Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is often inaccurately {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (call) “Lunar New Year”, because—as part of the lunisolar Chinese calendar (农历)-the date is partially determined based on lunar phase (月相). The festival traditionally {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (begin) on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival{#blank#}3{#/blank#} is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year's Eve, a day when Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as chú xī. It literally means “Year-pass Eve”.

    According to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (tale) and legends, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with the fight against {#blank#}5{#/blank#} mythical beast (神兽) called Nien (年). Nien would come on the first day of New Year to devour livestock (牲畜), crops, and even villagers,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (especial) children. To protect {#blank#}7{#/blank#}the villagers would put food in front of their doors at the beginning of every year. It was believed that after the Nien{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (eat) the food they prepared, it wouldn't attack any more people. One time, people saw that the Nien was scared away by a little child wearing red. The villagers then understood that the Nien was afraid {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the colour red. Hence, every time when the New Year was about to come, the villagers would hang red lanterns and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. People also used fireworks {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (frighten) away the Nien. From then on, Nien never came to the village again.

    Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(carrot) and was about to throw them away. But something made her look closer, and she noticed a{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(shine) object. Yes, there beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot was her long-lost wedding ring.

    Pahlsson screamed{#blank#}3{#/blank#}loudly that her daughter came running from the house. "She thought I had hurt{#blank#}4{#/blank#}I)," says Pahlsson.

    Sixteen years{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(early), Pahlsson had removed the diamond ring{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(cook) a meal. When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was gone. She suspected that one of her three daughters — then ten, eight, and six — had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn't. Pahlsson and her husband{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(search) the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing. "I gave up hope of finding my ring again," she says. She never replaced it.

    Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probably got{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(sweep) into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden{#blank#}9{#/blank#}it remained until the carrot's leafy top accidentally sprouted (生长) through it. For Pahlsson, its return was{#blank#}10{#/blank#}wonder.

    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.

    I grew up in one of the poorest communities on the south side of Atlanta, US and was raised by a single mother who didn't finish 3rd grade. Not many people expected much of me, so I had to expect something of {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

    On my 13th birthday, I bought a poster of Harvard and put it up in my room. Being at Harvard was {#blank#}2{#/blank#} I dreamt about all the time though many people thought it was far {#blank#}3{#/blank#} my reach. I would bum the midnight oil,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (bury) in piles of books. I'd begin my day by asking myself these two questions, "What do I want in my life?" and "Are the things I am doing today going to get me closer to that life?"

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (remind) myself of my goal each made it easy to say no to the same choices I saw my peers making, because those paths wouldn't have taken me closer to my goal. Asking myself those questions gave me the courage and energy to study just one more hour on my SATs when my friends were asleep; and it gave me the determination to submit（提交）just one more scholarship {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (apply) when 180 others had already turned me down.

    On March 31st, 2011, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} email arrived from Harvard. The first word was "Congratulations!" A

    month later, Harvard invited me to visit the campus {#blank#}8{#/blank#} for the first time I got to see inside Sanders Theater, tour Widener Library and eat dinner in Annenberg Hall. I couldn't wait to start my {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (explore) here.

    Who you are today is the result of the decisions that {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (make) earlier, and who you will be tomorrow will be the result of the choices you make today. Who do you want to be tomorrow?

    The popular Chinese teen drama film "Better Days"(少年的你)has netted over 1.5 billion yuan at the box office since its release, and also won an {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(astonish)high score of 8.4 on film rating website Douban. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(count)movie-goers have made the movie a trending topic across social media platforms, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(say) they can't help but be deeply touched.

    The drama is one of the very few {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(movie)addressing school bullying(欺凌). Starring award winning actress Zhou Dongyu and boy band TFBoys member YI Yangqianxi, the story {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(tell)a touching relationship between two youngsters as victims of school bullying and {#blank#}6{#/blank#}the issue shapes their fates.

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(sad), there is bullying at school all over the world and it is not rare in China. About half of student {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(age)between 13 and 15 worldwide, or 150 million of them, have been bullied in and around school.

    According {#blank#}9{#/blank#}the Supreme People's Court's China Justice Big Data Service Platform, Chinese courts heard almost 800 cases of school violence in 2017, almost half of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}involved students between the age of 16 and 18.