A Chinese traditional cough syrup, called Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, is becoming even {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (popular) among New Yorkers in this flu season, following a US news report.according to an article published by the Wall Street Journal last week, Alex Schweder,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}architect and professor of design at Pratt Institute {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(suffer) a cough about-ten days, felt better only in 15 minutes after he drank a bottle of Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, which{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (recommend) by his girlfriend.

      Here is a selection of the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (comment) online:

    This cough syrup is effective to me. I {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(use) it whenever I have minor coughing since the flu broke out. It helps sooth the coughing. I like to take a soup spoon full of the syrup in my mouth and let the syrup melt down my food pipe {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(effort). I take it as much as I need. This is great stuff. Mostly it's the honey in {#blank#}8{#/blank#}that helps you talk again, but it tastes delicious too.

      A Chinese market in New York City where the syrup is sold {#blank#}9{#/blank#} $7.80. That's the price of a Chinese pharmacy;{#blank#}10{#/blank#}the syrup is sold as much as $70 online through third parties, the Wall Street Journal said.

    When I was six, Dad brought home a dog{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(call) "Brownie". Brownie got along well with every member in our family. She would go to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}was sick and just be with them. We always felt much {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(good) when she was around.

    One day, as I was getting her food, she{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(bite) a hole out of one of Dad's shoes. I scolded her,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (tell) her what she did was wrong. She looked down at the ground and then went and hid. I saw tears in her eyes.

    Brownie went everywhere with us. People would stop and ask if they could pet her. Of course she'd let anyone pet her. She was just the most lovable dog. There were many times{#blank#}6{#/blank#}we'd be out walking and a small child would come over and pull on her hair. She never barked or tried to get away. The{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(fun) thing was that she would smile. This frightened people because{#blank#}8{#/blank#}thought she was showing her teeth. Far from the truth, she loved everyone.

    Now many years have passed since Brownie{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(die) of old age. I still miss the days when she was{#blank#}10{#/blank#}us.

    Do you like travelling? Staying healthy while{#blank#}1{#/blank#}（travel） can help to ensure your trip is a happy and enjoyable one．If you are travelling abroad, here are the{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(tip) you need to make your trip much{#blank#}3{#/blank#}（easy）.

    Make sure you have got signed passport and visas. Also, before you go, fill in the emergency{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (inform) page of your passport! Make two copies of your passport identification age. This will help a lot if your passport {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（steal）. Leave one copy at home with friends or relatives. Carry the other with you in a separate place from your passport．Read the Public Announcements or Travel Warnings for the countries you plan to visit. Get yourself familiar with local laws and customs of the countries to{#blank#}6{#/blank#}you are travelling. Leave a copy of your itinerary（旅行日程） with family or friends at home so that you can be contacted in case{#blank#}7{#/blank#}an emergency. Do not accept packages from strangers．Do not carry too much money or unnecessary credit cards.{#blank#}8{#/blank#}we make enough preparations, we will{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(certain) succeed．Have{#blank#}10{#/blank#}good time!

    What might life be like if you looked very different from others? Most of us are lucky to be born with "normal" faces. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, the movie Wonder shows us that there is no such thing as being normal and that beauty is more than skin-deep.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (base) on a bestselling novel, the movie is about a boy named Auggie. He has a facial deformity(畸形) and has spent most of his life being home schooled. But as he enters middle school, his parents decide to send him to a private school. There, Auggie must deal with judgmental classmates and learn to accept {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(he) as he is.

    In the US, most kids {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (teach) that it is OK to be different. Most people in the US celebrate being unique.

    But some kids have difficulty {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(accept) uniqueness. It's easy to pick on someone who's different, {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(especial) if you have your own problems to deal with. This is another central theme from the movie—even the kids {#blank#}7{#/blank#} pick on Auggie have their own {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(person) struggles.

    As Auggie's classmates get to know him better, they come to find that he's a nice kid {#blank#}9{#/blank#} a great sense of humor. They start to change their attitude toward him. In real life, it may take longer to see such changes happen. But if we give people {#blank#}10{#/blank#}chance, their hearts and minds may change in the end.

    The giant panda {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(love) by people throughout the world. Chinese scientists{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby. She was a very{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (care) mother. For 25 days, she never left her baby, not even to find something (eat)! S{#blank#}4{#/blank#}he would not let any other pandas come near. She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean. Any smell might attract natural{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (enemy) that would try to eat the little comforting pats. The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does, it {#blank#}6{#/blank#}cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats, The mother continued to care for the young panda {#blank#}7{#/blank#} more than two years. By that time, the panda no longer needed {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (it) mother for food. However, it stayed with her and leaned about the ways of the forest. Then, after two and a half years, the mother {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(drive) the young panda away. It was time for her to have a new baby, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} it was also time for the young panda to be independent.