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.

    “Traveling to China seems like traveling to another world. Its many famous scenic attractions impressed me {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (great),”an American said. The following is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} he wrote on his website.

    My friends and I had a family visit in Xi'an,{#blank#}3{#/blank#} old city with a long history in China. The hosts were retired or stayed at home without a job, and they were friendly to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (visit) from different countries coming their homes.

    We {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(taste) the true home-cooked dishes in the home of the family that we visited. For in-homing dinner, the host would prepare a list of menus in advance (提前). Our tour guide asked {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (we) for advice about the food, so the host would try to cook what we wanted {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (eat) at his home. We just enjoyed the locally cooked dishes. It was quite a different and exciting experience.

    Many foreigners enjoy {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (learn) how to make Chinese dumplings. We were also {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (offer) a general cooking class in the local family. The host taught us to make dumplings step by step with lots of patience. And we didn't need to pay any money {#blank#}10{#/blank#}this. Travel China Guide offers this kind of service free of charge.

    The family visit in Xi'an was a good chance for us to get to know Chinese people's daily life.

    Letters as a way of communication have long given way to phone calls and WeChat messages. But a TV show, Letters Alive, is helping bring this old way to keep in touch back{#blank#}1{#/blank#}the present.

    Letters Alive took{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(it) idea from a UK program, Letters Live, released in 2013. Both{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(show) feature famous actors and actresses, but there{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(be) no eye－catching visual effects or any regular showbiz(娱乐圈) activities. Instead, it's just a live event{#blank#}5{#/blank#}remarkable letters selected from a wide time span and a diverse range of subjects are read. There is, for example, a passionate letter from Huang Yongyu to playwright Cao Yu 30 years ago to criticize his lack of {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(create).

    Every letter is like a small piece of history. By hearing them{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(read), it's as if we are being sent back in time to experience a moment that we would otherwise never have had the chance to.

    Compared to{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(publish) texts, letters also{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(natural) come with a personal touch. As well as celebrating the pain, joy, wisdom and humor, Letters Alive  {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(commit) to promoting Chinese literature since first run.

    One Sunday morning in August I went to a local music festival. I left it early because I had an appointment{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(late) that day. My friends walked me to the bus stop and waited with me{#blank#}2{#/blank#} the bus arrived. I got on the bus and found a seat near the back，and then I noticed a man{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(sit) at the front. He {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(pretend) that a tiger toy was real and giving it a voice. He must be{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(mental) disabled.

    Behind him were other people to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} he was trying to talk，but after some minutes {#blank#}7{#/blank#} walked away and sat near me，looking annoyed.

    I didn't want to be laughed at for talking to him but I didn't like leaving him {#blank#}8{#/blank#} his own either.

    After a while I rose from my seat and walked to the front of the bus. I sat next to the man and introduced myself. We had {#blank#}9{#/blank#} amazing conversation. He got off the bus before me and I felt very happy the rest of the way home.

    I'm glad I made the choice. It made {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of us feel good.

    One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (find) that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, "Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much {#blank#}2{#/blank#}too little.

    His son looked surprised. "I can understand why I shouldn't pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}not save a bit of money?

    "That would be a very {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (us), Nick said.

    Nick's guests, {#blank#}6{#/blank#}had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more cheaply if they could. Nick replied, "The only reason a man would sell salt {#blank#}7{#/blank#}a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it."

    "But such a small thing couldn't {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (possible) destroy a village."

    "In the beginning, there was only {#blank#}9{#/blank#}very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today."