Do you like travelling? Stay healthy while    1     (travel) can help you to ensure your trip a happy    2    enjoyable one. If you are travelling abroad, here are the tips you need to make your trip much    3     (easy):

Make sure you have your passport and visa    4     (sign). Also, before you go, fill in the emergency information page of your passport! Make two copies of your passport identification page. This will help a lot if your passport    5     (steal). Leave one copy at home with your friends or relatives. Carry the other    6    you in a separate place from your passport.

Read the Public Announcements or Travel Warnings for the countries you plan    7     (visit). Get yourself familiar with the local laws and customs of the countries    8    you are travelling.

Leave a copy of your itinerary (旅行日程) with your family or friends at home so that you can be contacted in case of     9    emergency.

Do not accept packages from strangers. Do not carry too much money or unnecessary credit cards. If you make enough    10     (prepare), you will succeed. Have a good time!

LEGO has been around forever and is still a favorite toy for children of all     1     (age). Now, however, one teenager has found another use for LEGO, which could help improve the lives of people     2     are missing limbs (手臂).

David Aguilar, a 19-year-old from Spain,     3     (bear) without a right forearm. He was only 9-year-old when he managed     4    ( make) a prosthetic arm (义肢) for himself out of LEGO. Though this LEGO arm was helpful for David, it was not very strong. It wasn’t until nine years later that David was     5    (eventual) able to make another prosthetic arm. It was so strong     6    he could do pushups with it!

Now,     7    (be) a student at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, David studies bioengineering. In the coming years, David is hoping to make other much     8    (cheap) prosthetics to give more people access to them around the world. He loves using his LEGO arm, and he wants other people who are missing limbs to experience     9     same thing!

It’s so refreshing to see such a clever young man who tries to help others in similar situations     10     his own! We can’t wait to see what David creates in the years to come!

John Snow is a famous doctor in London—so expert was he     1     he attended Queen Victoria     2     her personal physician. But he became inspired when he thought about helping ordinary people     3     (expose) to cholera which often lead to large number of     4     (die). Neither its cause nor its cure was understood. So many thousands of     5     (terrify) people died every time there was     6     outbreak. John Snow wanted to face the challenge and solve this problem. He knew that cholera would never be controlled     7     it’s cause was found. In 1854 when cholera broke     8    , he began to gather information and found out that the polluted water was     9     (blame). John Snow suggested the source of all water supplies     10     (examine). Finally, “King Cholera” was defeated.

Paper cutting is a folk culture with so long a history. When Chinese Lunar New Year is coming, it is a custom     1     northern people to paste the papercuts on the window.Gradually, it develops into an art form, one of the     2    (popular) traditional decoration arts.

In early times, people made images of humans and subjects by paper    3    (bury) together with the body in the tomb or to burn on the funerals. With such    4    (symbol) meaning, paper cutting    5    (use) as decorations on sacrificing ceremonies.In 105 AD, Cai Lun improved the paper making technique and a large amount of paper was produced,    6     laid a foundation for the spread of paper cutting.Beautiful patterns were created and gradually, the patterns were     7    (wide) used in other fields later.

There were more records of paper cutting after 960 AD (Song dynasty). Professional paper cutting artists appeared,    8    (specialize) in different patterns. Some were good at cutting flowers     9     others were expert at characters’cutting. Thus, the patterns were abundant and colorful. One of the most important    10    (contribution) of paper cutting in the Song dynasty was that patterns were used on the china.

Yu Rong, a Chinese artist, thinks of a new way to introduce     1     ancient story of Hua Mulan in her picture book. In the book, I Am Hua Mulan, she tells the story by     2     (combine) Chinese paper-cutting with international artistic styles. She places Shaanxi papercuts over western-style pencil sketches (素描)    3     (create) typical presentation of Chineseelements (要素), which turns out to be a     4     (success) and impressive breakthrough.

Hua Mulan,     5     story has been told by generations in China, was a fighter from the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534). As a devoted daughter, she dressed herself as a man to serve in the army     6     place of her father. Mulan’s character, such as courage, kindness and a disinterested attitude towards fame and fortune, made     7     (she) one of the most respected historical Chinese heroines. Mulan’s story has been adapted     8     (frequent) in modern media. For example, in 1998, Disney produced a film named Mulan, which     9     (consider) a great success by critics and the public right after its release.

To better tell the story, Yu Rong takes inspiration from her several     10     (visit) to sites of ancient battles and Henan Province’s Yu Opera. After years of preparation she finally makes this extraordinary work.

In the past few years, more than half of bookstores in China have closed down,     1     is the result of the     2    (compete) with online bookstores. But the success of Sisyphe Bookstore, one of the     3    (big) privately-owned bookstore chains in China, may serve     4     a great example .

    5    (found) in 1993, Sisyphe started to transform and upgrade its business in 2009 to seek its profitability. Now, it not only devotes itself to     6    (sell) books , but combines the functions of the bookstore, cafe and the sale of     7    (create) cultural products. Sisyphe opens its bookstores in shopping malls in order to take advantage of the large number of consumers of shopping malls to sell its books, and it also     8    (able) people to enjoy spending time reading and drinking coffee. In return, bookstores have improved the cultural atmosphere of shopping malls, so     9     is mutually beneficial to have such cooperation.

So far, the government     10    (offer) tax reduction for bookstores to encourage the development of physical bookstores. Perhaps it is early to say the boom of physical bookstores has come, but definitely, we see the turning point to them.

“Who is Peppa?”     1     upcoming film’s trailer (预告片) has gained huge attention on China’s social media platforms. Well     2     (receive) by the viewers, the short video has earned     3     (it) the “best commercial video of 2019”. It focuses on the question “Who is Peppa?” and tells a touching story     4     highlights Chinese families. In the beginning, a senior man named Li Yubao living in remote rural area asked his grandson on the phone     5     gifts he wanted for the Spring Festival, but only heard the word “Peppa” due to the poor mobile signal. Therefore, the man begins an     6     (interest) journey to discover who Peppa is.     7     the help of neighbors, the senior man made a Peppa model that     8     (consist) of irons and steels and surprises his grandson. The short video encourages people working outside to come back home often and accompany family     9     (member) to spend a happy and warm Spring Festival holiday. After all, family bonds are the     10     (significant) thing in Chinese people’s hearts.