Learning languages has many advantages: feeling confident when travelling abroad, making friends     1    (international), being able to read books in the original(原版的), and a lot more, like studying and working in other     2    (country). Most people live under the stereotype(刻板印象)that they lose their learning abilities with age. However, if faced     3     a challenge when there is no other way except to learn the new foreign language, adult people can show great results. Before     4    (decide)how to learn a new language, the first thing is to decide in which situation the language is to be used.

If the target is, for example,    5    (travel)or find new business at some international events, a course focusing on speaking practices is recommended(推荐). The     6    (base)vocabulary and conversational structures(结构), studied and practised heavily during a short period of time, may lead to the needed result, which might be the ability to communicate on the streets or support     7     small business talk. Usually the two or three months of study     8    (be)enough to start communicating. However, if brought back shortly to the usual environment, the person might lose the majority of knowledge if there would not be any supporting practice afterwards. Unfortunately, without practical usage     9     further development, the language abilities may go away as easily as they came. The language cannot     10    (learn)once and forever.

A Chinese food and culture festival won New Yorkers’ hearts and     1     (stomach) on June 24 with its debut (首次亮相) on a section of street at Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan. The festival showed authentic Chinese food     2     soup dumplings, dandan noodles, kebabs, pastries, flower cakes, Jianbing, sugar paintings, stinky tofu and others from around 35 vendors (摊贩).

Foodies (美食家)     3     (wait) in long lines at some popular stands and the waiting time for the Jianbing event was over two hours. More than 30,000 people joined in     4     free event from 10 am to 6 pm, on June 24. Food is the best starting point for people     5     (understand) and appreciate Chinese culture.

Vendors from Qingmu Dessert Lab offered Chinese pastries and wore     6     (tradition) Chinese clothing known as hanfu. A set of four pastries was made to represent the four seasons with ingredients (原料)     7     (collect) throughout the year. Jianbing,     8     is a popular street food in North China, drew many     9     (people) interest as its vendor Gem Bing Shop is nearby.

The festival is expected to     10     (hold) at other cities in the US next year.