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.

    n America hitching a ride(搭便车) is very common. Many people there love hitching a ride during{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(they) trips. I also once hitched a ride when I was traveling in America.

    I{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(drive) on the road when my car stopped. I was going to a town which was farther than I had expected. My tank(油箱) became empty{#blank#}3{#/blank#}I got there. Standing there, I didn't know what to do. I just knew that I needed help. But I could see nobody around. Who could I turn{#blank#}4{#/blank#}? Then I thought of scenes that I had seen in Hollywood{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(movie). I remembered that people in America loved hitching a ride. I told I myself that I could do that, too.

    So when a car was coming. I tried to hitch a ride. To my joy, the car really stopped in front of me. The driver was{#blank#}6{#/blank#}old man. After{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(know) my problem, he said he could help me out. He took me to the{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(near) gas station. But then he left as he had something important to do.

    I couldn't walk all the way back to my car. Therefore, I tried to hitch a ride again and I{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(help) out once again. I was{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(great) moved.

    Tu Yoyo was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Oct. 5. She was the first Chinese citizen {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(win) a Nobel Prize in science. Tu {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(share) the prize with the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan.

    Tu is a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine now. She  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(give) the prize for  {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (develop) artemisinin (青蒿素) , a new drug therapy against malaria( 疟疾)， {#blank#}6{#/blank#} has saved millions of lives worldwide, especially in developing countries.

    Tu and her colleagues joined a government project to find a new malaria drug in the late 1960s. They made 380 herbal extracts from two thousand recipes from traditional Chinese medical books. In 1971, after nearly two hundred  {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (fail), Tu's team  {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(final) found an extract that was 100% effective against the malaria parasites-atremisinin. In 2001, the World Health Organization made artemisinin {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (it) first choice in the treatment of malaria.

    “The discovery of artemisinin is a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine. It's the achievement of the research team. Winning the prize is  {#blank#}10{#/blank#} honor for Chinese science and traditional Chinese medicine,” Tu said.

    What is reading?

    Reading is actually a very complex process that requires a great deal of active{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(participate) on the part of the reader. It is an active thinking process involving the interaction between the reader and the print. That is to say, the reader's schema (former or previous knowledge) about the topic to{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(read) and his language knowledge (vocabulary and grammar) directly affect his understanding of the reading material and{#blank#}3{#/blank#}turn, the new information about the topic{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(contain) in the reading material will enlarge the reader's former schema.

    Reading is a very important{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(mean) of gaining knowledge about culture, custom, science education and technology from others or other countries. It is a good way of learning the most advanced hi-technology{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(serve) the needs of the social development and the interests of our people through reading. Reading is{#blank#}7{#/blank#}inseparable component of the English learning. We should lay solid foundations for our advanced education, and we can master the language by reading{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(large). However, it is a very complex activity{#blank#}9{#/blank#}involves almost all psychological processes{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(include) sensation, perception, motor behavior, motivation, attention, emotion, cognition and all kinds of memory.

Digital devices(设备) have become common in our lives. Today, kids often type with a keyboard instead {#blank#}1{#/blank#}writing by hand. But a recent study shows that you can learn{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(well), and possibly remember more, by handwriting your notes.

"Some schools have become{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(complete) digital," noted Audrey, who{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(lead) the study. She measured what's happening in the brain to better understand learning and behaviors. Her study found that{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(use) a pen or pencil to write notes involves more of the brain than typing on a keyboard. This is because writing needs more complex movements,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} makes more areas of our brain activate.

Think about it: you move your hands{#blank#}7{#/blank#}same way to type each letter on a keyboard. That's different from when we write. Our brain needs{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(consider) the shape of each letter. And we must control our hands to shape different letters with a pen or pencil, all of which uses and connects more areas of the brain.

So learning only by typing could be{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(harm). However, the human brain connects with the world in as many{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(way) as possible. That's why it's important to learn to write by hand and to type with a keyboard in the meanwhile.