Felicity Miller, a 32-year-old British woman, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} has a Chinese husband, still remembers the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (excite) when she first learned to use the “red packet” function on WeChat in 2015. She sent and grabbed some red packets in her Chinese family's group. The rule in her family was that the person who grabbed the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (high) amount sent the next. Attracted by the unique way of communicating, many foreigners {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (join) in sending and grabbing red packets so far. Usually, the money in each packet is random. Thus the amount of money one can grab {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (large) depends on his or her luck, from 0.01 yuan to less than 200 yuan. Many foreigners get more familiar {#blank#}6{#/blank#} Chinese culture through “red packets”. Two years ago, when Felicity Miller was sent 5.20 or 8.88 yuan red packets, she had no clue about the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (hide) meanings. Now, she has known about them. However, the popularity of virtual red packets doesn't stop people sending paper red packets {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (contain) real cash during the Spring Festival. It {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (call) lucky money. In Chinese tradition, people take lucky money for children as {#blank#}10{#/blank#} blessing.

    Paul Lucas can often be seen walking around the city of San Francisco. Sometimes people are {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (surprise) to see him walking without any shoes or socks,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Lucas doesn't mind at all. He likes to walk barefoot, and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} do 640 other members of Dirty Sole Society, the club that Lucas {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (start) years ago. Lucas' idea for this is to encourage others to live {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (free)－free of shoes.

    According to Lucas, the barefoot life has many {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (advantage). The most important is simply that it feels good. He also says that walking barefoot allows you to experience the world directly by {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (touch) it with your feet. In addition, the feet do not smell so much {#blank#}8{#/blank#} they stay dry,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (make) it hard for bacteria(细菌)  to grow. And, of course, walking barefoot keeps your feet in good shape, so it's actually {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (healthy) than wearing shoes.

Rose: I've just received a phone call saying I have an interview next week.

Alan: Congratulations! This is your first interview ever, isn't it?

Rose: Thank you! Yes. I'm quite {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (delight) that I've got the chance, but I'm very nervous at the same time. I'm eager {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (know) what I should do before an interview.

Alan: You should prepare well {#blank#}3{#/blank#}as to give proper responses during the interview.

Rose: Yeah, apart from my personal introduction, what else should I prepare?

Alan: You should collect as much information {#blank#}4{#/blank#} you can, about both the company and the position you're applying for.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} is important to show you've done some research. Then the interviewers will notice you've come with strong intentions.

Rose: Then what should I do when{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (interview)?

Alan: Smile at the interviewers and concentrate {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the questions that you will{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (ask). Look them in the eye. Remember not to avoid eye contact deliberately, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} shows that you are not confident enough.

Rose: Okay. Are there any other things I should pay attention to?

Alan: Yeah, wear formal clothes to your interview and be on time.{#blank#}10{#/blank#} in this way can you leave a good first impression on your interviewers.

    A mouse, because of a(n) {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (luck) chance, made close friends with an evil frog. One day, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} frog played a trick on the mouse by {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (tie)a foot of the mouse to his own. At first, both of them joined together and the frog led his friend toward the pool {#blank#}4{#/blank#} he lived, and didn't stop until he reached the side of the water. Then the frog {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (sudden) jumped into the water and the mouse {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (pull) in with him. The frog enjoyed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (he) in the water, happily dancing and crying

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#}if he had done a great deed The unhappy mouse died soon in the water, and his dead body floated on the surface, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (fasten) to the foot of the frog. A hawk saw the dead mouse, suddenly flew down towards, caught it and flew away. The frog, still tied to the foot of the mouse, was also carried off as a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (prison), and he was eaten by the hawk.

    The annual Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is Harbin's main tourist highlight. It is the world's biggest winter festival. The {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(bitter) cold winters are just right for this festival.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#}sets the Harbin festival apart is the scale and size of the sculptures and the{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(beauty) lighting. It is bigger than {#blank#}4{#/blank#} ones in Sapporo, Norway, and Quebec.

    At first, mainly Chinese{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(participate), but in the last decade, it has become an international festival and {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(compete). As the festival grows in international participation, and as China's economy grows, the size of the snow sculptures and ice architecture exhibits keeps {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(grow) The work going into making these exhibits is astounding, and their size and beauty is amazing.

    The lightning {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(effect)on the huge ice sculptures in the Ice and Snow World are technologically complex.

    Officially the festival {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(hold) from the end of December through February. Opening dates keep changing, and ending dates partly depends {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the weather.

    The Sun Island Scenic Area will be opened from Dec. 21 to Feb. 28.

    China's research icebreaker Xuelong, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}126 crew members aboard on the 35th Antarctic research mission, on Thursday local time left the Zhongshan Station on {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (it) way back to China.

    Snow Eagle 601, China's first fixed-wing aircraft for polar flight, on Thursday night also departed from the Antarctic after {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(complete)all assignments.

    Xuelong, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} arrived near Zhongshan on Feb 9, supplied the station with fuel oil, and then picked up summer expedition team members at the Kunlun, Taishan and Zhongshan stations, as well as {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(member)of the fixed-wing aircraft project.

    Sixteen members of the Kunlun team {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(previous) completed all scientific expeditions at Dome Argus (Dome A), the South Pole's highest icecap. They, together with 21 members of the Taishan team, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(return) to Zhongshan on Feb 8.

    The Zhongshan team completed tasks including installation of and tests for LiDAR, drilling of ice bed rock, atmospheric sounding {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(observe), surveys of birds and aerial exploration carried out by the fixed-wing aircraft.

    As the summer expedition team at Zhongshan left, 19 members would stay for winter expeditions.

    Also {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(know)as the Snow Dragon, the icebreaker carrying a research team set sail from Shanghai on Nov 2 last year, beginning {#blank#}10{#/blank#}country's 35th Antarctic expedition. It is expected to arrive in Shanghai in mid-March.