or QQ. And {#blank#}2{#/blank#} all the file formats(文件格式). GIF is probably the most popular.

    A GIF is usually{#blank#}3{#/blank#} short funny video that only lasts for a few seconds.

    The GIF turned 30 this year,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} is even two years older than the World Wide Web itself. Ever since the GIF{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (create) in 1987, it has long been overlooked. It wasn't until the age of smartphones and social media{#blank#}6{#/blank#} it became part of our daily lives.

    The GIF does a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (good) job of showing people's feeling than short text messages do. It is also a very small file format compared with regular videos, which helped it become popular among smartphone {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (use).

    Because of its{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (popular), Oxford Dictionaries name “GIF” the word of the year in 2012. There are even search services specifically(专门地) for GIFs, such as Tenor and Giphy. And if we can't find anything we like there{#blank#}10{#/blank#} is easy to create our own GIFs on apps like DSCO and Giphy Cam.

    Icebreaker to the North Pole is a new book {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the well-known Chinese writer Bi Shumin. It describes her special trip to the North Pole last year.

    Longing to go to the North Pole, she always heard about it when she was young. Bi, now in her 60s, has at last realized the dream to see it for {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (she).

    “This dream was hidden in my heart by myself in the past. It gradually became dusty, but it never disappeared.{#blank#}3{#/blank#} I dreamed has finally come true.” Up to now, Bi {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (travel) to 73 countries worldwide. Besides the North Pole, she made a trip to Easter Island, which is around 3,700 kilometres off the western coast of Chile. In the same year, she went to the South Pole. And she intends {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (go) to other places in the near future.

    As a writer {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (show) a great interest in travel, Bi thinks traveling {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (be) a part of our life. She also believes it is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} only way to see different cultures and histories.

    “If the view is the same every day, we will easily become {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (bore). But if we go to a strange place, we will soon enter a condition of experiencing and thinking about different cultures. Travelling gives me much {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (free).”

    The Warwick Cheese Festival takes place in June every year. This annual event is the biggest cheese festival in North America, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (attract) tens of thousands of Canadians and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (visitor) from all over the world. They can try over 100 kinds of cheese made all over Quebec at the festival. And they {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (invite) to vote for the People's Choice Prize of the year.

ChatGPT is a chatbot. Some schools {#blank#}1{#/blank#} （ban）it since its birth. They need time to make rules about {#blank#}2{#/blank#} it's to be used properly in class. Some teachers see it as a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} （cheat）tool. But many principals believe it's too late to keep AI out of classrooms. A growing number of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} （educate） say the panic about AI is a lot like the panic caused by the Internet when it was new. One of them says, "ChatGPT is to English and to writing what the calculator is to math.