Cold weather,   central heating,   and falling leaves all these things mean _____________ flu season has arrived.___________you shouldn't take flu lightly.   Flu season comes every year from October __________April.   This year has been especially bad,   according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention （美国疾病防控中心 CDC）.

The flu is _____________illness caused by the influenza virus.   It is different from the common cold in that it can strike suddenly and it is much____________. The flu can_____________serious dehydration（脱水） and liver （肝脏）damage , both of which can kill people.

____________is especially dangerous for children and elderly people to have flu, since they have_____________immune （免疫） system.   In 2018, 142 children in the US___________the flu during this flu season, according to CDC.

These deaths are not limited to the USA.   In China, many people die from the flu each year ___________. An elderly man in Beijing died from the flu this season,____________led to a wide discussion online.   The man's family didn't know how serious the flu was,   just like many _______________who don't understand the flu very well.

What can you do to keep the flu away? Hygiene is important--- take a shower every day and wash your hands often.   Do not spend time around people _____________have the flu.   And if you can,   get a flu vaccine this is a type of special medicine that can help prevent the flu.   All of these things can keep you_____________during flu season.   If you are stick with the flu,   stay home_____________spreading it to others.

Years ago,   a farmer owned land near the sea. He always needed workers to help him, but most people did not want to work on farms near the sea. They were __________of the terrible storms that often hit and destroyed buildings and plants.

Finally, a short man came to the farmer. "Are you a good worker?" the farmer asked him. "Well, I can sleep when the wind blows," answered the little man. Although surprised by this answer, the farmer, who really needed __________,   gave him the job. The little man ____________very hard on the farm, and the farmer felt __________with his work.

Then one night the wind blew loudly in from the sea. Jumping out of bed, the farmer ___________to the short man's room. The farmer shouted, "Get up! A ____________is coming! Tie things down before they blow away!" But the little man lay in bed ___________ and said, "No sir. I told you, I can sleep when the wind blows."

Hearing the words, the farmer hurried outside to __________the storm on his own. To his surprise, he found that everything was tied down and nothing could blow away. The farmer then __________what the short man meant, so he returned to his bed to sleep while the wind blew.

When you're prepared, you have nothing so worry about. Can you _________when the wind blows through your life?

China has a lot of intangible cultural heritages of humanity ( 人类非物质文化遗产).Here are four of them.

Have you ever noticed the black and white bars on a book？Do you know what they are used for?

They are bar-codes（条形码）used in most products. If you go to a supermarket，you can see almost every product with a bar-code on it. Bar-codes have information about the product, such as name and production date.It's an easy and convenient way to know about the products. Just scan the bar-code and everything is clear.

The first use of a bar-code in a supermarket checkout system was on a pack of American Wrigley Company chewing gum in 1974.Beyond supermarkets, bar-codes are needed everywhere:for renting cars, for luggage checks on a plane, for parcels(包裹) you send. Life would be rather difficult without bar-codes.Most of our things would get lost in the post.

Bar-codes change as well.Bar-codes in the past were 1-D(one-dimensional空间), but now there are 2-D bar-codes,such as QR code.Since 2009, QR has been used on Chinese train tickets. People can enter stadiums,cinemas and theaters by holding certain types of bar-codes.

With these small codes, life is getting much easier for us.

If you find these bar-code things boring, a bar-code building might be more up your street. In St Petersburg, Russia, there is a building designed like a bar-code.It looks strange, but it's actually a shopping mall. There are games too. Bar-code Monsters is a mobile phone game. You have to scan bar-codes and find the monsters!

With the battle against the novel coronavirus pneumonia（新冠肺炎） going on, many have stayed at home for more than a month. Though it may have been relaxing at first, you’re probably fighting back the urge（迫切感） to break through a wall and do, well, anything!

It’s OK. Calm down. You can’t visit many public spaces right now, but you can use your phone immediately to do it virtually（虚拟）. Many online entertainment resources have been launched to help stay-at-home visitors have fun free of charge, Xinhua News Agency   reported.

Online exhibitions

Last year, the Palace Museum released a program called the Panoramic Palace Museum   on its official website.   By putting on a virtual reality (VR) headset, people can take a “tour” of the 600-year-old museum, going slowly without a time limit. This means you can explore its halls, gardens and courtyards and learn about the stories behind the exhibits .

“During a field visit to the Palace Museum, it is difficult to visit some hidden places and view all the palace decorations in detail,” Li Bin, a museum lover from Xi’an, told China Daily. “But VR technology has made these experiences possible. It helps me beat the   boredom at home.”

According to Xinhua, a total of 30 museums across China have provided similar online exhibitions to people.

Live streamed concert

Chinese video app Bilibili launched a series of music events for stuck-at-home people. The company teamed up with the yearly Strawberry Music Festival to create the Stay at Home Strawberry concert series, with a theme of “Hi, I’m at home too.” The series   was   live streamed free of charge from Feb 4 to Feb 8, on Bilibili.

During this period, audiences could participate in the website’s bullet chat, sharing comments onscreen in real time.

“Watching online concerts and sharing comments with others can give me a sense of community and fun of being at a large event while being stuck at home and away from   friends and coworkers,”Manny, an Bilibili user commented on the website.

So if you feel bored, check out these online resources. Great exhibitions and concerts all belong to you! (改编自 21 世纪英语网站）

English playwright Arthur Wing Pinero said, “Where there’s tea, there’s hope.” Similarly, a Chinese saying goes that “Firewood, rice, cooking oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the seven necessities to begin a day.”

Tea is, without doubt, welcomed all over the world. According to Statista, a German website for statistics(数据）, global tea production reached about 5.8 million tons in 2018. It has become the most consumed beverage(饮品） in the world – after water, of course.

According to the UN, tea is much more than just a hot drink. It’s a big part of many cultures around the world. You probably know that people in China use top-grade tea to show respect when receiving important guests. Meanwhile, the British tradition of afternoon tea is an important part of that country’s identity. Making Malaysia’s pulled tea has become a sort of art form, where drinkers take pride in its entertainment aspects.

Apart from its cultural significance（意义）, tea is also a medicine, used from ancient times to modern day. “Tea is cold and lowers the fire,” Chinese Ming Dynasty herbalist Li Shizhen once said. The health benefits of tea are still being discovered today: preventing heart disease, obesity and cancer have all been linked to drinking green tea, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the US.

Hot or cold, bagged or loose-leaf, tea is more than a drink – it’s a social custom and also a magic medicine, a link to the past and a way of life. (改编自 21 世纪英语网站）

Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world. 29 billion bottles of water are drunk each year. It takes 17 million barrels of crude oil to make these bottles.         46    

So why don't more people drink water from the tap in the kitchen?    47    But that's not true. In the United States, the government makes sure water from the tap is safe.

    48    But maybe if they understand the problems it makes, they will try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a reusable bottle instead of a plastic one. Although plastic water bottles can be turned into some other useful things, only a small number of them are reused.    49    They end up as rubbish on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take hundreds of years to break down.

Water is good for you, so keep drinking it.    50    If you take one to school, don't throw it away- bring it home and put tap water in it for the next day.

64. “绿水青山就是金山银山”坚持节约资源和保护环境是我国的基本国策，请观察以下图片，以“Build a green home"为题写一篇演讲稿，描述现在依然存在的环境问题，并针对地提出看法和建议。

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I'm here to make a speech on building a green home. Our city Guangzhou has become more and more beautiful than before. However,                                                                                              

That's all. Thanks a lot for your attention.