Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world's first igloo(冰屋) hotel.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (build) in a small town, it has been attracting lots of visitors but soon the fun will be over. In two weeks' time，Bergqvst's ice creation {#blank#}2{#/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#}3{#/blank#} (replace) it.”

    Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} successful that he designed the present one, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks —piling 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base；when the snow froze, the base {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (remove).

After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a relaxing hotel break. “It's great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “as {#blank#}9{#/blank#} 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.

    Yesterday was my 18th birthday. As Father and Mother thought it{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be) a big occasion for me, they suggested I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (held) a birthday party at home to celebrate it. For several days they had been busy {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (prepare) for this. By 4 o'clock I was pleased to see all my friends had come {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a lot of beautiful presents.

    We spent a wonderful night together, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (happy) talking and eating. One of {#blank#}6{#/blank#} most exciting moment was when Mother put a big birthday cake on the table and all my friends began to sing Happy Birthday. Seeing the 18 candles burning, I couldn't keep back my {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (tear). Without Mother and Father's love, I would not lead such a happy life now. Mother asked me to make a wish before I blew out all the candles. After that, everyone enjoyed the sweet birthday cake and shared my happiness.

    I am eighteen years old now, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} means I've become an adult and have {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (many) responsibilities. I'll do my best to return my parents' love and live up to {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (they) expectations.

    The seventh day of the seventh lunar month, called the Chinese Valentine's Day, is the only Chinese festival {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (connect) with love in the lunar calendar. Valentine's Day in China usually{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(fall) in August.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}the evening of the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, Niulang and Zhinü meet on a bridge of magpies across the Milky Way. If it rains that night, the rain will be the tears of Niulang and Zhinü.

    Compared with love stories in western legends (传说){#blank#}4{#/blank#}story of Niulang and Zhinü seem not so romantic. They just wait patiently on the riverbank,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (believe) that their love can be worth their not staying together. Unlike St. Valentine's Day in other{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(country), there is not so much importance on giving chocolates,

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(beauty) flowers and kisses. Instead, Chinese girls prepare fruits, melons and so on as offerings to Zhinü. They ask Zhinü to give them wisdom and high skills in making hand-made arts with needles in the hope of finding their satisfactory husbands. On that day, people in love like to go to the local temple and hope{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(get) their love and possible marriage.

    At night, people sit outdoors to observe the stars {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(happy). Some old people  say  that  if  you  stand  under  a  grapevine  ( 葡 萄 藤 ),  you  can  probably  overhear{#blank#}10{#/blank#} Niulang and Zhinü are talking about.

    Every year around Valentine's Day, men begin to worry about what {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (present) to buy and women {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (fill) with hope and expectation. Or the other way around. In China, more couples get married on that very day, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (add) romance to their promises. But for many, love is neither the matter-of-course choice {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the preferred one. More young, working urban residents are delaying or even choosing not to {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (active) seek their partners despite the social pressure from the older generations to do so.

    Over the years, China's divorce rate has exceeded (超过) that of marriage. According to the statistics from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, 10 million couples registered for marriage in 2017 fell by 7% {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (compare) with the same period last year, while 43.7 million couples divorced, 5.2% more than the same period last year.

    There is also a growing trend towards people marrying later: since 2013, the number of couples aged 25 to 29 has been greater than {#blank#}7{#/blank#} of younger couples. In the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (late) survey on professional attitudes towards love and marriage, more than half of the investigated in Yangzhou, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} second-level city on the East coast, were satisfied {#blank#}10{#/blank#} their marriage after 35.

    Over 100,000 people took part in a massive parade at Beijing's Tian'anmen Square {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the morning of Oct 1, National Day, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

    The military parade began with helicopters {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (fly) overhead carrying China's national flags. Fighter jets roared across the Beijing sky, thousands of soldiers goose-stepped down the capital's streets, followed by columns of tanks and trucks bearing new intercontinental ballistic missiles(洲际弹道导弹),

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} was described as the country's biggest-ever military parade. According to state media commentary, some 40 percent of the armaments were displayed in public for the first time.

    The {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (celebrate) for China's 70th anniversary on National Day have clearly shown the strengths of the country's past and present, which {#blank#}5{#/blank#} （pave) a way for the peaceful development of Chinese society in the last seven decades.

    Witnessing the grand military parade with the slogans of "Long Live China" at Tiananmen square and listening to President Xi Jinping's speech were an opportunity to note {#blank#}6{#/blank#} this nation has developed remarkably with confidence in the system {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (adopt) under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

    Today, China is blessed with a spirited people, breathtaking development, a harmonious society and upraised international authority, making {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the focus, the wonder and envy of the world. The Chinese people are {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (confident) about and more capable of reaching {#blank#}10{#/blank#} goal of national renewal than ever before.