“Can I have a glass of hot water?” This is a very common question for Chinese customers in a restaurant. But {#blank#}1{#/blank#} you go abroad, you may find that meals in the West tend to come with tall glasses of ice water.

    For most Chinese people,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (drink) hot water is part of everyday life. It is believed that water of a warm temperature (25-30 C) is good for people's health,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (especial) for the stomach.

    But for many Western people, they drink cold water even in winter. One possible reason is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} in Western countries people can drink water directly from the tap, rather than having to boil {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. And it's also normal to jump into a cold shower after exercise,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (bring) the heart rate down.

    However, there is one common thing {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(encourage) in both the East and the West: One {#blank#}8{#/blank#} cool down by drinking a hot drink in summer. Because sweating is a good way to cool off in summer, hot drinks make you hotter and you begin to sweat.

    Of course, it doesn't matter if you drink hot {#blank#}9{#/blank#} cold water. The more comfortable your body feels, the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(good) it is.

    In my family, there {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(be) three people. My father is a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (farm) and goes to work in the field every day. He isn't good at {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (talk) but he gets on well with other people. My mother is very kind and is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (friend) to everybody. So when I have {#blank#}5{#/blank#} problem I will turn{#blank#}6{#/blank#} her for help. My friends say I am clever, because when the teacher asks {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (we) very difficult questions, I can come up with the answers {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (quick). But my father thinks I am not patient. He says once I have difficulty in {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (solve) problems, I will {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (easy) give up. This is what I need to improve in the future.

    One day, Daily dreamed {#blank#}1{#/blank#} dream. She flew in a wonderful carpet and talked with an antelope in Tibet. The antelope told her they {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (hunt) because of their fur {#blank#}3{#/blank#} can be used to make sweaters for people like hers. In the future they may all may die {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Later, she flew to Zimbabwe {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, she talked with an elephant and got {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (know) the farmers there no longer hunted them. That's {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the government decided to help and the farmers {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (final) made a lot of money from the tourism , At last she arrived at the thick rain forest where a monkey told her "No rain forest , no animals {#blank#}9{#/blank#} no drugs." Although everything had gone, she had learned {#blank#}10{#/blank#} much!