Reading fiction is highly     1     (benefit), and there are scientific studies to back this up. A recent study     2     (publish) in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin found that people who grow up reading fiction have a richer and more complex worldview than those     3     don’t.

Reading fiction develops your     4     (imagine), which allows you to be more creative and helps you with your problem-solving skills. Moreover, the ability to imagine things influences everything a person does,     5     (think) about their profession and creates, regardless of their profession. All you need to do to work on this skill is to expose yourself     6     a great novel.

Reading fiction improves your mental health. Reading improves people’s mood     7     (great) and brings it to a pleasurable state. Moreover, research suggests that regular readers are relatively mentally healthy,     8     (show) lower stress levels and higher self-esteem than non-readers.

Reading fiction helps process your emotions. According to InDaily, when a person indirectly experiences     9     event associated with an emotion, for example, if they read about what happens to a character and how they feel about it, the same region of the brain is triggered (触发，激发) as if they’d experienced the event     10     (them).

Here’s one more reason to get up and exercise! A newly     1     (publish) study in JAMA Neurology has found that walking about 10,000 steps per day     2     (help) lower the risk of developing dementia (痴呆症). In fact, 4,000 steps a day is enough     3     (decrease) dementia risk by one-quarter, according to the study.

Furthermore, people who walk with “purpose”—     4     a pace of over 40 steps a minute —     5     (be) able to cut their risk of dementia by 57 percent with just about 6,000 steps a day. “It is a brisk (轻快的) walking activity, like a power walk,” study co-author Borja del Pozo Cruz told CNN.

Even people     6     walk about 3,800 steps a day at any speed can cut their risk of dementia by 25 percent, the study found. Such a number of steps would be enough for     7     (beginner), especially those who usually sit for a long time each day.

“There is evidence     8     physical activity can enhance (提高) dementia     9     (prevent) among the general population,” Del Pozo Cruz said. “We thought that by providing specific stepping recommendations, people would pay more attention to physical activity, as steps and walking are something everyone understands     10     require very little resources.”

Have you ever been to Ocean Park, which is situated on the southern side of Hong Kong Island? It is one of the     1     (large) marine parks in the world     2    (cover) more than 870,000 square metres.

With about 30 years of history, Ocean Park has become one of the major tourist     3    (attraction) in Asia. Apart from entertaining visitors with thrill rides and a wide variety of shows, the park prides     4     (it) on its education and conservation programmes.

Ocean Park consists of two sections, the Headland and the Lowland, which     5     (connect) by a 1.5 km long cable car (缆车) system offering wonderful views of the southern side of Hong Kong and the South China Sea. The Headland is known     6     its many thrill rides including the Dragon, Eagle. Crazy Galleon, Ferris Wheel, Ocean Park Tower and so on.

The Headland also contains the Ocean Theatre,    7     dolphins and sea lions amuse visitors each day with their lively performances. Providing more     8     (enjoy) and education are the world-class Atoll Reef Aquarium (水族馆), the Shark Aquarium and the Pacific Pier.

At the Lowland, visitors can take a ride on    9     big hot air balloon that is 22 metres in diameter which takes them high into the air. Visitors can also see the giant pandas     10     (give) by the Central Government of China at the Hong Kong Jockey Club Giant Panda Habitat.

Today I want to show you in three minutes what I have learned from my recent online course.

Tu Youyou,     1     research led to the discovery of artemisinin, is a     2     (commit) and patient scientist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2015.

Another Chinese scientist Yuan Longping passed away at 91 (due to illness) but his mission     3     (end) hunger will live on and his legacy     4     (remember) for generations.

Albert Einstein, who is perhaps the greatest scientists in modern physics, is often considered not only a genius, but also a     5     (courage) and kind figure loved by many people.

What makes me excited is that in the not-too-distant future, we     6     (live) in smart homes, which will keep us secure, save us energy and provide a more comfortable environment to live     7    .

To keep the natural state of the amazing and incredible theme park, no one is allowed to live in ill, and all new     8     (develop) is banned within the park boundary.

Life is a stage, and the world is waiting to be created. As students, we should set lofty goals just like scientists. Living without     9     aim is like     10     (sail) without a compass.

Breeding efforts at Shedd Aquarium (水族馆) are a big part of the conservation work that staff and researchers engage     1    and that means baby animals are born at Shedd every day.

According to senior aquarist Rachel Zak,     2     currently works with marine fish larvae (幼体) the aquariums across the county are actually working together on breeding efforts and     3    (share) their research with each other.

Zak’s work in particular requires several     4    (level) of cultivation (培养). In order to breed the tiny organisms that her newly hatched fish will eat, she first needs to cultivate the algae that those tiny organisms will eat. All of that work is performed behind     5     scenes in the aquarium’s live food area. Some of the animal breeding happens in plain sight, though, especially for Shedd’s large animals in the oceanarium.

Harmony, Shedd’s youngest dolphin, was born nearly a year ago. And the staff     6     (watch) the entire birthing process from in and around the dolphins’ environment. “Her birth was incredible, I remember a lot about it” said animal care     7    (special)Sheri Hendricks.       8    (fortunate), we did not have to do much as trainers. Katrl (Harmony’s mother) is a really     9    (experience) and wonderful mom.

From dolphins to cuttlefish, fish larvae to sea-monkeys, the new animals born and     10    (raise) at Shedd everyday make for an ever-changing landscape at Chicago’s world famous aquarium.

Before the traditional New year, a shipment of prepackaged Luosifen (螺蛳粉),    1    iconic dish known for its unpleasant smell, left for some countries in South Asia.

Luosifen enjoys great     2    (popular) on Tmall and Taobao, as people all over the world prepare for a stay-at-home holiday due     3    the COVID-19 pandemic. The instant rice noodles, nicknamed the “durian of soup”,     4    (produce) in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang     5    (autonomy) region. Liuzhou Luosifen features rice noodles     6    (soak) in spicy soup and topped with ingredients     7    (include) pickled bamboo shoots, string beans, peanuts and fried tofu skin.

In the past two years, the street food     8    (enter) mass production, which not only gives the industry a promising future     9    conquers the taste buds of domestic and international foodies. On a single day, more than 200,000 buyers placed orders for the dish in     10    (compare) with less than 20,000 last year.

Last Thursday, the 18th-century Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired the 2013 horror movie The Conjuring     1     (sell) to a Boston house developer, Jacqueline Nunez, for $ 1. 525 million. Nunez and Jennifer Heinzen,     2    seller, jointly announced the sale on Facebook.

Nunez plans to continue the business     3     (start) by Heinzen. Guests will be able to continue the nightly explorations there. Day-time tours will resume (恢复) soon.

“This purchase is personal for me,” Nunez told The Boston Globe. “It’s around my own     4     (curious). Since I was a child, I     5     (be) in love with horror movies, like The Conjuring. I look forward to experiencing strange things in the house.”

However, one of the conditions in the contract is     6     the new owner will not live in the house year-round. “Because the energy is so powerful,” Heinzen told The Boston Globe later. “It is intended     7     (protect) the buyer.”

The Conjuring wasn’t filmed in the house but was based on the     8     (experience) of a few families that lived there in the 1970s.

“I’m not afraid     9     the house,” she said. “I don’t think the energy here is     10    (harm). Things that will happen here may frighten me, but will not hurt me.”

Instead of starting a career in big cities, more and more university     1    (graduate) choose to return to their hometown. Li Dan is one of them. The girl,     2    (bear) in a small village in Southwest China, decided to stay with her family and friends after getting her degree at university.

In the strong support from national policies that aim to eliminate poverty, she started her own fruit growing business. Taking advantage     3     new technology and the Internet, she     4    (expand) her business to include agritourism over the last several years, creating more than 50 new jobs for the people in her village.     5     (live) in the hometown offers is a strong support network. More     6    (important), this network is also     7     good one for getting new agribusinesses up and running quite quickly. Thus, it is no surprise that more and more young people are now attracted to life in the country,     8     they can fulfill personal goals and contribute to     9    (they) local communities rather than just being white-collar professionals in big cities. “It is the hard work and your devotion     10     make a decent life, ” said Li Dan in an interview.

With the wide spread of the deadly COVID-19, the healthcare workers have been working day and night to take care of the     1     (infect) patients. Here are the details about International Nurses Day.

International Nurses Day     2    ( celebrate) first in 1965 to honour the nurses all over the world for their     3     (commit) to medical health and service,     4     (urge) people to show care and respect towards nurses.The day also commemorates Florence Nightingale’s birth - the woman    5    is widely regarded as the founder of modern nursing. Florence Nightingale was born on May 12th, 1820, and served     6     a trainer of nurses during the Crimean War. During the War, she     7     (manage) to care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. Her contributions gave nursing a favorable reputation and she became a symbol of Victorian culture,     8     (especial) as “The Lady with the Lamp”, because of the touching fact     9    she usually visited wounded soldiers at night. She was also regarded as     10    English reformer of modern nursing. Later, she won the Royal Red Cross award in 1883 and Order of Merit award in 1907.

As a costume drama A Dream of Splendor     1    (draw) many audiences this summer, the way the heroine Zhao Pan’er makes tea in the drama also attracted much attention. Heytea, a Chinese boutique teahouse chain, recently launched new flavored tea drinks     2    (base) on the recipe from the TV show.

It is well known that China is not only the home of most of the world’s tea,     3    has a series of customs concerning tea making and tea choice according to the seasons. In summer, green tea is highly recommended, for     4    (it) character is “cold” in traditional Chinese medical theories, suitable     5    (calm) the restlessness caused by hot summer.

Since the Southern Song Dynasty, loose leaf green tea     6    (drink) in China. It is said that Emperor Qianlong from the Qing Dynasty was a tea lover and often enjoyed Longjing, the most well-known Chinese green tea produced in Zhejiang province, during his     7    (day) life in summer.     8    Longjing, Chinese green tea has many family members with beautiful and poetic names, such as Yunwu,     9    literally means cloud and mist. When you feel hot and restless, have Chinese green tea and enjoy     10    mouthful of “cool summer”.