Welcome back to the hot topic of studying abroad！ Last time, we talked about the general "soft- ware" needed to havea{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(success)  studying experience overseas, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}refers to the ability to understand western culture,  and problem solving skills when {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(face)  critical situations, etc.

      Now,1 will dig deeper into the concept of software".Everyone is talking about culture shock nowa-days, but you may wonder what itactually {#blank#}4{#/blank#}_(mean). Simplyput:  culture shock is the diffi-cultypeople may experience when being exposed and adjusting to a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (remarkable) different new culture. Usually, people often go._{#blank#}6{#/blank#} four distinct phases: the honeymoon phase, thene-gotiation phase, the adjustment phase and the mastery phase. Culture shock can happen immediately upon your {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(arrive) in the country.

For international students, perhaps the most direct impact of culture shock is the variety of accents, especially in multicultural countries {#blank#}8{#/blank#}the U.S. Canada or Australia.There are two main reasons: Firstly, these countries have highly diversifiedgroups of residents from different cultural{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(background). Secondly,  there are many international students fromall around the world every year studying in these countries, so you shouldn'tbe surprised {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(find) allkinds of unfamiliar accents around the university campus.

    Mr. Green has {#blank#}1{#/blank#}bakery. Many customers come to buy {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(variety) of bread every day. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (say)that Mr. Green's bread is nicer and cheaper than {#blank#}4{#/blank#}in other bakeries. Children always ask their parents to buy Mr. Green's cake {#blank#}5{#/blank#}their birthdays because it tastes so delicious and looks so cute.

    Betty is Mr. Green's only daughter  {#blank#}6{#/blank#}usually helps in the bakery. However, she thinks her father very cold and complains to her mother: “Mom, why does Dad never say how much he loves me? Is it because he doesn't like me?” “Oh, my good girl,” says Mrs, Green. “You never know how proud your father is of you.     Nothing else in the world {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(mean) more than you to your father. When he's making cookies and bread, he is thinking of you. That's {#blank#}8{#/blank#}our cakes and bread are the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(good). Sometimes when you've done something wrong and made him angry or sad, the bread that day must taste hard and dry. Your father may not say how much he loves you, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} his bread does.”

    A young man and an old man were waiting for a bus. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} sat next to each other. “What's that in your bag? ” asked the young man, pointing to a big bag beside the old man.“Gold. There was nothing but gold,” Answered the old man. The young man could not believe his won ears and was {#blank#}2{#/blank#}great amazement. Then he began to think about {#blank#}3{#/blank#}to get the gold. The old man was very tired and it seemed that he could hardly keep his eyes open. After a while the old man {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(lie) down on the chair and fell asleep.The young man took {#blank#}5{#/blank#}big bag gently and quietly. But when he was just about to run away, he found a corner of his fur coat was under the old man's body. Several times he tried to pull it out, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} in vain. At last he took off his coat, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (think) that the gold in the bag must cost far more than his fur coat. Nervous but {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(delight), the young man ran out of the station as quickly as his legs could carry him until he reached a place {#blank#}9{#/blank#}he thought the old man couldn't find him. He stopped and quickly opened the bag but he just found a great many of small stones in it. Then he ran back to the station {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(hurry) only to find that the old man was gone.

    Cultural TV programs have experienced {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  come-back at the start of the Chinese New Year. A new program, Readers, has become a hit. Broadcast on China Central Television (CCTV) over the weekend, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}is bringing fresh{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(enthusiastic) for literature in China. Readers sets out to interpret the power and values behind {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(tradition) Chinese culture.

    The weekly talk show, produced and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(host) by famous TV personality Dong Qing, invites people from all {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(walk) of life to read poems, essays and books they like or wrote. Without any amazing stage design, Readers has brought the almost-lost habit of reading aloud back into the public spotlight, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(make) the audience bathe in the beauty of language. The participants also {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(active) share stories from their own life explaining reasons {#blank#}9{#/blank#}particular pieces touched their hearts or shaped their lives. In the show, poems can{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(adapt)into songs. Since its broadcast, it has been considered as "a breath of fresh air” among various shows in China.

    With the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(develop) of industry, air pollution is getting more and more serious. In Beijing, many people suffer different kinds of illnesses because {#blank#}2{#/blank#} air pollution.

    Air pollution is caused by the following {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (reason): about half of the problem is caused by vehicles. There are more and more cars, buses on the roads, and they give off {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (harm) gases.25% of air pollution is caused by factories. Another factor is the smokers. Smoking not only does harm to their health {#blank#}5{#/blank#}to others. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (beside) these, about 10% of air pollution is caused by other reasons.

    We should take some measures to fight {#blank#}7{#/blank#} pollution. New fuel can be used to take {#blank#}8{#/blank#} place of gas. We can plant more trees. If everybody realizes the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (important) of the environment and does something to stop pollution, the problem will {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (solve).