What will you eat at the Spring Festival? Most of us have dumplings. But people in Shandong Province also have huabobo. Huabobo is a kind of popular traditional ______ in Shandong for more than 300 years.

Usually, huabobo is ______ than mantou. Only one huabobo can serve many people. People use tools like knives, scissors and pens to shape the dough (生画团) into different animals before steaming (蒸) it. Then they ______ it. So huabobo can have different colours. The beautiful colours are a symbol of good wishes.

For example, huabobo in the shapes of tigers and rabbits is usually given to children to wish that a boy will be as ______ as a tiger and a girl as lovely and clever as a white rabbit. And huabobo in the shape of yuanyang carries the wish that a newly-married couple will live ______ together to an old age.

On Oct. 26, 2023, China launched (发射) the Shenahou-17 crewed spaceship. Tang Shengjie, the country’s youngest ______, entered the space station and served as one of the crew members.

“It is a great honour for me, and I feel very ______ and very happy,” Tang said. From a young age, Tang had shown great hands-on ______. Every time when the family bought a new electrical product, he would take it apart and ______ it.

Thanks to his childhood hobby of repairing electrical products, Tang was good at the professional skills training ______ was needed by astronauts. Every time there was a professional skills training course, Tang would feel very ______. After training, he was often too tired to hold chopsticks. ______ he never got tired of training.

Two years of hard training ______ gave him a ticket to space. In June 2022, Tang ______ as a crew member for the Shenzhou-17 task.

“What I think about more is how to complete the ______, get scientific test results, do explorations and be helpful to the manned space mission and scientific development of our country,” said Tang.

From July 2022 to July 2023, city walkers in China together covered over 320,000 kilometres. That’s like circling the earth 8 times.

Top five popular cities in China for city walk 1st: Shanghai       2nd: Beijing       3rd: Xiamen       4th: Qingdao       5th: Guiyang
Ages of the city walkers under 16:15% 16—18: 2% 19—28: 50% 29—33:29% over 34: 4%	Three main reasons for city walk • To reduce stress. • To know a city better. • To have a cheaper way to travel.