Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world's first igloo(冰屋) hotel.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (build) in a small town, it has been attracting lots of visitors but soon the fun will be over. In two weeks' time，Bergqvst's ice creation {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (be) nothing more than a pool of water. “We don't see it as a big problem,” he says. “We just look forward to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (replace) it.”

    Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} successful that he designed the present one, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks —piling 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base；when the snow froze, the base {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (remove).

After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a relaxing hotel break. “It's great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “as {#blank#}9{#/blank#} as a good start in survival training.''

    The {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (popular)of the igloo is beyond doubt：it is now attracting tourists from all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms.

—No one can get along well with him. He is ready to find fault {#blank#}1{#/blank#} others.

    I was wandering into the small store, when the store owner received a call from a customer. The customer and his wife had shopped there several months before. When noticing that his wife really liked one thing in the store, he wanted to buy it as a surprise. Because time was limited, out{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (go) the couple without buying it. It was not until several months later that the customer wanted to buy it.

    But the customer was in Tennessee, living far away from the store which was in Maine. What was more, he had been to the store several months before, and it was difficult to believe that the store owner would remember him, or  {#blank#}2{#/blank#} it was that he was referring to. There were{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (diversity) goods in the store. The customer's question was whether she could do it. She said yes. The store owner advised him to describe the thing for her and so he did.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (inform) what the thing was like, the store owner took a few close-up photos with her camera« and e-mailed them to the customer. Having received the photos' then the customer decided which one was the very thing.

Then the customer said, “Now it is time we discussed a price over the phone.” Apart{#blank#}5{#/blank#}discussing the price, they also decided the time to send it. Then she took care of the credit card transaction (交易)online, and the customer proposed the gift{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(send) that afternoon. Then the agreement was reached. The customer said. “I live far away from your place now.{#blank#}7{#/blank#} I would get it myself.”

    The store owner was really smart. She wasn't necessarily{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (talent) for new technology but she was willing to push herself to find new ways to make the transaction (交易) actually happen. It was not a dramatic thing. It was the first time she had ever done it. Never before had she done such a thing.

    {#blank#}9{#/blank#} difficult it was, the store owner discovered a creative solution {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (contribute) to a new way of doing business. In my view, we should realize that challenge and opportunity go hand in hand.

    The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. It usually {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (fall) in October. In a mysterious book Yi Jing in ancient time, number {#blank#}2{#/blank#} （think）to be "Yang", {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（mean）positive. Because the 9th day of the 9th lunar month is pronounced as "Jiu Jiu" in Chinese, which means "forever", the Chinese ancestors considered it a lucky day worth celebration. That's why ancient Chinese began to celebrate this festival.

    We all know how good nature can make us feel. The sound of the ocean, the smell of a forest and the way sunlight dances through {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (leaf) help us to relax and think more clearly. The idea {#blank#}2{#/blank#} humans own a deep biological need to connect with nature has been called "Biophilia", {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (mean) "love of life and the living world". Yet, according to the United Nations Population Division, so far the number of us going to urban areas {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (grow) sharply. By 2050, it is estimated that a shocking sixty-eight percent of the world's inhabitants will live in cities. Cities are wonderful places — full of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (excite), innovation and energy. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} living in a city can be stressful. And the more we live in them, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} more stress we have, leading to increases in mental illnesses {#blank#}8{#/blank#} depression and loneliness. The good news is that the global science community continues to explain the medical benefits of nature on the brain. Through conducting research and sharing information with different organizations, new ideas are being carried out that encourage us {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (step) out of the fast street and reconnect with nature in a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (rapid) changing world.

As entrepreneurs (创业者), we had a vision, we realized it, and now we {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (run) our own companies. But the dream can damage our "work-life balance".

When the success of the company rests on your shoulders, you've always got an excuse to put {#blank#}2{#/blank#} else on hold.

What I've learned when {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (face) the demands of a start-up company and a young family over the past couple of decades is that sometimes the best way to solve the work-life balance problem is to think small. Make a handful of lifestyle corrections {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, individually, may not sound all that exciting, but taken together, can prevent you from getting too tired.

Here's my list of life hacks that will help prevent exhaustion:

●Work from home one day a week

Few things give you a more grounded, in-control feeling than getting things done in your own space and at your own pace. Instead of leaving the office {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (clear) my head over a Starbucks coffee, I can fold the laundry, and cut back on evening housework.

Not to mention, working in pajamas is one of life's {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (underestimate) pleasures.

●Pencil in time for exercise

It really bothered me {#blank#}7{#/blank#} with the demands of company and family, my tennis game was going down the drain. That may sound unimportant, but it wasn't to me, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} it was a meaningful part of my life outside of work. To get some balance back in my life, I rearranged my schedule. Two mornings a week, I woke up an hour {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (early) to work out with a tennis coach. If sports aren't your thing, try yoga or that hobby that you always loved but let go of after starting your business.

●Learn something new, outside the office

It can be draining to always be the person who's supposed to have the answers as a business leader. It's surprisingly liberating to be on the other side, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (absorb) knowledge without the pressure to perform or to always be right.