I had to visit my sister in another town because her husband {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be) very ill. My children stayed back in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (they) father's care, except for the youngest. I was nervous taking a train journey alone with my one-year-old daughter. However, I gathered all my courage and boarded the train.

    It was {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (surprise) that there were only three other passengers in that carriage, two old ladies and a young man. My daughter was crying, missing her dad. I tried to comfort her, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} her crying wouldn't stop.

    Just then the young man offered {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (take) my baby into his arms. He stood with her near the window and started talking to her in a soft voice. My daughter stopped crying {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (slow). I was both surprised and relieved. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} stranger handed my daughter back once she was asleep. During the long train journey this young man continuously helped me. He fed my baby, sang to her and told her countless {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (story). I was grateful for this man {#blank#}9{#/blank#} had come to my rescue.

    After so many years, I still remember this stranger on the train with a {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (thank) heart.

    One evening years ago in New York, I sat on a bench in a park and watched a little boy, around 2 years old,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (run) freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance away. The boy would fall to the grass,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(get) up, and without looking back {#blank#}3{#/blank#}his mother, run as fast as he could as if nothing had happened.

    When kids fall down, they don't think of the fall as a failure. Instead, they consider{#blank#}4{#/blank#}as a learning experience. They try again and again until they succeed. While I{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(touch) by the boy's strong mind, I was also touched by the way he ran. With each attempt, he looked so confident and natural. He only wanted to run{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(free) and to do it as {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(good) as he could. He was just being a child—just being himself—being completely in the moment. He never gave up. Each time he{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(fall), he got himself back up again, as if he knew that falling down was simply a part of life. He was not looking for others' smiles, or worrying about{#blank#}9{#/blank#}someone was watching or not. He only wanted to run and to feel the experience of running fully and freely.

    I learned a lot from that experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in many{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(part) of my life.

    Many people consider old friends to be more important than new ones. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}an old saying goes, “Friends are like wine, the older, the better.” If two pieces of advice {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (give) to solve a problem, one from a new friend and the other from {#blank#}3{#/blank#} old friend, people would prefer the latter one {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the former one, even though the new friend's advice may be better.

    I, however, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (agree) with the old saying, believing that new friends are not necessarily worse than old friends. It is not always right {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (determine) your friendship by the length(长度) of time.

    Once you call someone a friend, he must be a person who is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (rely) and whose interests are in common with {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(you). It is mainly his character (性格) and interests that make him your friend. It {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (actual) has little to do with time. People's appearance may change, but their character usually stays the same. Therefore, on this point, there is no {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (different) between old friends and new friends.

    Diet and way of life are often a problem for teenagers. However, if you eat the right food and exercise {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(regular), you can feel better, look better and have more energy. So healthy eating along with regular exercise is probably {#blank#}2{#/blank#} first step to become fit.

    As a teenager, it is important to give your body the energy {#blank#}3{#/blank#} needs. For a healthy diet, you should eat mostly rice, bread, vegetables and fruit. The most important thing to remember when you choose food is to protect yourself {#blank#}4{#/blank#} some tricks. A number of people out there who want to make quick money are always fooling you into {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(believe) what they say so their products can sell well. Don't be tricked by them. What you need is just to trust a diet that {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (be) right for your body.

    Exercise is also something on {#blank#}7{#/blank#} you can depend to make you look good, feel good and be healthy. It is obvious that exercise is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (benefit) to you. When you exercise, you build up the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (strong) of your muscles and your body produces some chemicals that make you feel peaceful and relaxed.

    Follow the suggestions above,{#blank#}10{#/blank#}you will look and feel much better in no time at all.

    Fu Xuewei, a 25-year-old girl from Chengdu, China {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (recent) shared a beautiful set of wedding photos on the Internet. However, there's a debate on the photographs, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} no groom (新郎) seems to be found in the photos. In fact, the only people {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (feature) in the photos are Ms. Fu and her 87-year-old grandfather.

    Despite having no plans of getting married anytime soon, Fu decided {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (wear) the wedding dress for her grandfather. The man fell seriously ill last September, with doctors warning that he could pass away {#blank#}5{#/blank#} any time. Fearing he might never get to fulfill the dream of walking her down to the Mr. Right, Fu arranged the surprise photoshoot. She took {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (she) grandfather for a regular hospital check-up, only to reveal that they were going to take pictures later and he agreed.

    Ms Fu {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (raise) by her grandparents from the age of ten, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} makes them mean a lot to her. She insists that she takes care of them in return. The young woman even {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (have) a tattoo of her grandfather. "I had my grandfather's appearance tattooed on my arm because I want all my new {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (friend) to know what he looks like in the future," she said.

    I'm not sure when I started to love qipaos. I just remember that when I saw Zhao Weiand other stars {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(wear) qipaos in the TV series Romance in the Rain, I {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(impress). Although Chinese women are fond of wearing qipaos for special events, for example, red ones for weddings, I wear them more {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(frequent), not only for parties but also sometimes even in the office.

    I've collected some qipaos, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(buy) at a store in one of Beijing's historical neighborhoods. A Chinese friend of mine recently gave me one of her old qipaos, which almost reaches my ankles. The qipao fits well at the shoulders, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}it was simply too tight（紧的）at the waist.

    Many foreigners'{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(body) differ from those of the Chinese, which makes{#blank#}7{#/blank#} hard for some foreigners to take off qipaos. Because I am not too short, and pretty thin, I can often buy ready-made qipaos in China.

    In my native United States, non-Asians {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(be) sometimes blamed on social media for wearing qipaos because of {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(culture)differences, but in China, people have what I consider a more reasonable and open-minded approach: If foreigners wear qipaos, it is seen {#blank#}10{#/blank#} an attitude of appreciation for Chinese culture.