With the development of modern technology, people can stay     1     (connect) with their families and friends easily, however far apart they are from each other. WeChat is one of     2     most frequently used means of     3     (communicate) in China. It is reported that the number of the WeChat users     4     (reach) over 1.1 billion so far.

Once     5     (join) the WeChat, people can find more and more people start to add them as friends. They don’t have to consider time zones when communicating. Another reason why it becomes so popular is that it costs nothing. It’s also very convenient for people to     6     (immediate) update what they are doing by WeChat.

However, addiction to WeChat will rob people of the time that should otherwise be spent     7     something more important. And the many so-called friends on it     8     (be) not really friends at all,     9     simply want to put ads or sell items on Moments. Besides, people on the Wechat are more likely     10     (compare) themselves with others, which will make them feel bad when finding some people seem to be successful.

In Northwest China’s Gansu Province lies Zhangye National Geopark, which is blessed     1     a splendid Danxia landform area     2     (cover) about 1,289 square kilometers. The Danxia landforms are     3     masterpiece of nature. The colorful mountain ridges are just like an overturned palette from heaven. Bands of fiery red, creamy orange, rich green and bright yellow streak across the mountain, forming     4     is known as the most beautiful rainbow mountain.

The incredible landscapes     5     (create) by sandstone and minerals piling on top of one another years ago due to tectonic plate movements. Wind, rain, and time then carved the rock formations and rolling hills into     6     (vary) extraordinary shapes, including towers, pillars and valleys.

    7     (declare) a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2010 and a national geopark in 2011, the landform has become a top tourist     8     (attract). The park features a series of boardwalks that allow visitors to walk around the colorful sandstone landscapes. There are viewing platforms     9     (special) designed, enabling tourists to get close to the hills and feast their eyes on the magnificent sights without damaging the fragile ecosystem. Shuttle bus service is available, making     10     easy for tourists to get around the park.

Many people have the hobby of collecting things, e.g. stamps, postcards. In the 18th and 19th centuries,    1     (wealth) people travelled and collected plants, historical objects and works of art. They kept their collection at home until it got too big     2    until they died, and then it was given to a museum. The 80, 000 objects collected by Sir Hans Sloane, for example,    3     (become) the core collection of the British Museum    4     opened in 1759.

The parts of a museum that are open to the public    5     (call) galleries or rooms. Often, only a small part of a museum’s collection    6     (be) on display. Most of it is stored away or used for research.

Many museums are lively places. As well as looking at exhibits, visitors can play with computer simulations（模拟）and imagine    7     (they) living at a different time in history or     8    (walk)through a rainforest. At the Jorvik Centre in York, the city's Viking settlement is recreated, and people experience the sights, sounds and     9    (smell) of the old town. Museums must compete     10    people’s spare time and money with other amusements. Most museums also welcome school groups and arrange special activities for children.

The Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration between New Zealand and China     1     (hold) with high-quality performances at the New Zealand National Museum on Sunday night.     2     (art) from south-western China’s Chongqing presented the Wellington audience     3     Sichuan Opera Performance. The performances perfectly showed the charm of Chinese culture and art to the audience.

Guo Zongguang,     4     is the director of the China Cultural Center in New Zealand, stressed that this show was one of     5     most important events in this year’s culture exchanges between China and New Zealand.

Brett Hudson, a member of Parliament, acknowledged that China, now New Zealand’s largest trading partner, provided New Zealanders with thousands and thousands of jobs. “Our relationship with China is     6     (extreme) important. Our two-way trade now tops 28 billion New Zealand dollars in 2018,     7     (help) New Zealanders improve lifestyles for families, and it is strengthening even     8     (far) through cultural exchanges and better understanding of one another.”

Overall, the Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration was a great success, showcasing the     9     (rich) and beauty of Chinese culture to the people of New Zealand. It also highlighted the strong and mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries, both in trade and cultural exchange. Such events serve as a reminder of the importance of     10     (promote) understanding and friendship between different nations and cultures.

“The dangerous thing about lying is people don’t understand how the act changes us,” says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University. Psychologists have documented children lying as early as the age of two. Lying is even considered     1     developmental milestone, like crawling and walking, with sophisticated planning and attention     2     (require). But, for most people, lying gets increasingly limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

According to Ariely, lying takes work. In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gains while examining their brains in a functional MRI machine. Some people told the truth instantly. But others opted to lie, and they showed increased activity in their frontal parietal (颅腔壁的) control network, which is involved in complex thinking. It suggested that they were deciding between truth and dishonesty, and after thinking about it,     3     (choose) the latter. For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural (神经的) reward centers were     4     (active) when they won money were less likely to be among the group of liars, and the opposite was seen among those so-called habitual liars, suggesting that lying     5     have to do with the inability to resist temptation.

External conditions also matter in terms of when and how often we lie. We are more likely to lie, research shows, when we see others being dishonest. And we are less likely to lie when we think others are watching. “We     6     a society need to understand that, when we don’t punish lying, we increase the probability of     7     happening again, influencing all of us,” Ariely said.

In a 2016 study, Ariely and colleagues showed how dishonesty alters people’s brains, making it easier to tell lies in the future. When people told a lie, the scientists noticed a burst of activity in their amygdala, a crucial part of the brain that produces fear and guilt. But when scientists had their subjects     8     (play) a game in which they won money by deceiving their partner, they noticed the negative signals from the amygdala began to decrease. “Not only that,” said Ariely in an interview with National Science Channel, “     9     people tended to lie more when they faced no consequences for dishonesty. This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies,     10     get bigger over time.”