Digging through kids' school bags, looking up all the assignments, sitting beside them going through each item, and finally {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(have) all the homework checked with a name signed is a{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(day)routine for most Chinese parents, as required by teachers. A demanding task especially after a long day's work at office, isn't it?{#blank#}3{#/blank#}（lucky）, some parents in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, have been liberated. A local primary school has recently announced that parents will no longer have to sign their names on their kids' homework, as students should be responsible{#blank#}4{#/blank#}their own assignments.

    Making mistakes is{#blank#}5{#/blank#}essential part of the process of understanding. Who cares how much you{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(score) in your homework after you have settled down in life and found your directions? The ability to realize one's mistakes and learn from them is what matters,{#blank#}7{#/blank#}is also the main purpose of education. Why not give students a chance{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(find) out and correct their mistakes themselves?

    It is by no{#blank#}9{#/blank#}（mean）parents' duty to go through the kids' assignments.{#blank#}10{#/blank#}parents are supposed to do is to create a friendly studying environment for kids, and teach them to be an independent learner. After all, independent learning is much more important than high scores.

    Everyone needs to know how to prevent a fire. It is also important to know what to do when it {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (break) out.

    Every year, over 11, 000 people {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (kill) or injured in house fires. These fires could have been avoided. Smokers who are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (care) cause about 200 deaths and over 6, 000 fires. More than of those {#blank#}4{#/blank#} die in fires are poisoned or harmed by smoke.

    If fire happens, do not attempt to fight the fire unless it is small. Try putting out a small fire with water. If {#blank#}5{#/blank#} fire has spread or if the flames are more than 20 inches high, shut the door on it. Warn everyone else in the building and tell them to get out. You should leave and dial 911 for the fire department.

    Before {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (go) into a room, check the door. If the handle or the door is hot, do not open it! Instead, put clothing or a wet towel at the bottom of it to keep smoke out. If the door is not hot, open it {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (slow). If there is a rush of smoke heat, close it again and shout to warn {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (other) inside.

    Now open the window and shout "Fire!". See whether you can drop safely to the ground. Use this {#blank#}9{#/blank#} your escape course if you can. If you are not on ground level, break your fall by pushing a mat out first. Lower yourself at arm's {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (long) before dropping. Once outside, stay out outside and make sure the fire department is called.

    On the afternoon of 11 March 2011, Tetsu Nozaki watched helplessly as a wall of water {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(crash) into his boats in Onahama, a small fishing port on Japan's Pacific coast.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(spend) the past eight years rebuilding, the Fukushima fishing fleet is now confronting yet another menace — the increasing likelihood {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the nuclear plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), will dump huge quantities of radioactive water into the ocean.

    "We strongly oppose any plans to discharge the water into the sea," Nozaki, head of Fukushima prefecture's federation of fisheries cooperatives, told the Guardian.

    Currently, just over one million tonnes of contaminated water is held in almost 1, 000 tanks at Fukushima Daiichi, but the utility has warned that it will run out of space by the summer of 2022.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(release) the wastewater into the sea would also anger South Korea, adding to pressure on diplomatic ties.

    Seoul, which has yet to lift an import ban on Fukushima seafood {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(introduce) in 2013, claimed last week that discharging the water would pose a "grave threat" {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the marine environment — a charge rejected by Japan.

    Japanese Government officials say they won't make a decision {#blank#}7{#/blank#} they have received a report from an expert panel, but there are strong indications that dumping is preferred over other options {#blank#}8{#/blank#} vaporising, burying or storing the water indefinitely.

    Critics say the government is reluctant {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(support) the dumping option for fear of creating fresh controversy over Fukushima during the Rugby World Cup,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} starts this week, and the buildup to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

    The Mid-Autumn Day is a very important traditional festival in China. It takes its name from the fact that it {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(celebrate) in the middle of the autumn season. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (eight) lunar month. The day is known as the Moon Festival, as at that time of the year the moon is at its roundest and {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(bright). It is an evening celebration in {#blank#}4{#/blank#} families gather together and eat moon cakes. Besides, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(make) the house more beautiful, people will hang red lanterns in front of it. On that day, people look back on the past and look forward to the future together. Children will play with their own {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(toy) and enjoy themselves.

    The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations date back {#blank#}7{#/blank#} more than 2,000 years. The word "Mid-Autumn" first {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(appear) in the famous ancient book Zhou Li. However, it was not until the early Tang Dynasty that people celebrated the day as a traditional festival. It became an {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(official) established festival during the Song Dynasty, and has become as popular as the Spring Festival since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Celebrations have continued ever since and more customs for {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(mark) this occasion have been formed.