The Best Book I've Ever Read

    Frankly, I have read nearly all of the great works of literature, but no book has ever impressed me as deeply or directly {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Joel Stein's Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masendinity.

    Haven't we all, on some level, been Jewish boys in New Jersey in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} 1970s with only female friends, an Easy-Bake oven and a strong preference for show tunes? Haven't we all had a panic attack {#blank#}3{#/blank#} learning we're going to have a son, since that means we're going to have to figure out how to throw footballs, watch other people throw footballs and decide {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to be happy or sad about the results of football throwing? Haven't we all then tried to correct our lack of maleness by becoming a man, fighting fires with firefighters, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (drive) a Lamborghini and doing three days of Army training camp? I know I have.

    The only parts I didn't fully enjoy were {#blank#}6{#/blank#} in which the author suffered horribly. After just three hours of training camp, he fainted weakly into the arms of a soldier. The film rights to Man Made have already been sold to Fox, and I hope it gets {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (turn) into a movie with George Clooney playing the Stein role, since they remind me so much of each other.

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#} this is only Stein's first book, I would already consider him as someone like David Sedaris, Dave Barry, James Thurber, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln. I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (recommend) Man Made not just to all my friends and family but also to strangers on Twitter over and over again. My one fear is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} after this great achievement, Stein will lose his ability to be a cruel critic of our shallow times.

    China's homegrown sci-fi blockbuster （大片） The Wandering Earth scored at the Spring Festival box office. The film is an{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(adapt) of a novel of the same name by Liu Cixin, author of the Hugo Award-winning The Three-Body Problem. As{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(it) visual effects impress a global audience, a united human community when{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(face) a big disaster gets attention too.

    Director Guo Fan said that he{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(conscious) avoided making a do-it-alone superhero; instead, the fight to save Earth{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(fight) by all humans. In The Wandering Earth, mankind is threatened by a dying sun,{#blank#}6{#/blank#}forces them to go on a generations-long space journey to look for a new one. At{#blank#}7{#/blank#}center of the story are a Chinese astronaut and his son, who join a global task{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(prevent) Earth from crashing into Jupiter. At the end of the film{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(come) international rescue teams who help the Chinese team and give a final try to save Earth.

    One online review reads, “It fits the Hollywood standard on presentation and visual effects, but the themes of family and love of homeland are typical {#blank#}10{#/blank#}Chinese sci-fi films.”

    Table manners vary {#blank#}1{#/blank#} culture to culture. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} is acceptable in one country may be considered extremely rude in another. Here we will tell you about the traditional table manners and the modem table manners in Korea.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (traditional), it was the woman's job {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (cook) food and set the table. The woman would sit by her husband to make sure that he {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (have) everything he needed for a pleasant meal. Only after the husband finished would the woman and her children eat. Nowadays, table manners {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (change) a lot. All of the family members eat together at the same time. It is common to see everyone help with the meal, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (include) the husband. One tradition, however, remains unchanged.

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#} is the oldest person that starts the meal.{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (stay) until the oldest person is finished is considered to be {#blank#}10{#/blank#} basic tradition of Korean table manners.