Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. Rather than take the plane all the way, they {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（plan）to fly to Vancouver and then take the train from west to east across Canada. The thought that they could cross the whole continent was {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(excite).

    Canada is the second biggest country in the world. People say Vancouver is Canada's most beautiful city {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(surround)by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. On the coast north of Vancouver, it is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall.

    That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins settled down in their {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(seat). Their next stop was Calgary,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} is famous for the Calgary Stampede. They know that cowboys come from all over the world {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(compete)in the Stampede. Many cowboys have a gift {#blank#}7{#/blank#} riding wild horses. They also learned that most Canadians live within a few hundred kilometers of the USA border and that Canada's population is only {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(slight)over thirty million, but now they {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(amaze)to see such an empty country. Then they arrived in {#blank#}10{#/blank#}urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes.

    Qixi is an important festival that celebrates love and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(devote), which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the Chinese calendar. The love story of Niulang and Zhinu, and the Qixi Festival have been handed down for generations. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} actually these ancient traditions and customs {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(die) out nowadays.

    Many a Chinese, particularly youngsters, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(seem) to know more about St Valentine's Day on February 14th, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}people celebrate it with bouquets of roses, chocolates and romantic candlelight dinners.{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(refer) to as the “Chinese Valentine's Day,” Qixi, as a traditional Chinese festival, is more similar {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a western festival since fewer people than ever will gaze at the heavens to pick out the two stars shining bright on either side of the Milky Way. There are reminders dotted about, in {#blank#}8{#/blank#}form of big ads saying “Sales on Chinese Valentine's Day!” in shops, hotels and restaurants. However, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(differ) from traditional practices, few young women will mark the festival with their boyfriends, or take part in traditional activities to celebrate {#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

    She looks like any other schoolgirl, fresh-faced and full of life. Sarah Thomas is forward to the challenge of her new A-level course. But unlike school friends, 16-year-old Sarah is not spending half-term {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (rest). Instead, she is earning £6，500 a day as {#blank#}2{#/blank#} model in New York.

    Sarah {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (tell) that she could be Britain's new supermodel, earning a million dollars in the new year. Her father Peter, 44, wants her to give up school to model full-time. But Sarah, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} has taken part in shows along with top models, wants {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (prove) that she has brain as well as beauty. She is determined to carry on with her {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (educate).

    She has turned down several {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (invitation) to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies. After school she plans to take a year off to model full-time before going to university to get a degree {#blank#}8{#/blank#} engineering or architecture.

    Sarah says, “My dad thinks I should take the offer now. But at the moment, school {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (come) first. I don't want to get too absorbed modeling. It is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (certain) fun but the lifestyle is a little unreal. I don't want to have nothing else to fall back on when I can't model my more.”

    The way we tell stories has naturally changed since Aristotle defined the rules of tragedy about 2,500 years ago. According to him, the role of storytelling is to imitate life and make us feel emotions. And that's exactly what storytelling as we know it has done very well since then. But there is an aspect of life {#blank#}1{#/blank#} storytelling could never really reproduce. It is the notion of choices.

    Choices are a very important part of our lives. We as individuals {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (define) by the choices we make. As an interactive writer, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (fascinate) with the idea of recreating this notion of choices in fiction, I have tried to put the audience in the shoes of the main characters. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (explore) a way to achieve this is what I did in the past 20 years of my life.

    So do you have an idea of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} my work is about as an interactive writer? Where a writer needs to deal with time and space, as an interactive writer, I need to deal with time, space and possibilities. I need to think about all the possibilities {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the characters could encounter different people and different things in a given scene and try to imagine everything that {#blank#}7{#/blank#} happen.

    The interactive writer's experience is very unique, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} it is the result of the cooperation between a writer creating this narrative landscape and the player making his own decisions, telling his own story and becoming the cowriter but also the coactor and the codirector of the story. Interactive storytelling is a revolution in the way we tell stories.