The Lantern Festival     1    (fall) on the 15th day of the lst lunar month. This     2    (day) important activity is watching lanterns. Till today, the Lantern Festival is still held each year around the country. Lanterns of various shapes and sizes     3     (hang) in the streets, attracting countless visitors. Children will hold self-made or     4     (buy) lanterns to play with on the streets,     5     (extreme) excited. "Guessing lantern riddles" is an important part of the Festival. Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions     6     the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check     7     they are right.

On this day people will eat Yuanxiao, which also has     8     name, Tangyuan. It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with sesame, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filing. It tastes sweet and delicious. What's more, Tangyuan in Chinese has a similar     9     (pronounce) with "tuanyuan",     10     (mean) reunion. So people eat them to express union, harmony and happiness for the family.

7 . Many years ago, a man became lost while driving his car through the countryside. Foolishly he tried to read his map as he was ________ and soon drove off the road and landed in a dich (沟渠). ________ he wasn’t hurt but his car was stuck in some deep mud (淤泥), He decided to look for ________. Not far away, he ________ a farmhouse and decided to ask someone for support.

The man soon met the farmer and told him of his ________ situation. Pointing to his field, the farmer said, “See that old horse out there?” The man looked at the tired, poor and ________horse then looked back to the ________. The farmer said, “Yep, old Warwick there can do the job!”

The man shrugged (耸) his shoulders and thought to himself, “I have nothing to ________.” So the two men and Warwick made their way back to the ditch.

The farmer ________ old Warwick to the car, snapped the reins (拉住缰绳) and ________ loudly, “Pull, Henry! Pull, Nellie! Pull, Ted! Pull, Franklin! Pull, Warwick!” Then the aged horse pulled the car out from the dirty mud. The car was ________ !

The man stood in ________ . He thanked the farmer and then ________ why the farmer called out all those other names ________ he called out Warwick.

The farmer just smiled and said, “Old Warwick is almost blind. As long as he believes that he is part of a ________, he doesn’t mind ________.”

A good leader encourages others to trust him.________, a great leader supports them by giving them ________ belief in themselves. Active encouragement is the biggest key to ________ teamwork. When people ________ in an encouraging environment, the sky really is the limit (限制) to the things that can be done.

8 . An undersea cable (电缆) that connects the island nation of Tonga to the Internet has broken. As a result, Tongans will be without their main Internet connection for several weeks.

Touga is a country formed of about 169 islands in the South Pacific Ocean. Most of the country's 100, 000 people live on the main island, called Tongatapu. Like most island nations, Tonga gets its Internet through a cable that runs deep under the sea.

On the night of Sunday, January 20, the 514-mile (827-kilometer) cable that connects Tonga to Fiji got broken. No one is sure how it broke, but the most likely reason is that it was damaged by a ship pulling its anchor (锚).

In many places which use underwater cables, there is a backup cable. But because Tonga’s cable is so long and costs so much money, and because not that many people live on Tonga, the country just has one cable.

The broken cable caused Tonga's Internet to stop almost completely. It was also impossible to make calls to other countries at first.

But an Internet company soon brought Internet service back using a satellite (人造卫星) connection. Banks and many government offices also have satellite connections. But this is much slower. For satellite Internet, all signals (信号) must be sent out into space and then come back to the ground somewhere else. Satellite connections only allow a small part of the Internet activity that is possible with an undersea cable.

As a result, Tongans have to think carefully about how the Internet will be used. A person speaking for the company that owns the cable said that about 80% of the Internet use in Tonga was for social media (社交媒体) sites, such as Facebook and YouTube. The country is thinking about blocking these social media sites until the problem is fixed.

A special repair ship is traveling to Tonga from Samoa to fix the cable, which is broken in two places. The repairs should begin on Monday or Tuesday and could take a week or longer. No one knows yet how much it will cost to fix the cable.

9 . In April 2018, a group of Canadian scientists flying in a helicopter (直升飞机) discovered something they didn't expect to see — a huge, unknown cave with an opening the size of a football field.

The cave was discovered in the northern part of Wells Gray Provincial Park, in a wild, faraway area of Canada's Cariboo Mountains. The area is hard to get to and even harder to travel through. It is covered with snow for much of the year.   

The group told Catherine Hickson, a scientist who studies rocks, about the cave. Dr. Hickson got a team of researchers together to study it. In September, they went for a closer look after most of the snow melted (融化). The cave is one of the largest in Canada. Not only is the opening to the cave larger than a football field, the cave is also deep. The team couldn't measure (测量) all the way to the bottom, but they think it may be more than 180 meters deep. The cave is tens of thousands of years old. But the rock in the cave is made of used to be at the bottom of an ocean (海洋). It is hundreds of millions of years old.

A small, but fast river of melting snow leads into the cave on one side, creating a waterfall near the top and a river at the bottom. The water comes out again a long way away. The exit (出口) is about 2.1 kilometers away and about l/2 kilometer lower down.

The cave will have to wait to get an official name. For now, the cave is being called "Sarlacc's Pit "because it looks similar to the home of the Sarlacc, a person in the Star Wars movie Return of the Jedi.

For Dr. Hickson, there's a lesson to be learned from the cave. "It shows you that you don't know everything, "she says." There are things yet to be discovered."

10 . Simon James is an super-trail runner (越野跑步者) who encourages people to reconnect with nature in the name of exercise. He has completed Super Trail in the Alps, the Andes and the Himalayas. A late-night bet with a client (客户) got him tied to running.

“In 2006, a business client challenged me one evening in a bar to a 36-hour walk across 54 miles of the West Highland Way, and I foolishly said ‘yes’,” James said. “He then rang me the next day to tell me we would be running it.”

At the time, James was 20 kilograms overweight and the longest he had run before that was just under 8 miles, but he managed to finish that run and has never looked back.

According to a report, two-thirds of adults in the U. K. are overweight, one-fifth suffering from depression (抑郁). The huge influence caused by modern lifestyle has worsened these issues. We are aware of the importance of exercise in everyday life, and no amount of virtual (虚拟的) meetings can make up for direct social contact. James said, “Only one thing can fix these problems-trail running.”

What is unique about trail running, he explained, is that “it reconnects us to our beautiful nature and connects our physical, mental and spiritual aspects, as well as providing us with an experience which can connect us to other people”.

Inspired, he quit his city life of working 16-hour-plus-days as a banker, and spent more time in trails and mountains.   

James is now in charge of the trail running company Run the Wild. He said every run has been a gift following a physical operation in 2015, even though his doctor told that he could hardly run again. He said, “The outdoors is such a great place for us all to experience.”