Many people travel during the holiday season but do not make sure that their houses and homes  {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (protect).Crime goes up {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (rapid) during the winter and summer holiday seasons.Here are some things that you should keep in mind when you go {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a holiday.

     Always give {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(strange)the feeling that you are at home. Have the snow {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (clean) off your stairs or out ofyour driveway during the winter season. You might ask someone to park {#blank#}6{#/blank#} carsin your driveway.

       Tell your newspaper deliverer that you are not at home. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (have)a pile of newspapers and other mail on your doorsteps tells people that you arenot at home, so you could also have a neighbor {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a relative get yourmail every day.

       Fix a timer in some of your rooms {#blank#}9{#/blank#} turns lights on andoff during different times of the day. Some TVs also come with a timer that youcould set to be turned on during certain times. Have motion (运动) sensitive lights outside your house that keep thieves away {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you are not at home.

    Many of my friends like fall and take it as their favorite season. Last weekend, I went outdoors and soon {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(find) a deeper appreciation for this season.

    The change of leaf colors is a common reason given {#blank#}2{#/blank#}the love of fall. Each tree reacts{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(different) to the change of the season. Some shed their leaves in hopes of reproducing; however, other {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(tree) remain green for as long as possible to gain additional energy from the sun to survive the winter. This effect {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(call) the flight-or-fight response.

    Fall is a time of{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(reflect) and preparation for the year ahead. I have found a meaning of fall for me. I'm {#blank#}7{#/blank#}18-year-old boy in the final year of high school and my life is a work in progress. There are times I want to give up, but then I look around me and realize life keeps {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(move).The natural cycle of life is beautiful and doesn't stop growing so I have to learn to keep up.

The meaning of fall is different for each person. I encourage you {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(go) out to follow some path or sidewalk and discover {#blank#}10{#/blank#}fall means to you.

    Eating soil can produce more effective results{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(compare) to eating slimming pills, claimed researchers from an Australian university. China Press{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(report)that researchers from the University of South Australia were looking for a way to improve the body's absorption towards medication to prevent mental illness.

    They{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(accident)found out that soil does not only attract fat, it could also stop fat from being absorbed into the body and round{#blank#}4{#/blank#}digestive system. Meanwhile, other researchers carried out an experiment by{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(separate)mice into two groups--one group{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(give) slimming pills and the other group with soil.

    After two weeks, the weight of the mice{#blank#}7{#/blank#}ate soil decreased obviously. This was the basis for claims that eating soil might make it{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(easy) for the body to excrete(排泄) fat than taking slimming pills.

    However, they {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(test)to see if eating soil is safe for the body{#blank#}10{#/blank#}if it could cause any side effects in the past few months.

    Inserting needles through the skin may sound scary, but acupuncncture and moxa-moxibustion, two key components of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (tradition) Chinese medicine (TCM), are said to improve the patient's health and well-being.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (add) to UNESCO's representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010, acupuncture and moxibustion are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (wide) practiced in China. Their format and practice have distinctive regional characteristics and they have a precious heritage based {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Chinese culture and science.

    The theory of Chinese medicine believes the human body is a small universe with {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (it) own circulatory system, in this system, there are acupoints (穴位) connecting the channels. By stimulating these acupoints, the self-regulating functions of the human body can {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (promote). Acupuncture refers to the practice of inserting needles into the body of a patient at a certain angle and using {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (technique) such as twisting and lifting the needles to excite acupoints {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (treat) diseases. Moxa-moxibustion normally refers to placing moxa (艾) directly on acupoints or holding moxa sticks at {#blank#}9{#/blank#} distance to warm the body.

    In 1995, the World Health Organization published {#blank#}10{#/blank#} can be treated by acupuncture and moxibustion. TCM has become more and more accepted by other countries in the world.

    An Italian town will pay people hundreds of euros(欧元) per year if they cycle to work instead of{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(drive) their cars. The government will pay{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(cycle)25 cents per kilometre, up to a monthly limit of 50 euros. That means commuters(通勤者)who switch to two wheels could pocket up to 600 euros in a year. It is said to be the first such plan in Italy.

    Fifty workers will be included in a 12-month trial, which will use a smart phone app to record the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(distant) travelled each day. The plan is being supported from fines{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(collect) from traffic tickets in the town,{#blank#}5{#/blank#}by law have to be spent on road safety.

    The plan will encourage citizens{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(make)sure the area becomes more liveable. It will {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(natural)mean less traffic on the streets and more health benefits. A bicycle organization which helped to develop the idea, says it hopes that other towns will now follow the lead.

    A similar plan{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(introduce)in France in 2014, with mixed results. A six-month trial found that paying people to cycle to work did increase the numbers doing so, but the{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(major) had been using public transport, rather than private vehicles.{#blank#}10{#/blank#}those making the move from cars to bicycles, most had already been carpooling (拼车). Private cars remained crowded in the Streets

Color blindness is very common. It affects{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (rough) 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women in the world. People {#blank#}2{#/blank#} blindness can't see colors in a normal way.

There are {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(variety) causes of color blindness. For the majority of color-blind people, color blindness is genetic, although some people become color-blind as a result of other diseases, such as diabetes(糖尿病), or they have {#blank#}4{#/blank#} condition over time due to the aging process, etc.

Most color-blind people can see {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (thing) as clearly as other people, but they are unable to fully "'see" red, green or blue light. There are different types of color blindness but there are extremely rare cases {#blank#}6{#/blank#} people are unable to see any color at all. The most common color blindness is red/ green color blindness. Although {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(know) as red/green color blindness, it doesn't mean {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(suffer) will only mix up red and green. It means they mix up all colors that have some red or green as part of the whole color.

The effects of color blindness can {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (classify) into mild，moderate(中等的) or severe. About 40% of color-blind people are even unaware that they're color-blind. Statistically speaking, most people {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (have) a moderate form of red/ green color blindness can only identify 5 colored pencils from a standard box of 24 pencil crayons.