Last year, my brother and I went to Miami for a vacation. Some of my friends who had been there before said {#blank#}1{#/blank#} was a wonderful holiday destination. Before we went, we had planned for months. When the day came, we were ready.

    After our plane landed, we went to the hotel. We had made our {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (reserve) six months earlier, but the man at the front desk said there had been a mistake. We {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (tell) that our rooms hadn't been reserved for that week, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} for the week after. I didn't understand {#blank#}5{#/blank#} this would happen and my credit card had already been charged {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the booking. What's worse, the hotel had been fully booked. When we were wondering what to do, the manager came out. She was {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (surprise) helpful. She {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (apology) for the mistake and gave us a spare VIP room on the top floor. We had never stayed in such an amazing room, and we weren't charged extra.

    The next day, my brother and I went to the beach {#blank#}9{#/blank#} we watched some people play volleyball. We got a little {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (sunburn)，but the day had been so relaxing that we didn't mind.

    Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted {#blank#}1{#/blank#} his new hotel, the world's first igloo(冰屋) hotel.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (build) in an small town, it has been attracting lots of visitors but soon the fun will be over. In two weeks' time Bergqvist's ice creation {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) nothing more than a pool of water. “We don't see it as a big problem, ”he says. “We just look forward to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (replace)it. ”

    Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was {#blank#}5{#/blank#} successful that he designed the present one, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks piling 1,000 tons of snow onto a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (wood) base；when the snow froze, the base was removed.

After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success. With no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures {#blank#}8{#/blank#} 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test {#blank#}9{#/blank#} a relaxing hotel break. “It's great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “As well as a good start in survival training.''

    The {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (popular)of the igloo is beyond doubt：it is now attracting tourists from all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms.

    Human tower-building, or castell（叠人塔）, is a great team sport. This kind of sport can organize {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hundred) of individuals to work together to climb several meters up to the air. The lower can involve as many as 400 people and reach a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(shock) height. The world record for the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(tall) tower belongs to the team Minyons de Terrassa, which defeated competitors{#blank#}4{#/blank#}half a meter during the event in 2015.

    The unusual tradition dates back to the 18th century and. as CBS News reported, the 26th competition{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(take) place in Catalonia, Spain not long ago.{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (win) the event, a team called Colles assembled to build the most complex castells. The {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(construct) process was only half the battle. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the Colles achieved their maximum height, they then had to take apart themselves without toppling over（倒掉）.

    According to Times of Malta,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (rough) 20,000 people gathered to witness {#blank#}10{#/blank#}competition. This year the Castellers de Villafranca team was crowned victorious, marking their eighth win in a row.

    Once James Thornhill, a famous English painter, was asked {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(paint) some pictures on the walls of the king's palace in English. Then workers were sent for and {#blank#}2{#/blank#}big platform(平台) was made {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the help of a worker, Thornhill started painting on the platform. They worked for a whole year {#blank#}4{#/blank#} at last the pictures were ready.

    Thornhill was happy when he looked at the pictures, for they were {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (real) beautiful. He looked at them for a long time, and then took one step back and looked again. Now the pictures were even {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (much) beautiful. He took another step, then another. Finally, he was at the very edge of the platform, but he did not know it because he {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (think) of his pictures.

    The worker saw everything. "{#blank#}8{#/blank#} should I do?" he thought. "Thornhill is at the very edge of the platform. If I cry out, he will take another step, fall off the platform and surely be killed." So the worker quickly took some paint and threw {#blank#}9{#/blank#} at the picture. "What are you doing?" cried the painter, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (run) quickly forward to his pictures.

    Now whenever I get close to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (lose) my patience, I'll think of a report that I watched on TV years ago. It {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (report) that nearly 100,000 people died from traffic accidents that year, causing a lot of damage and pain for individuals and society. Road safety has aroused {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (wide) attention of the public than ever before. In recent years, many rules {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (make) to reduce the traffic crashes, especially for the ones {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (involve) in the pedestrians. As far as I'm concerned, we should take road safety {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (serious) in our daily life. While using the road, we must walk on the pavement, take notice of the traffic lights and learn to protect {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. Besides, car drivers should obey the traffic rules, which is both good for themselves and others. Above all, we should teach our children to treasure life and get to know and obey the traffic rules.

    All {#blank#}8{#/blank#} all, life is so precious that we can't afford to lose it. Obeying the traffic rules is {#blank#}9{#/blank#} all of us should pay attention to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (particular). Only by attaching great importance to traffic safety can we all live a better life.

    People have all turned to sad music to make themselves feel better at some point in their lives,

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#}why does the music with double or even triple(三倍) sadness help drag people out of low spirits?

    A new study throws light on what's going on inside people's brains when they match their music to their feelings, and it looks as if sad music can be enjoyable, rather than{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(simple) depressing. Music of this sort can arouse positive memories in people's life, thus {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(lift)their mood.

    Psychologist Adrian North from Curtin University in Australia says there{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(existence) two groups of possible explanations for why people enjoy listening to sad music like this——one from social psychology, and the other from cognitive neuroscience(神经学).

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}terms of social psychology, one idea about this is that people will feel{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(good) about themselves if they focus on someone who's doing even worse. Everything's going to be okay, because this person is having {#blank#}7{#/blank#}even worse day than they are.

    Another idea from social psychology is that people like to listen to the very music {#blank#}8{#/blank#} shows their present life circumstances, because this kind of music makes them feel they are understood. With their emotions{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (share), they definitely get a certain amount of comfort.

    So, the{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (conclude) again—sad music does cheer people up, and it works far better than happy music, in most cases.