【推荐1】A trip to China with the kids could be a test to your nerves,but also a    1    (wonder)experience.This is an ancient civilization which is growing at great speed into the 21^st century,meanwhile holding onto the old traditions and way of life.

As you travel from area to area,a sea of contrasts is    2    makes it so fascinating.You can find an old fisherman on his bamboo boat    3    (answer) his mobile phone,and modernity and old traditions existing side by side.The only constant thing in China is “change”.

    4    first it might seem challenging.But you    5    (find)the people helpful,especially if you are traveling with children.Chinese love children,    6    more the happier.

But as far as children    7    (concern),this isn’t a light-hearted trip to Disneyworld.What if they get sick?Will the kids like the food?Is    8    (pollute)really that bad?Will they be bored?Just relax.You can depend on    9    that you’ll end up with plenty of priceless    10    (memory) of that country.

Ireland’s beautiful countryside excites and inspires all,    1    (offer) something for the senses. The peaceful landscape is     2    true feast for the eyes, with its rolling green hills     3    (dot) with sheep and cattle. Down by the sea, the roar of the ocean waves and cries of the seabirds make     4    the music of the coast. In the mountains, you could feel the sun on your skin and breathe in the sweet scent of flowers.

Our world has seen     1     increasing number of students pressuring their parents into buying luxuries (奢侈品) just to look good before their peers. Problem is     2     is to blame, parents, students or society? Now, some schools have taken action.

To avoid     3     (show) off superiority among wealthy students, Woodchurch High School in northwestern England has recently made an     4     (announce) to refuse quality designer coats, including Canada Goose, often worth hundreds of dollars. Such coats make poor students feel bad since these items lead to inequality. “They feel left out and inadequate,”     5     (say) The Independent in its last issue.

The ban has aroused nationwide debate. Some argue that we shouldn’t take away parents’ right to buy anything     6     (value) they like for their kids. However, most parents applaud, believing it decreases their worries on lower incomes.

Just as Libby Purves, a UK reporter, put it, how you feel at school largely affects your whole life. Columnist Michelle Singletary wrote on The Washington Post that now comes the     7     (big) chance so far to teach students     8     (understand) clothing in fact measures nothing.

Not just this. In May St. Wilfrid’s Primary School banned students     9     using designer pencils in case poor students would feel     10     (look) down upon.

Eating popcorn in the cinema may be irritating not just for fellow movie goers, but for advertisers: a group of researchers from Cologne University has concluded that chewing makes us immune to film advertising.

The reason why ads manage to imprint(刻上记号) brand names on our brains is     1     our lips and the tongue automatically simulate the pronunciation of a new name when we first hear it.     2     we re-encounter the name, our mouth subconsciously practises its pronunciation.

However, according to the study     3    (publish) in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, this "inner speech" can be disturbed by chewing,     4    (render) the repetition effect redundant.

    5     their experiment, the researchers invited a group of 96 people to a cinema to watch a movie preceded by a series of adverts. Half of the participants     6    (give) free popcorn throughout the session, the other half only received a small sugar cube     7     immediately dissolved in their mouths.

A test at the end of the screening showed that the adverts had left no effect on those viewers who had chewed their way through popcorn throughout, while the other participants showed positive psychological responses to the products they     8    (encounter) in the ads.

"The mundane activity of eating popcorn made participants immune to the pervasive effects of advertising," said Sascha Topolinski, one of the researchers.

He goes as far as implying that his research     9     spell the end of the traditional popcorn machine in cinema foyers. "This finding suggests that selling candy in cinemas actually undermines advertising effects, which contradicts present marketing strategies. In the future, when promoting a novel brand, advertising clients might consider trying to prevent candy     10     (sell) before the main movie."