Qigong,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (call) “Life Energy Cultivation” in China, is a practice of focusing on breath, movement, and awareness for exercise, and healing(愈合). If you have taken Chinese lessons, you must be familiar with Confucius, according to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}qigong provides a means to become a Junzi(gentleman) through awareness of morality. Taoism considers qigong to be able to provide a way to achieve spiritual improvement. Qigong is{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(traditional) viewed as a practice to balance qi (inner life energy), which is now practiced throughout China and worldwide.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}a form of gentle exercise, qigong is made up of movements that are typically repeated, strengthening the body. Qigong {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(believe) to help develop human potential, allow access to higher degrees of awareness, and awaken{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(one) “true nature”.

    What makes qigong special is that it can be done {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(lie), sitting , or standing; thus it is {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(access) for disabled persons, seniors, and people recovering from injuries. As a healing art, qigong practitioners focus on prevention and self-healing, which has been widely used in China as part of traditional Chinese medicine, and is included in the curriculum of Chinese{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(university). Besides, qigong is practiced for self-cultivation as a means to get rid of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}complexity of the earth.

    Crying marriage? Surprising, isn't it? Actually, the custom of crying marriage{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (exist) a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and remained in fashion until the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular {#blank#}2{#/blank#}before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} view it as a necessity of the marriage procedure.

    It is very much the same in different{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (place) of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. Otherwise{#blank#}5{#/blank#} bride's neighbors would look down upon her as a {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(poor) educated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases in which the bride {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (beat) by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.

    In a word, crying at the wedding is a way to set off the{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (happy) of the wadding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (arrange) marriages of the old days of China9 there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (disappoint) marriage and even their unhappy life.

    I won't call myself the most accomplished person when it comes to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hold) chopsticks. In fact, I'm pretty sure that my technique looks clumsy at times. I tend to hold {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (I) in the middle, more beginner than expert.

    Still, since I eat almost every meal with the eating utensil（器皿）of choice in China it's not uncommon for a new friend or acquaintance to come to a simple {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (conclude) after observing me that my Chinese husband, Jun, must {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (show) me how to use them.

    They are wrong. I've used chopsticks ever since I was a teenager, a time when my sister and mother were both fond of Chinese cuisine and introduced me {#blank#}5{#/blank#} many new dishes, along with the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (prefer) utensils in China. We always kept bamboo chopsticks along with our {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (knife), forks and spoons, ready for whenever we happened to have Chinese food for dinner. It was my closest family {#blank#}8{#/blank#} observed my first mistakes I made in using chopsticks.

    Plus, I lived over two years in China before Jun and I started dating and I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (expect) to use chopsticks in almost every restaurant, stand and bar. Trust me, when you're hungry you figure out pretty fast what it takes to down（咽下）{#blank#}10{#/blank#} meal with these utensils.

    China is famous for its bewildering and oftentimes confusing highway interchanges (立体交叉道), but the Qianchun interchange in {#blank#}1{#/blank#} mountainous province of Guizhou is the only one {#blank#}2{#/blank#} actually looks like a giant rollercoaster for cars and trucks.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (Construct)on the Qianchun Interchange began in 2009, but the massive road knot was only completed last year. It {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  (consist)of 18 different ramps, in 8 directions, on five different layers, with the highest one {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (stand)37 meters above ground. Like the nearby Huangjuewan Overpass, in Chongqing, this incredibly complex infrastructure project has been labelled a nightmare for {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (motorist) trying to find their way around.

    People on social media pointed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} that GPS systems would be confused by the five different layers of road, but officials claims that the directions and exits on the interchange are {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (clear)marked and that even if you make mistakes, it's always easy to turn around. Still, just looking at this thing leaves me {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (confuse).I can't imagine {#blank#}10{#/blank#} having to find my way around it must be like.

    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!