The Spring Festival is{#blank#}1{#/blank#}most important festival in China. It is meant{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(celebrate) the lunar calendar's new year. During the Spring Festival, families get together and have a big meal in many place.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}many people like best is setting off fireworks, which is one of the most popular activities during the festival, though it may cause air pollution. Dumplings are the most{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(tradition) food. Children are fond{#blank#}5{#/blank#}the festival very much, when they can have delicious food and wear new clothes. They can also get some money from their parents,{#blank#}6{#/blank#}Is given to children for good luck. People put new year scrolls (春联) on the wall for good fortune. The Spring Festival{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(last) about 15 days long when people visit relatives and friends{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(happy) with the words "Best wishes". Nowadays more and more people are enjoying the Spring Festival around the world. People hold the{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(believe) that the Spring Festival and other traditional Chinese festivals will not{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(replace)by the foreign festivals like Christmas.

    A computer program has beaten a human player at the ancient Chinese board game Go（围棋）. It marked an important advance for the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (develop) of artificial intelligence. The program, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (call) Alpha Go, had taught itself how to win. It beat the European player in all five games of a match in October. The developers say {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (it) learning ability may someday let computers help solve real world problems. Those could include making medical diagnoses and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (explore) scientific research.

    Previous computers have beaten humans in other games. But among classic games, Go has long been viewed as the most challenging game for artificial intelligence to master. Therefore, many people find it {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(accept) when AlphaGo won the human player.

    Go involves two players who take turns putting markers on a checkerboard-like grid (格子).  Players obtain the opponent's pieces {#blank#}6{#/blank#} surrounding them. The rules are simple, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} playing it is not. It's {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (probable) the most complex game ever created by humans.

    Martin Mueller, a computing science professor, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (work) on Go programs for 30 years. He once said, "The new program is really a big step up from everything else that we've seen. It's a very {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (amaze) piece of work."

    Tayeb is studying literature at Beijing Language and Culture University."{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(celebrate)the Spring Festival in China makes me love China even more, "she said.

    On Thursday, Tayeb's university organized an event {#blank#}2{#/blank#} foreign students could try their hands at making dumplings, a traditional food {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(eat)during the festival. Tayeb said she liked this aspect of the festival most.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} dumplings, Chinese New Year is also a time for temple fairs, red lanterns, paper­cuts, blessings of good fortune and ancestor worship.

    Bayomy, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Egyptian student at the same university, said she {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(plan)to visit a temple fair in Chaoyang Park on Sunday. She was {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(deep) impressed with the Spring Festival in 2014.She remembered how her classmate's father left out plates of food for their families' ancestors.

    Like Chinese, many foreigners put couplets(对联), Chinese characters wishing for good fortune on their front doors.

    Marie, a British {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(translate)in Beijing, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (send)a couplet by her Chinese friend on Thursday.She stuck them on the door of her apartment, took a photo of herself standing in front of it, and shared it with her parents in Britain." These couplets are an {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(express) of hope for the future and contain the Chinese spirit of 'harmony', "said Marie.