One day an old man went into a cafeteria (自助餐厅) to eat in America for the first time. He sat down at an empty table and waited for ________ to take his order. Of course nobody did. Finally, a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked.

“Start out at that end,” she said, “Just go along the line and picked out what you want. At the other end they’ll tell you how much you have to pay.”

“I soon learned that’s how everything works in the US,” the old man later told a friend, “________ is a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want if you would like to pay the price. You can even get success, but you’ll never get it if you wait for someone to ________ it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself.”

________, life everywhere is like a cafeteria. Don’t wait for things to happen to you. Success lies in your own ________.

The Spring Festival is celebrated not only in China but also in other parts of the world. The traditional holiday is the most important to Chinese both at home and abroad.

Celebrations for the Spring Festival in the UK started in 1980, with the first evening party held in 2002. Every New Year, people get together and have a lot of activities. They sing songs, dance to music, share photos with friends or enjoy films in a cinema.

The Spring Festival has become a key time for Chinese living or working in the US. They join in a large evening party to welcome the traditional New Year. It is a good chance for people to build a circle of friends and feel that they are not alone because they share the same culture and values.

The Chinese New Year will be welcomed with three weeks of celebrations across Australia. Many people come to Sydney’s Chinatown or Little Bourke in Melbourne. They enjoy fireworks, lion dances, dragon boat races and many other traditional activities. The celebrations are also a bridge towards better understanding between Chinese and non-Chinese.

The family dinner on New Year’s Eve is an important tradition for Chinese whether they were born in Singapore or moved there from China. They place traditional food on a table as an act of remembering their past. Then the whole family enjoy their dinner together. They usually hold it at home because having it in a restaurant takes away the meaning of the tradition.

Every Wednesday evening, a group of runners in Chongqing get together and have their 5-to-8-kilometer run in the city. This is not a normal run. The runners take trash (垃圾) bags with them and pick up trash when they run.

“Make running more than just running,” Sogor, one of the runners, says. She wears a blue T-shirt with “WE RUN FOR TRASH” on the back. Besides the weekly runs, the group also has family runs once a month. Children and even pets can take part in the activity.

Sogor says there are more than 200 trash runners from all walks of life in the city, such as office workers, yoga teachers and restaurant owners. Over 90 percent of the group members are Chinese. The oldest are in their 40s, and the youngest is just 5.

“I feel great to make the Earth cleaner,” says an 8-year-old boy. He joined the group last month with his parents. The boy broke his left arm, but he keeps running and picks up trash with his right hand.

Trash Running came to Shanghai in 2018. There are groups in 16 cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Changchun and Wuhan. More than 9,300 runners run and make the cities clean.

“Baby, when you miss your mother, just look up at the starry sky, the stars are twinkling all over the sky, that is I say to you, I love you!”

Liu Yang w    56     a letter to her daughter, 8, and son, 6, just days before flying into space for the     57     (two) time on June 5, 2022 on the Shenzhou XIV mission (任务).

Liu Yang was born in 1978 in Henan. She didn’t expect     58     (be) an astronaut as a child. She once dreamed of being a lawyer or an office lady. H    59    , she joined the Air Force (空军) in 1997 and then became an excellent pilot. Liu Yang became an astronaut in 2010 after     60     (have) 1,680 hours of safe flights in the Air Force.

Liu Yang became     61     (China) first woman astronaut in 2012, when she spent 13 days     62     (live) in space in the Shenzhou IX mission. Finally, they     63     (success) in landing on the earth. D    64     the Shenzhou XIV mission, she will stay at the Tiangong space station for six months, working with two     65     (man) astronauts Chen Dong and Cai Xuzhe to finish the construction (建设) of the space station of China.

It’s getting dangerously close to “game over” for some players in China. If you’re under 18 and a fan of online games, you can’t play them as much as you want now.     66    .

From a report, China is the world’s largest online gaming market. About 63% of Chinese minors (未成年人) play online games often.     67     And some parents find their kids being lazy and even violent (暴力的) after playing online games.

To stop the minors from playing games too much, China sets a new rule for young gamers. From September 1, 2021, minors can only play online games between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Fridays and weekends.     68     When enrolling (注册), gamers need to use their real names and numbers.

    69     Parents don’t need to worry that their children are playing online games at school again. And less gaming is good for the players’ health, especially for their eyes.     70     Go outside, and jump and run!