At the beginning of 2018, President Xi Jinping went to visit Liangshan before the Spring Festival. Xi {#blank#}1{#/blank#}his greetings for Happy New Year. There were many impressive and touching things {#blank#}2{#/blank#}his visiting Liangshan.

    Xi visited Sanhe and Huopu villages, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}are in Zhaojue country in Liangshan. It's two {#blank#}4{#/blank#} ride from Xichang to the villages. When he arrived at Sanhe village, he was warmly welcomed by the villagers. He walked into a family to understand the situation of the family. He said: I have been caring about Yi people. I'm very glad {#blank#}5{#/blank#}you are living a good life and hope that all the villagers can live a happy life in the future Xi and the villagers sat in a circle in the family and chatted like a family. They talked and laughed very happily. He gave them {#blank#}6{#/blank#}ways to become rich, healthy and happy.

    News of President Xi's coming {#blank#}7{#/blank#}spread throughout the village, all the villagers in national costume rushed to greet warmly to{#blank#}8{#/blank#}. Xi wore charwa to shook {#blank#}9{#/blank#}with the villagers and said goodbye. All the villagers were singing a Yi folk song, “The flowers are waiting in the mountains, the nice wine is waiting, dear friend, please stay, stay…” Tears of great {#blank#}10{#/blank#}came to the villagers' eyes as they sang the moving song.

    Hunting was once popular in the USA. Long ago the wild was filled with rabbits, bears and many other animals. Hunting provided people with a lot of meat. Also some expressions Americans use today{#blank#}1{#/blank#}hunting.

    One of the expressions is "to bark(吠叫) up the wrong tree". It comes from hunting raccoons(浣熊). The raccoon is a very clever animal. It{#blank#}2{#/blank#}during the day and comes out at night. Hunters used dogs to chase(追赶) the animals. The raccoon used many tricks to escape the dogs. Often it would travel through the river for a while to hide its{#blank#}3{#/blank#}from the dogs. It would also climb into a tree to rest, leaving the dogs barking below it. The hunter found the tree by walking to the sound of the dogs. He used a light to try to see the raccoon and then caught it. Sometimes, however, the raccoon was not in the tree. It had jumped to{#blank#}4{#/blank#}tree and escaped, leaving the dogs "barking up the wrong tree". The expression now means "to be mistaken" or "to look for something in the wrong place".