If you're a fan of penguins, you might enjoy{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(participate) in a new research project to help scientists measure changes to penguin populations.

    The project {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (name) Penguin Watch and the members are counting penguins in online {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (photo) taken across Antarctica, helping scientists monitor the species in their natural habitat. Up to now, nearly 40,000 volunteers have joined in the project.

    “Penguin Watch is people-powered research{#blank#}4{#/blank#} people can help and every click {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (matter) in helping us to understand penguins,” Tom Hart, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} expert from Oxford University and a member of the Penguin Watch team, told The Telegraph.

    The data {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (give) by volunteers will also help measure changes in not only the penguins' behavior and habitat, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the larger ecosystem as well. “Finally, this huge data set allows us to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (effect) train computers to take over from humans and helps us pass on the tools developed for penguins to the species {#blank#}10{#/blank#} threat,” said Hart.

    Icebreaker to the North Pole is a new book {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the well-known Chinese writer Bi Shumin. It describes her special trip to the North Pole last year.

    Longing to go to the North Pole, she always heard about it when she was young. Bi, now in her 60s, has at last realized the dream to see it for {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (she).

    “This dream was hidden in my heart by myself in the past. It gradually became dusty, but it never disappeared.{#blank#}3{#/blank#} I dreamed has finally come true.” Up to now, Bi {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (travel) to 73 countries worldwide. Besides the North Pole, she made a trip to Easter Island, which is around 3,700 kilometres off the western coast of Chile. In the same year, she went to the South Pole. And she intends {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (go) to other places in the near future.

    As a writer {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (show) a great interest in travel, Bi thinks traveling {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (be) a part of our life. She also believes it is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} only way to see different cultures and histories.

    “If the view is the same every day, we will easily become {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (bore). But if we go to a strange place, we will soon enter a condition of experiencing and thinking about different cultures. Travelling gives me much {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (free).”

    All our dreams have something to do{#blank#}1{#/blank#}our feelings, tears, longings, wishes, needs and memories. But something on the “outside” may affect{#blank#}2{#/blank#}we dream. If a person is hungry or tired or cold, his dream may include a feeling of this kind. If the blanket on your body has slipped off your bed, you may dream that you{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(sleep) or resting on the ice or snow. So the subject of your dream usually comes from something{#blank#}4{#/blank#}has an effect on you while you are sleeping (feeling of cold, a noise, etc.) and it may also use your past{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(experience) and the wishes and interests you have now.

    There are some scientists who have made {#blank#}6{#/blank#}special study of why we dream, what we dream and what those dreams mean. Their{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(explain) of dreams, though a bit reasonable, is not accepted by everyone, and it offers an interesting way of{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(deal) with the problem. They believe that dreams are{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(most) expressions of wishes that did not come true. In other words, a dream is a way of having your wishes{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(carry) out.