No one loves me more than my parents, especially my father. My father is stout and strong, severe look on his face and keen expressive eyes. At first sight you may feel him hard{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (approach). In fact, he is very kind and considerate. I believe my father is a{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (talent) man. He decisive and efficient in doing things. By his own talents and years of efforts, he{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (provide) the family with a good social position and a{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (relative) rich life. Besides, he lives in harmony{#blank#}5{#/blank#} others and never quarrels with anyone, so people from all walks of life come to my house, from{#blank#}6{#/blank#} I've gained lots of social experience. But at home he is a strict parent who is hard on me and has high{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (expectation) of me. I can see that my idling away time{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (hurt) him deeply, while if I have done something great and meaningful, such as{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (write) a book, he will be more excited than me. I always remind myself I must go on and on, and never {#blank#}10{#/blank#} I give up halfway.

    My time in China was a(an){#blank#}1{#/blank#} (forget) experience. Every day was a new adventure. I made life-long friends and had many{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(last) memories. My study abroad program organized trips for us to learn about each city and to visit cultural {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (sight). While I was in Beijing, I climbed the Great Wall of China, and visited Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium. I also had the opportunity of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (stick) in a Beijing thunderstorm, bargaining in the market, and riding the high-speed train. While I was in Tianjin, I{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(study) at Nankai University. I was taking the Chinese language and culture courses{#blank#}6{#/blank#} I enjoyed most is that whatever I learned in class, I would use it outside to communicate with people. Having the opportunity {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (speak) Mandarin every day really improved my learning. In the afternoon I would have culture classes{#blank#}8{#/blank#} I would learn about Chinese calligraphy, Beijing opera, Chinese martial arts, Chinese cooking and many other subjects. The mix of learning about the language and culture made each day of class {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (enjoyable') exciting.

    I believe that the key {#blank#}10{#/blank#}studying abroad successfully is the attitude you carry. Going to China, I was open-minded and had a very positive attitude.

You Are a Time Traveler

    Time travel has long fascinated people. Traveling to the past or future would allow you to live in exciting periods of history or get a glimpse(一瞥) of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the future holds. Think about it. If you could travel in time, where would you go? Perhaps you would voyage far ahead of the present day {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (meet)your future self! What about watching an original performance of {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Shakespeare play in Elizabethan England? Or maybe you would pay a visit to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (you)as a baby.

    Since these ideas are universally appealing to everyone, it is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (nature)that time travel interests so many writers, filmmakers, and scientists. It has been depicted in a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (various) of media, such as literature, film, and science reports. But you might be surprised to realize that {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the smallest sense of the term, we are all time travelers. Even as you sit here {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (read)this article, time is racing forward. The future becomes the past as soon as it happens. The present is so fleeting(稍纵即近)! Everything you do quickly {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (become) part of the past, and so it is that we move through time. The famous scientist Albert Einstein, assigned a mathematical formula to this idea, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} is called The Theory of Relativity.

When talking about our bodies, we often forget our skin. Actually, our skin is very important, too. It keeps us{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(inform) of the outside world--{#blank#}2{#/blank#}it is hot or cold, wet or dry.

Try this: pull up the skin from the back of your hand and then let {#blank#}3{#/blank#}go. What happens?

The skin goes back to its first position, which means that skin is elastic (有弹性的).

Our skin seems to be very thin, but it {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (make) up of two layers. The top layer is the one we wash every day. Do you know that this part of skin is dead? However, it is still very important because it serves as{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (protect) against dirt and disease.

Skin has millions of tiny holes called pores(毛孔). Pores allow liquid, especially sweat,{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(pass) through. By{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (sweat), our bodies keep up a normal temperature. When it is very hot, we sweat a lot, but{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(strange) enough, when it is quite cool, we also sweat. On a cool day, our bodies produce {#blank#}9{#/blank#}average of 700 ml of sweat. That is{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(much) than 0.5 kilos.

Peking Opera is {#blank#}1{#/blank#} form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (full) developed and recognized by the mid­19th century. The form was extremely popular in the Qing Dynasty court and has come to be regarded as one of the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (culture) treasures of China. Major performance troupes (剧团) {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (base) in Beijing and Tianjin in the north, and Shanghai in the south. It has also spread to other countries such as the United States and Japan.

Peking Opera comes {#blank#}5{#/blank#} four local operas, Hui Opera in Anhui, Han Opera in Hubei, Kun Opera in Jiangsu and Qingqiang in Shaanxi. It has drawn the merits of these local operas and created its own style.

Speech, song, dance and combat {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (be) the four classic performing arts in Peking Opera, which are also the basic {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (skill) for performers and is usually trained since the performers are very young. There are many roles in Peking Opera, mainly Sheng, Dan, Jing, and Chou, each of {#blank#}8{#/blank#} has its own costume and mask­paintings. Masks with different colors have different meanings, which is used to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (represent) the character of the roles and illustrate their emotional state.

No China trip is complete without {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (watch) the classic Peking Opera! Enjoy the fantastic Peking Opera!