A festival for the Dead is held once a year in Japan. This is a traditional festival in Japan and many {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(celebrate) are held. This festival is a cheerful occasion. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}this day, the dead are said to return to their homes and they are welcomed by the living. As they are expected to be {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(hunger) after their long journey, food is laid out for them. Specially-made lanterns are hung outside each house {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(help) the dead to find their way. All night long, people dance and sing. In the early morning, the food that has been laid out for the dead is {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(throw) into a river or into the sea as {#blank#}6{#/blank#}is considered unlucky for anyone living to eat it. In towns{#blank#}7{#/blank#}are near the sea, the small lanterns hung in the streets the night before are placed into the water when the festival is over. Thousands of lanterns slowly drift（漂）out to sea {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(guide) the dead on their return journey to the other world. At {#blank#}9{#/blank#}same time, crowds of people stand on the shore watching the lanterns drifting away  {#blank#}10{#/blank#}they can be seen no more.

    Qigong, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (call) "Life Energy Cultivation" in China,is a practice of focusing on breath, movement, and a awareness for exercise, and healing. If you have taken Chinese lessons, you must be familiar with Confucius（孔子）, according to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} qigong provides a means to become a Junzi (gentleman) through awareness of morality .Taoism considers qigong a way to achieve spiritual improvement. Qigong is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (tradition) viewed as a practice to balance qi (inner life energy),which is now practiced throughout China and worldwide. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a form of gentle exercise, qigong is made up of movements that are repeated, strengthening the body. Qigong {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (believe) to help develop human potential, allow access to higher degrees of awareness, and awaken {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (one) "true nature".

    What makes qigong special is that it can also be done {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (lie);thus it is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (access) for disabled persons, seniors and people recovering from injuries. Qigong practitioners on prevention and self-healing, which has been widely used in China as part of traditional Chinese medicine, and is included in the curriculum of Chinese {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (university).Besides, qigong is practiced for self-cultivation as a means to get rid of {#blank#}10{#/blank#} complexity of life.

    When police found Barely, 19 years old, living in a tent, instead of a dormitory in Gordon State University, they were prepared to drive him away.

    Then they heard his story. Barely {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(plan) to walk to college {#blank#}2{#/blank#} he couldn't afford a bus ticket, but it would be too {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(tire). So he rode six hours from his hometown on his little brother's bike, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(carry) all his possessions—a bag, a tent, two bottles of water {#blank#}5{#/blank#} a box of food—in order to start his second year {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a biology major. He arrived early to look for a job, but no luck. {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(touch) by his story, Officer Richard and his partner put Barely up at a motel with their own money. Word spread and soon people donated clothes; school supplies and money {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(cover) the rest of his motel stay—he was even given a job. And then there was Casey, who started a GoFundMe page for Barely after spending time with him. "This kid, though weak in {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(appear), rode a bike for 6 hours in the hot weather. I thought that he is determined." She wrote on her Facebook page. The fund reached $184,000, all of {#blank#}10{#/blank#} went into an education trust for Barely.

    An American boy went {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(miss) three days ago, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} has received people' great interest. Several people gave different descriptions of his {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(disappear).

    His sister, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(age) nine, says she heard her brother {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(return) home at about 11p.m. When she went to bed, she was frightened at lots of strange creatures {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(stand) inside a spaceship outside. She is sure the aliens took her brother.

    His parents became worried and called the police when their son didn't show {#blank#}7{#/blank#} for lunch the next day.

    Some people also say that aliens took one of them aboard the UFO so that they could do research on her. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(luck), she returned safely.

    When {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (ask) about the possibility that the boy was taken by aliens, the police say {#blank#}10{#/blank#}they haven't dismissed the idea, they will not give up until they find out what happened.

    Many people consider old friends to be more important than new ones. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}an old saying goes, “Friends are like wine, the older, the better.” If two pieces of advice {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (give) to solve a problem, one from a new friend and the other from {#blank#}3{#/blank#} old friend, people would prefer the latter one {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the former one, even though the new friend's advice may be better.

    I, however, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (agree) with the old saying, believing that new friends are not necessarily worse than old friends. It is not always right {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (determine) your friendship by the length(长度) of time.

    Once you call someone a friend, he must be a person who is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (rely) and whose interests are in common with {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(you). It is mainly his character (性格) and interests that make him your friend. It {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (actual) has little to do with time. People's appearance may change, but their character usually stays the same. Therefore, on this point, there is no {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (different) between old friends and new friends.

    Valentine's Day is known as a day of love and romance on February 14th every year.

    There are a few different versions of its origin and history, one of which dates back {#blank#}1{#/blank#} an ancient Roman festival, Lupercalia, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (celebrate) on February 15th. On this day, young single women would place {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (they) names in a huge container and young bachelors of the town would come and draw a name from it. The young man and the woman, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} name was picked would become partners for the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (follow) years. Many of these couples would eventually get {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(marry). It {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (believe) that the month of February is perfect for romance.

    Valentine's Day was originally celebrated in Europe, but in recent years it is also celebrated in China, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (especial) among young people. Interestingly, China has its own Valentine's Day, Qixi Festival, on the 7th day of the 7th month of our lunar calendar. It is in memory of a day on which the legendary cow-herder and weaving-maid {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (allow) to be together, after being separated by the Milky Way for a whole year. What {#blank#}10{#/blank#} interesting story!