We have a problem that is deeply rooted in our world today. When it    1     (come) to the holidays, people tend to forget that it’s the season of giving rather than receiving. We tend to be more    2     (interest) in what we’ll receive on Christmas morning instead of looking at the holidays as an opportunity    3    (help) out those who don’t have it as good as we do. So how can we change the culture around the holidays and make sure that people are emphasizing the time to give as much as they are looking forward to opening up their stockings? This is a question worth    4     (think) about. Giving     5    (selfless) is the right thing to do, though many of us    6     (challenge) by the task. Whether or not we have much money to spare, it isn’t always easy to give away     7     we have worked so hard for, especially when we have set financial     8    (goal) — saving for retirement, a vacation or a    9     (rain) day. Even with so many reasons to be unwilling, the advantages of giving outweigh them all. When we give to those in need, we make a positive difference     10    the lives of others and our own.

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.

As far as I'm concerned,     1    is wrong to keep any kind of native animal as a pet. Native animals belong in the wild. Taking wildlife away from its habitat and keeping it as a pet is    2    (legal).

The reason why I have been thinking about this topic is that my friend told me he wanted to catch a bearded dragon    3    lived in the bush behind his backyard. He    4    (say) he was going to keep the dragon in an old fish tank. I told him that would be cruel and suggested that if he    5    (real)wanted a pet bearded dragon,he could buy a Recreational Wildlife Licence so that he could buy one. But I also told him it would be cruel to keep a bearded dragon in a tank. Bearded dragons need space    6    (run) around and they need to be able to lie in    7    sun and catch food.

I did some research and I found out that there are wildlife sellers who make money by    8     (take) animals from the wild to sell to people who want unusual animals as pets. Most of the animals    9    (steal)from the wild die during transport. Stealing wildlife from the environment is a serious crime. I think wildlife sellers should    10    (send) to jail for a long time.

Chinese has overtaken French, Spanish and German to become one of the most popular foreign languages for jobseekers in the UK. Research shows graduates in Chinese earn     1     average yearly salary of £31,000 or     2     (much).

“I had a lot of friends on other courses     3     didn’t do much in first or second year. But for Chinese majors, you have to spend hours and hours     4     (write) characters,” says Hannah Jackson, who graduated in Chinese Studies from Sheffield University in 2012.

Hannah describes her course as “majorly intense”. “Most of my friends admitted to crying in the first week owing     5     the course intensity (强度). I was almost told at one point that I might want to reconsider and drop out.”

“The degree is     6     (absolute) worth it. The efforts     7     (pay) off so far. I like that I could live, work and operate with relative ease in China. Looking around at people who have studied French or Spanish at university, I find there’s no such chance     8     (use) what they’ve learned in the workplace,” Hannah says.

Hannah went to look for a job in Shanghai, where she found more employment     9     (opportunity). After working as a project manager for Intralink Group for four years, she set up     10     (she) own company earning £5,000 a day. She has now returned to the UK and works in business development for the Body Shop.

9 . Many of us wake up feeling    1    (tire) in the morning. Many of us ignore the problem as the day goes on,    2    (forget) that it might have a    3    (danger) effect. Society even glorifies “burning the candle at both ends” as    4    sign of our devotion to work and family.

Believe it    5    not, all this bad sleep has far-reaching consequences. We just do not give ourselves enough chances to sleep. A survey of over 74,000 people found 35 percent reported sleeping less than seven hours daily    6    average. Furthermore, the amount of sleep    7    (change) greatly over the past 15 years.

This lack of sleep can lead of many serious    8    (problem). One study found that    9    (simple) limiting yourself to six hours of sleep a night for two weeks had similar effects to staying up all night the night before,    10    could make you perform poorly on a timed attention task.