Zibo city in China’s Shandong province has     1     (unexpected) gone heated on social media since late February due to its unique taste of barbecue. This has provided an opportunity for the local government     2     (promote) tourism and spending.     3     latest promotion gives visitors free admission to 10 scenic spots in the city as long as their train ticket’s final destination is Zibo. Passengers     4     take the train are greeted by posters reading “Welcome to the Special BBQ Train” and they receive special gifts. Videos of the experience have been posted on social media,     5    (attract) more visitors.

Zibo’s barbecue is different from other types in China as it     6     (make) on a stove (炉灶). Many young people     7     (crowd) into the city to try the dish since a group of college students posted videos of themselves enjoying it in February.     8     (search) for “Zibo barbecue” on the Internet have increased by 770 percent compared to the same period last year, and lines outside barbecue restaurants on several streets reach for more than 100 meters     9     the weekends.

Zibo is now a must-visit destination for food lovers,     10    they can experience the unique and delicious barbecue and explore the city’s scenic spots.

Did you grow up in one culture, your parents came from another, and you are now living in a     1     (total) different country? If so, then you are a third-culture kid.

The term “third-culture kid”     2     (use) in the 1960s for the first time by Dr. Ruth. She first came across this phenomenon while     3     (research) North American children living in India. In general, third-culture kids benefit     4     their intercultural experience and they often reach excellent academic results.

Yet many     5     (difficulty) may arise from this phenomenon. Third-culture kids may not be able to adapt     6     (they) completely to their new surroundings. Also, they often find it hard     7     (develop) new friendship. Additionally, for a third-culture kid, it is often     8     (easy) to move to a new country than to return to his homeland. For example, after living in Australia for many years, Louis finally returned to the country     9     she was born. She didn’t know anything about current TV shows     10     fashion trends. And she didn’t share the same values as other teens of her age.

President Xi Jinping     1    (sign)a presidential order on Tuesday to award four people national medals and honorary titles for their outstanding contributions     2     fighting the COVID-19 pandemic(流行病). Zhong Nanshan, 84.     3     excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest national honor, for his outstanding work in fighting COVID-19 in China. Three others were also awarded the “People’s Hero” national honorary title for helping fight against the novel coronavirus(新冠病毒). They are Zhang Boli, a     4     (tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital; and Chen Wei, a medical scientist     5     made major achievements in COVID-19-related basic research.

Zhong also has long been devoted to the research, prevention and     6     (treat) of major infectious and chronic respiratory diseases(慢性呼吸病), and has a long record of     7     (achievement). He was a major figure in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome(综合症状) outbreak in 2003 in China. Following the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government encouraged the country     8    (contain) the disease in Wuhan. Hubei province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42,000 medical workers from across the country     9     (send) to Hubei to fight the disease. The pandemic has been     10    (effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March.

Many people take the idea of saving money very seriously. Back in 1924, in Italy, a group of people     1     (think) the inability to resist spending a major social problem. They had the idea of starting a day to remind people to put away some money for a rainy day. This is how World Saving Day, held on Oct. 31st     2    (annual), was started, and it's still going strong in 2019.

Not surprisingly, a movement     3    (target) the poor was started. People in the underdeveloped world are more open     4     calls to be careful with money. But     5     idea of being thrifty (节俭) has also become popular among the rich. Take Mark Zuckerberg for example. The Facebook founder, one of the world's     6    (rich) people, doesn't spend very much money on himself.

Other people don't spend money because they don't like the culture of     7    (consume). This is connected to the view     8     we should make ourselves happy through the activities we take part in, rather than with what we buy.

But however we view money, moderate spending is certainly a good idea when we are still too young to get a job. There is a British saying that     9    (offer) some good advice in this situation: “Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after     10    (they).”