As a nature photographer, I enjoy     1     (work) outside in the wild. One of the best things about this job is that you can see animals in their     2     (nature) environments.

My favorite place to take     3     (photo) is Yellowstone National Park. As the world’s first national park, it is     4     (probable) best known for its bears. Although the bears have a     5     (weigh) of up to 300 kilograms, they are good runners and excellent swimmers.

Last spring in Yellowstone, I followed a path     6     took me through a dark forest. When I finally stepped out of the trees, the view was amazing. While I     7     (concentrate) on photographing this scene, I suddenly had a feeling that I was being watched. Slowly, and with the camera still held to my eye, I turned and was frightened. Only metres away from me was a bear. With water falling off     8     (it) thick, brown hair, the bear stared back     9     me. Time stood still as the bear and I both waited     10     (see) who would move first. My legs started shaking. Somehow, I forced my finger to press the button. Luckily, a second later, the bear turned and ran back into the forest.

A casual walk along the Beijing Central Axis,     1     (connect) the Drum Tower, the bustling Nanluoguxiang Lane, the Jingshan Park and the majestic Forbidden City—this was Zhao Xianghan’s maiden city-walking journey in the spring of 2022.

Since then, the 21-year-old student from the Beijing Foreign Studies University     2     (remain) a city-walk enthusiast, believing it to be the best way to rediscover a city.

“I visited Beijing before the start of my college life here, and it was a typical package tour during     3     going to scenic spots and taking photos was a big thing. The crowded tourist attractions gave me the     4     (impress) that Beijing was a noisy place,” said Zhao.

“Yet now a city-walk allows me     5     (see) a whole different side of Beijing, which is full of serenity,” Zhao added.

With the increasing variety of travel options,     6     (tradition) group tours can no longer satisfy people who are looking for a more personalized and different travel experience     7     hoping to find every part of the city in a more immersive way, according to a blog posted on social media platform WeChat that has gained more than 100, 000 views.

    8     (compare) with tightly scheduled itineraries(行程) and picture-taking tours, city-walking focuses     9     free, casual and spontaneous experiences.

“City-walk is all about doing whatever you want in your own exploration of a city, and it is     10     (actual) a kind of slow-paced and low-carbon lifestyle that I relate to so much,” said Zhao.

China has a large number of Chinese dishes, a wide range of flavors, and complex cooking methods, which are     1     (two) to none in the world. For a long time, due to the influence of the local environment, customs and dietary habits, dishes from all over China     2     (form) various genres with local flavor characteristics.    3     is known to all is the “eight major cuisines” in China, with the four major cuisines of Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangdong, and Sichuan forming     4    (early), and later the other four.

Sichuan cuisine has a variety of flavors,     5    (include) spicy, sour, tingling, fishy, and strange. Sichuan cuisine is also the largest folk cuisine. Among the top 20 dishes, Sichuan cuisine occupies half of the seats, and “Sichuan Hot Pot” ranks first among    6    thousands of dishes selected by the Data Journalism Lab.

The second and third place are dominated by two traditional Hangzhou dishes,    7    (name) Dongpo Meat and West Lake Vinegar Fish. Are the 3 hottest dishes in each of the “Big Eight Cuisine” dishes the same     8    the results in your mind?

The “eight major cuisines” have their own systems, which represent different customs and cultural characteristics of different places, but in the final analysis    9    (be) Chinese people’s attention and love for “eating”. Diet has become a way of life and a fashion that promotes     10    (consume) and drives the development of the country’s catering industry.

How to learn in a proper way

Do you want to learn in a way that works for you? Everyone learns best in different ways; this    1    (name) a learning style. Find a way that works for you and try to learn that way as much as you can. For example, have you noticed that it’s really easy for you    2     (remember) charts or pictures? This means you might be a visual learner,    3    means you should use more images and pictures in order to learn.

Maybe you’ve noticed that you have an    4    (easy) time studying when you listen to music    5    (quiet) or that you can’t remember what your teacher wrote on the board but you can “hear” what they said in your head as if they    6     (be) in the room now. This means you learn better with sound.    7    example of this would be if you record your teacher when they’re talking.

Maybe you’ve noticed that, during a lesson, you feel like focusing attention    8    your study but you really need to stand up or move around. Maybe you like pacing around your room by    9    (you) while you study. This might mean you learn better when     10    (do) things with your body.

I have just     1     (receive) a letter from my brother, Tim. He     2     (be) in Australia. He has been there for six months. Tim is     3     engineer. He is working for a big firm and he     4     (have) already visited a great number of     5     (difference) places in Australia. He has just     6     (buy) an Australian car and has     7     (go) to Alice Springs, a small town in     8     centre of Australia. He will soon     9     (visit) Darwin. From there, he will fly to Perth. My brother has never been abroad before, so he is finding this trip very     10     (excit).

I think     1     (go) from junior high school to senior high school is     2     big challenge. First, I had to think very     3     (careful) about which courses I wanted     4     (take) and my adviser recommended that I should sign up for     5     (advance) literature. However, I hope to be fluent     6     Chinese when I graduate, though it is difficult. Besides, I had to choose extra-curricular activities, too. Whatever difficulty I met, I wanted to join the school football team     7     a volunteer club. In the end, I know I must work hard and take     8     (responsible) for a lot by     9     (my) as a senior high school student. I will be well     10     (prepare) for the university and the future.

You probably have ever been warned against using certain hand gestures when     1    (travel) abroad. The meanings of hand gestures differ so     2    (great) in different countries. But do you know the relationship between body language     3     groups?

Mark Mofftt, author of The Human Suarm, describes our need to belong to a certain group. We are     4    (safe) in a group than in one person. We trust them, they protect us, and they share     5     same values and beliefs as us. We will even go to war     6    (fight) for our group.

Humans gravitate (吸引) to those people who are     7    (member) of their own group. This is because we like to be able to predict the actions of others and belonging to a group enables this.

Outsiders to our group     8     (be) foreign and unknown. Therefore, they could be     9     (danger), unpredictable or threatening. So it is important to recognize these outsiders to our group.

There are many things help us identify these strangers or outsiders-the clothes they wear and the way they speak. Now, experts know that their body language is also an indicator. In our ancestors’ times, knowing     10     someone is a friend or foe (对手) could mean the difference between total annihilation (灭绝) of their family or the survival of their genes.