Brighton is the{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (health)city in Britain with the highest level of personal trainers, yoga clubs and health food stores, according to a survey related on Friday.

    The survey, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} looks at 19 statistics covering health, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} （fit）and environment, says Brighton has the highest number of residents {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (eat) at least five kinds of fruit and vegetables a day.

    The survey, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (conduct) for the Sky Travel channel, has compared 15 cities across the UK. It says Brighton residents live {#blank#}6{#/blank#} an average age of 78 years old. They are twice as likely {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (walk) or cycle to work as the people living in other parts of Britain.

    In {#blank#}8{#/blank#} （compare）with the national average, Brighton has nearly a third more health food stores and personal trainers than{#blank#}9{#/blank#} in any other city in Britain. It has twice many yoga clubs, and the level of fat residents is below the national average.

    Meanwhile, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} survey also finds that Brighton residents have the best levels of cholesterol (胆固醇) and blood pressure in Britain.

    In recent years, learning Chinese{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(become) popular among people around the world. Last month, I received an email from my cousin Jack in Canada. He said he was enthusiastic{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Chinese, and asked me to find him some books{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(intend) for Chinese beginners. I was very pleased to do{#blank#}4{#/blank#}a favor. So I went from one bookstore to{#blank#}5{#/blank#}, hoping to find something suitable for him.{#blank#}6{#/blank#}（final） I selected a set of Chinese textbooks among {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(vary) similar ones. Then I went to a post office to have them delivered by air without delay. Several days later, I received Jack's email,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (say) that he really appreciated the books I had sent. I'm very glad that Jack is beginning to learn Chinese just like many other{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(foreign) abroad,{#blank#}10{#/blank#}I know it may be an enjoyable challenge for him.

    Would you like the chance {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(discover) a place of mystery and beauty in the south­west of China? If your answer is 'yes'， consider a trip to Shangri­la!

    The word 'Shangri­la' first appeared in a classic novel by James Hilton. Hilton described a beautiful kingdom{#blank#}2{#/blank#}three rivers joined together, steep mountains reached to the sky, and fields of long grass covered the earth. In this perfect world lived people who {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(discover) how to stay young forever.

    Which place could {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(official) take the name of this wonderful land? There were arguments over {#blank#}5{#/blank#} tourist spot{#blank#}6{#/blank#}win) the name of Shangri­la. Many years after the book was published, some people realized that the Shangri­la of the novel was{#blank#}7{#/blank#}perfect match for Zhongdian in Yunnan Province, China. In September 1997, the government of Yunnan Province announced that Zhongdian was the Shangri­la of Hilton's story.

    Three mountains, Meili, Baimang and Haba, which {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(cover) with snow, tower over the land. Their snowy mountaintops form a beautiful picture that will leave you at a loss for words.

    Below the mountains, the sunshine reflects on the many lakes, making them shine like diamonds{#blank#}9{#/blank#}the rich countryside.

    Nature has provided Shangri­la with endless natural treasures，{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (make) the land a happy home for the local people.

    The weather changes so quickly that people say you can experience four seasons in one day. The best times to visit Shangri­la are spring and autumn when the temperature is at its mildest.

    Silence is unnatural to man. He does all he can {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(make) a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(introduce) to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as{#blank#}3{#/blank#}failure, and is full of envy of the emptiest-headed chatterbox (喋喋不休的人).He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(mean) no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure (蜡塑人像).

    The aim of conversation is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(annoy) as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子). But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito {#blank#}6{#/blank#}a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind.

    Those{#blank#}7{#/blank#} hate to pick up the weather as a{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(conversation) opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(learn) anything new. Some of them are content if they are {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(mere) allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears.

    Choice of seating in the lecture hall can affect a college student's performance, a study suggests.

    Lectures are a main part of higher education, and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(understand) how students interact and learn within the lecture theatre environment is central to successful learning. Researchers from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK examined {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (student) reasons for choosing particular seats in a lecture hall, and investigated how seating positions are related {#blank#}3{#/blank#} students' performance.

    "Interaction is a key part of learning and knowing who the students are interacting with can be {#blank#}4{#/blank#} great benefit when designing activities," said David P Smith of Sheffield Hallam University.

    Many students {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (prefer) being able to sit with their friends, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} others were more concerned with either attracting or avoiding the lecturer's attention. Some students chose seats {#blank#}7{#/blank#} allowed them to see and hear clearly. But others {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (easy) picked seats that made them feel less depressed, they said.

    Friendship groups who sat together tended {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (achieve) similar grades, and students who sat alone at the edges were likely to do worse than average.

    Lecturers may be able to use these findings to offer assistance to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (anxiety) students，and to support the learning of all students by encouraging interactions between the different groups.

A robot used for housework was tested out in a family. He looked {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a tall and handsome man with smooth hair, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (speak) in a deep voice. Larry was going to be away from home so he wanted such a robot {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(accompany) his wife Claire. Claire didn't like the idea at the beginning, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}she agreed with it at last. At the first sight of Tony, Claire was alarmed. When Tony offered to help her dressing, Claire felt {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (embarrass). {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (gradual), Tony began to win Claire's trust. He helped Claire realize her dreams by making her home elegant, giving her a new haircut, changing the makeup she {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (wear) and giving her advice on her dresses. Therefore, at the party the guests {#blank#}8{#/blank#}were invited{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (fill) with admiration when they saw her house was completely changed.

After the test, the company was satisfied with Tony's report because he had {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(successful) made a woman regain her confidence.