Sneezing(打喷嚏) is one way the body protects itself from {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (sick). Your brain {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(signal) you to sneeze. Then your eyes close and-achoo!-germs (细菌) {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(shoot) out of your nose.

    One sneeze can put as many as 40,000 droplets of saliva (唾液) and mucus (黏液) into the air. And those droplets travel up to 100 miles per hour, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(fast) than cars on the freeway.

    Here in the US, we say "bless you" when someone sneezes. The same goes for a number of other {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(country), including Wales and France. But {#blank#}6{#/blank#} general it's more common {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (connect) to health than to give blessings. In China, you say, "May you live 100 years!" In Germany, it's simply, "Health!"

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#} do we wish sneezers well? The custom may date back to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}ancient belief. It is said that evil (邪恶的) spirits went out of our bodies during a sneeze - and that these spirits then try to get back in.

    Your nose can produce up to 32 ounces of mucus every day. That's enough mucus to fill more than two soda cans.

    Mucus is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (usual) clear. If it's green, yellow, or brown, then you might want to see a doctor.

    One day, there was a blind man sitting at the roadside. There was a sign beside him, on{#blank#}1{#/blank#}was written, “I'm blind. Please help me." Many people walked by him,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}few of them helped him.

    A young man was going to his office. While{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(walk) by the blind man, he stopped and found that there were few coins in the man's hat. He bent down and write a new message on the sign without asking for{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(permit), and then he left, without saying a word.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(late) that afternoon, when the young man walked by the blind man again, he saw the hat{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(fill) with bills and coins. The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if{#blank#}7{#/blank#}was he that had changed his sign. He also wanted to know {#blank#}8{#/blank#}the young man had done to the sign. Then the young man told the blind man that he {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(write) something like this on the sign. “It is spring now, but I can't see it." The blind man expressed his gratitude to the young man and went home{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(happy).

    Cultural TV programs have experienced {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  come-back at the start of the Chinese New Year. A new program, Readers, has become a hit. Broadcast on China Central Television (CCTV) over the weekend, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}is bringing fresh{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(enthusiastic) for literature in China. Readers sets out to interpret the power and values behind {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(tradition) Chinese culture.

    The weekly talk show, produced and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(host) by famous TV personality Dong Qing, invites people from all {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(walk) of life to read poems, essays and books they like or wrote. Without any amazing stage design, Readers has brought the almost-lost habit of reading aloud back into the public spotlight, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(make) the audience bathe in the beauty of language. The participants also {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(active) share stories from their own life explaining reasons {#blank#}9{#/blank#}particular pieces touched their hearts or shaped their lives. In the show, poems can{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(adapt)into songs. Since its broadcast, it has been considered as "a breath of fresh air” among various shows in China.

"What did you have for lunch at school?" I asked my son at dinner. This was a question my kid expected {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (ask) each evening at suppertime. Usually, he would share the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (detail) information about what he ate and what happened in school with me.

One day, my son {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (sad) told me that some of his classmates had laughed at him. Actually, I {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (inform) this incident (事件) by his teacher before picking him up to return home. Although his teacher told me the reason why it had happened and {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (promise) to deal with it as soon as possible, I still couldn't help {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (wonder) how I could comfort my son.

The next day {#blank#}7{#/blank#} school, I talked about this-incident again on the car ride home. My son replied, "It was{#blank#}8{#/blank#} embarrassing thing for me to be laughed at in front of the class. But my classmates had apologized to me, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} made me choose to forgive them this time." I was glad and amazed at his {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (able) to forgive others and move on.