Some university students carried out a campaign    1    they celebrated their whole day without cell phones. This move was to improve their relationships with their near and dear ones and to keep them away from the virtual life.    2    (study) indicate that a majority of young people used their phones during lessons, over family meals or even at the cinema. The problem of phone    3    (addict) has been observed since a few years ago, with experts and psychologists    4    (try) to increase awareness about this problem.

Zibo city in China’s Shandong province has     1     (unexpected) gone heated on social media since late February due to its unique taste of barbecue. This has provided an opportunity for the local government     2     (promote) tourism and spending.     3     latest promotion gives visitors free admission to 10 scenic spots in the city as long as their train ticket’s final destination is Zibo. Passengers     4     take the train are greeted by posters reading “Welcome to the Special BBQ Train” and they receive special gifts. Videos of the experience have been posted on social media,     5    (attract) more visitors.

Zibo’s barbecue is different from other types in China as it     6     (make) on a stove (炉灶). Many young people     7     (crowd) into the city to try the dish since a group of college students posted videos of themselves enjoying it in February.     8     (search) for “Zibo barbecue” on the Internet have increased by 770 percent compared to the same period last year, and lines outside barbecue restaurants on several streets reach for more than 100 meters     9     the weekends.

Zibo is now a must-visit destination for food lovers,     10    they can experience the unique and delicious barbecue and explore the city’s scenic spots.

Trees provide cool shade and clean air for us. But would you ever write a letter to a tree? Officials in Melbourne, Australia have discovered that for many, the answer is a loud yes. When they carried out a program     1     assigned email addresses to trees in order to help identify damage and issues, they discovered that citizens     2     (prefer) to write them love letters instead.

The city is calling it     3     unexpected but positive result of their attempt     4     (help) citizens track tree damage. On their urban forest data site, Melbourne assigned ID numbers and email addresses to each of the city’s trees. It would be     5     (easy) to catch and recover     6     (damage) trees than before. Then the emails began to arrive. Instead of damage reports, people began to write fan mails to trees. The writers praised their     7     (look) and inner beauty. Some told tales of     8     they had helped them survive severe weather. Some trees even wrote back.

The effort is part of a larger plan. That is to protect Melbourne’s 70,000 city-owned trees from drought and     9     (reduce). But it turns out that Melbournians have always been tree enthusiasts. The government notes that in the 1880s, citizens wrote begging for     10     (plant) trees to absorb bad gasses from a nearby factory.