Compared with the people in many other countries, the Australians seem to know more about how to enjoy their lives. In Australia, different people have different ways of enjoying     1    (they). They also have their own ideas about how to kill time (消磨时间).

Most     2     (child), about 80%，work hard in school because they have to take lots of exams. After school they don’t want to stay at home reading books any longer.     3    , they go out to play. In this way, they feel     4    (relax) and have fun.

Some old people get up early in the morning. Then they go to the park to read newspapers,     5     can help them know what     6    (happen) in the world recently. In the evening, they prefer     7     (stay) at home watching TV rather than do anything else.

Young people enjoy     8     (have) pleasure trips on weekends. They go to mountains for a picnic or go to the forest to camp. They usually start on Friday and spend one or two days outside. Then    9    Sunday evening, they start their return trip, nobody seems to be in    10     hurry, although a busy week is waiting for them again.

Every year, thousands of people come to Edinburgh,     1    capital city of Scotland, to be part of the Edinburgh Festival. For three weeks every August and September, the city     2     (fill) with actors and artists from all over the world. They come to Edinburgh for the    3    (big) arts festival in Britain. During this time the     4     (street) of the city are alive with music and dance from early morning until late into the night. You can even see artists    5     (paint) pictures on the streets. One of the best parts of Festival is the "Fringe" ,    6     students do comedy shows in small halls and cafes,.

Tens of thousands of tourists come to the Festival to see new films and plays and hear music     7     (play) by famous musicians. This year, you can see over five hundred performances with actors from more than forty countries.

The tickets     8     these performances are quite cheap and it is     9     (usual) easier to see your favorite star in Edinburgh than it is in London. So come to Edinburgh next summer, but remember     10     can be difficult to find a room, so why not book your hotel now?

The youth version of The Peony Pavilion (《牡丹亭》) successfully entered the stage of the Spring for Chinese Arts at the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center.

The Peony Pavilion,     1     cultural treasure of the world, was written by China’s Ming Dynasty playwright and writer Tang Xianzu, who is compared to William Shakespeare. And Kunqu Opera,     2     (combine) songs performed in the Suzhou dialect, graceful body movements, martial arts and dance, was     3     (origin) born in the region of Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. It was listed as one of the representative     4     (work) of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO in 2001.

Kunqu Opera uses a seemingly endless     5     (vary) of gestures to express specific emotions and has distinguished itself by its rhythmic patterns. It also has a major impact     6     all the more recent forms of opera in China, such as Peking Opera.

    7     excites the organizing committee is that The Peony Pavilion     8     (attract) a growing young audience since its first performance in Beijing. Up to now, Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center,     9     aim is to emphasize the inheritance, promotion, development and popularization of traditional Chinese culture and arts, has also held many exhibitions related to traditional drama, and established the Peking Opera inheritance class     10     (popularize) the traditional art to children.

Autumn Equinox

Autumn Equinox (秋分), the 16th solar term of the year, lies at the midpoint of autumn,     1     (divide) autumn into two equal parts. After that day, the location of direct sunlight moves to the south, making days shorter and nights longer in the northern hemisphere. Since the Autumn Equinox, most of the areas in China have entered the cool autumn.     2     the cold air southward meets the declining warm and wet air, , precipitation (降水) is     3     result.

As     4     (say) in the ancient book, The Detailed Records of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC), “It is on the Autumn Equinox day that the Yin and Yang are in a balance of power.” Thus the day and night are of equal length, and     5     are the cold and hot weather. “In South China, there is a custom     6     (popular)-known as ‘having Qiucai (autumn vegetable) on the Autumn Equinox day. Every Autumn Equinox day’, all the     7     (village) go to pick Qiucai in the wild, which is taken back and made into soup with fish,     8     (name) Qiutang (autumn soup).”

On Autumn Equinox day, there are thousands of people in the world trying to make eggs stand     9     end. According to experts, on the Spring Equinox and Autumn Equinox, the earth’s axis (轴), on its 66.5 degree tilt, is in a relative balance of power with the earth’s orbit around the sun. Thus it is an     10     (easy) time for people to practice the game.