A television series is fast gaining its word-of-mouth {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (popular) among not only Chinese households but also some foreigners. The drama, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (call) In the Name of the People, offers viewers, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (particular) foreigners, an opportunity to better understand China's politics and culture and also the nations' iron-fist resolve in the fight {#blank#}4{#/blank#} corruption(腐败) among the country's officials. The drama is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} effort rarely seen in recent memory that carries the anti-corruption topic onto mainstream television. Before that, the discussion of this topic was widespread {#blank#}6{#/blank#} mostly remains private in Chinese society.

    “I was quite {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (impress) by the jaw-dropping scene {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the cash hidden on a giant wall was found in a low-level official's house. It is a bribe(行贿)he's accepted which is worth 230 million yuan (about 33 million U. S. dollars)”, said Eric Ivarsen from Norway, a master's student {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (major) in the public management and social development at the University of Chinese Academy of Science.

    “My subject has a very high requirement of knowledge about Chinese politics and culture. After watching the drama, I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (well) understand China's political terms, for example, seats order according to official rankings, languages being used in a meeting, which is quite different from my country,” lvarsen added.

    As less people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is committed to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(keep) the art of sugar painting alive.

    Li worked as {#blank#}3{#/blank#}miner for more than ten years. After the mine closed down, Li turned {#blank#}4{#/blank#}housing decoration, until he {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(force) to give that up due to a finger {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(injure). Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.

    Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. He soon mastered the skill and could make a variety of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup（糖浆）. When the sugar cools down,{#blank#}10{#/blank#}appears is a piece of sugar craft.

    I'm not sure {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is more frightened, me or the female gorilla(大猩猩）that suddenly appears out of nowhere. I'm walking on a path in the forest in the Central African Republic. Unexpectedly, I'm face-to-face with the gorilla, who begins screaming at {#blank#}2{#/blank#} top of her lungs. That makes her baby scream, and then a 400-pound male appears. He screams the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(loud)of all. The noise shakes the trees as the male beats his chest and charges toward me. I quickly lower myself, ducking my head to avoid {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(look) directly into his eyes so he doesn't feel{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(challenge).

My name is Mireya Mayor. I'm a {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(science)who studies animals such as apes and monkeys. I was searching {#blank#}7{#/blank#} these three western lowland gorillas I'd been observing. No one had seen them for hours, and my colleagues and I were worried.

    When the gorillas and I frightened each other, I was just glad to find {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(they) alive. True to a gorilla's unaggressive nature, the huge animal {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(mean)me no real harm. He was just saying: "I'm king of this forest, and here is your reminder!" Once his message was delivered, he allowed me {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (stay)and watch.

    A woman suddenly{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (go) blind in one eye after playing a mobile phone game for a whole week in Guangdong province last month. The unnamed woman admitted to playing the game {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (regular) for seven or eight hours without moving and finally lost {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (she) right eyesight.

    The game, Arena of Valor, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (know) as Honour of Kings, has become hugely popular in China and is due to be limited across the US and Europe. Being {#blank#}5{#/blank#}world's most popular online battle game, it already has over 200 million players in China.

    The battle game puts together a team of five players {#blank#}6{#/blank#} have to fight others in a fantasy land filled{#blank#}7{#/blank#}characters , and players can buy extra features while playing. The eye injury follows series of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(incident). In June, a child in Shenzhen stole 30,000 yuan (£3,450) from his parents to buy add-ons, and a 13-year-old in Hangzhou, severely injured his legs after jumping from a five-storey building to escape from his father was trying to stop him{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(play).

    In a country in which 60 percent of the population has a smart-phone, the game has been highly {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (success), partly because it is free to play.

    One day, I saw a kid walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked as if he was carrying all of his books. I had quite a weekend {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (plan), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on. As I was walking, I saw {#blank#}2{#/blank#} bunch of kids running towards him. They ran at him, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (knock) all his books out of his arms and he landed in the dirt. His {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (glass) went flying. He looked up and I saw the terrible {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (sad) in his eyes. My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he crawled around looking for his things. Later, we talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books. He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile. “Thankfully, I {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (save). My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable.” Not until that moment did I realize its {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (deep). Never underestimate the power of your actions. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a small gesture, you can change a person's life. For {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (good) or for worse, God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way. As you can see, friends are angels {#blank#}10{#/blank#} lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

    Before we left, Li Yanping explained to me that the force of gravity would change three times on our journey and{#blank#}1{#/blank#}the first change would be the most powerful. Then we were off. As the rocket rose into the air, we{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(pull) back into our seats because we were trying to escape the pull of the earth's gravity. It was so {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(strength) that we could not say anything to each other. Gradually the weight lessened and I was able to talk to{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(he). "Why is the spaceship not falling back to the earth? On the earth if I fall from{#blank#}5{#/blank#}tree I will fall to the ground." I asked. "We are too far {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the earth now to feel its pull," he{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(explain), "so we feel as if no gravity at all. When we get  {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (close) to the moon little by little, we shall feel its gravity pulling us, but it will not be as powerful a pull as the earth's." I cheered up immediately and floated{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(weightless) around in our spaceship cabin {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (watch) the earth become smaller and the moon larger.