If you want to improve your English {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(rapid), you'd better listen to BBC English {#blank#}2{#/blank#} is part of the BBC World Service. It broadcasts all kinds of programmes, such {#blank#}3{#/blank#} difficult grammar {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(point), life in Britain, differences between written and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(speak) English and so on. So far BBC English {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(become) a popular learning course. If you want to know some information about the programmes, you just need to write to BBC English {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(ask) for it. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} , {#blank#}9{#/blank#} is easy for you to find out the information and follow the programmes.

    In China there are English programmes like Follow Me on the radio. They are usually easy to receive and understand and they are very {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(use) to you.

    Nearly forty percent of China's young people born after 1990 have turned off notifications（通知）from social media apps due {#blank#}1{#/blank#}sensing the negative effects of social media, according to the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(recent) released Kantar China Social Media Impact Report, Beijing Evening News reported.

    The report shows that all kinds of social media, especially WeChat, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(become) more and more popular in the past years among people over the age of 40, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the WeChat use of the “post-90s” generation has slightly decreased, from 94.1 percent to 86.6 percent.

    Most of those people {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(interview) for the report mentioned that positive effects of social media include socializing with {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(acquaintance) and taking in more information. However, respondents also noted that social media has caused them to read fewer books, suffer from {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(bad) eyesight, sleep less and have less privacy, among other concerns.

    As {#blank#}8{#/blank#} result, 39 percent of the “post-90s”generation attempts {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(avoid) the negative effects of mobile phone use. In the first place, they turn off app notifications when necessary. Moreover, they intentionally limit the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(frequent) of social media interactions and stay away from social media entirely in certain situations.

    Red Nose Day is one of Britain's most successful {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (event) to raise money for good causes. It {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (organize) by Comic Relief and takes place in March. Many well-known comedians take part, as well as actors, musicians and other famous people. All these people in the public eye {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (brave) take on usual challenges, from learning to sing to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (sit) in a bath full of cold beans.

    In addition to a great evening's entertainment(娱乐)on TV on the day itself, there are {#blank#}5{#/blank#}great number of programmes and live events in the weeks leading up to Red Nose Day. At schools and colleges, students do silly things for cash and many workplaces organize similar money-raising stunts (噱头). Shops and supermarkets sell the famous red noses and other products.

    Through short documentary films, TV viewers learn how the money {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (collect) in previous years has helped Comic Relief to make a real {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (different) to people in need, both in Britain and in Africa. Some of the stories {#blank#}8{#/blank#} are shown are shocking. It is extremely moving to see {#blank#}9{#/blank#} people's lives can be changed. Comic Relief has been able to achieve a great deal {#blank#}10{#/blank#} making people laugh.

    A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder {#blank#}2{#/blank#} had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (present) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (warm), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a happy heart.

    After the student left, the teacher let {#blank#}6{#/blank#} student taste the water. He spat（吐）it out, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (say) it was awful. Obviously, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like {#blank#}8{#/blank#}?" The teacher replied, "You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (sweet)." We understand this lesson best {#blank#}10{#/blank#} we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.

    Sugar sculpture blowing is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Chinese folk art where artists blow and sculpt hot sugar to create 3D {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (figure). The finished sculptures not only look good，but also have a good taste, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (make) them popular among children.

    The main raw material for sugar sculpture blowing is malt sugar (麦芽糖).The malt sugar {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (use) in sculpture blowing has to be heated to high temperatures. It can only be used after several steps, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} include the sorting and cooking of the malt sugar followed by the firing and melting of it.

    Sugar sculpture blowing is {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(careful) made. It can be divided {#blank#}7{#/blank#} two methods—one uses molds (模子)；the other does not，and involves sugar figures taking shape through a combination of blowing air into the processed malt sugar and the artist's flexible hand skills.

    The complex process may explain why there are fewer people making sugar sculpture. To protect and promote this {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (tradition) craftsmanship, the government of Hebei Province founded a sugar figure art {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(organise) in 2011. Now it {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (consist) of over 90 artists recognized as the inheritors (继承人)of the technique.