If you live in northeastern China, you expect long, cold winters. People     1    (live) in Harbin don’t just stand the cold, however, they welcome it. The city is home to the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival,    2    is considered to be the largest ice festival in the world. Even with temperatures usually close to zero, thousands of people head to city parks     3    (see) great ice sculptures, many bathed in colored lights.

The festival includes several thousand ice sculptures. Some of these works are the recreations of castles, historic landmarks and famous people, lit up at night in bright colors. There     4    (visitor) can climb ice stairways and go down ice slides (滑坡). They can also take part    5    sporting events, including skating, ice football     6    well as ice swimming.

The city started     7    (it) icy event in 1963 with the Ice Lantern Garden Party, a     8    (celebrate) of the tradition of creating lanterns out of blocks of ice. The larger festival     9    (begin) in 1985 and added sculptures, which have grown in number and size over the years. As it has gotten bigger, the festival has become popular outside the city.    10    (official), the festival starts on January 5th and lasts over one month.

2 . Body language is the quiet, secret and most powerful language of all! It speaks_________ than words. According to specialists, our bodies send out more ________than we realize. In fact, non-verbal communication takes up about 50%of what we really ________. And body language is particularly ________ when we attempt to communicate across cultures. Indeed, what is called body language is so ________ a part of us that it's actually often unnoticed. And misunderstandings happen as a result of it. ________, different societies treat the _______ between people differently. Northern Europeans usually do not like having ________ contact even with friends, certainly not with_________. People from Latin American countries, ________, touch each other quite a lot. Therefore, it's possible that in ________, it may look like a Latino（拉丁美洲人）is ________a Norwegian（挪威人）all over the room. The Latino, trying to express friendship, will keep moving ________. The Norwegian, very probably seeing this as rudeness, will keep ________ which the Latino will in return regard as ________.

Clearly, a great deal is going on when people ________. And only a part of it is in the words themselves. And when partners are from ________ cultures, there's a strong possibility of _____________ But whatever the situation, the best ________ is to obey the Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be________.